Isn't 2013...

[Gav]

...the centenary year of us smashing Milan in their own back yard and being hailed the finest foreign football team ever seen in Italy?

I think it's probably due a reiteration. Pre-season friendly?

[LoyalRoyalFan]

A trip to the San Siro would be wood worthy.

[Fox Talbot]

Milan playing in blue and white hoops thru out 2013-14 as a tribute would be in order. Genoa too.

[maffff]

Yep, May 1913. Time for another tribute........

[Pepe the Horseman]

This is not the greatest team in the world, this is just a tribute.

[Optimist]

...the centenary year of us smashing Milan in their own back yard and being hailed the finest foreign football team ever seen in Italy?

I think it's probably due a reiteration. Pre-season friendly?

I was thinking of emailing the club with that very suggestion but had forgotten about it til now. Shall I do it?

[Ian Royal]

...the centenary year of us smashing Milan in their own back yard and being hailed the finest foreign football team ever seen in Italy?

I think it's probably due a reiteration. Pre-season friendly?

I was thinking of emailing the club with that very suggestion but had forgotten about it til now. Shall I do it?

Where's the harm? They may ignore you and roll their eyes at worst.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Wonder if we could make AC Milan/Inter Milan feeder clubs?

[GreaterTorontoRoyal]

Wonder if we could make AC Milan/Inter Milan feeder clubs?

Church - AC Milan's new #9

[maffff]

Wonder if we could make AC Milan/Inter Milan feeder clubs?

Church - AC Milan's new #9

Swap for El Shaarawy sounds fair.......

[Royal Ginger]

...the centenary year of us smashing Milan in their own back yard and being hailed the finest foreign football team ever seen in Italy?

I think it's probably due a reiteration. Pre-season friendly?

I was thinking of emailing the club with that very suggestion but had forgotten about it til now. Shall I do it?

Where's the harm? They may ignore you and roll their eyes at worst.

They might all leave because they believe your suggestion is racist.

[jazz]

Yes it is. My great grandfather played in that RFC team.

[The Cube]

My website doesn't exist any more, but thanks to the internet archive you can still read what I published about this here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090108101235/http://www.btinternet.com/~rfc1871/news/features/italiantour.htm

I've got some news reports and photos from Italy since, and will see if I can post them here.

[southbank1871]

Gr8 stuff Cube.

[The Cube]

Bit quicker than expected:


Presumably taken before the game against Genoa. Text says "The Reading team play today in Turin against our national eleven."

[leon]

Calcio - by John Foot has got a couple of pages about it. RFC was the first professional club in England to have an Italian player.

[jazz]

Bit quicker than expected:


Presumably taken before the game against Genoa. Text says "The Reading team play today in Turin against our national eleven."

For sure that's Wayne Rooney on the left.

[sputnik]

Lovely stuff TC

How many international teams have Reading played ? I notice we beat Italy on that tour, I remember the New Zealand game at Elm Park, and I read we beat Uganda in the 1950s. Any more ?

[AthleticoSpizz]

IIRC there was Steve Deaths Testimonial that was an England X1

[royalsteve]

lol, thrashed Milan and beat Italy, never realised that...either Royals were brilliant or Italy and Mailan were s**t