When was your first Reading game?

[Saaaaaaaammmmmm]

Reading 0-1 Wimbledon in 2001
A young winger called McAnuff scored in injury time

[elman]

Good attempt at a wind up Super DC but I am more an adult to respond to these type of posts

[Hertfordshire Royal]

Sorry my mistake, I saw Port vale League match and then Southampton in the League Cup in 1995![/quote]

http://www.royals.org/matdoc/150495.html

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think it may have been this one actually:

http://www.royals.org/matdoc/230995.html

I remember them having a few folically challanged players in their team at the time!

[Victor Meldrew]

March 27th 1954:-
Reading 4
Norwich 4
A crowd of 13,413 in Div3 South
I thought every game would be like that so was hooked.
My brother and I stood in the Town End (later to become the away end).
I think it was a sunny day and over the years (with no semblance of evidence) I believe Reading have always done better when the sun shines.

[Victor Meldrew]

I cant remember the year but we got beat by Aston Villa 5-3 , could have been 1969

October 31st 1970.
One of the most entertaining games I have ever seen despite the rain.
You were the same as me,8 goals in our first game so no wonder we came back for more.

[Ark Royal]

I cant remember the year but we got beat by Aston Villa 5-3 , could have been 1969

October 31st 1970.
One of the most entertaining games I have ever seen despite the rain.
You were the same as me,8 goals in our first game so no wonder we came back for more.

South Bank was full of Villa and there were some scary-looking skinheads in the Town End as well.

[Victor Meldrew]

10th January 1957 Reading 1 Wrexham 2 FA Cup replay. The winner was due to meet the Busby Babes, typical Reading to lose out. Maurice Evans was playing in one of his first games.
That Man U side could have been the greatest British team ever, but most of the players were killed in Munich air disaster a year or so later Twenty of the 44 people on board the aircraft died in the crash. The injured, some of whom had been knocked unconscious, were taken to the Rechts der Isar Hospital in Munich where three more died, resulting in a total of 23 fatalities with 21 survivors.

Manchester United players who were killed

* Geoff Bent
* Roger Byrne
* Eddie Colman
* Duncan Edwards (survived the crash, but died in hospital 15 days later)
* Mark Jones
* David Pegg
* Tommy Taylor
* Liam "Billy" Whelan

Many reckon Duncan Edwards could have been the greatest English player that ever had he lived.

Have so many memories of Reading FC have seen so many characters over the years, Ray "Bomber "Reeves who hit a ball harder than anyone I have seen. Dick Spiers,(R.I.P) was n´t a dirty player just appeared to be. Johnny Walker who scored with a rocket from 40 yards on his debut. Robin Friday ......

Ups and downs, Maxwell, defeat to Bolton in the play off final, coming from 3-0 behind at home to Plymouth and winning 4-3. The highs and lows are endless. I could go on for days rather than hours.

Reading FC is a great club we may not have won too much, but usually the club has been run ethically. My dream was always to see Reading FC in the top division, now my dream is to see them make the European Cup.

I wasn't allowed to go to that game IIRC had measles or something .
I can remember now the disappointment when my brother came home and told me the result.

[Green]

Div3 South

Might appear controversial but I'd like to see the third and fourth tiers regionilised again.

More local derbies, reduced travel costs for fans, it's a win win.

[Kingsley Junior]

Reading 1 Burnley 1, Sept 9th 1998.

[No Fixed Abode]

Around 1985, but I can't remember the game.

[melonhead]

late eighties once.

then early nineties pretty regularly

no idea what games though

[ankeny]

I cant remember the year but we got beat by Aston Villa 5-3 , could have been 1969

October 31st 1970.
One of the most entertaining games I have ever seen despite the rain.
You were the same as me,8 goals in our first game so no wonder we came back for more.

South Bank was full of Villa and there were some scary-looking skinheads in the Town End as well.

Stood in the Tilehurst end for that one,all Villa on the Southbank.

[Ian Royal]

As always when this comes up, Wembley '95. Bolton.

[Royal Biscuitman]

Reading v Gillingham 1987, Senior and Horrix on the scoresheet.

I had a chat to Trevor Senior a couple of season ago and he remembered the game and the goals in better detail than me

[Eastkentroyal]

29th April 1961 (My seventh birthday) Reading 5 Torquay United 1

[SydenhamRoyal]

Preston Home, April 1971 - behind the Tilehurst End goal at Elm Park. We got relagated that season to div 4 for the first time but actually won that game 1-0 against a side which got promoted that season.

Must be loads of fans on here who can beat that though.

Can't beat that BUT ... 1st game was Reading 7 Barnsley 0 29th December 1979. And for saddo stattos out there, its been down hill all the way since then ... we haven't had a better score line since in a competitive match

[SydenhamRoyal]

I also remember being behind the goal vs Forest when Steve Stone missed from 2 yards out - anyone else there that night?

you're being harsh, it was 12 yards. Mind you it was an empty goal and my dog could have scored

[MICKLEOVER ROYAL]

Boxing Day 68 or 69 Reading 3 Shrewsbury 1

[sandman]

Reading 3 Northampton 0 LC 93/94

Parkinson, Quinn, Lovell.

[Ark Royal]

Boxing Day 68 or 69 Reading 3 Shrewsbury 1

That was 69 and I remember it. A brilliant performance and Jack Mansell's fantastic passing team were beginning to really get it together.