On this day

[rfc8]

11/2/1970, Reading 4 Halifax 1.

Part of a 15 game unbeaten run.

[The Faith Healer]

11/2/1970, Reading 4 Halifax 1.

Part of a 15 game unbeaten run.

As I remember, possibly wrongly!, that started with us shipping 6 at Southport on a Saturday, staying up in the NW for a midweek game with Tranmere, and winning that 5-1!
I'm probably making this up, but I'm also thinking Tommy Jenkins got 3 of them.....

[rfc8]

^^^^
Heaven on Earth agrees...

[rfc8]

14/2/2023, Reading 2 Rotherham 1, a win last year.

[Dirk Gently]

14/2/2002

A drab 0-0 draw away at Swindon in horrible conditions. Sammy Igoe sent off late in the first half, two Swindon players sent off in two minutes right at the end.

A match on a Thursday, just three days after losing to Coppell's Brighton at the Withdean in similarly pissing down rain, at the insistence of ITV Digital.

Also Leo Roget's only performance for Reading.

[Hendo]

14/2/2002

A drab 0-0 draw away at Swindon in horrible conditions. Sammy Igoe sent off late in the first half, two Swindon players sent off in two minutes right at the end.

A match on a Thursday, just three days after losing to Coppell's Brighton at the Withdean in similarly pissing down rain, at the insistence of ITV Digital.

Also Leo Roget's only performance for Reading.

Looking back at that season's results, I totally forgot that we very nearly threw that season away. 10 draws from the last 13 games.

[Dirk Gently]

14/2/2002

A drab 0-0 draw away at Swindon in horrible conditions. Sammy Igoe sent off late in the first half, two Swindon players sent off in two minutes right at the end.

A match on a Thursday, just three days after losing to Coppell's Brighton at the Withdean in similarly pissing down rain, at the insistence of ITV Digital.

Also Leo Roget's only performance for Reading.

Looking back at that season's results, I totally forgot that we very nearly threw that season away. 10 draws from the last 13 games.

Yep, comfortably top in February, ISTR, but nearly repeated the previous season and got sucked into the play-offs.

But, to our credit, although it was 10 draws from 13, as you say, it was also zero defeats in that run.

[Hendo]

14/2/2002

A drab 0-0 draw away at Swindon in horrible conditions. Sammy Igoe sent off late in the first half, two Swindon players sent off in two minutes right at the end.

A match on a Thursday, just three days after losing to Coppell's Brighton at the Withdean in similarly pissing down rain, at the insistence of ITV Digital.

Also Leo Roget's only performance for Reading.

Looking back at that season's results, I totally forgot that we very nearly threw that season away. 10 draws from the last 13 games.

Yep, comfortably top in February, ISTR, but nearly repeated the previous season and got sucked into the play-offs.

But, to our credit, although it was 10 draws from 13, as you say, it was also zero defeats in that run.

Oh yeah, no doubt - the Brighton game was out last defeat of the season, that's what saved us.

If it had gone the way of the previous season, I don't think we'd have been able to win the Play-Offs after being in such a strong position and the scars of the previous season.

[From Despair To Where?]

Couple of games stand out in that run. We won 1-0 at home to Stoke courtesy of a goalkeeping howler in injury time on a day when absolutely every other result went out way. It looked like we'd stroll to the title.


I also remember going away to Chesterfield in March for a routine 2-0 win, livened up by us singing "Abbie is a girl's name" at Chesterfield keeper Nathan Abbey for the duration of the second half. We had a relatively easy run in.

It was our last win of the season.

[fred sharpes nose]

And we scored all three goals!! Lucky,lucky Arsenull.

Yes I was there in the Town end - great day Think Stuart Morgan headed a superb own goal from a corner for the winner? Was the equaliser Barrie Wagstaff at the Town end ? The other own goal was John Harley Dick Habbin cant remember that - was it a deflection or a cock up ?

All goals in second half ??

Was a long time ago for sure

[The Faith Healer]

And we scored all three goals!! Lucky,lucky Arsenull.

Yes I was there in the Town end - great day Think Stuart Morgan headed a superb own goal from a corner for the winner? Was the equaliser Barrie Wagstaff at the Town end ? The other own goal was John Harley Dick Habbin cant remember that - was it a deflection or a cock up ?

All goals in second half ??

Was a long time ago for sure

Barrie Wagstaff definitely Town End - I was right behind it! Morgan quality OG of course...the 3rd eludes me too a bit. Possibly Harley deflection/Death error...?

[Mid Sussex Royal]

And we scored all three goals!! Lucky,lucky Arsenull.

Yes I was there in the Town end - great day Think Stuart Morgan headed a superb own goal from a corner for the winner? Was the equaliser Barrie Wagstaff at the Town end ? The other own goal was John Harley Dick Habbin cant remember that - was it a deflection or a cock up ?

All goals in second half ??

Was a long time ago for sure

Barrie Wagstaff definitely Town End - I was right behind it! Morgan quality OG of course...the 3rd eludes me too a bit. Possibly Harley deflection/Death error...?

Pat Rice shot deflected past Death, he had no chance

[rabidbee]

I also remember going away to Chesterfield in March for a routine 2-0 win, livened up by us singing "Abbie is a girl's name" at Chesterfield keeper Nathan Abbey for the duration of the second half. We had a relatively easy run in.

I suffered my only bit of hooliganism after that game, spat on by a Burberry-hatted twat being escorted away from the station by an uninterested copper. (Tbf, he shouted 'oy!' when the guy spat on me, so there's really nothing more that could have been done.)

[WestYorksRoyal]

Couple of games stand out in that run. We won 1-0 at home to Stoke courtesy of a goalkeeping howler in injury time on a day when absolutely every other result went out way. It looked like we'd stroll to the title.


I also remember going away to Chesterfield in March for a routine 2-0 win, livened up by us singing "Abbie is a girl's name" at Chesterfield keeper Nathan Abbey for the duration of the second half. We had a relatively easy run in.

It was our last win of the season.

Didn't he have a horror show that day before having his revenge in a MoTM performance at the Mad Stad the next season? We absolutely battered them and lost 1-0.

[AthleticoSpizz]

I also remember going away to Chesterfield in March for a routine 2-0 win, livened up by us singing "Abbie is a girl's name" at Chesterfield keeper Nathan Abbey for the duration of the second half. We had a relatively easy run in.

I suffered my only bit of hooliganism after that game, spat on by a Burberry-hatted twat being escorted away from the station by an uninterested copper. (Tbf, he shouted 'oy!' when the guy spat on me, so there's really nothing more that could have been done.)

Was at Selhurst Park back in the days of Ian Porterfield playing for us (1976?), a 1-1 draw iirc, when after the game and whilst queuing for the coach, some Palarse oik gobbed at us (hitting my mates sisters coat). The plod accosted him, made him wipe it off, made him apologise and read him the riot act in front of us amused fans. Days.

[From Despair To Where?]

Couple of games stand out in that run. We won 1-0 at home to Stoke courtesy of a goalkeeping howler in injury time on a day when absolutely every other result went out way. It looked like we'd stroll to the title.


I also remember going away to Chesterfield in March for a routine 2-0 win, livened up by us singing "Abbie is a girl's name" at Chesterfield keeper Nathan Abbey for the duration of the second half. We had a relatively easy run in.

It was our last win of the season.

Didn't he have a horror show that day before having his revenge in a MoTM performance at the Mad Stad the next season? We absolutely battered them and lost 1-0.

Don't remember him having a particularly bad game. We scored both our goals up the other end in the last 5 minutes of the first half and I think we took our foot off the gas in the second. I do remember him taking the abuse in good spirits and giving us a clap at the end.

Unless you're talking about the Stoke keeper, who I think was Lee Camp. He flapped at a deflected cross and palmed it onto Curo's boot 6 yds out. I have vague memories of us being completely on top but utterly wasteful up until the goal.

<EDIT>Actually, looking at the match archive, I think I'm mistaking it for a different game. It was Derby the following season where the keeper, who was Lee Grant, dropped one onto Curo's foot in injury time.

Certainly, the original Stoke game was one where every other result went our way.

[rfc8]

17/2/1990, Reading 6 Preston 0.

[Ark Royal]

11/2/1970, Reading 4 Halifax 1.

Part of a 15 game unbeaten run.

We went top of Div 3 after that win.

[Ark Royal]

And we scored all three goals!! Lucky,lucky Arsenull.

Yes I was there in the Town end - great day Think Stuart Morgan headed a superb own goal from a corner for the winner? Was the equaliser Barrie Wagstaff at the Town end ? The other own goal was John Harley Dick Habbin cant remember that - was it a deflection or a cock up ?

All goals in second half ??

Was a long time ago for sure

Barrie Wagstaff definitely Town End - I was right behind it! Morgan quality OG of course...the 3rd eludes me too a bit. Possibly Harley deflection/Death error...?

Yep, big deflection off John Harley from a Pat Rice shot.

[ManchesterRoyals]

It was on the telly too - the Big Match IIRC

I was 9

What in 7/2/1925, Reading 0 Charlton 0.