20 years ago today.............

[Focher]

WHEN HICKS WENT UP TO LIFT THE SIMOD CUP WE WERE THERE, WE WERE THERE

[When Hicks went up...]

The day I "properly" fell in love with the Royals.

[Silver Fox]

What a magnificent day that was

1 time, 1 time, at Wembley Stadium, we won it 1 time

[When Hicks went up...]

What a magnificent day that was

1 time, 1 time, at Wembley Stadium, we won it 1 time

Something along these lines has to be sung on Saturday. We need a decent, if ironic, answer to the cries of "you've never won f**k all" that always eminate from the south stand.


We'd beaten Bradford City
We'd beaten the Coventry
Forest and Oxford had already gone home

We won it one time
We won it one time
At Wembley
We won it one time

[Gus the teenage cow]

u could have posted a link to the match report, i can hardly remember it

[BR2]

What made it such a great performance was that the same Luton side did so well just a few weeks later v Arsenal (?) in the League Cup final.
A real family day out when my wife and my mate's mum saw their only Reading game ever and I thought then that this would be the ultimate Reading experience in my lifetime.
Little did I know............

[dickie royal]

this game is my youngest memory of watching reading i was 8 years old had the yellow shirt on which was so small it had no sponsor on it!! i was waving my flag around all game which got in everyones way!! i think i might still even have that flag somewhere! once a royal always a royal!!

[Ark Royal]

Brilliant, brilliant day. When Harford scored I was thinking to myself 'please, please don't let us get hammered today.' Met some Luton fans in the car park afterward and they all congratulated us and we wished them luck against the Gooners. I was really rooting for them in the League Cup final. Drove a mini van full of family back to Reading and Bracknell and I was piling back cans of Stella Artois while driving! Got barred from my local that night for what shall be called over-zealous celebrations!

Check out my (few) Simod Cup final photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/baz.greenaway/SimodCupFinal

[Sir Rodney Effing]

And the FA (in so many ways) in their moronic traditional fashion wouldnt let us defend it...

But lets not dwell on that. This was a great day. "Sealey, Sealy what's the score?"

He was so confused he told us it was 2-1.

Or perhaps those 2 fingers meant something else?

[sucatraps]

100% success record in a trophy contest at Wembley!

(play off's are pants and don't count, unless you win of course!)

"We've won at Wem-ber-ley, we've won at Wem-ber-ley"

[Gordons Cumming]

Brilliant, brilliant day. When Harford scored I was thinking to myself 'please, please don't let us get hammered today.' Met some Luton fans in the car park afterward and they all congratulated us and we wished them luck against the Gooners. I was really rooting for them in the League Cup final. Drove a mini van full of family back to Reading and Bracknell and I was piling back cans of Stella Artois while driving! Got barred from my local that night for what shall be called over-zealous celebrations!

Check out my (few) Simod Cup final photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/baz.greenaway/SimodCupFinal

Great photos, but colour and a telescopic lens would have helped.

[Leamington Royal]

It was a fantastic day. We completely outnumbered the Luton fans (rather like the play off final v Walsall). Not sure where the extra 40,000 or so suddenly came from.

I remember Gilkes enjoying the wide open spaces of the Wembley pitch. They couldn't deal with his pace and we thoroughly deserved to win. The only dissapointment was that the stands were just too big for Hicks to hoof the ball out of the ground.

[Row Z Royal]

I don't remember this in the slightest as I was 6 months short of my 4th birthday.

[AF1]

Anyone have a link to the Youtube footage previously posted?

[2.8 lita injection]

I was there, my first visit to wembley at the age of 17. I missed the luton goal due to the traffic and my brothers slow yellow metro.

[Geekins]

I was 3 years old so don't remember it.

[Sir Rodney Effing]

I don't remember this in the slightest as I was 6 months short of my 4th birthday.

I was 3 years old so don't remember it.

I wasnt there when we moved to Elm Park in 1896 so I dont remember that.

Sorry, I thought I'd add another pointless remark into the forum (sorry Row Z Royal, sorry Geekins )

[Beelzebub]

Probably my favorite sporting moment that I actualy experienced.

I lost my vioce for 4 days afterwards.

[sucatraps]

Apparently goldfish have very short................

[PEARCEY]

It was a great day especially as a work colleague of mine who was a big Luton fan was at the game and was boasting Luton were going to use the game as a dress rehearsal for the League Cup Final against Arsenal a few weeks later We played well that day and I remember Neil Smillie running aroud the corner flag after he scored....still preferred the semi final win over Coventry...magical night.
Despite the Simod glory we still got relegated that season.