I will no doubt incur fury for saying this, but Morro's goal was not a wonder goal. He does really well to push forward, see a gap, pass to Joao and continue his run. However, once he gets it back, it's a lucky ricochet and a deflected finish. I'd say a good goal for a CB overall, but Morrodonna he...

His injury IIRC coincided with our fall from grace after a bright start to the season. One of those players that you thought "How did we get him?" Have read his book and saw a documentary where he was doing good stuff amongst mainly black kids in school. Wishing you well Paul Genuine ques...

Bit of a random shout, but I was at a pre-season friendly at home V Newcastle in...I don't know when to be honest, my head is saying 1999? Anyway, Ruud Gullit was their player-manager and decided to bring himself on for whatever reason in the second half, in his late 30s I suppose, and he just seem...

Only the 41 years for me.... Reading v Wimbledon 2nd May 1979. My mate's dad took us both to watch the game and we won 1-0. I think it was to secure promotion from division 4. Crowd was 13379, we stood in the Tilehurst end near the front and it was packed. Can't remember who scored but when we score...

Going back a bit two players who I remember ripping us apart in the 80's were a young Trevor Steven playing for Burnley before he went to Everton, absolutely looked a class above in a game at Elm Park and smashed one in from about 30 yards. Made a note of his name on the programme and was not surpri...

grey_squirrel FA Cup Final winning goal scorer.

Lawrie Sanchez

Local lad. Pres college from memory?

That awful game against Sheffield United a couple of seasons back where it was -9 degrees. No I have some good memories of that game. Came up from Exeter with some mates two of which were Sheff Utd fans. Drove through two blizzards to get there. Didn't think we'd make it.. Beer with a Bovril chaser...

Reading 0 Chesterfield 0 in 88/89 or 89/90. A game so devoid of action, the highlight was Gary Phillips miscontrolling a backpass out for a corner. Odd thought it may sound, I vividly remember that game for being so utterly bad. If it was the same game I had in mind then you are right. My memory wa...

The problem with Curo is he didn’t do it for us at Championship level. Great at lower League level Just my opinion but we had three good strikers at that time Cureton worked really well with Butler the year we went up . Butler created a lot for Cureton to feed off (big man / little man combo) but i...

Forster's goals to game ratio wasn't actually that great. He was superb on his day, but I always found him frustratingly greedy. But his turn of pace was something else. Left wing was between Jobi and Michael Gilkes but went with Jobi as he got promoted and was Captain as well. Gilkes scored and wo...

He showed promise prior to coming here. Our system clearly didn't suit him. In any case, I'll raise you a Cureton, Kitson, Shorey, Doyle, Long, Sonko... Football is a different game now, the young talents who might've fallen through the academy systems at bigger clubs are now hoarded by them, they ...

Buying people like McNulty and then writing him off after 6 months? Sounds great! He showed promise prior to coming here. Our system clearly didn't suit him. In any case, I'll raise you a Cureton, Kitson, Shorey, Doyle, Long, Sonko... Football is a different game now, the young talents who might've...

Seeing reports of queues of traffic on Oxford road to get into B&M garden centre and the police are in attendance, words fail me sometimes. :shock: It like a holidays for these brainless pricks. Im almost dreading the warm weather. Agree on the individual stupidity but why haven't the Govt/Loca...

Just spotted that Singapore, after apparently being very successful in containing the virus, are now starting to ‘lockdown’ after a second surge Again, just shows by flattening that first curve, it’s not really solving anything long term what's being seen a lot in Asia is people returning from Euro...

Bloody hell. :shock: I mean, it's not like they had less days in a year back then.. why on earth would they do stuff like that?? Amazing where a thread goes this is really interesting... My dad told me we used to often play Wednesday afternoons and he used to bunk in after half time... This was cir...

Wait, what.. back to back days? Yeah. Would send Pep and Klopp mental. No friggin mercy. 1927 Blackpool home and away, 1929 Bradford City home and away, on successive days. Just imagine the travel on Christmas Day evening or Boxing Day morning or whatever they did. Bloody hell. :shock: I mean, it's...

May or June is wishful thinking I'm afraid. If football by some miracle returns by that time then it will be behind closed doors. Yes, and next year is our 150th anniversary... It will be just Reading's luck to find that football does not return to 2022!! 150th anniversary of our first game is 21 F...

sandman May or June is wishful thinking I'm afraid. If football by some miracle returns by that time then it will be behind closed doors.

Yes, and next year is our 150th anniversary... It will be just Reading's luck to find that football does not return to 2022!!

[quote="Snowball"][quote="Jagermesiter1871"]So really from today on wards we should see some impact of the lock down in Italy? Yes, what's scary though as Italy might start to slow look at the numbers coming out of Spain (Spanish death rate yesterday was not far off Italy's) and ...

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Barney

Linden Jones' Tash Germany has 3 X more ICU beds per head of population than the UK also

Is that because they put towels on them ?

Shameful chuckle.

Apologies from me too... I did have a little giggle at that one...