by papereyes »
21 Sep 2010 15:45
1) Reading 2-1 Wigan, p-off semi 2001. Absolute spazdomonium when we scored, I thought my head was going to explode. It seemed like we had buried 6 years of mediocrity, frustration and misery in an electric 3 minutes at the end of this game. And 20,000+ people watching a Reading home game was a bit
for someone of my generation.
I had the pleasure of watching this one via the text updates on the JCR telly.
There must have been another game on - CL? - and that game finished and the text highlights kept showing as 1-0.
So I troop off down the bar. About 60 minutes later, I wander back up. Maybe there's highlights on. And the text update has, well, updated.
My TOP 3 games.
Reading 2 - 1 Bolton on a school night. Packed Elm Park, late goals. Chinese on the way home.
Reading 3 - 2 Middlesboro' Just because. Although the 5-0 thrashing of Derby to get the title and the 1-1 to get promotion were big games, this one was the release of a summer of real anticipation. My next games that season were away loss to Villa (order restored) and a narrow win vs City (wait a second chaps ... we're not bad). I'm sure there were better games in that first season up - Villa at home (bossed 'em), Spurs at home, Sheffield United and De La f
ucking Cruz scoring to settle it.
Liverpool 1 - 2 Reading Decided to go at the very last minute, iirc, and after charming the locals ("Sorry, I didn't understand a word of that"), saw Reading at Anfield for the first time. And I think this stands as one of the biggest single results in our history. But it was the liveliness of the crowd, the relative friendliness of most of the oppo fans and the 30 minutes plus where we knew we were going to win this one and Liverpool knew it and the Final Countdown and then its over and we'd done it.