The Royal Wereadingfc13Agreed 100%, what a game. I really can't believe it's been 7 years now! One of the things I will always remember about that day was leaving the away end after an hour of celebration after the match (only seemed like 5 minutes mind you) and outside there was a guy trying to sell "Reading Fc, Cardiff Millenium Stadium Playoff Final 2002" MerchandiseZammo My favourite ever day supporting the Royals. I will never forget it..
The thing that set that apart from the promotion to the premiership in 2006 was that nothing seemed inevitable. In 2006 we were winning it at a canter and it had become more when we were going to win the league rather than if. In 2002 it was effectively a playoff final in which we were the away team (Brentford had only lost at home once all season) and on a poor run of form at the time, seemingly looking to throw away promotion. These factors including the previous years heartbreak in Cardiff made it all the more sweet.
P.s. What a goal!
Totally agree, whilst I had tears in my eyes at Leicester, nothing will ever surpass the shear joy when that equaliser hit the back of the net. In 2006 we all knew promotion coming at some point, that day at Brentford I felt it had been snatched away from us until Curo scored. Such a mix of emotions in such a short space of time!
Totally different emotion to me. Naturally I was ecstatic when Curo's equaliser hit the radio waves in my kitchen, but even before and during the Leicester game in 06, there was this niggling doubt that we were going to throw it all away. Also, we'd been at Championship level before. We'd never been to the Premier League.
