Reading v Wolves - a decade on

[Jerry St Clair]

12 April 1997

Can't believe it was a decade ago. One of the finest days in modern Reading history.

Has anyone got a vid of the two Archie goals? Pretty please put them on youtube so I can wet myself all over again?

http://www.royals.org/matdoc/120497.html

[RG30]

Fantastic match, probably in my top 5 Reading games of all time.

[brendywendy]

my memory is shite, and most games back then blur into one

but that game i remember, and it is in my top 5 games too

one of my finest footballing memories, proper football
and all for 8 quid, bargain

[T.R.O.L.I.]

Amazing day out and only £5 for me as was a student at the time

[Nick Shorey my Lord!]

Amazing day out and only £5 for me as was a student at the time

Snap just £5 English pounds.

Without question in my top 3 best ever games. Simply magical.

[spickroyal]

Yep, a true classic.

Has got me thinking back to those days. Thinking back a couple of years to 95, a 3-0 home victory against Swindon (Archie HT IIRC) and an end of season 2-1 win against Bolton also rank highly for me.

[Stooper]

Yep, a true classic.

Has got me thinking back to those days. Thinking back a couple of years to 95, a 3-0 home victory against Swindon (Archie HT IIRC) and an end of season 2-1 win against Bolton also rank highly for me.

I remember that Swindon match.

April fools day 95 wasn't it? Then Nogan got a hat trick the week after against Port Vale.

[RG30]

If I had the appropriate equipment I would happily upload all the decent footage as I have a good RFC VCR/DVD collection.

The Youtube selection at the moment is poor, I've got the Brentford highlights (2002), Wigan playoff (2001) and Tranmere playoff (1995) on the favourites but the rest seems rubbish, anyone else got any retro clips they can point me in the right direction of.

[spickroyal]

Yep, a true classic.

Has got me thinking back to those days. Thinking back a couple of years to 95, a 3-0 home victory against Swindon (Archie HT IIRC) and an end of season 2-1 win against Bolton also rank highly for me.

I remember that Swindon match.

April fools day 95 wasn't it? Then Nogan got a hat trick the week after against Port Vale.

That's the one - good days.

[Stooper]

Yep, a true classic.

Has got me thinking back to those days. Thinking back a couple of years to 95, a 3-0 home victory against Swindon (Archie HT IIRC) and an end of season 2-1 win against Bolton also rank highly for me.

I remember that Swindon match.

April fools day 95 wasn't it? Then Nogan got a hat trick the week after against Port Vale.

That's the one - good days.

I think what I remember best was archie's celebration after the third.

Swindon had sold Fjortoft on deadline day, so Lovell did the 'aeroplane' in front of the South Bank. That's when football was still fun

[Stranded]

Yep, a true classic.

Has got me thinking back to those days. Thinking back a couple of years to 95, a 3-0 home victory against Swindon (Archie HT IIRC) and an end of season 2-1 win against Bolton also rank highly for me.

I remember that Swindon match.

April fools day 95 wasn't it? Then Nogan got a hat trick the week after against Port Vale.

That's the one - good days.

I think what I remember best was archie's celebration after the third.

Swindon had sold Fjortoft on deadline day, so Lovell did the 'aeroplane' in front of the South Bank. That's when football was still fun

Ah yes, can remember that as if it were yesterday - celebrating and pissing myself laughing at the same time. Happy days.

[SpaceCruiser]

That's when football was still fun

It still is fun today.

[When Hicks went up...]

Yep, a true classic.

Has got me thinking back to those days. Thinking back a couple of years to 95, a 3-0 home victory against Swindon (Archie HT IIRC) and an end of season 2-1 win against Bolton also rank highly for me.

I remember that Swindon match.

April fools day 95 wasn't it? Then Nogan got a hat trick the week after against Port Vale.

That's the one - good days.

I think what I remember best was archie's celebration after the third.

Swindon had sold Fjortoft on deadline day, so Lovell did the 'aeroplane' in front of the South Bank. That's when football was still fun

My only memory of that day is not being allowed to go as I was doing my GCSE maths coursework

It was the only game I missed that season. Randomly the defining moment for me was the 2-0 against Notts County - someone set off the fire alarm in the North Stand and it had to be evacuated onto the pitch. I bunked over from the Tilehurst End with a mate, and went to chat to the players who stayed out and chatted with the fans...we then bunked back into the South Bank which was my first ever experience of the beautiful place. Never set foot back on the Tilehurst End again until the final game against Norwich.

[Skyline]

Yep, a true classic.

Thing is though (and what most people forget), for the first 75 or so minutes until they scored it wasn't anywhere near being a 'classic'.

Given it was a late start to the second half, their goal went in at around 4:40 and we all thought we'd blown it and McGhee was finally going to get one over on us. No-one around me realised there were still 15 minutes to play. Then of course Gilkesy got injured and caused there to be, what, 5 minutes of extra time? During which injury time Archie scored twice and sent the South Bank into absolute rapture.

[Stranded]

Yep, a true classic.

Thing is though (and what most people forget), for the first 75 or so minutes until they scored it wasn't anywhere near being a 'classic'.

Given it was a late start to the second half, their goal went in at around 4:40 and we all thought we'd blown it and McGhee was finally going to get one over on us. No-one around me realised there were still 15 minutes to play. Then of course Gilkesy got injured and caused there to be, what, 5 minutes of extra time? During which injury time Archie scored twice and sent the South Bank into absolute rapture.

That's one thing I miss in some ways - not knowing exactly how long was left. You'd often have a rough idea but it would often add to the exitement/tension in the closing stages when you didn't know there were exactly 2mins 34 seconds to play and 4 mins injury time.

[brendywendy]

Yep, a true classic.

Thing is though (and what most people forget), for the first 75 or so minutes until they scored it wasn't anywhere near being a 'classic'.

Given it was a late start to the second half, their goal went in at around 4:40 and we all thought we'd blown it and McGhee was finally going to get one over on us. No-one around me realised there were still 15 minutes to play. Then of course Gilkesy got injured and caused there to be, what, 5 minutes of extra time? During which injury time Archie scored twice and sent the South Bank into absolute rapture.

no i remember it.
but winning a game, from 1-0 down , in injury time, after not really playing well in front of the old manager who dumped us, made it one of th ebest ever games

i often enjoy the flukey win better than the well deserved one

[Katie Marsden]

I don't think I've ever gone as mental when a goal has gone in than that day.

Only the Nogan goal against Bolton, Adie's goal against Charlton, The winner in the play off semi final against Wigan or Curo's goal at Brentford come close.

[Jerry St Clair]

I don't think I've ever gone as mental when a goal has gone in than that day.

Only the Nogan goal against Bolton, Adie's goal against Charlton, The winner in the play off semi final against Wigan or Curo's goal at Brentford come close.

Curiously, I'd include the two late goals against Oldham in 1995 and the late Gilkes winner against Brizzle City in 1994 in there aswell. There were only 7k at the Oldham game, but the Southbank went nuts.

[Skyline]

Yep, a true classic.

Thing is though (and what most people forget), for the first 75 or so minutes until they scored it wasn't anywhere near being a 'classic'.

Given it was a late start to the second half, their goal went in at around 4:40 and we all thought we'd blown it and McGhee was finally going to get one over on us. No-one around me realised there were still 15 minutes to play. Then of course Gilkesy got injured and caused there to be, what, 5 minutes of extra time? During which injury time Archie scored twice and sent the South Bank into absolute rapture.

no i remember it.
but winning a game, from 1-0 down , in injury time, after not really playing well in front of the old manager who dumped us, made it one of th ebest ever games

i often enjoy the flukey win better than the well deserved one

Don't get me wrong, it's definitely up there as one of my top Reading games of all time. I've outlined on here before the lengths I had to go to in order to be able to attend, and I was so glad that it made it all worthwhile in the end.

[Coppelled Streets]

Twas a great night. Everything from staggering over to Elm park from the Beefeater in Southcote, to Archie and his 2 late goals.
I was still celebrating the first goal when the second went in!
Talk about seeing stars. My legs went numb and I almost collapsed.