Most gutting moment as a Reading fan.

[Forever Reading]

Losing 4-0 at home to Arsenal. Absolute disgrace and I was so gutted about it.

I soon got over the pain. It was a treat. One of my best memories of the Prem tbh.

So you like losing 4-0.

I dont think it was a bad moment we were never really in the game Arsenal played some sublime football that would have rolled over anyone.

[LUX]

I've still got the text message from my brother saying "Fulham have scored" at Portsmouth.
Probably the worst, but to be different I remember in 1976-77, after one glorious season up in Div 3, we had an awful season but with two easy games left, both at home, we could survive. Wednesday H v Rotherham. In their Arsenal shirts.

Result 0-3. Relegated. Probably the most let down I've ever felt.

[royalrumble]

Watching S.Hunt every game after January completely give up and not cross a single ball into a danger area - cost us our place in the Premiership.

[Thaumagurist*]

So you like losing 4-0.

I dont think it was a bad moment we were never really in the game Arsenal played some sublime football that would have rolled over anyone.

Oh yeah? Then explain to me how come Sheff Utd managed to beat them in the same season. Rolled over anyone, my arse.

[papereyes]

... because it was implied that the football Arsenal played against us would have rolled over anyone.

Sheffield United kicked them off the pitch and, iirc, pretty much assaulted van Persie.

[Thaumagurist*]

That's what we should have done, but there was two problems with doing that: a) The Hunt/Cech incident in the previous game and b) it was on live TV. Hence why it was such a disappointing game, we backed off too much. That's why they won, not their so called pretty football.

[Baines]

That's what we should have done, but there was two problems with doing that: a) The Hunt/Cech incident in the previous game and b) it was on live TV. Hence why it was such a disappointing game, we backed off too much. That's why they won, not their so called pretty football.

If we had a team structured to kick other teams off the pitch, I rather doubt that we would have been treated to the wonderful football we so often saw between 2005 and 2007.

Disparaging Arsenal's football that day is just ridiculous.

[Archie's penalty]

Lets just pretend the rest didnt happen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwk4Erxrsqs&feature=PlayList&p=953F99C6C6532D16&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3

'He's done well, he's done really well...'

Classic bit of commentary by Moore.

A friend of mine taped the match and I watched it when I got back from Wembley, twice in one day. I am a glutton for punishment...

I was there and it was like a fairy tale until half time words couldnt describe it and then it all came crashing down. What a day of emotions it brought grown men to tears

I was there as well, in the Bolton end. Amazing game. Most intense I've ever been to as a Reading fan.

[Readingfanman]

Reading 0 - 2 Bolton
Reading 0 - 2 Fulham


Both of these results absolutley gutting.

[The Prisoner]

Has to be the Walsall play off. I remember the Rouge pinball rebound (I didnt know how it had gone in until I saw the replays at home), the Byfield daisy cutter (why did Whitehead dive over it) and my missus (who hates football so I still dont know why she came to this day) making lots of "it's only a game" and "why is everyone so bothered" comments. And the sort of distant roar that the 3-1 outnumbered Walsall fans made with Byfield wheeling away towards them countered by stunned silence from us.

I remember a fat lad in a Reading shirt stamping on his flag and snapping it as we walked back to the station with the Walsall fans still inside and fire works going off. The - the best/worst bit - live in Cheshire and had left the car at Newport station, which it seems most of Walsall's 8 fans had also decided to do. So queueing up at Cardiff station for the Newport train I had to queue with them and listen to them MOANING in a black country accent that they weren't ready for promotion and how they were amazed they had beaten us, oh, and a load of guff about it being a victory for football over money!

Then had to drive up the A40 and M5 surrounded by cars with Walsall flags and scarves. WIth my missus still failing to see what the problem was and asking why grown men had been crying.

Great day. No. Really.

[Royalee]

Walsall play off final by a long long way.

Agree with that. I was so pissed off after that game.

+1, It was harder to take than Bolton because we led in extra time and half expected to go up rather than being on the crest of a wave after promotion the previous year in 95.

[Thaumagurist*]

my missus (who hates football so I still dont know why she came to this day) making lots of "it's only a game" and "why is everyone so bothered" comments.

Christ. She must have been the only woman to not know what was at stake.

[peterroyal76]

Still remember hearing McGhee had gone and breaking down, was only 12 to be fair.

You were driving at 12?

[PEARCEY]

Bolton by a garden mile because we played so well that day.
I dragged two mates(non Reading fans) to the Walsall final in 2001 and wasn't bothered because we were so crap that day.
The other two really bad experiences were standing at a dismal Elm Park watching us draw 0-0 with Hull and get relegated back to the old div 3 in 1988 and the day we were relegated back to div 4 in 1983 with 53 bloody points!!

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

Walsall play off final by a long long way.

Agree with that. I was so pissed off after that game.

+1, It was harder to take than Bolton because we led in extra time and half expected to go up rather than being on the crest of a wave after promotion the previous year in 95.

are you old enough to really remember Bolton properly?

[Archie's penalty]

Well by my reckoning Royalee would have been 8 at the most. The most important thing about the game wasn't the result, it was the loss of hope after it which hit. I don't think an eight year old could really appreciate something like that...

[Dirk Gently]

Has to be the Walsall play off. I remember the Rouge pinball rebound (I didnt know how it had gone in until I saw the replays at home), the Byfield daisy cutter (why did Whitehead dive over it) and my missus (who hates football so I still dont know why she came to this day) making lots of "it's only a game" and "why is everyone so bothered" comments. And the sort of distant roar that the 3-1 outnumbered Walsall fans made with Byfield wheeling away towards them countered by stunned silence from us.

I remember a fat lad in a Reading shirt stamping on his flag and snapping it as we walked back to the station with the Walsall fans still inside and fire works going off. The - the best/worst bit - live in Cheshire and had left the car at Newport station, which it seems most of Walsall's 8 fans had also decided to do. So queueing up at Cardiff station for the Newport train I had to queue with them and listen to them MOANING in a black country accent that they weren't ready for promotion and how they were amazed they had beaten us, oh, and a load of guff about it being a victory for football over money!

Then had to drive up the A40 and M5 surrounded by cars with Walsall flags and scarves. WIth my missus still failing to see what the problem was and asking why grown men had been crying.

Great day. No. Really.

We left the Millennium Stuadium in silnce, walked back to the car in silence, and the first word anyone uttered was on the M4 as we approached Swindon, when someone said "Bugger."

[1960]

As Riseley has said above, we oldsters have been traumatised by the sheer horror and disbelief of being relegated into Division 4 for the first time in 1971. I mean, Rochdale, Stockport, Hartlepools (as they were then) etc etc. It just wasn't right.

[Archies Volley II]

We left the Millennium Stuadium in silnce, walked back to the car in silence, and the first word anyone uttered was on the M4 as we approached Swindon, when someone said "Bugger."

Perfectly normal reaction when approaching Swindon.

This game was also the most disappointing for me. As others have said we expected a win this time. Also, I had been to the League 2 final with a work mate who was a Blackpool fan so had experienced the night before what a party we could have had in Cardiff

[Barnabas]

Two moments for me. Firstly, getting relegated in 1983. Roger Smee had just saved the club from Maxwell's evil empire and we were on the pitch celebrating, waiting for results elsewhere to come in. But the other clubs in the frame for the last relegation spot all got the points they needed and the mood changed immediately we found out we were down. Going from elation to total deflation in one moment was truly gutting.

Right down there with that one was the auction at Elm Park. Watching the ground I had attended regularly since my schooldays, which held so many memories for me, being sold off and pulled apart was absolutely heartbreaking.