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Memories Of India Slough Town 3-3, I was on MotD that night, on the pitch as we equalised to make it 1-1. I remember Francis Joseph scoring for them. In the replay at EP, Mark Holzman injured himself jogging along in first gear on his own by the Southbank. I don't recall him playing again for us.
by strap » 05 Jan 2007 18:56
Trendy OK, time for your thinking caps to be put on.
Which was the FA cup game in the 70's that you had to go to the league game against York City (I'm fairly sure it was York) and were given a voucher as you entered the turnstiles that gave the an oppertunity to buy a ticket for the game against ?????
I might be confusing myself but I think it was Southampton and I seem to recall that it was a draw.
Any old farts like myself out there but with better memories (or better resources and the time to check)?
Cheers
by Trendy » 05 Jan 2007 19:11
strapTrendy OK, time for your thinking caps to be put on.
Which was the FA cup game in the 70's that you had to go to the league game against York City (I'm fairly sure it was York) and were given a voucher as you entered the turnstiles that gave the an oppertunity to buy a ticket for the game against ?????
I might be confusing myself but I think it was Southampton and I seem to recall that it was a draw.
Any old farts like myself out there but with better memories (or better resources and the time to check)?
Cheers
The only 1 I can recall was at home to Barrow in Jan 1972. Everyone who went to that got a voucher for FAC4 v Arsenal later that month. Our average home league attendance for the season (up to the Barrow game) was 5367.
11632 turned up for the Barrow. The Arsenal game attracted 25576 and the next home game after that was a 0-0 v Workington, watched by 7707. Two home games later only 3973 bothered to turn up for the visit of Northampton.
Times have certainly changed.
by Elm Park Old Boy » 05 Jan 2007 19:15
by alad » 05 Jan 2007 19:31
by RoyalBlue » 05 Jan 2007 19:46
Elm Park Old Boy I was down the front behind the goal at the town end for the Arsenal game. It was fantastic, and Reading did wonderfully well against the then double holders.
Don't think Pat Rice scored though - didn't we get all three (or at least one own goal and a deflection)?
by Elm Park Old Boy » 05 Jan 2007 19:49
alad Some of my first memories of Reading came in the form of the FA Cup. The games with Sunderland and Newcastle in the early nineties when there was some sort of crowd at Elm Park for a change.
Gillingham in the third round was also a good game, remember they disrupted the silence before and that set the tone. Some of their fans got what they deserved afterwards.
Recall the game against Man Utd in 96 and the abuse Cantona got that day. Someone just infront of me launched a coin and it missed him and laid out the linesman, game was stopped for a good few minutes while he was treated. Recall the headline in some papers the next day 'Linesman KO'ED in Cup shame' Someone also launched a banana at Paul Parker and Cantona threw it back at the Southbank.
Southampton game was also a cracking game but the highlight for me was the Cardiff City game in 98, superb atmosphere that threatened to boil over into a full scale riot inside the ground. Saw pint glasses, pool balls and lumps of concrete being thrown between the fans. The game had it all and recall plenty of Reading fans invading the pitch at full time.
Can't beat the 'magic of the cup' as they say.
Elm Park Old Boy I was down the front behind the goal at the town end for the Arsenal game. It was fantastic, and Reading did wonderfully well against the then double holders.
Don't think Pat Rice scored though - didn't we get all three (or at least one own goal and a deflection)?
by Finchley Royal » 05 Jan 2007 20:13
Platypuss The lovely home game against Vinnie Jones' Wealdstone (85?) also brings back painful (literally) memories.
by Jackson Corner » 06 Jan 2007 01:08
Trendy OK, time for your thinking caps to be put on.
Which was the FA cup game in the 70's that you had to go to the league game against York City (I'm fairly sure it was York) and were given a voucher as you entered the turnstiles that gave the an oppertunity to buy a ticket for the game against ?????
I might be confusing myself but I think it was Southampton and I seem to recall that it was a draw.
Any old farts like myself out there but with better memories (or better resources and the time to check)?
Cheers
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