Foul on Nicky Shorey at Man City in the last minute of our second relegation season match. Goal given, lost one nil.

On the positive side that ghost goal at home to Rochdale in 1975.

Yes, with a mirthful Stuart Hall.

Er, hang on.

Make the players wear suits with a flower in their lapels on Cup Final day. Which must be a Saturday at 3pm. The players go out onto the hallowed turf at 1 pm, in their suits and get all nervous. No iPods/ headphones allowed.

I am a traditionalist, but the League Cup is a joke, not worth it. The premiership sides certainly do not take it seriously.

Same goes for the FA Cup tbh tbf. Unfortunately. Early rounds are good.

Anyway, please put me down as Frankfurt, solidarity with Stranded.

There is a problem with the chart, the path led me to Kaiserslautern , who are local to me, so great. But they are third division at the moment.

See also Frankfurt not being available as a choice, whereas they are Bundesliga

Six posts since 2004.

You’re no Brendy.

Welcome though.

We need another thread like this

Dr_Hfuhruhurr Nottingham Forest 3 Reading 4 (April 2011) - They could have scored all evening and we still would have beaten them

I was there

Difficult because obvs I’m gonna say Robin Friday, but he was basically a fourth division player. Whereas Le Fondre scored quite a few for us in the Premiership. Senior and Friday up front. Senior was not “that good”, he just could not help scoring. Similarly I’d be tempted to put Steve Death above ...

We used to just call them “the seats”.

I guess it was the North Stand, as it was opposite the South Bank.

“ Norfolk Road stand”?

West Stand?

Wow, great photos. I can see Bruce Stuckey and Gary Peters I reckon.

RIP Ray, a hero of mine.

Then I concede.

Right. I used to drink (underage) with John Minty Murray. Beat that.

The Royal Forester Sorry, but I can take being born (I was born at home, during WW 2) the nearest to the Mad. Stad. away from you. According to Google Maps, my former house in Greenfields Road is .4 of a mile closer.

Hang on, were you born at home as I was, or in a hospital?

great thread, well played DD. Born in Reading (Coningham Road, Whitely Wood, probably no-one on here was born closer to the Mad stad.). Lived a long time in Tilehurst, so could walk to EP. Dad took me to EP in 1969, aged 8, v Port Vale or Mansfield (I think I saw both that season). Have followed the...

Did people catch the quiet comment that the Govt is going to publish a weekly number of people dying of Covid-19 OUTSIDE hospitals? It's not clear whether those deaths (Old people's homes etc) are included in the figures. I’ve just been asking about this on AE. It seems deaths are measured against ...

Good grief. Well said SCiAG. Abbott is worthy of pisstakes for her pisspoor performance in that “ numbers” interview, but there is no doubt a racist element to singling her out , supposedly as thick. ( no, not you RR). RR do you read the Economist? It’s a right-wing rag, but a trusted, well- connec...

Hmm, I’m smugly pleased with that post, how do I transfer it to the AE politics thread, to get on Dr H’s etc titz?