by Ten Bobsworth »
22 Jan 2024 23:09
royalstevep68 Ten Bobsworth I watched a bit of that Mark Saggers guy on Talk TV on Sunday night. Saggers has always struck me as a daydreamer and he had a couple of other daydreamers talking about Reading on his 'show'. One was a ranting Reading fan, a qualified accountant, she said.
The other was a bloke who had held some CEO position in the past. God knows how but never mind.
Anyroad it was all a bit cringeworthy. There wasn't any of them with owt worthwhile to say other than
'its a disgrace'.
I watched a bit of the Blackpool v Forest match on TV last night. I thought Blackpool played well but I switched it off when Forest got their third goal. I didn't see Blackpool coming back from that and they didn't.
We've got Blackpool away in the next round of the PIzza Cup (or whatever its called now). It won't be easy.
There were nearly 80,000 fans at Wembley for last year's final when the Wanderers gave Plymouth a bit of a drubbing. That was about 16,000 more than the 1995 Championship play-off final, which some of you may remember. I do.
I remember that play off well, as I was there. And as you may remember, the attendance was about 64k as Bolton brought no fans, 22k I think, Reading had sold their entire allocation of 36.5k tickets and wanted more. Reading were by far the better side and should’ve been 4-0 up before Bolton even got a sniff of a goal
I agree. Reading were much the better side on the day and arguably over the season. We barely got a kick in the first half and were fortunate to go in at half-time only 2-0 down.
As for attendances, Bolton Wanderers had been in a slump for most of the previous thirty years but support was gradually coming back. Personally I'd have brought back the stocks for the heresy of parents of kids seen wearing Man U shirts in Bolton town centre but it was it was.
There wasn't as much money about either and Wembley wasn't a cheap day out if you came from Bowton but there were over 20,000 at Burnden Park for Bolton's home semi-final play off against Wolves, about 50% more than there were at Elm Park for the other semi-final.
P.S. It was Bolton's second visit to Wembley in the space of two months. They played Liverpool in the final of the League Cup the month before the Reading play off match. Nearly 80,000 at Wembley for that match.
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Ten Bobsworth on 23 Jan 2024 11:24, edited 2 times in total.