I also watched it from the South Bank,although I was still calling it 'Under the Clock' at times. Can anyone recall when we first started calling it the South Bank? Saw my first game in September 1969 and it was definitely The South Bank then. From memory the transfer into either the Tilehurst Rd o...

I was there too, behind the Tilehurst end goal where it was scored ( Franchise- where is he these days? - and Carnaby’s Whiskers were with me). Description above correct, but I would say he was more central than “ towards the left touchline”. Friday wasn't wrong, was he? John 'Minty' Murray also sc...

How long will the EFL let this drag on? Thinking about the implications for the whole league if we are expelled, there is no way realistically it can go on beyond the final day of the season. Assuming we don't reach the playoffs, our status still has major repercussions for League 1 (relegation - ho...

Not exactly an 'Oppositions fan' but this from the Peterborough Evening Telegraph: 3) Posh earn plaudits from opponents because they always try and play rather than rely on hoofball and the tedium of long throws. It’s rarity in League One this season and the ugly nature of the division could be expo...

In the non league world, as far as I am aware, there are no qualifications on ownership so anyone can own a club and do what they want with it so long as they’re within competition rules. The NL league need to change this and apply restrictions to fall in line with the FL. Therefore Dai could try t...

When Tuchel took over at Chelsea he left out of his first squad (from memory v Wolves at home) all the players he did not personally know and went with experience. At the time Chelsea's best player - Mason Mount - was left frustrated on the sideline and only introduced in the second half, making an ...

Anyone remember the game at Gillingham to which Steve refused to travel with the team, was talked around by the EP's David Dibben (he of the 70s glasses, 70s haircut) and got a lift in David's car to the game? I've forgotten what it was that he was upset about, but from what has been said about him ...

Caylan Vickers signs for Mansfield on loan Should get the authorities involved. Poor lad sold off to Brighton like a piece of meat 12 months ago and now been trafficked to Mansfield. His eyes in those Mansfield pictures are dead and are saying “help me”. This time last year Vickers was dragged in b...

Data shows RFC as the fifth most angelic League 1 team so far this year: https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/football/these-are-the-dirtiest-sides-in-league-one-this-season-and-heres-where-peterborough-united-reading-blackpool-wigan-athletic-and-the-rest-rank-4956783 Strangely the team at the ...

I would invite suggestions from others, but historically there have been a few players who have come out of Reading park football and into the professional team. I am thinking of the likes of Smallbone (70s), the Alleynes. Are there enough across the decades to make up a Parks XI?

If Bearwood is to be redeveloped, can it be redeveloped back into the 9 hole public golf course it used to be. Turning out class footballers for us is the only acceptable alternative use.

23 games, 40 points. Goal difference slightly positive. Is this where you expected us to be at this stage back in August? How could / should it go from here? Personal view: better than I had expected. I thought we would be stronger than last year for more experience in young players, but not top six...

I have a big hatred for Reading and those two scoring three against us sums up why. Stole both from us with higher wages and failed to pay their non paying staff. Cheats. Interesting take on it. I mean our fans would be the first to complain about the non-payment of wages. Are they higher wages? Di...

blythspartan I think Curo got 4 in one game against us for Brizzie Rovers. All in the second half.

Didn't Jason Roberts get the other 2?

morganb Is there any truth in that players who've played for us and left then often score against us?

Jake Cooper!

Tom Eaves. I was convinced he 'always scores against us' but then did some digging and found he doesn't. Before today I can only find one goal - against one of our youth teams - in 17/18 season. Over the years there have been (too) many, so inviting others to suggest theirs I'm going to go Mick Butl...

Cannot see it anywhere but apologies if this has been posted before: https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/24804785.reading-fc-full-details-emerge-rob-couhig-court-case/ The damages sought amount to more than £12.298 million, of which £12 million is for the loss of 'potential profits'. Other than ...

Who in their right mind would be prepared to do business with Dai as more and more of this detail emerges? On the other hand, none of the foregoing (and certainly not the 'right mind' descriptor) excludes the possibility that an interested party could be one Andrew Windsor. Suppose he needs somethin...

I found yesterday hard to enjoy. Maybe I'm getting old, grumpy or both. Or maybe I was just unlucky. But every time we have an away game with a full allocation like this, it brings out utter twats. Yesterday there was about 6 behind me. Repeatedly, the entire first half, they were continually shout...

Given the circumstances under which he has operated, how close is Selles to unseating Coppell as our greatest ever manager? No comparison on the playing record, so probably not. But had he stuck around and got promotion with this group of players under this regime, which way would other posters have...