I'd imagine you couldn't have wished for a better first season in top flight football... Well no actually. Gaining 40 points so quickly was as pleasing as winning Promotion so quickly last season. Has any player(s) stuck out for you this season? Kevin Doyle for sure. Shame he got injured really but...

But last season hardly anyone (e.g. Lescott etc) wanted to come to reading because not only are we seen as low payers but we were seen as near-certainties for relegation. Seol, for instance, wasn't a planned buy, but he was available and happy to come, so he was bought. One year on we may find it a...

I imagine it was because of the weather that the people in front stood at West Ham, and therefore the people behind had no alternative to standing if they wanted to watch the game. If you have seats at the back I don't imagine anyone will ask you to sit down, but if you are in front of other people ...

I don't know.... In the last few games Bikey has defended brilliantly against some of the best attacking players in the world, made very few mistakes yet still gets criticised. Lita has done bugger all except score one fantatsic goal and lose control of the ball virtually every time an opportunity ...

Just to be contrary: From the past: Love - Martin Butler (ok not that far back, but his commitment was outstanding - still gutted he never made it to the Prem) Oh how I agree !Hate - Booty - ,- he came from Dario Gradi's Crewe Academy of football science. Didn't hate him but thought he was a bit OT...

How large a slice of his wages is it? Things must be cheap in Ecuador. "Among other things, the money Reading pay him is currently funding a medical centre, plus the salaries of a doctor, dentist and nurse." why don't you sponsor a ecuadorian doctor, dentist & nurse if it's so cheap? ...

From the telegraph report "Before showing their attacking edge, Coppell's side had to endure a buffeting in the first period. For 45 minutes, and into the break, Chelsea celebrated their title credentials. During the interval, Roy Bentley, the captain of the 1955 side, was presented with a pho...

They played it yesterday and they played it last week. Admittedly there were a couple of errors in defence, but if you consider what they played yesterday to be rubbish, then I thinkyou must be one of those people who don't consider we play well unless we win. I thought it (especially the second ha...

Thanks for this.

I hope this table stays at the top of the board, as many of the more gloomy posters may not have seen it. As an eternal optimist, I think it looks to be a very good way to view things.

First and foremost the football should be the most important thing, and we were as bad as I have seen us play in a long while. Some of our players lacked the desire and commitment that we have come to expect from them and the game changed with the introduction of someone who added momentum to our a...

Most impressive! I had noticed that we seemed to be meeting the same opponents just before or after Arsenal, but had never got round to working how well we had done in comporison.

I want to start by saying I felt Mike Riley was truly awful yesterday. Nevertheless we are now in a situation in football where players (especially in the premiership) seem intent, almost every game in some cases, to use simulation to fool referees and win games. My view is that the Football Associ...

Apart from the fact that John Terry actually elbowed Kevin Doyle and that we fully deserved the free kick he also states that Steve Hunt's boot caught Cech, when it was actually his knee; as Alan Shearer (or was it Lauro?) said on Match of the Day, no striker would go in with his knee for risk of hu...

SpaceCruiser Bonjour, mon nom est Ibu Sonko

Don't you mean "Je m'appelle Ibu Sonko?

I never once asserted that football has always been violent. Merely that, since the second world war, there has often been the potential for violence at football. Your lack of experience and lack of understanding of the history of football means that you are unaware of this. Im afriad it is relevan...

people support the team in there own ways and if that includes fighting then fair enough :? It is NOT fair enough. We have a good name as a club and do not want a stupid minority to spoil it. Perhaps it IS fair enough to point out that if these kids take it too far, they may well be banned from the...

It may well be that some of this treasure is available now. I see that one of Villa's players on Wed. was from their youth team. I think it would be interesting to see how one or two of our young players could do when we realise how Shane Long performed in his first game for the first team when not ...

As well as those mentioned of the magnificent seven, Robert Fleck looked to be a good aquisition - but then he got injured and had to give up. To be fair to Burns he also bought Nicky Forster, but it was because of the panic buys in 1998 that he got a bad name for himself. Then on top of that, he os...

West Stand Man Oh yes, bring back the good old days!

(Oh, and by the way - it is Mackem not Macum)

Some things don't change, though. Instead of a long trip for an evening game to Sunderland, we have one to Newcastle this year!

we did beat Sunderland 4-0 though That was great!....Then we went to Sunderland on a Tuesday evening and got what was, at that time, a record crowd in the Stadium of Light of IIRC 44,000+ and lost 4-1. I remember our chants of "5-4 on aggregate". Sunderland at that time were rather as we ...