Dave Kitson retires...

[Binfield Royal]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28419253

I will always think fondly of Dave. He played his best football at Reading in what is really our best ever team to date. He spoke his mind and didnt care who it might upset. He hinted on Soccer AM that he turned down a bigger money move between 06 and 07 "...because money isn't everything and my family and I like it at Reading..."

Always appeared to do the best he could for the team in terms of performance and effort. He scored our first ever premier league goal.

Best of luck with whatever you do next. Ledge.

[Royal Rother]

A cert for a career in media (if he wants it).

[P!ssed Off]

A cert for a career in media (if he wants it).

He already has a career in media.

[Vision]

Pound for pound probably the best forward I saw in a Reading shirt.

Loved his attitude too so was hugely disappointed when for a while he became the very thing he often derided.

Legend all the same.

[Gordons Cumming]

What a bargain.

[Ian Royal]

Pound for pound probably the best forward I saw in a Reading shirt.

Loved his attitude too so was hugely disappointed when for a while he became the very thing he often derided.

Legend all the same.

+1

[melonhead]

Pound for pound probably the best forward I saw in a Reading shirt.



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^^this.


and personally id take out the 'probably'

[Royal Rother]

A cert for a career in media (if he wants it).

He already has a career in media.

Where at?

[TFF]

Srsly?

You know who he is right?

[lewesroyal]

Proper club legend. Best of luck with everything in the future. We await the unveiling!!

Seems a timely article her too!

http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/arti ... nning-out/

[Nameless]

Have to say he doesn't match Jimmy Quinn for me, and Quinn was in the latter stages of his career.

But none the less a great member of a great team.

I wonder if he'll share any secrets of his career with us, perhaps in a book.

[sandman]

A cert for a career in media (if he wants it).

He already has a career in media.

Shhh... It's a secret.

[Royality creeps In]

He was a Top Top geezer (and player) until that Ginger day when he took umbridge.
He went down in my estimation after that as I felt that he had a severe case of "Sense of Humour Failure"

[Avon Royal]

He was a Top Top geezer (and player) until that Ginger day when he took umbridge.
He went down in my estimation after that as I felt that he had a severe case of "Sense of Humour Failure"

Yeah, but getting pissed off about ginger day was so Dave Kitson.

[2.8 lita injection]

Legend, whether you rate him or not he was brilliant for Reading.

I love this from his column.

I feel like an ageing Hollywood actor, holding it together with surgery and past triumphs. After nearly 15 years, it hurts me to move my legs between the months of May and August. In the same way that it must hurt the former boxer Mickey Rourke to smile on the red carpet these days.

[From Despair To Where?]

I think we always knew we were getting a decent player when we bought him but he absolutely flourished in the championship, for 2 years, he almost single handedly dragged us to the edge of the playoffs and of course, his status as club legend is cemented by the 2005-06 season. It was only really injury (2006-07) and his own stupidity (2007-08) that prevented him from achieving much, much more in the game, but that's so typically Dave Kitson, outspoken, articulate, honest to a fault and, along with Jimmy Quinn, the most complete forward I ever saw in a Reading shirt.

As the man himself has said, to leave the game with only one regret isn't bad going and he'll always get a warm welcome back at the Mad Stad.

Thanks for all the many great memories.

[Pat Butchers Ring]

Absolute legend for us and one of my favourite players of all time. I will never forget his Westham goals and his swagger.

Hope we see him back at the Madejski soon.

[Woodcote Royal]

along with Jimmy Quinn, the most complete forward I ever saw in a Reading shirt.

Couldn't agree more and, sadly, remembering one of the very best members of our best ever team, cobbled together for shirt buttons in todays terms, only serves to remind me just how far we've slipped from what made RFC a fantastic club to support, rendering most visits to these pages tedious in the extreme.

What a bargain, what a ledge, give those aching limbs a well earned rest!

[JakeTheRoyal]

I thought this said Dave Kitson Returns ... at first

[Once were Biscuitmen]

Never really forgiven him for giving us the behind the back finger at Cambridge.