Great post. I don't care either way about Oxford & Swindon but don't get the hatred towards them. If it is local rivalry Brentford & Wycombe are closer. And I really dislike the "hate Swindon so we stab 'em song".
Back on topic:
Hate:
Wolves - utter scum fans in the play off a few years back and a town full of scumbags after the game.
Chelsea - attitude of fans, especially those living in Reading who think they are better than us for supporting a big club.
West Ham - Tevez-gate. Allardyce. Their owners. Thinking they could nick Pardew and doing so. The Olympic Stadium.
Cardiff
Any team featuring Andy Liddell, Craig Hignett, Lee Bowyer, El Hadji Diouf, Joey Barton
Any team managed by Allardyce, Billy Davies or Colin.
Like:
West Brom - not just because they share a hatred for Wolves. The day they all turned up as Vikings.
Brentford - always a good trip, especially the promotion day out. We were walking back to Ealing Broadway and some of their fans knocked on the window from inside a pub wanting to chat. The bouncers wouldn't let us in with Reading colours so the Brentford lads came outside to chat.
Walsall - at the play off final in Cardiff had a great time in a bar beforehand with a bunch of their fans. So much so that almost missed kick off. They were giving their mate abuse for looking like Tony Barras.
Southport & Darlington - it may be my dodgy memory but we always used to stick 5 past them in the 70s.
Teams you really hate and like as a Reading fan
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Fulham - Mentalist club. A statue of Michael Jackson, and an owner who wants a British Passport despite the fact he's convinced the Royal Family killed his son. Some of the best pubs in London withing a five mile radius of the ground and you can leave Reading at 9.30 and be in them by opening time. Generally when you're in Fulham after the game, there's no real reason to rush home. Despite basically buying the lower leagues under Keegan, they've settled down and generally do things the right way. The sacking of Jol, however, may be a turning point for the worst.
Millwall - Genuine lower half championship side who have never resorted to any cheap tactic to get promotion or avoid relegation. The fact that they tend to avoid relegation each year despite looking like one of the four worst clubs each year - well, you've got to respect that. Appointing Holloway, however, may be a turning point.
Swansea - Probably the best set of fans I've met and have spent the best part of a decade assembling a team based, it seems, almost solely on playing ethos. Love em, even when they are playing the ball around without purpose for 90 minutes
Dislike:
Chelsea - When Mourinho took a swipe at St John's Ambulance then, frankly, that's the most out of order event of the modern game. The farce of the treatment of Benitez is probably the second. Here's the thing, Chelsea is the most affluent part of London - the people there don't go to football. So Chelsea is supported by people who choose to support them and they choose to support Chelsea because they WANT to be antagonistic and unliked. Its no wonder that when they have the fans they do, that eventually it passes onto the players. If you want to summarise Chelsea up: Most club's 'element' are basically young men who cant hold a drink and have a gob on them. Not at Chelsea - Chelsea's element are grown men who choose to be this way. Its like a montage of all the unimpressive bits of 'This is England'
Portsmouth - Refused to pay their bills to the average working man who kept the club running to save them, but saved a kitty for Redknapp and Sol Campbell. Normally I wouldn't take umbrage with a club solely for their financial situation, but Fratton Park is a hole. Even in the 70s and 80s it was never a 'good old fashioned ground', then they got to the Premiership, and reacted to the all-seater stadium regulations by stapling a couple of thousand seats as close as they can get them in the uncovered away end. When their demise came, which was greatly deserved, I was, however, greatly amused that they put their faith in Dave Kitson, who, in return for that faith, did absolutely bugger all. You could say that Portsmouth are victims of circumstance, but every decision they've made when those circumstances occurred has been lowest common denominator stuff.
Leicester - Got out of administration by convincing the HMRC that they didn't need this year's taxes. Try that one at home. I'm beginning to think that their initial 'we're in the wrong league' attitude when they went down might be wearing a bit thin now. See also Derby.
Spurs - Fck em. The lot of them.
Fulham - Mentalist club. A statue of Michael Jackson, and an owner who wants a British Passport despite the fact he's convinced the Royal Family killed his son. Some of the best pubs in London withing a five mile radius of the ground and you can leave Reading at 9.30 and be in them by opening time. Generally when you're in Fulham after the game, there's no real reason to rush home. Despite basically buying the lower leagues under Keegan, they've settled down and generally do things the right way. The sacking of Jol, however, may be a turning point for the worst.
Millwall - Genuine lower half championship side who have never resorted to any cheap tactic to get promotion or avoid relegation. The fact that they tend to avoid relegation each year despite looking like one of the four worst clubs each year - well, you've got to respect that. Appointing Holloway, however, may be a turning point.
Swansea - Probably the best set of fans I've met and have spent the best part of a decade assembling a team based, it seems, almost solely on playing ethos. Love em, even when they are playing the ball around without purpose for 90 minutes
Dislike:
Chelsea - When Mourinho took a swipe at St John's Ambulance then, frankly, that's the most out of order event of the modern game. The farce of the treatment of Benitez is probably the second. Here's the thing, Chelsea is the most affluent part of London - the people there don't go to football. So Chelsea is supported by people who choose to support them and they choose to support Chelsea because they WANT to be antagonistic and unliked. Its no wonder that when they have the fans they do, that eventually it passes onto the players. If you want to summarise Chelsea up: Most club's 'element' are basically young men who cant hold a drink and have a gob on them. Not at Chelsea - Chelsea's element are grown men who choose to be this way. Its like a montage of all the unimpressive bits of 'This is England'
Portsmouth - Refused to pay their bills to the average working man who kept the club running to save them, but saved a kitty for Redknapp and Sol Campbell. Normally I wouldn't take umbrage with a club solely for their financial situation, but Fratton Park is a hole. Even in the 70s and 80s it was never a 'good old fashioned ground', then they got to the Premiership, and reacted to the all-seater stadium regulations by stapling a couple of thousand seats as close as they can get them in the uncovered away end. When their demise came, which was greatly deserved, I was, however, greatly amused that they put their faith in Dave Kitson, who, in return for that faith, did absolutely bugger all. You could say that Portsmouth are victims of circumstance, but every decision they've made when those circumstances occurred has been lowest common denominator stuff.
Leicester - Got out of administration by convincing the HMRC that they didn't need this year's taxes. Try that one at home. I'm beginning to think that their initial 'we're in the wrong league' attitude when they went down might be wearing a bit thin now. See also Derby.
Spurs - Fck em. The lot of them.
alright, putting aside my intense dislike of Arsenal and Chelsea........let's be honest we are not in their solar system
as a RFC fan I always look for the Oxford and Swindon results first and hope they've lost. Ditto Aldershot. Perhaps even more so. But only when they're in the League. Sort of wish them well in their current straits.
Bolton. Very painful memories of Wembley. Never liked them before that either tbh.
BHA. Worst internet/forum contributors on the net. Largest differential between how they see themselves and reality. RFC and our fans can take lessons from many, many clubs. And yet Brighton are the ones that try to preach
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Portsmouth: purely based on the violence in the 70's. Not too bothered these days
Likes? Fulham, Brentford, Newcastle, Boro, Villa, Wigan...........Palace maybe. Leicester and Orient.
as a RFC fan I always look for the Oxford and Swindon results first and hope they've lost. Ditto Aldershot. Perhaps even more so. But only when they're in the League. Sort of wish them well in their current straits.
Bolton. Very painful memories of Wembley. Never liked them before that either tbh.
BHA. Worst internet/forum contributors on the net. Largest differential between how they see themselves and reality. RFC and our fans can take lessons from many, many clubs. And yet Brighton are the ones that try to preach
.Portsmouth: purely based on the violence in the 70's. Not too bothered these days
Likes? Fulham, Brentford, Newcastle, Boro, Villa, Wigan...........Palace maybe. Leicester and Orient.
LIKE
Millwall
Stevenage
Dagenham & Redbridge
Glasgow Rangers
HATE
West Ham
QPR
Liverpool
Celtic
Millwall
Stevenage
Dagenham & Redbridge
Glasgow Rangers
HATE
West Ham
QPR
Liverpool
Celtic
LUX Portsmouth: purely based on the violence in the 70's.
Go on...
Bit of a hooligan in your youth were you, LUX
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