by rfctabs »
14 Feb 2015 19:19
http://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopi ... 27&start=0Saturday 21st December 1985
Reading 4-3 Plymouth
I used to work at Avco Trust on Castle Street (the copper and black building just above the IDR), and I'd messed up a 4000 line Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet on the IBM PC-XT I used. I had to cut the sheet in half because there were too many rows and Lotus couldn't deal with the size. I managed to save the halved sheet under it's original file name.... (well I was only, er.., 26
). So I had to go in on Saturday and re-key all the missing rows.
So I went in to the office on the Saturday, gutted because I couldn't go to the game vs. Plymouth. As a relative Reading newbie, only moving there in 1984, I'd been going to see the Royals all that year and was most annoyed that I couldn't go to the match. Nowadays I might have chosen to go to work on Sunday, but I was only a youth.
Anyway, I listened to Radio 210 (as was) all the time, so I had Graham Ledger (I think) for company all afternoon. As the match progressed he announced the Plymouth goals and it sounded like we were under the cosh somewhat. I was quite pleased, in fact, that I'd saved my £2.50 on the South Bank!
Oh me of little faith.
With 25 minutes left at 0-3 down Graham said we'd had a consolation goal of a penalty from Deano (RIP). Then Trevor the God Senior popped in a couple on 79 and 80. Mr Ledger thought he was being wound up by the guys at Elm Park as news came in. Finally, the 4th went in on 83 courtesy of Kevin Bremner and I waited for the final whistle.
I think that game typified our whole season. The opposition scoring wasn't a trigger for an "oh no - here we go again" response, but more like "how dare you score against us - we shall now have to give you a football lesson"
I have never been so hacked off over a win.