Wikipedia In 2005 Holt first won the Sports Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards, and subsequently won this award again at the British Press Awards 2006.
by winchester_royal » 25 Sep 2008 16:01
Wikipedia In 2005 Holt first won the Sports Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards, and subsequently won this award again at the British Press Awards 2006.
by Alan Partridge » 25 Sep 2008 16:03
by winchester_royal » 25 Sep 2008 16:04
Oliver 'the cock' Holt SO READING'S season is a fairy tale is it? Excuse me for a second while I decide whether to giggle or gag.
Okay, that wasn't too hard. I'll gag. Because I don't see any fairy story at Reading. I don't see romance, either.
I'll be honest. I don't like the club. I don't like what it stands for.
That starts at the top with a self-satisfied poster boy of conspicuous consumption and Tory donor, chairman John Madejski.
I don't think you should ever, ever trust a man whose eyebrows meet in the middle, or a bloke who is complicit in having a stadium named after him. What a joke that is.
No doubt the board begged and pleaded with him to allow them to recognise his outstanding contribution to Berkshire life. No doubt it was absolutely none of his doing. But I don't care how much money he's poured into the club.
Name a stadium after Tom Finney or Stanley Matthews or Bobby Moore. Name it after Alex Ferguson, Paul Gascoigne or Bill Shankly. But not after a guy who made his money from a magazine flogging used cars.
Perhaps Madejski simply couldn't call to mind a famous Reading player. Come to think of it, neither can I.
But even Doug Ellis drew the line after naming a stand at Villa Park in his honour. He couldn't quite muster the hubris to go the whole hog and adopt the - entire ground.
But not Madejski. He's got all sorts in his name. Some Fine Rooms at the Royal Academy of Arts, too, apparently. Whatever they are.
I read an interview with him in The Independent last year. The reporter noted that a copy of the Rich List, in which Madejski figures prominently, was placed on a table nearby. Gag, gag, gag.
It's not just the chairman, though. I know times are changing fast but I could have sworn that fairy tales didn't used to feature skull fractures and concussions.
I don't care whether Reading finish sixth. You know what, even if they overtake Chelsea and Man United, romp the title and win the FA Cup as well, my abiding memory of their debut Premiership season will always be Stephen Hunt kneeing Petr Cech in the head.
That's their bequest to this campaign. The first team to disable two opposition keepers in the same game. Let's think of a name for the fairy tale that unfolded that day, shall we.
Snow White and the Seven Stretchers. Beast and the Beast. Barbie in It's a Knockout. Then, of course, Reading played the poor little underdog card, proclaimed their innocence and escaped scot-free. Gag, gag, gag.
by Silver Fox » 25 Sep 2008 16:08
SCIAG I'm with 1960 here. There our literally COUNTLESS cases of refs making blatant mistakes. See: Cisse's sending off against Chelsea last year. Pretty obvious Pizzaro dived. I wonder what Holt has to say about that?
by Coley Park Mark » 25 Sep 2008 16:20
by FiNeRaIn » 25 Sep 2008 17:41
Silver FoxFiNeRaIn Anyone with a brain knows that was morally wrong.
What's your opinion though?
by earleyroyal » 25 Sep 2008 19:21
Coley Park Mark Having had a while to think about the incident...
Initially I felt we should have let them walk one in, however the more I think about it, the more I'm persuaded that we did exactly the right thing. One of the criticisms that Holt and his ilk have levelled at Reading is that we had shown complete disregard for the "Respect" agenda. However, the ref gave it as a goal, we didn't take advantage of an injured player etc, the official made a mistake. To then have deliberately conceded a goal would have shown complete disrespect for the officials, as Coppell has said; "The ref is right even when he's wrong".
by RoyalBlue » 25 Sep 2008 19:41
by Terminal Boardom » 25 Sep 2008 19:55
Matt de K In many ways Oliver Holt is like SDR. He thrived on getting peoples back's up and winding up everyone with his negative rubbish. In the end everyone just got bored of SDR and didn't bite then he dissapeared.
O.H. knows we don't like him and I wouldn't be surprised that he prowls around on this forum w@nking over his pathetic attempts to wind us up. Why would he write an article almost a week late?? I'll tell you why, because he's got nothing else to write about, and he uses Reading as a space filler. The sooner people just ignore the idiot the sooner he won't bother harping on about Reading this and Reading that. Gesh it's so boring now.
by Terminal Boardom » 25 Sep 2008 20:05
1960 One of my memories of last year was when Liverpool played Everton. Carragher twice rugby-tackled Lescott to the ground in the area, the second time as he was in the act of shooting. The fool Clatenberg gave nothing. A clear refereeing mistake. Did Carragher or the Liverpool team in general come clean to the ref? Yes, sorry It was a penalty ref. You've gotta give it.
In the same game Kuyt launched a chest-high two-footed assault on Neville (?) Yellow card. Obviously another refereeing mistake, so Holt would expect Kuyt to own up and tell the ref it was a red card.
Just two incidents from one game. Hundreds before and since. So why suddenly is this the game when the players should come clean?
by 79Royal » 25 Sep 2008 20:47
by Terminal Boardom » 25 Sep 2008 20:56
by earleyroyal » 25 Sep 2008 20:59
by AbovetheI » 25 Sep 2008 21:02
Terminal Boardom As Morrissey once sung: Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before".
The city of Liverpool has been boycotting The Sun since it all but accused the Liverpool fans of murder at Hillsborough. Sir Alex Ferguson refuses to speak to the BBC because of allegations against one of his sons.
With this in mind, as supporters, we should stop buying or reading the Daily Mirror. The Football Club should also ban the Daily Mirror, and other Mirror Group newspapers, from sending their representatives to our home games.
Only after Holt and the Mirror Group unreservedly apologise will we consider buying their papers in future.
by Yorkshire Royal » 25 Sep 2008 21:07
by Arnie_Pie » 25 Sep 2008 21:14
by phil in cornwall » 25 Sep 2008 21:30
Yorkshire Royal LOL
Scousers stopped buying The Sun because Kelvin McKenzie printed a front page that suggested liverpool fans pissed on the dead and robbed them of the wallets before charging the police. Although this is quite funny really, it is totally and utterly untrue and it took the paper many years to even apologise. Their readership dropped from over 200K to around 70K.
Oliver Holt's must recent column contains points that are valid I'm afraid. However his absolute stinker about hating the club and chairman last year was way out of order, but is not comparable in anyway to the scouse boycott of The Sun. Further more Reading hardly has the volume of fans, nor I imagine Mirror readers anyway, to make any impact.
But finally, no one should buy the Mirror because, to be honest, it's a really shit newspaper...Oh and Alex Ferguson is just a bitter idiot..
by Yorkshire Royal » 25 Sep 2008 21:39
Phil in cornwall Why don't you get this translated into English and post it again?
by SCIAG » 25 Sep 2008 21:49
by Archie's penalty » 25 Sep 2008 22:20
79Royal Was it just me, or did anyone else not have a clue what the gal was given for? I thought it was given because Bikey's header had gone over the line and the keeper clawed it back out.
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