Just found an old match ticket in an old jacket

[FiNeRaIn]

Reading vs Chelsea 03/12/2003 League Cup

Does anyone remember this game at all? Had a look on the OS and saw the teams..don't remember a thing bout the game though

[Ferris]

Vaguely

[pace=forster]

Didn't Bas Savage start on the wing for us and have the only good game of his career?

[royalsroyalsroyals92]

Think i remember Hernan Crespo and Jimmy Ffloyd Hasselbank playing.

[No Hoops]

Now you mention it, I do.

Not the game but I took a friend who is a Chelsea supporter and suffers from MS. God he was a pain in the ar5e

[sandman]

Remember Marcus playing a blinder and Crespo missing a sitter.

[Svlad Cjelli]

Bas Savage had a good chance really early on - and completely messed it up.

[Ian Royal]

I bet on Chelsea and won about £2. Was that the game where Savage fell over his own feet but still managed to go past his man and get up with the ball?

[Mr Angry]

Marcus had a superb game; pretty well kept them at bay single-handedly. The tinkerman said he was thinking of making an offer for him on the basis of that performance (didn't materialise of course).

We lost 1-0.

[Maguire]

Reading vs Chelsea 03/12/2003 League Cup

Does anyone remember this game at all? Had a look on the OS and saw the teams..don't remember a thing bout the game though

Savage met a cross with his shoulder and Neil Sullivan clawed it out of the top corner. Also remember Crespo busting out a bit of skill on the edge of our box and curling a shot against the inside of the post.

We played pretty well and IIRC Lampard looked their best player, despite the talent on show.

[reading_fan]

I was there for that one, didn't John Mackie absolutely dominate Crespo?

[No Fixed Abode]

I was there. Hasselbaink scored the winner.

[Big Foot]

I was there for that one, didn't John Mackie absolutely dominate Crespo?

My memory is of Crespo looking every inch the player very much out of Mackie's league. Still maintain to this day that Hernan Crespo is one of the best players I've seen play at the Madejski.

[Big Foot]

Bas Savage had a good chance really early on - and completely messed it up.

If you mean the time he met a shit cross with his shoulder and it flapped up and caused Neil Sullivan a world of pain, then I'd hardly call it "messing it up a good chance"

[No Fixed Abode]

TBF - Crespo's movement was awesome. He could time his runs to perfection breaking the offside trap. Only trouble was he timed his runs so well the linesmen got it wrong most of the time when they flagged him offside.

[M-U-R-T-Y]

Yeah I was there, and I also have that ticket stub somewhere... was just after England won the RWC?

[Jackson Corner]

I think Abramovich had just taken over Chelsea and came to the game. We gave a good account of ourselves that night and I think it was also a record gate for the Mad Stad at the time? Strap?

[Royal With Cheese]

I was there. Hasselbaink scored the winner.

Yes - that was the last Chelsea game you saw live.

[Ark Royal]

IIRC at the time, a record crowd at the Madstad.

[leww_rfc]

I was there. Hasselbaink scored the winner.

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