Best RFC pitch invasions of our time

[M-U-R-T-Y]

Already mentioned

Most bizarre:

Brentford 1-1 Reading 01/02

In the Mad Stad after watching us go up on the big screens.

Pitch invasion with 3 empty stands, one half empty following pitch invasion, running around with no-one to congratulate

[who are ya?]

That's like watching a game in your living room then running around the lawn in the back garden at full time. Massively gay.

I say this as I was partying on the terrace behind the goal at Griffin Park

[M-U-R-T-Y]

To be fair at the time I couldn't give a monkey's how stupid it looked.

[who are ya?]

Did you run over to the south stand shouting come and join us

[floyd__streete]

ALOL @ Running on the pitch after watching a game on the box!!

I say ALOL, I mean a massive .

I have a variation on that theme. When watching a televised 2-2 draw with Derby in a pub in West London having attended a wedding the previous day I celebrated Shane Long's equaliser by running up to the big screen, as if they players were going to somehow pull me into the television, Take On Me style

[mx]

H v Crewe 75/76.

Awesome.

That was my first ever pitch invasion!

[Compo's Hat]

ALOL @ Running on the pitch after watching a game on the box!!

I say ALOL, I mean a massive .

I have a variation on that theme. When watching a televised 2-2 draw with Derby in a pub in West London having attended a wedding the previous day I celebrated Shane Long's equaliser by running up to the big screen, as if they players were going to somehow pull me into the television, Take On Me style

That's as good as you running down the stairs at Brammel Lane and realising you're in the top tier when you get to the bottom.

[Barney]

H v Crewe 75/76.

Awesome.

That was my first ever pitch invasion!

Me too !!! And still have the Evening Post pictures to prove it.

As well as doing all the Elm Park ones already mentioned in this thread, I also did the last home game 82/83 when we beat Wrexham.
Thought we had stayed up, but went down due to a late goal elsewhere. Having the tannoy tell you that rather than staying up we had been relegated, sort of cleared the pitch a bit sharpish

Also went over the Southbank wall last home game of 77/78. York. Midweek game. About 2000 crowd...and about 30 went on the pitch.

Coventry Simod Cup semi final took a bit of beating, although took me ages (from back of the Southbank) to get on the pitch.

All good memories

[soggy biscuit]

1994 - Bournemouth 2-1 Reading - for pretty much the entire match.

The one that I first thought of when I saw the thread title. Quinn scored his 40th of the season that night I believe. I am sure they gave us 2 stands that night as well. I was a young whipersnapper just behind the goal!

LOL @ the fan that ran on and finished off Gilkes long range shot on goal meaning the goal was obviously disallowed.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Best pitch invasion at Elm Park during the game was by Portsmouth knuckle-draggers in 1976.

They took the Southbank before kick off and after hundreds of them invaded the pitch (after going 2-0 down) caused havoc in the Tilehurst End.

Remember Hetzke standing his ground and casually watching them as they buzzed around him on the pitch.

Div 3?

Yep, My invasion of choice too.

As a mere spotty 14 year old, I had never been threatened with such physical violence by so many people old enough to be my dad before.

A wall collapsed in the Northstand...and a Reading fan was left in a coma IIRC

[Royal With Cheese]

Those were the days when Reading's support would consist of lads on the piss. Not women, children and gheys.

I'm struggling not to use the term "proper" as it gets the likes of Ian Royal in a tizz.

[oldebiscuit]

I was onthe pitch for the 0-0 with cambridge as well, steward says " im not stopping you lads"...so we all piled over and ran on to voice disgust at madejski.

Well, well, well,. Would you believe it? That invasion was an embarrassment to all associated with the Club. I remember it well. It was totally un-called for, it was just an excuse for a handfull of morons to have their 'moment of glory' (ironic) on the pitch. This achieved nothing, except provoking a chorus of 'oxf*rd' from the disgusted majority, and a needless fine for the Club.
Anyone involved that day was just a pathetic child, or perhaps an inadequate with a mental age of perhaps about 13. To admit you were there is at best cringe time, and to actually be proud of it is astounding. It tells us a lot.

[M-U-R-T-Y]

Did you run over to the south stand shouting come and join us

No m8. There were no away fans.

[FiNeRaIn]

I was onthe pitch for the 0-0 with cambridge as well, steward says " im not stopping you lads"...so we all piled over and ran on to voice disgust at madejski.

Well, well, well,. Would you believe it? That invasion was an embarrassment to all associated with the Club. I remember it well. It was totally un-called for, it was just an excuse for a handfull of morons to have their 'moment of glory' (ironic) on the pitch. This achieved nothing, except provoking a chorus of 'oxf*rd' from the disgusted majority, and a needless fine for the Club.
Anyone involved that day was just a pathetic child, or perhaps an inadequate with a mental age of perhaps about 13. To admit you were there is at best cringe time, and to actually be proud of it is astounding. It tells us a lot.

Get over yourself you bitter old fool, you only ever come out of the woodwork to attack the usual suspects on here. You are a complete idiot.
We were utter garbage at that point and enough was enough. The point was made and we actually improved afterwards. What I didn't like about the invasion was the fans going over to the cambridge fans to have a pop at them, completely needless and stupid.

It was over 11 years ago in a corwd of less than 7,00 on a no win in 8 streak. You could argue the fans there that day were true fans. Did you even go?

[No Fixed Abode]

There was a good little pitch invasion at Walsall away. The game Keith Jones scored a perfectly good 'disallowed' goal.

[T.R.O.L.I.]

There was a good little pitch invasion at Walsall away. The game Keith Jones scored a perfectly good 'disallowed' goal.

Without googling, anyone care to name the referee for that game for a nerd-point?

[leicsRoyal]

There was a good little pitch invasion at Walsall away. The game Keith Jones scored a perfectly good 'disallowed' goal.

Without googling, anyone care to name the referee for that game for a nerd-point?

It was either Webb or Bennett, not sure which.

[RoyalBlue]

There was a good little pitch invasion at Walsall away. The game Keith Jones scored a perfectly good 'disallowed' goal.

Without googling, anyone care to name the referee for that game for a nerd-point?

God I remember that game. The ref was the absolute pits to the point where you might just begin to wonder whether he'd got contacts in the Far East!

[RoyalBlue]

I was onthe pitch for the 0-0 with cambridge as well, steward says " im not stopping you lads"...so we all piled over and ran on to voice disgust at madejski.

Well, well, well,. Would you believe it? That invasion was an embarrassment to all associated with the Club. I remember it well. It was totally un-called for, it was just an excuse for a handfull of morons to have their 'moment of glory' (ironic) on the pitch.

In your opinion. And I'm not sure how you can so categorically state it was an embarrassment to all associated with the club. Furthermore, if it bruised someone's ego a little bit IMO that wasn't a bad thing.

[bloody Volvo driver]

There was a good little pitch invasion at Walsall away. The game Keith Jones scored a perfectly good 'disallowed' goal.

Without googling, anyone care to name the referee for that game for a nerd-point?

It was either Webb or Bennett, not sure which.

95% sure it was a) Webb and b) either his first ever professional appointment or more likely his first ever tier 3 game which I remembering thinking at the time strange as it was a real top of the table 6 pointer.

He was dog awful that day, as bad a homer as I can recall. Thought at the time, another ref going absolutely nowhere. Little was I to know.