Reading FC Hall of Shame

[NewCorkSeth]

On Football 365 recently they have gone through the Premier League clubs with the following questions. I thought it would be interesting for us to do Reading.

Worst thing that other fans think about them?

Worst thing about the ground?

Worst signing

Worst kit

That’s the important stuff done. Now, how creepy is the mascot?

Worst celebrity fan

Greatest own goal

Weirdest club shop item

[tidus_mi2]

On Football 365 recently they have gone through the Premier League clubs with the following questions. I thought it would be interesting for us to do Reading.

Worst thing that other fans think about them?

I guess that we're tinpot?

Worst thing about the ground?

It's completely on the outside of town.

Worst signing

For me, toss up between Emerse Fae and Greg Halford, Fae wins because we at least got our transfer fee back for Halford.

Worst kit

Not that I was alive back then but there was that shit one in the 80s that didn't have hoops.

That’s the important stuff done. Now, how creepy is the mascot?

Kingsley is alright, Queensley I'm still unsure

Worst celebrity fan

Uri Gellar

Greatest own goal

oxf*rd if I know, can't name a Reading one, talking of own goals always reminds me of the Chelsea own goal.

Weirdest club shop item
Not sure on this one, sorry.

[Captain Kreenon]

Worst club shop item - I can remember going into the club shop and seeing a John Madejski replica dildo. To this day I'm not sure if it was actually on sale or the work of a prankster. I didn't buy it I know that.

[John Smith]

I can answer all of these with Matej Vydra

[Forbury Lion]

Worst thing that other fans think about them?
I don't think they waste any time thinking about us to be fair.

Worst thing about the ground?
Lack of things to do before the match

Worst signing
Emerse Fae

Worst kit
Any home kit after 1938 that wasn't blue and white hoops

That’s the important stuff done. Now, how creepy is the mascot?
Not at all creepy

Worst celebrity fan
Chris Tarrant by default due to a distinct lack of celebrity fans

Greatest own goal
Daley Thompson in a friendly, chipped the goalkeeper from the halfway line

Weirdest club shop item[/quote]
Reading FC sex toys (you have to ask at the counter and they get them out for you to view)

[From Despair To Where?]

Worst thing that other fans think about them? Tinpot, plastic etc. etc

Worst thing about the ground?

Pain in the arse to get to
Worst signing

Emerse Fae. Record signing midfield enforcer who turned out to be a lightweight with the heart of a pea.

Worst kit

TV interference kit or the convict away kit
That’s the important stuff done. Now, how creepy is the mascot?

Not very

Worst celebrity fan

Dunno

Greatest own goal

Martin Hicks v Aldershot. The last time we played them. Diving header from the edge of he box

Best own goal for us? Alan Pouton from the half way line at Grimsby in about 2001.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Worst thing that other fans think about them?

We're all posh twats

Worst thing about the ground?

The South Stand

Worst signing

Sean Evers

Worst kit

The African Violet one....laughing stock stuff

That’s the important stuff done. Now, how creepy is the mascot?

Queensley in the flesh, isn't a girl???

Worst celebrity fan

Tarrant has been a bit of a turncoat over the years (dependent on whose hospitality he is dining out on) but the award goes to the lead singer of the Hoosiers....they were sh1t

Greatest own goal

against...the aforementioned Hicksie one v Sh1ts
for.....the coloured/black/brown geezers' ( whatever is pc nowadays, when you cannot remember his name ) at Stamford Bridge
mine....v Trentonians circa 1990


Weirdest club shop item

nice one Forbes we're not falling for that tho' the RFC gnome might just fit the bill.

[Jack Celliers]

Worst thing that other fans think about them?
We are cockneys from London, yet somehow posh as well

Worst thing about the ground?
No pubs nearby

Worst signing
Drenthe

Worst kit
Kerry Dixon white with blue blocks

That’s the important stuff done. Now, how creepy is the mascot?
Kingsley is great but I don't trust Queensly

Worst celebrity fan
Chris Tarrant

Greatest own goal
Does Federici v Arsenal at Wembley count? If not Mark White at home from 30 yards v Stockport(?)

Weirdest club shop item[/quote]
Photos of the Thai owners, their family and freinds

[Nameless]

Worst own goal must be the Rougier/ Hunter comedy goal in the playoffs against Walsall...

[Jackson Corner]

Worst thing that other fans think about them?
Plastic club that has only exsited since 2000

Worst thing about the ground?
Location Location Location

Worst signing
Emerse Fae

Worst kit
Hat Painting striped thing

That’s the important stuff done. Now, how creepy is the mascot?
Not at all apart from they never speak

Worst celebrity fan
Tarrent where was he when we were s...t

Greatest own goal
Martin Hicks v Huddersfield at EP around 81 cracking header

Weirdest club shop item
Kingsley slippers

[royals6719]

Chalky White's stunning own goal was vs Scunthorpe in the 78-79 season and only game we lost at home that season. Hick did score some great ogs Huddersfield header was class

[The Royal Forester]

The worst own goal I remember was in the mid 1960's. Micky Travers out on the wing near the halfway line in front of the South Bank, decides to pass back to the goalie (Artur Wilke?) The ball bounces and sails over his head into the goal. What made it even worse was that it it happened to be one of - if not the - first game against Oxf*rd United, who won by one goal to nil.

[Franchise FC]

Chalky White's stunning own goal was vs Scunthorpe in the 78-79 season and only game we lost at home that season. Hick did score some great ogs Huddersfield header was class

I may be wrong but the Scunthorpe defeat you're talikung about was due to Steve Death running out to the corner flag, losing the ball and them scoring.

I think Chalkie's og for them was a different game

[Avon Royal]

Worst own goal must be the Rougier/ Hunter comedy goal in the playoffs against Walsall...

This.

[Sanguine]

Worst own goal must be the Rougier/ Hunter comedy goal in the playoffs against Walsall...

This.

Yep, that.

There's a hell of a lot of ways to lose the lead in extra time of a play-off final, and toe punting the ball against a prone team-mates head is apparently one of them.

[Sanguine]

For me the weirdest thing about the club shop is how little there is in it. Half the store seems set aside for the tills, a quarter for London Irish stuff, and apart from that you're as likely to find a RFC babygrow or last season's rain mac (XXL only) as you are anything that anyone may want to buy.

Literally the best thing in the shop is Rusting Tin and Shiny Plastic, which is 10 years old.

Doesn't do much for the brand.

[Jackson Corner]

Chalky White's stunning own goal was vs Scunthorpe in the 78-79 season and only game we lost at home that season. Hick did score some great ogs Huddersfield header was class

I may be wrong but the Scunthorpe defeat you're talikung about was due to Steve Death running out to the corner flag, losing the ball and them scoring.

I think Chalkie's og for them was a different game

I went to that game the pitch was covered in snow, and for some reason it was played on a Friday night may have been the Grand National on Saturday clubs used to do that back then. It was our only home defeat that season don,t remember an own goal. Although I'm sure Chalkie did score a classic own goal it may have been away though?

[Forbury Lion]

That’s the important stuff done. Now, how creepy is the mascot?
Kingsley is great but I don't trust Queensly

They look more like brother and sister, just creepy.