things you have seen in your time supporting Reading

[The 17 Bus]

Your bro or Trev??


that image rings a sharp bell.

My brother

Damn not here, if i ever find it will make sure you get a copy, have loads of JM taking over, merger with Oxford, Smee taking over, new Stadium, Madstad and the 10-000 at Rivermead, also Smallmead with speedway!! almost all promotions and relegations, the Mag7, first game at Walkers Stadium!!

[Royal Lady]

i wonder if I have the EP from the darlo game!!!!!

I did not recall the 5-3 cup game, looked it all up from books, I may or may not have been there, it's like Fever Pitch here at times.

If you have i'd love a copy as the front page is my brother holding Trevor senior's arm up and looking like a complete idiot with no teeth in his lower jaw.

It's his two top teeth he hasn't got. HTH.

[OldBiscuit]

Queing up for about 6 hours to try and get tickets for Manchester City replay in 1968 (i think) after we had drawn 0-0 at their place, only to get stuffed 7-0 at home in the replay.

[mini _dariusz]

i wonder if I have the EP from the darlo game!!!!!

I did not recall the 5-3 cup game, looked it all up from books, I may or may not have been there, it's like Fever Pitch here at times.

If you have i'd love a copy as the front page is my brother holding Trevor senior's arm up and looking like a complete idiot with no teeth in his lower jaw.

Where are your manners boy !

[westongeezer]

Cannot rememvber the year,running street battles Bristol City fans running up and down oxford road all rather ugly .possibly early 80s when Fiat Dealer was at to top near TA barracks .

[Ark Royal]

8-0 v Southport
Friday's goal against Tranmere in '76
Clinching promotion for first time in 50 years at Cambridge in '76
The goal that never was
Coming back from 3-0 down to beat Plymouth
Simod Cup Final
Wembley Play Off
Millenium Play off
First ever game at the Madstad
Keeper scoring from open play for Reading
6-4 win at Exeter (only league game in history where five players have scored two goals each)
1-0 defeat against Chester at Macclesfield in '91 in front of 631 - lowest ever attendance
3-0 at Port Vale in '79 to clinch 4th Division title and and 11th consecutive clean sheet
Travelling to Oxford on a very wintry December evening just to see Robin Friday make his last appearance
John Murray missing his third pen against Walsall in '76
The first Sunday game at EP v Exeter in '74 and Friday's two-goal home debut

[weybridgewanderer]

"kingsley" playing in goal and the gooalkeeper moving up front and scoring

[Royalshow]

Someone falling of a motorbike backwards during a rather ambitious wheelie in a garage on the way to a game a few years back.How we laughed.

[Sarah Star]

the goalkeeper scoring...

[PEARCEY]

8-0 v Southport
Friday's goal against Tranmere in '76
Clinching promotion for first time in 50 years at Cambridge in '76
The goal that never was
Coming back from 3-0 down to beat Plymouth
Simod Cup Final
Wembley Play Off
Millenium Play off
First ever game at the Madstad
Keeper scoring from open play for Reading
6-4 win at Exeter (only league game in history where five players have scored two goals each)
1-0 defeat against Chester at Macclesfield in '91 in front of 631 - lowest ever attendance
3-0 at Port Vale in '79 to clinch 4th Division title and and 11th consecutive clean sheet
Travelling to Oxford on a very wintry December evening just to see Robin Friday make his last appearance
John Murray missing his third pen against Walsall in '76
The first Sunday game at EP v Exeter in '74 and Friday's two-goal home debut

Thats a fine list and I particularly envy you re Friday's wonder goal scored appropriately on a Friday and the great fightback against Plymouth....didn't see either of those games and wish I had.

[Franchise FC]

A bird (of the feathered kind) stop play at St James Park. I'm sure that's what cost us the game.

[Ark Royal]

i wonder if I have the EP from the darlo game!!!!!

I did not recall the 5-3 cup game, looked it all up from books, I may or may not have been there, it's like Fever Pitch here at times.

If you have i'd love a copy as the front page is my brother holding Trevor senior's arm up and looking like a complete idiot with no teeth in his lower jaw.

I still have the EP from the Watford 5-3 game. I can try and scan it and publish on picasa.com if anyone is interested.

[Ark Royal]

8-0 v Southport
Friday's goal against Tranmere in '76
Clinching promotion for first time in 50 years at Cambridge in '76
The goal that never was
Coming back from 3-0 down to beat Plymouth
Simod Cup Final
Wembley Play Off
Millenium Play off
First ever game at the Madstad
Keeper scoring from open play for Reading
6-4 win at Exeter (only league game in history where five players have scored two goals each)
1-0 defeat against Chester at Macclesfield in '91 in front of 631 - lowest ever attendance
3-0 at Port Vale in '79 to clinch 4th Division title and and 11th consecutive clean sheet
Travelling to Oxford on a very wintry December evening just to see Robin Friday make his last appearance
John Murray missing his third pen against Walsall in '76
The first Sunday game at EP v Exeter in '74 and Friday's two-goal home debut

Thats a fine list and I particularly envy you re Friday's wonder goal scored appropriately on a Friday and the great fightback against Plymouth....didn't see either of those games and wish I had.

...and I forgot the 0-7 home defeat against Man City in '68 after a 0-0 draw at Maine Road.

[Franchise FC]

8-0 v Southport
Friday's goal against Tranmere in '76
Clinching promotion for first time in 50 years at Cambridge in '76
The goal that never was
Coming back from 3-0 down to beat Plymouth
Simod Cup Final
Wembley Play Off
Millenium Play off
First ever game at the Madstad
Keeper scoring from open play for Reading
6-4 win at Exeter (only league game in history where five players have scored two goals each)
1-0 defeat against Chester at Macclesfield in '91 in front of 631 - lowest ever attendance
3-0 at Port Vale in '79 to clinch 4th Division title and and 11th consecutive clean sheet
Travelling to Oxford on a very wintry December evening just to see Robin Friday make his last appearance
John Murray missing his third pen against Walsall in '76
The first Sunday game at EP v Exeter in '74 and Friday's two-goal home debut

I saw the first goal that never was (vs Rochdale), but not the second. At least the first one hit a part of the net.

[M0J0]

Queing up for about 6 hours to try and get tickets for Manchester City replay in 1968 (i think) after we had drawn 0-0 at their place, only to get stuffed 7-0 at home in the replay.

I was there too, behind the goal at the town end,,,

also ,,,RFC in the third div (south)

first game under floodlights at EP. french all stars or something

Southern floodlit cup games

playing manure twice

Eric Cantona holding his ears at the southbank

joining the EU

decimalisation

death of the King ,, George v1

coronation of queen Elizabeth 2nd

Sally army band at H/T at elm park.

blue fiver

white fiver

6d to get in and sit and watch from Norfolk Rd stand

10/- Ten bob note

2/6d half a crown

no segregation. of fans

Time i had a nap

[blue_army1871]

Portsmouth 7-4 game
Both Madejski Stadium's cancelled games (Leicester and Burnley)
Shambollic performance against Wimbledon on Boxing Day
Possibly quickest red card vs Sheff Utd
Champions vs Derby
When Murty scored
First Premiership game
On the front of a book in megastore
Stephen Hunt nutmegging Drogba right in front if Chelsea fans
Graeme Murty nutmegging Stewart Downing in first Prem game
0-0 at Old Trafford
3-1 Liverpool
Dirk Kuyts last game for Feyernoord
Lee Bowyer dislocating his shoulder
Petr Cech headbutting Hunts knee
Sonko vs Hahnemann
Losing 2-1 to Farnbrough
1-0 win vs Welling in front of 5000 people

[Avon Royal]

"Tracey is a slapper" at Northampton
Sitting on the side of the pitch at Norwich the year they rebuilt their stand
THAT game at Peterborough.
Standing in a thunderstorm at Cambridge, losing 3-1.
Trevor Morley's overhead kick against Norwich at Elm Park
Steve Stone missing an open goal.
Norwich fan falling down the steps
Baldy at Brum!

[ankeny]

.A packed house against Bishop Stortford on a weekday afternoon(we won 6-1).Coming back 3-3 after being 3-0 down against Port Vale.

it was Blyth spartans,Bishop stortford scored a last minute winner against us once at elm park, and we were 3-0 UP against port vale before drawing 3-3, Milwall did the same coming back from 3-0 down against us

How age blights the memoury

[eleventh earl of mar]

.A packed house against Bishop Stortford on a weekday afternoon(we won 6-1).Coming back 3-3 after being 3-0 down against Port Vale.

it was Blyth spartans,Bishop stortford scored a last minute winner against us once at elm park, and we were 3-0 UP against port vale before drawing 3-3, Milwall did the same coming back from 3-0 down against us

How age blights the memoury

If it helps, we did beat Bishop Storford in the early seventies, I think also by 6-1 after a replay, but it was not in the afternoon.

[Elm Park Old Boy]

This sure is a thread to make us all misty-eyed.

For me, some stand-outs:

-queuing from about 10 am to get in to the cup game against Arsenal in (?) 72, when we lost 2-1, having got all the goals. Us mid-table Div 4, Arsenal still I think Double holders. Charlie Hurley said hello on his way in
- taking my son (aged about nine months) to his first game against Bournemouth in 2001. 3-3, Defoe got 2, and young Sam burst into tears when Kingsley came over to say hello
- losing in extra time at the Millennium play-off final, my two daughters cried and it took us half the night to get home.
- first Prem game was unforgettable
- as was tonking West Ham 6-0
- taking my new girlfriend to Elm Park in early 1998 (I think January, against Bury) for her first exposure to the mighty (and soon to be relegated) Royals. We stood (in acres of space) in the Tilehurst End and listened to three old gits slag off Darren Caskey ('ee's a nice enough lad, but ee's not too bright'). Cue Caskey goal. Silence for a minute or two, then one of the guys in front said 'Well I've seen it all now, Caskey scorin''. Still gets a laugh in our household.
- clinching promotion at Brentford (when I sat silently among the home fans, but later enjoyed the Fullers ales in a Thameside pub) also unforgettable
- coming home from several games in 05-06 with my then 5 year old son singing 'we are unbeatbale' most of the way back to London
- watching Reading v Southport on the north bank, stupidly wearing my school scarf (black and orange - Brakenhale in Bracknell) and getting menaced by some Reading (ahem) 'hardnuts', who remained convinced I was a 'Southport oxf*rd' until convinced by my train ticket back to Bracknell!
- Selhurst Park in early 06, singing 'if Johnson plays for England so can I'. Johnson scored and gave it large in front of the Reading fans who responded in kind. Cue Harper's prompt equaliser and truly raucous chants of 'That's why we're top of the league' Magic.