Hound Appaz spotted in Reading again today

Twice in a couple of weeks....

Assuming he isn’t here for the culture or the sights

I've just googled Appaz to see which club he currently plays for....

Never quite felt the love with Peter Shilton. I always thought Pat Jennings to be the best goalkeeper of that era (70s/early 80's). Not a favourite save as such but the best performance by a goalkeeper I have ever seen was by a chap called Trevor Dance for Port Vale against us at Elm Park. Would hav...

I wonder where this thread would go now...

It was definitely wrong.

The old invincibles at home to start and we're transporting coals to the other end of the country on Wednesday August 17th...

Winston Smith Possibly the physically weakest player I have ever seen in person. If the wind blew he fell to the ground.

Simply don't think he has the heart to make it at a decent level.

I take it you don't remember Nigel Vaughan?

Anyone remember Colin Court? Made one appearance as an emergency in the early 80s home to Swindon, never seen again. Scored an own goal and was basically hopelessly out of his depth. I would say that, technically, he was the worst goalkeeper ever to wear the No.1 shirt, outfield players aside. Can'...

I remember Bobby Charlton who was co-commentating on the game close to tears as the scenes unfolded.

First season in many I hadn't renewed mine or my 16 year old daughters ST. She has to work Saturdays and I bought on a game by game basis. I have about 2k points and she's got around the 1k mark. My company sponsors the club and has a small number of STs in return. I was offered their use to get our...

Can only remember ever going on two specials, Hereford away in the cup (as previously mentioned but we did have several shots including one by Ray Hiron in the last minute that shaved the post) and Swansea away in the FA Cup circa 1979 where we got thumped 4-1, got chased back to the station and th...

I always take something I've heard third hand with a large dose of salt but I'm told staff at Reading weren't paid on Friday. I can't verify that and I don't know if that includes players and/or backroom staff so it can be no more than idle gossip on my part. Any activity before the end of the trans...

I didn’t know he had been released by Crystal Palace and Brentford earlier in his career. I didn’t know Reading manager Steve Coppell had put him on the bench match after match after match. I didn’t know he had set a record for how many times he came on as a substitute and that Bobby Convey, the ma...

Winchester Royal You can bet that this run continues until we play them in 3 weeks or so...

Thought they would never play us again??

Anton Zingarevich 'saddened' by Reading plight Former Reading majority shareholder Anton Zingarevich is "saddened" by the Championship club's situation, but a takeover is close, according to departing director Chris Samuelson. Zingarevich bought 51% of Reading in May 2012 and had been due ...

As rumours go it's a tenuous one but an old and now retired colleague of mine who is a STH at Chesterfield tells me there is lot's of gossip in those parts about Jimmy Ryan coming to us in January. I know nothing about him other than he's a holding midfield player currently injured and very highly r...

Just a thought but I wonder if AZ is allowed back into the country and that is at the root of the problem?

As I said, just a thought.

I have heard that "the club" (and I don't know who that might be exactly) spent 4 days in Oman very recently. The significance of this I have no idea.

Look at that beautiful kit. Non of this large hoops like last season, or blue shorts. http://www.assetstorage.co.uk/AssetStorageService.svc/GetImageFriendly/721203071/700/700/0/0/1/80/ResizeBestFit/0/PressAssociation/C2C40CE2B89E507DBFBE948088CA2C49/soccer-football-league-division-four-reading-phot...

http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/ten-fixed-matches.html Ten Fixed Matches While the mainstream media focuses on Afro-Caribbean, South Asian and Singaporean match fixers as opposed to the largely white Caucasian expanse of managers, players, referees, owners, agents, bookmakers, administ...

AthleticoSpizz Its probably a bit like our hatred for Swindon (but in reverse), they are more interested in hating Oxford

Don't you believe it. I know enough of their old timers to know that isn't the case.