The next Grant Brebner?

There are some that go further back than me as seen in this topic-I started in 1954. Incidentally in the great keeper debate of the late 50s I preferred Dave Jones (Welsh) to Dave Meeson-it's only Welsh full-backs that I detest. :wink: Is that a pop at Linden Jones? :wink: No, just modern full-back...

http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/articles/the-secret-footballer/20771/has-america-really-fallen-in-love-with-the-beautiful-game/ Three weeks ago, I was talking to an American player who I know extremely well. He was capped many times by his country and tagged with the “all-American” label from th...

SJM no longer in control at the club as a corporate rescue and recovery company are called in... http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/reading-fc-takeover-sir-john-7236882 Begbies Traynor Group (BTG), a firm who specialises in corporate rescue and recovery services, are now in cha...

Marlon King in court today King has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after a three-car crash left a man with a fractured elbow. Convicted for 14 offenses in the past and had 2 stints in prison so far. Think he is a shoe in for the footballer gets arrested thread award Nile Ranger has time on his...

Is this our 3rd kit?

Simon Osbourn's goal line clearance
Jimmy Quinn in goal
Trevor Morley's hat trick
Duberry getting away with taking out Nolan
Hunt being sick

New kit on the Reading FC Direct website

In a recent article TSF talks about slatting Lampard: I remember getting carried away with myself years ago and having a go at Frank Lampard for something. The moment I stepped on to the pitch for the pre-match handshakes, I knew that I’d made a massive mistake. He looked me dead in the eye and gave...

The latest article about Gamesmanship sounds very much like RFC under Coppell: http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/articles/1931/gamesmanship-all-part-of-the-game/ One club that I played for liked to take quick corners so that the opposition struggled to pick up the players that they were supposed to...

I seem to remember a game against Bright when Zamora got booked for throwing the ball at a ballboy because he thought he'd been too slow giving the ball back?

ages and ages and ages ago some of you guys asked if I'd upload the Wolves/Archie/McGhee footage from 1996-97 from my extensive collection. Well, finally......... http://youtu.be/7PIl4s2fz0M Fozzy!! You legend!!!! I've never seen those goals on video. It was pandemonium after Archie's 97th minute w...

He should get a hostile reception. Makes for a better atmosphere. Pardew said: “I won’t get a good reception. It will be horrendous probably because of the way I left. It will be a pretty charged up atmosphere. "I went back with West Ham a few years back and they didn’t grasp the intensity of ...

We had a thread discussing this topic at the start of last season too

http://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=107786&hilit=mcanuff

Apparently something in Get Reading Monday morning? Royals midfielder Jem Karacan has shrugged off suggestions of his contract talks breaking down, describing it as ‘nonsense’. Karacan made his first Reading appearance in four months in Saturday’s 2-2 draw at Bournemouth, after having his ankle bro...

JayRoyal Give me a sec guys, I'll whip a template up, seems to be a mix of most of their templates, not just using one.

With the V neck and red shoulder patch I think the Watford shirt is the closest template for the shirt.

trueroyal1871

Blue & White Soup or am i being stupid and brian was with us at that point haha

It has been photoshopped m8!

The original was Murts and Long

Friendly at Brighton confirmed for Tuesday 7th August

http://www.readingfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10306~2810808,00.html?

Stuka All in personal taste of course, but I quite like the idea of navy shorts with the hooped socks and shirt.

Hooped shirt with navy shorts...

No Fixed Abode

That is so Tottenham 2010