16 years ago today

[From Despair To Where?]

http://www.royals.org/matdoc/160199.html

Doesn't matter how shit things get this season, It could always be worse. 0-0 at half time and the scoreline still flattered us.

Ironic that both scorers that day ended up having key roles in 2 of our subsequent promotions

[WoodleyRoyal]

probably the darkest day in my time watching Reading,

[Aubery Boyce]

had just arrived at LHR and gone straight to the match having spend 3 months watching England get humiliated in the Ashes, thinking it couldn't get worse, then BANG! 0-6 defeat.

Dark Days.

[Forbury Lion]

Good to see Match Audio listed as Coming Soon, after 16 years.

[Forbury Lion]

Also, the photo a the bottom - The sign over the tunnel is 16 years old as well.

[Ian Royal]

I took a friend on his first visit to the mad stad for this. He never went back. It was so bad i was laughing at the end.

I thought 0-3 on boxing day vs a young and utterly shit.wimbledon was more humiliating.

[wally bassoon]

Awful day, did Mark Mackeever (?) also not play for them that day then came to us on loan some time later?

[Sutekh]

Didn't do too well v Rovers that season, lost 4-1 at the Memorial as well

[John Madejski's Wallet]

http://www.royals.org/matdoc/160199.html

Doesn't matter how shit things get this season, It could always be worse. 0-0 at half time and the scoreline still flattered us.

Ironic that both scorers that day ended up having key roles in 2 of our subsequent promotions

I do not remember that many fans being there!

tbf my memory is probably just of the end of the game....

[Elm Park Pasty]

I remember that game. We left when it got to four-nil. Heard the fifth one go in as we got to the car. Found out finished six nil on the drive home. Appalling.

[Ian Royal]

http://www.royals.org/matdoc/160199.html

Doesn't matter how shit things get this season, It could always be worse. 0-0 at half time and the scoreline still flattered us.

Ironic that both scorers that day ended up having key roles in 2 of our subsequent promotions

I do not remember that many fans being there!

tbf my memory is probably just of the end of the game....

I think you can safely say there weren't 13k there at the end. 6k maybe.

[Horsham Royal]

The one and only time I've sat in the North stand for a league game.
I'm tempted to do it again just to see if it was my fault ...

[Sutekh]

The one and only time I've sat in the North stand for a league game.
I'm tempted to do it again just to see if it was my fault ...

Wait until we're desperate for Clarke to leave......

[Four Of Clubs]

I remember that game. We left when it got to four-nil. Heard the fifth one go in as we got to the car. Found out finished six nil on the drive home. Appalling.

...is the one and only time I've accepted a lift home after a game - Geordie mate from the Pub - didn't go very often (was a local Ref in the Kids leagues - had done some scouting for Newcastle - though I think he was actually a 'Mackem') - natch we sat in the MadStad Car Park queues for at least 3/4 hour afterwards - evidently not crowd size; perhaps just people's inability to get a move on after such a devastating afternoon?

Selection included : Howie, Elroy , Bernal, Byron G , 'Skittles', Parkie, Keith MacP, Houghton, Sarr etc (Casper & Brebner suspended) - does actually seem like a lifetime ago....

[From Despair To Where?]

The car parking was a shambles in the first season. The relief road was still a building site so there was only one exit

[Mr Angry]

Odd reading that match report and knowing that the 2 Rovers players mentioned both ended up playing for us....

[Forbury Lion]

I have to admit to missing that game, this was my pre-season ticket days where funds meant I had to pick and choose games.

[Uke]

Was at the game, their forwards were really good

Whatever happened to them?

[Gilksy]

16 years ago ?? Jesus I feel very old.

[Brum Royal]

We got in to the game 20 minutes late due to traffic, so got in relieved to hear it was still 0-0 and we'd not missed anything. Then the second half happened and we wished we had missed everything.