Promotion v Brentford or promotion V Leicester?

[wickedwhispers]

Which did you prefer?

Personally for me it was Brentford. I miss those small intimate grounds. These days it just isn't the same.

[Bill Oddie's Beard]

Brentford, because I didn't go to the Leicester game


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[wickedwhispers]

Plus we stormed the pitch when Cureton scored at Brentford.

[Gordons Cumming]

No contest.
Leicester

Brentford?

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

From a single game perspective, personally Brentford (for a couple of reasons):

1) We desperately needed to get out of the 3rd tier and having pissed away a sizeable lead at the top it had came down to one game

2) In 05/06 from the moment we trounced Ipswich 3-0 at Portman Road in November it was a case of when and not if we would get promoted. If the results hadn't gone our way on the day then we would still have been promoted the following week.

In fact, I even rate the feeling of promotion at home to Brighton (93/94) higher than that of 05/06.

Having said that, the satisfaction of finally putting the 1995 ghost to rest stayed with me for a long time during the summer of 2006!

[RoyalBlue]

For me Brentford just edges it.

Leicester was a fantastic day out but promotion itself had an air of inevitability about it. If it hadn't happened on that day it would have happened within a couple of weeks at the absolute outside. Indeed we could have lost that game and every other game until the end of the season and still gone up!!

By contrast Brentford was all or nothing. We knew that if we lost we would have been consigned to the playoffs and every Reading fan knows what happens in them! In those circumstances, to go a goal down and then grab the promotion winning equaliser through Curo before calmly controlling the last few minutes of the game made the event that much more special.

Added to that, our tenants prevented us from having a party back at the Mad Stad after the Leicester game. Contrast that to driving back past our house and a route of blue and white celebration thirty miles down the M4 to witness the coach roof celebrations back at the Mad Stad.

[floyd__streete]

The train journey back from Brentford was legendary, window of the carriage smashed by a brick thrown by a discontented Brentford fan which nearly disembodied some bloke. On the other hand, I met Tony Rougier after Leicester.

Brentford just nicks it for me. The most important promotion in our history; we finally had the facilities but couldn't get out of the third tier. I have every confidence that we'll be back there one day, mind.

[Sun Tzu]

As a historical event Brentford is a footnote. Not a first, not a title, just a step back up to a place we'd been before. Great day out of course !

Leicester was so, so much more significant.

Of course it was a result elsewhere that gave Leicester the significance but I will always treasure that as our top promotion ever, and it will remain that way whatever the future brings.

[fester_royal]

fester by a country mile for me. yes brentford had that nervy edge which made it that little bit sweeter when it happened where as at fester we all knew it was going to happen at some point even if it wasnt that day, but we reached the highest tier of english football for the first time in our history that day and to be apart of that 3000 was just amazing. ive never felt so buzzed in all my life, to feel the stand shaking as we all jumped up and down in unison, i still get shivvers when ever i think about that day or watch the dvds. best day of my life

[Tony Le Mesmer]

Brentford was one of the most significant game in Reading's history. If we had lost there Leicester wouldn't have happened. The Euphoria at Griffin park far out weighed the inevitability of promotion in 2006.

The Leicester game was just a case of when rather than if, personally i thought the Derby game a week later was more memorable.

[Sun Tzu]

Brentford was one of the most significant game in Reading's history. If we had lost there Leicester wouldn't have happened. The Euphoria at Griffin park far out weighed the inevitability of promotion in 2006.

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Just because without a win at Brentford Leicester might not have happened doesn't reduce the significance of Leicester. Without dozens of results we might not have got promoted to the Prem, but that is still the game which marked our most significant ever promotion.

For me the joy of the result at Brentford was mostly becasue of the way it happened, as promotion itself it was hardly unprecedented.
Leicester was a lightyear ahead in terms of achievement.

[weybridgewanderer]

has to be brentford

if we hadn't gone up that day brentford would have

if we had lost at leicester we still had derby, charlton, sheffield wed, qpr to name but a few

[Tony Le Mesmer]

2006 > 2002

Brentford > Leicester.

[Sun Tzu]

has to be brentford

if we hadn't gone up that day brentford would have

if we had lost at leicester we still had derby, charlton, sheffield wed, qpr to name but a few

If we'd not gone up at Brentford would we not have had the playoffs ?

But it also seems a strange way of looking at it !

[RoyalBlue]

has to be brentford

if we hadn't gone up that day brentford would have

if we had lost at leicester we still had derby, charlton, sheffield wed, qpr to name but a few

If we'd not gone up at Brentford would we not have had the playoffs ?

But it also seems a strange way of looking at it !

Yes, we would have had the playoffs but, given our record in them, would probably have done even worse than Brentford did!

[Agent Balti]

Brentford for me. We wouldn't have had any of the following success if it wasn't for that day. The whole day was pretty tense...but that subsided after getting mucho drunk with the guys who ran the Beard Day in a pub next to the ground.

..then having to relay the news to a mate who was in the Philippines at the time by screaming "We've only f*ckin' done it!"

Then going home (still drunk) on the rammed train from Brentford to Reading...followed by hurtling up to the ground to welcome home the victorious team.

I can still see Curo's goal in my head...ah, thems were the days, boys.

[Sun Tzu]

has to be brentford

if we hadn't gone up that day brentford would have

if we had lost at leicester we still had derby, charlton, sheffield wed, qpr to name but a few

If we'd not gone up at Brentford would we not have had the playoffs ?

But it also seems a strange way of looking at it !

Yes, we would have had the playoffs but, given our record in them, would probably have done even worse than Brentford did!

The logic seems to be that had welost against Leicester then lost allour games up until QPR with other results going the wrong way then promotion to the PRem against QPR would have been better than promotion to Div 1 against Brentford. But becasue we got promotion with games to spare orur elevation to the prem was a bit second rate !!

[Ashfordroyal]

Brentford for me!
I live in Ashford Middlesex, just up the road, all the people I drink with support Brentford and my brother in law used to play for them, my nephew was an apprentice.
So how sweet was that when Curo scored?!!
`who remembers all the crap that went on after the game on the pitch, and the twat with the crutches?

[Thaumagurist*]

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[wickedwhispers]

Leicester winning

Seems we have more plastics than I thought!