Who can remember that brilliant own goal at Grimsby? Nicky Forster's stunning hat-trick against Ipswich? Matthew Upson and his final game for us against Portsmouth which was supposedly billed as the best defence (that's us) against the best attack (that's them)...seem to remember Paul Merson slagging us off, but we came close to beating them! How about Luke Chadwick? And then there was that excellent away win at Sheffield United that made the national media sit up and start to take notice of us. Brighton's cheeky freekick after Hahnemann picked up a supposed back pass? Seethed at that one, I did. I also forgot that Glen Little joined us on loan towards the end, didn't notice him on the DVD, except for the final game. Ah, yes, the play-off semis against Wolves, Nicky Forster's great goal and the game turning when he went off injured. This was a great season, having just come up from Division 2 (Renamed to League One) and to get to the play-offs was great. There was also a shot of Pardew the traitor signing a new contract and I exclaimed at that cos we all know what happened next season! Cureton's final season too. I think Nicky Forster scored something like 15 goals, was he the player of the season? I also think Adrian Williams was the captain, but Parkinson was still around as the club captain rather than team captain and he was shown on the DVD as going off to Colchester to become their manager.
10 years since then and look at how far we've come! What are your memories of that time? I was still living in Reading at that time, I miss those days....
