Few more typos - the ones that jump out are Mikkel Andersen and Greg Halford. Mikkel is NOT a typo… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikkel_Andersen_(footballer) Presume you’re confusing him with Jokull Andresson who finally left last season. He never made a league appearance for Reading so is absent ...

Few more typos - the ones that jump out are Mikkel Andersen and Greg Halford.

Sal Bibbo is a clear odd-one-out in that he still managed to be a hugely significant figure for the club, by being our goalkeeping coach for a decade or so when we had a string of good goalkeepers.

Little was supremely talented, the great genius of our best-ever side. However, quite a lot of what that side did was set up around covering for his weaknesses. He got substituted off after an hour almost every week - a bit less unusual in those days when the bench was only five players and managers...

Bindon hasn't had to face the same level of opposition that Ivar and Moore did. Lots of short-term players have just oozed class, Dariusz obviously, Zurab, Upson, Matt Miazga in his initial loan. Anton Ferdinand probably read the game better than anyone else but was never fit. My most controversial...

Yeh, I've always felt like Doyle was right place at the right time. There was nothing particularly special about him, but he hit the ground running and never looked back. I still think that if we'd sold Doyle to Stoke instead of Kitson we'd have gone back up, first time of asking. That move ruined ...

For me the only keeper who warrants comparison to Shaka is Al-Habsi. Hahnemann, Federici, and McCarthy all have their own strengths and weaknesses, all very good but not the miracle workers that Shaka and Al-Habsi were. That said, McCarthy against Liverpool is probably the best single performance I'...

Bindon hasn't had to face the same level of opposition that Ivar and Moore did. Lots of short-term players have just oozed class, Dariusz obviously, Zurab, Upson, Matt Miazga in his initial loan. Anton Ferdinand probably read the game better than anyone else but was never fit. My most controversial ...

Sidwell is a completely different player.

Olise with us was a fraction of the player Gylfi was. Played 50% more matches but scored 50% fewer goals. Never looked quite as good as John Swift, who obviously was a worse version of Gylfi.

Hard to say, all very different players. Although I'd say that Kitson is probably the best all-round striker I've ever seen play for us. Yeah. Doyle was consistently better than Long, who had one good season here, a couple including elsewhere. Quinn should be in the conversation. Prime Joao was as ...

I've always found it a bit odd that people care about whether someone beats 106 at a lower level. For me it's always primarily been about the second tier of English football. If someone broke it in the top flight, especially with their shorter seasons, then yes we'd look a bit tinpot singing about t...

The regulations do say "this will be dependent upon the circumstances of the individual Club and will be determined by the League". So it can simultaneously be true that clubs under embargo are generally allowed to extend contracts, and also true that the League have decided our specific c...

Thanks - he is of course Coke-Miles -Smith, who i didn’t realise was playing as i would have listed his proper name. Actually, that passed me by as well, although I had noticed that he sometimes only uses the first part of his triple-barrelled surname. Anyway, the red card was for two yellows, whic...

Realistically I'd be too cynical about the notion. I'd be happier to pay a regular sustainable amount towards costs than to put up a large sum that would be swallowed up by operating costs within a year. I'd also be happy to contribute a fairly large sum towards a fundraiser that was going to sort a...

The record for “scoring” the most league non-goals: Watford (a) 2008-09 Rochdale (h) 1975-76 Would this also mean an ex-Reading player has the record for not-scoring the most non-goals? Assuming someone was credited with scoring both of those goals The Watford goal was credited to John Eustace (own...

Most dangerous opponent, for some… https://rdg.today/trent-alexander-arnold-names-forgotten-former-reading-fc-man-as-toughest-opponent-ever/ Made 4 apps for Reading, does anyone even remember him? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zVjTxRcgbE8/maxresdefault.jpg Now without a club after leaving Morecambe last y...

The transfer fee for Andy Carroll to Liverpool from Newcastle United in 2011 was £35 million At the time, this made Carroll the most expensive British footballer ever. Completely forgot about Carroll, and a lot of players of his vintage. Yeah, he’s up there with Drinkwater. £15m fee in his move to ...

Yeah, Drinkwater has this comfortably. Les Ferdinand went for £6m twice. Anton Ferdinand was £8m for Sunderland. Baba Rahman was signed by Chelsea for £14m rising to £22m, though given how successful he was, one suspects it didn't actually rise. Similarly Piazon was £5m rising to £10m, so £5m. Wayne...

Doesn’t ALF have the best goals per minutes played in the PL ? No, but he's close. Of retired players who have scored at least 7 goals, only Aguero and Henry are ahead of him. Among current players, Haaland and Duran are ahead of him. Duran is a similar case to Le Fondre, lots of goals from the ben...

Highest league position by any club from Berkshire. Most defeats in the FA Cup for a league side. I think "Convey off, Hunt on" might have been a record for the most times one player has been substituted for another in league history, or at least in a season. Certainly it was some sort of ...

Forest and their affiliates now have Bindon, Abbey, and Richards.

Have to say that’s a good back line for Rio Ave.