The Sun says: ONCE again we are refusing to name a once-proud South Coast club in this match report from last night. This is solely down to the actions of club chief Nicola Clotese, a man who has decided to ban national and local newspapers from taking photographs of the game. We apologise unreserve...

No.

Then again, their shape does make it fairly easy to ram them where the sun don't shine.

SymonsO May eb a very stupid but is it just very bad image quality or are there really white "scratch" marks in the blue stripes? Its strange as it appears in all the pictures on the official site too.

Stripes? STRIPES?

The day after the Bolton game, I got a phone call from my then boss (a Huddersfield fan - they had been promoted the day before our play-off). I thought he'd rung to gloat / sympathise. Turned out that the wife of one of our colleagues had died in childbirth over the weekend. Suddenly the footie see...

I've just completed my 3rd season of watching my 11yo play for our village team. They play in the Mid-Sussex league which comprises teams from the Burgess Hill area. On the whole, the parents have been excellent - I can only recall one occasion where anything remotely untoward has happened, and that...

Look at the Stats RFC 0-Toon 2 Possesion 49-51 I looked at the stats at half-time, and it showed 66:34 possession in Reading's favour. Not sure how Newcastle turned it around to 49:51, that means they must have had 32:68 after HT. Certainly didn't seem like it. Perhaps they held the ball while Gunn...

Had my first ST in 1975. Have had one whenever I've lived within reasonable travelling distance. My only decision is whether to get one each for my boys. They have shared this season, and younger (8 years old) son has thoroughly enjoyed his share of games.

The Simod Cup semi against Coventry was supposed to be an 8pm ko, but was delayed until 8.15. The 90 minutes finished at around 10, extra time took it to around 10.35, and the penalties meant it finished just before 11. My point being that we did have 8pm starts at EP. And long may they continue at ...

Love the photo of Ridsdale!

ShinPad RHRoyal, you haven't summed everything I was thinking to myself in the shower this morning, but it wasn't all RFC related so I understand.

rhroyal, you have pretty much summed up everything that I was thinking to myself in the shower this morning. A few additional thoughts:- When Coppell was appointed, it was the first time I can remember us ever going for a proven manager with a track record of success at our level. Prior to that (Par...

When Portsmouth in their current form go pop and reform as Portsmouth AFC, from which division or level of the pyarmid do you think they will they have to start again from? Ryman Div 3 (or whatever it is currently called) like Aldershot and AFC Wimbledon? It is the small non-football creditors and ...

Hell roll things back 9 months and we'd beaten Birmingham on their own territory and looked nailed on for promotion. How have we back peddled so far from that point??? Well, it's Brendan Rodgers' fault, obviously. :roll: We played more football last night than all of 2009's home games put together....

The Blue and White Menstruals?

For me, Bolton at Wembley was worse that Walsall at Cardiff. As others have said, it felt like that was our one chance to get to the top flight. The Walsall defeat at Cardiff was bad, but we were clearly going to be amongst the front-runners the following year, and getting up into the 2nd tier was a...

SWLR Like the Gas, WHU fans speak of the Irons, not the Hammers.

"Iron" is, of course, cockney rhyming slang...

I'll fill in some of the blanks here. It was a Reading Chronicle competition, not an Evening Post one. 1974, IIRC. By that time,"Biscuitmen" was never used in any context - in songs or in conversation, and "someone" decided it would be worth thinking of a name that people might a...

(40,000 people paying to become a member = well over a million pounds)

That's an average of £25 a head. I feel sorry for whoever paid my £25, but would like to thank them!