I can clearly remember Percy hitting the junction of bar and post so hard against Bradford City in 73(?) that the ball bounced over the roof of the Norfolk Road stand. Probably the fiercest hitter of a ball I have seen in A Reading shirt. Built like a brick sh1thouse as well. Barry Wagstaff was a cl...

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Garrincha Farnboro Royal

Shame you didn't make the start of that 1985/86 season. RFC still hold record for best winning start to a season (11)

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1st January 1966 v Walsall at EP 2-2.

OK, just to clear some facts up and some errors in Richard's piece. The small piece of coverage shown is the game against Lincoln in 76. Friday did not actually score in that game. Goal shown was scored by Ray Hiron. BTW, Graham Taylor was Lincoln manager and Ian Branfoot was right back for Lincoln ...

For some inane and unfathomable reason, I really think we are going to nick this 2-1. Watching the game at the Globe pub in Chicago.

January record: P6 W5 D1 L0 F19 A8. Another MoM gong for Sir Steve?

Lived in Ireland for nearly three years and Cork is a cracking city. Guaranteed good times. West Cork has some of the most stunning coastline I have seen anywhere. Try to get to Kinsale and Skibbereen. Picturesque and just more pubs than you could ever do in a pub crawl. B&Bs are cheap and natur...

After all those years just begging to pull out a big draw in the cup competitions and it (virtually) never happened, then suddenly we get Liverpool and ManU in the same season! Sign of how far we have come when people are beginning to think that we might, just might, have a chance of going all the w...

A group of us always wanted to break into Elm Park, it didn't look that difficult. In the summer we wanted to do it in the middle of the night and have a kickabout. Never did. Should have done. Pity. I did that once after a drunken night out back in the 80s. Jumped over the low end of the wall behi...

The Doyler and Nicky Shorey. Just before the start of the season, some US friends who have a fair knowledge of the English scene, were desperate to fill out their fantasy teams with a cheap forward. I recommended The Doyler more in hope than as a result of any formed opinion. He has proved to be a w...

Magical. That really bought a lump to my throat.

Ok, here is my take on the Robin Friday debate. I was there on that Wednesday night and the moment is permanently etched on my memory as if it was yesterday. I can recall the facts of the matter and what I saw because I kept a full copy of the Evening Post the following day which is full of photos i...

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ABC frontman Martin Fry

Plastic newbies!

First game on 1st January 1966 at EP. 2-2 v Walsall.

A Royal welcome to you Stamtown. A Royal born & bred of 40 years standing and greatly enjoying our day in the sun. Ms Ark Royal is from PA, so pleased to hear that normal people reside in that part of the world.

RCFC - Marked in the calendar and I will do my best to get down there. My footy season with my girls's team is over two weeks before, so my weekend should be clear. I will be in touch closer to the time. Ark Royal/Arch : You know, The Globe Pub --as unclewal will attest-- does a proper English break...

A few of us Brits who frequent the House of Guinness in Waukesha, Wisconsin wax lyrical about the merits of proper English rashers, i.e. rashers with meat on them and proper English bangers. We got together and ordered a shedload of same from an Irish food distributor. Expensive but worth it. Had th...

RCFC - Your info is truly a Godsend to us Royals in exile in the land of so-called bacon that is not bacon (just taken delivery of a huge O*ford-off case of proper rashers from back home) and sausages that are not bangers (...another case of them as well). Going to avoid the result of the Citeh game...

7/8/1991 - Reading 2 Dnepropetrovsk 4 The Ukrainian club had been Soviet League champions only four years previously. I can recall us being 2-1 at half-time including a headed goal by fat useless David Leworthy, but they moved up about ten gears in the second half and were applauded off at the end,...