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by Mr Optimist
11 Jan 2023 10:13
Forum: General Football
Topic: Weekend Football
Replies: 5335
Views: 1016648

Re: Weekend Football

Charlton seemed to have slipped in to the role of lower league underdog quite nicely and very quickly. Taking 9,000 to Old Trafford for a league cup game, being more than they get for home games now, and when they don’t take 300 to a northern away game in League One. Singing cringy songs like “is th...
by Mr Optimist
06 Jan 2023 18:16
Forum: The Team
Topic: Ex Players
Replies: 3106
Views: 1289526

Re: Ex Players

Stoke apparently willing to let Josh Laurent go this month. Noticed he was on their bench the other day which I thought was strange as I thought he'd have been a regular there, obviously not. Will go to another Championship club I don't doubt. Someone like a Hull, Bristol City or Cardiff I'd have t...
by Mr Optimist
06 Jan 2023 18:07
Forum: The Team
Topic: Ex Players
Replies: 3106
Views: 1289526

Re: Ex Players

SWLR Former fan of the East Stand, Morrison leaving Cardiff. Always loved those 50 yard cross-field passes out of defence.... and over the touchline


Think you might be thinking of Matt Millishit and his middle finger?
by Mr Optimist
31 Dec 2022 09:33
Forum: The Team
Topic: Opposition fans back from the game
Replies: 4463
Views: 1443186

Re: Opposition fans back from the game

Sutekh Opening day of division 3 on 8th August 2009:

Norwich City 1-7 Colchester United


Within 10 days they’d poached Colchester’s manager and the rest is history as they say. Some audition for the job from Paul Lambert! Allan Russell (who?) that’s how it’s done.
by Mr Optimist
30 Dec 2022 22:40
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Norwich City (a)
Replies: 181
Views: 19541

Re: MATCHWATCH : Norwich City (a)

I'm glad Allan Russell isn't anywhere near Reading FC. What a clueless caretaker saying we should have had a red card and it wasn't a penalty. What an arrogant oxf*rd loonatic. Anyway who cares we got the point that performance deserved. Blew his big chance to impress and stake a claim for the job ...
by Mr Optimist
30 Dec 2022 22:08
Forum: The Team
Topic: Opposition fans back from the game
Replies: 4463
Views: 1443186

Re: Opposition fans back from the game

AthleticoSpizz Norwich - “we should be beating teams like Reading”

You didn’t


Twice. They aren’t very good are they? No Championship cakewalk for them this season.
by Mr Optimist
30 Dec 2022 12:01
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Norwich City (a)
Replies: 181
Views: 19541

Re: MATCHWATCH : Norwich City (a)

Good news. The new Norwich caretaker manager thinks they should be beating ‘teams like Reading.’ One for the dressing room wall. https://twitter.com/pinkun/status/1608383670280245252?s=46&t=NTw4uUOg-tUOm3z3RcKadA With all due respect to interim managers like Allan Russell, who the oxf*rd is All...
by Mr Optimist
30 Dec 2022 11:58
Forum: The Team
Topic: Opposition fans back from the game
Replies: 4463
Views: 1443186

Re: Opposition fans back from the game

Do Swansea have any French players or was the French tricolore just small time inferiority sad sack World Cup related? Did seem odd for people who utterly flopped at the WC to try and windup others who actually had a very decent tournament…. Swansea are Frenchless, the two players you might think a...
by Mr Optimist
29 Dec 2022 18:53
Forum: The Team
Topic: Opposition fans back from the game
Replies: 4463
Views: 1443186

Re: Opposition fans back from the game

Do Swansea have any French players or was the French tricolore just small time inferiority sad sack World Cup related?
by Mr Optimist
29 Dec 2022 12:31
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Swansea City (h)
Replies: 190
Views: 24069

Re: MATCHWATCH : Swansea City (h)

I worked in Manchester with a Burnley fan around the time we signed Glen Little. He had God like status with their fans at the time, they worshipped him. My mate said he was the single reason a number of people were still going to Turf Moor was to see him play. He was less than happy when he left th...
by Mr Optimist
28 Dec 2022 13:38
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Swansea City (h)
Replies: 190
Views: 24069

Re: MATCHWATCH : Swansea City (h)

I thought Swansea looked a decent side. Admittedly our game plan was to sit back and let them have possession in two thirds of the pitch and then press them until they lose the ball, but thought they had some decent players who are comfortable on the ball, and if Piroe was in any kind of form at the...
by Mr Optimist
01 Dec 2022 07:48
Forum: General Football
Topic: Generic clubs in financial crisis Thread
Replies: 5576
Views: 549255

Re: Generic clubs in financial crisis Thread

I think their biggest sellable asset is Alex Scott, only 19 but will go for a minimum of £10m. Not sure what length of contract he is on currently though, if it’s still a relatively junior contract I am sure they’ll be trying to get him signed up on a 4 year deal asap before he gets tapped up by som...
by Mr Optimist
23 Nov 2022 20:23
Forum: International Football
Topic: Qatar Hero - The World Cup 2022 thread
Replies: 2185
Views: 175072

Re: Qatar Hero - The World Cup 2022 thread

Classic stuff from Jenas "Belgium are so static" whereupon Batshuyi sprints after a long ball and smashes it home. On paper Belgium have much more quality but I think it was Cloughie who was first quoted as "...but games aren't won on paper". The Belgian back line has been aroun...
by Mr Optimist
22 Nov 2022 18:25
Forum: International Football
Topic: Qatar Hero - The World Cup 2022 thread
Replies: 2185
Views: 175072

Re: Qatar Hero - The World Cup 2022 thread

Mr Angry my guess as to what tomorrow's Sun headline will be:

"Argies get sheikhen up"


“Argentinians inSultan their country” oil get my coat.
by Mr Optimist
13 Nov 2022 08:26
Forum: The Team
Topic: What team is most similar to Reading FC
Replies: 35
Views: 7625

Re: What team is most similar to Reading FC

I thought two northern similar clubs to us are yesterday’s opponents Hull, and Huddersfield. Similar size fan bases and admittedly Huddersfield in their early years won First Division titles but looking at it from the last 50 years, very similar. Leeds Road was like a bigger version of Elm Park but ...
by Mr Optimist
31 Oct 2022 18:43
Forum: General Football
Topic: Old Timey Football Thread
Replies: 183
Views: 18341

Re: Old Timey Football Thread

Answering my own question lol! No, it was another old Welsh keeper of the 70/80s era who never quite established himself in Division One, Mark Kendall.
by Mr Optimist
31 Oct 2022 18:39
Forum: General Football
Topic: Old Timey Football Thread
Replies: 183
Views: 18341

Re: Old Timey Football Thread

I remember Jimmy Rimmer playing for Swansea in the mid 80s. Yep he did for a couple of seasons, joined in 1983 and left in 1986 though his time there collided with Swansea’s rapid return to the 4th division and eventual winding up in 1985, presumably would have played against Reading in the games p...
by Mr Optimist
25 Oct 2022 05:58
Forum: The Team
Topic: Opposition fans back from the game
Replies: 4463
Views: 1443186

Re: Opposition fans back from the game

Royals and Racers Surely there are Bristol City fans saying how rubbish we are ?? :D


We have progressed slightly from rubbish to “limited”….oh the irony!
by Mr Optimist
24 Oct 2022 22:34
Forum: General Football
Topic: Best/Worst Pundit
Replies: 561
Views: 88878

Re: Best/Worst Pundit

Because I'm an old fart, I used to love Peter Jones radio commentary on radio2 in the 70s and early 80s when I was a kid. Listening to the radio in the dark winters nights especially in the 70s, he used to set the scene for games like no-one else. Loved it. Used to love Stuart Hall’s summaries of g...
by Mr Optimist
20 Oct 2022 19:39
Forum: General Football
Topic: Generic clubs in financial crisis Thread
Replies: 5576
Views: 549255

Re: Generic clubs in financial crisis Thread

Being reported that Everton's auditors are refusing to sign off their accounts and have walked away from the club - supposedly in connection with the ownership of Farhad Moshiri. If the accounts aren’t signed off then shouldn’t the PL be immediately down on Everton and their owners like a ton of br...
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