I think a lot of the dissatisfaction is to do with our home record (2nd worst in the division) and I am nowadays like most fans in that I generally now only go to home games (80 miles each way is enough). With the emphasis on defence that is fine when we play away but we make so few chances at home ...

Lastly, with the score at 3-0 and being already in added time there should be leeway for the ref to just end a game when a player is badly injured like last night. Players were stood around for ages doing nothing and we could all have just gone home. :?: Their third came after the injury. I had swi...

By mid-morning of the day after nearly everything has been said. Two very simple things picked up by Sandy and Roller: Throw-ins-for so many years now we just throw the ball away We don't need all our players back for corners-not only do they get in each others' way but the ball is cleared to nobody...

I am not a fan of that chant anyway so will be happy when/if it goes Records come and go but nothing will take away a actually witnessing that season first hand and, it's quite nice to in some way be able to appreciate what it's like for Liverpool fans to be watching a team utterly dismantle the le...

Great family history there Ark. My dad had only a passing interest in Reading but he did play local league football. My two brothers and I have always followed Reading and living in Beecham Road, 2 roads away, and going to junior school in Wilson Road, just 1 road away, meant that we were regulars ...

Great family history there Ark. My dad had only a passing interest in Reading but he did play local league football. My two brothers and I have always followed Reading and living in Beecham Road, 2 roads away, and going to junior school in Wilson Road, just 1 road away, meant that we were regulars i...

Seeing mention of the crowd for that Saints game I have looked back at other crowds over 20,000 since 1955 as a reference point and because my mate John went to the FA Cup game that year when the attendance was 26,500 and we drew 1-1 (never mind the replay). Other cup games:- 1960 2-1 v Norwich 22,1...

My Turkish mate is a big Galatasaray fan and he told me that today's game v old rivals Fenerbahce is always lively and more so this season as both try to make up ground and challenge for the title. I looked at the bookings odds but decided not to have a bet as the anticipated number of cards was 8 (...

Have just watched the extended highlights of the Burnley v Bournemouth game in anticipation of much wailing and weeping down this way in the week ahead of how hard done by they were by VAR. The first disallowed goal was probably a bit harsh but after that the ref failed to see the blatant handball b...

Old Man Andrews Farcical stuff, it really is. Best league in the world??

Remember that we had no referees IIRC chosen for the last World Cup.
Who takes the decisions at Stokely Park?
English referees (not VAR).

Thought we started the first 30/40 quite well. Deep runs from Pele, Rino, Swift and Olise was successful and all that was lacking was that end product Until Phillips got injured, then Leeds did a re jig and put White as CDM which is a completely different proposition. We failed to adapt, and their ...

His mum and dad lived a few doors up from us in Beecham Road and at the time he was the nearest we got to a celebrity. I used to play with his much younger brother Frank. A real trier on the pitch and very strong. He used to coach the Spartan League side Huntley & Palmers and it was no surprise ...

Think we had 25000 at home to Saints in the League cup in the early 80’s? From memory Kevin Keegan was supposed to be playing for them, hence the crowd. But he did not play :roll: :roll: :roll: . I was there natch Edit: it was nil nil and we lost the replay 2-0, big away crowd too. It was nothing t...

Yeah, pre-segregation Saw lots (and lots) of games in the 70s when fans from either team (and even fans from neither team...maybe a London team/Aldershot/Oxford game had been called off...so they all piled in to EP Northampton fans being one that comes to mind) could stand anywhere....only really r...

Tbf, United only haven't qualified for the Champions League 4 times in 27 seasons, although 3 of them have come in the last 6 seasons. And we are living in the present. Ironically City's loss could be Utd's gain if they scrape into a 5th place. Oh of course, but scraping into a place they are only ...

Leicester was mentioned earlier on the radio as a possible move for Lallana, presumably because of the Rodgers connection and the possibility of Maddison moving.
Talk down here is of him returning to Saints or Bournemouth if they manage to stay up.

Another little Haaland factoid that I didn't know is that he played under Solskjaer at Molde, and scored four goals in 17 minutes for them with the United scouts watching. 39 goals in 29 games now this season, with a goal every 49 minutes. The Solskjaer connection is why our Press thought Man Utd w...

Another little Haaland factoid that I didn't know is that he played under Solskjaer at Molde, and scored four goals in 17 minutes for them with the United scouts watching. 39 goals in 29 games now this season, with a goal every 49 minutes. The Solskjaer connection is why our Press thought Man Utd w...

Lads. We have already played 40 games this season. No way should we look to rest players for a cup competition. The league is our focus. Winning games in the league, finishing as high as possible and playing our key players together where possible to further build on their teamwork and understandin...

Scunthorpe 2 - 2 Reading -19 Feb 2000 "We're off to sunny Scunny". 20 years ago today :shock: In the midst of Pardew's season of transition, when adequate was probably the word to describe a fairly uneventlful season, 900 of us met up at the Madejski wearing special t-shirts with special ...