by Only one Trevor Morley » 03 Oct 2006 17:29
by easxmn » 03 Oct 2006 17:38
by easxmn » 03 Oct 2006 17:41
by TFF » 03 Oct 2006 17:43
by readingbedding » 03 Oct 2006 17:47
Only one Trevor Morley As reading continue to prove that they can more than hack it in the Premiership its starting to look likely that we could stay up. Now that we're seven games in and doing well its started to dawn on me that life as a Reading fan will never be the same again.
Whereas at the start of the season there was that sense of uncertainty that has been replaced with a feeling that Reading can hold their own and therefore you inevitably start to think of cup runs, mid table finishes, more glamorous players coming to us....
and its then that you realise that your life as a Reading fan as you have known it for so long - the hope, the excitement of playing a big team in the cup, the inability to imagine what it is like to watch a Reading match in the premiership has gone. and if we establish ourselves then that feeling will not be replaced. I dont know what it is like to be a supporter of a team who does a Charlton or a Bolton and expects to avoid flirtations with relegation and hopes to finish in the top half. Equally I dont know what it likes to be a yoyo club - but what I do know is that I'll never see reading in the same way and that feeling will increase the more we play in the Premiership. We've lost our Premiership virginity slowly and surely - even if we head back to where we came from.
I love being a Reading fan now and I hope Reading stay in the Premiership forever - but I wouldnt want to swap the experience I've had of being a Reading fan that thought 8,000 was a good crowd at Elm Park, that got really excited when Sky showed our game on tv, that allowed you to get nods of approval for supporting a local team not in the Premierships. But its only now - when we've proved we can do well - that I've realised how we can never go back - no matter what happens our bar of expectation will be set that little bit higher.
Does anyone else feel this - or did everyone get on the bandwagon circa 2001! ?
by Blue and White Toucan » 03 Oct 2006 17:58
by PREMIERSHIP_ROYAL » 03 Oct 2006 18:00
by readingbedding » 03 Oct 2006 18:10
Blue and White Toucan I'm with you ReadingBedding.
I miss Elm Park, and all the romance that goes with the nostalgia, Robin Friday, Hicks, Death, the walk home down the Oxford Road etc etc but I am very proud to be associated with and supporting my home town team who are now competing at the top level in English Football.
Times have changed but its been a fantastic ride, but I wouldn't go back and it ain't over yet.
Champions League anyone !!!!
by .:BigDaveInTheDungeon:. » 03 Oct 2006 18:32
by HighburyRoyale » 03 Oct 2006 18:34
by Sonic » 03 Oct 2006 18:46
by ayjaydee » 03 Oct 2006 18:49
by Millsy » 03 Oct 2006 19:04
Only one Trevor Morley I love being a Reading fan now and I hope Reading stay in the Premiership forever
by HighburyRoyale » 03 Oct 2006 19:24
by handbags_harris » 03 Oct 2006 22:12
HighburyRoyale losing at home to Fulham or Everton (unthinkable emotions only 3 seasons ago), I think it will feel strange.
by readingbedding » 04 Oct 2006 00:44
by bobby m's syrup » 04 Oct 2006 04:28
by bobby m's syrup » 04 Oct 2006 04:29
ayjaydee Has anyone else noticed the preponderance of "we" now instead of "you".
As in Monday morning work conversations - "We" won again I see - as opposed to not so long ago - see "you" lost at the weekend.
But, back on topic - I too will never forget the Elm Park years, Percy Freeman in the Whore's Bed the night before a match supping his 8th pint, the walk from town especially for a midweek game when you could see the floodlights in the distance, the smell of the urinal on the Southbank etc. But would I want it back? Nah, happy in my "new home" watching a better standard of football year on year, enjoying trips to virgin stadia.
by royalroo » 04 Oct 2006 08:01
by Corky341 » 04 Oct 2006 08:13
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