Most ecstatic moment as a Reading fan

[Archie's penalty]

That 4-2 was such an amazing game. What togetherness from the team. What a keeper Shaka was. What movement and passing from our boys.

I think they would have done well in the premiership...

[Compo's Hat]

Uploading the 4-2 win v Wolves just after McGoo left us now. Sadly I don't have the 2-1 win with Archie scoring in the 93rd and 96th mins. Also I don't have the 4-3 v Plymouth.

Will need to copy my old tapes to DVD to get the real gems. Might need to wait for the w/e for Coventry in the Simod S-F. Worth the wait though I think!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGCgRUXxQWY

Blimey - took long enough!! BT and their "up to 8Mb" service!!! What a load of bollox! Actually achieved 700kb!!!

Top work strap!

Someone please send him a copy of Archie's late double!!!

[Compo's Hat]

Winning 3-1 at Sheffield United (2002/2003)

Still my faourite away game bassavage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfppxHO2 ... 919C471CFA

Click on billoddiebilloddie for some more including the smash and grab at Sunderland which i went mental. After leaving the house at 4am with handbags harris it was bloody worth it!!!


Drawing at home to Man U in the first season in the Prem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWUUAieI ... 919C471CFA

Beating Liverpool 3-1 at home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGBCq2Ps ... 919C471CFA

[beno]

does anyone remember this game:

13 August 1994 Division One Wolves (Away) L: 0-1 Report not available

i remember the highlights, we played some really good football and shouldnt have lost

[Nick Shorey my Lord!]

does anyone remember this game:

13 August 1994 Division One Wolves (Away) L: 0-1 Report not available

i remember the highlights, we played some really good football and shouldnt have lost

Isn't this the one where Quinn misses a sitter? Blasts it over the bar?

[Nick Shorey my Lord!]

Uploading the 4-2 win v Wolves just after McGoo left us now. Sadly I don't have the 2-1 win with Archie scoring in the 93rd and 96th mins. Also I don't have the 4-3 v Plymouth.

Will need to copy my old tapes to DVD to get the real gems. Might need to wait for the w/e for Coventry in the Simod S-F. Worth the wait though I think!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGCgRUXxQWY

Blimey - took long enough!! BT and their "up to 8Mb" service!!! What a load of bollox! Actually achieved 700kb!!!

Regarding the Bolton game, has there ever been a better goal line clearance than Super Si's? For a midget that was some header, made even better by the reaction of the crowd and Bolton players.

[dean horrix legend]

Don't know if it's been mentioned before but Pat Earles winner against Wolves in 1978 League Cup was a joyous moment for this (at the time) 14 year old.
Wolves in the old First Division,us in the old Forth,giant killing at its best.

[Maguire]

does anyone remember this game:

13 August 1994 Division One Wolves (Away) L: 0-1 Report not available

i remember the highlights, we played some really good football and shouldnt have lost

Isn't this the one where Quinn misses a sitter? Blasts it over the bar?

I was there - Gilkes I think pulled it back to the previous season's goal machine and he blasted it over the bar with his left foot. We played well that day and were unlucky to lose.

[Ian Herring]

does anyone remember this game:

13 August 1994 Division One Wolves (Away) L: 0-1 Report not available

i remember the highlights, we played some really good football and shouldnt have lost

Isn't this the one where Quinn misses a sitter? Blasts it over the bar?

I was there - Gilkes I think pulled it back to the previous season's goal machine and he blasted it over the bar with his left foot. We played well that day and were unlucky to lose.

I think this was the game Sir Jack Heyward (the Golden Tit) referred to as the first time McGhee came to his notice due to style of football we played that day. History being laid down in advance somewhat, as it was the Yams that the Fat Boy shipped out of Leicester for barely a year later in a similar style to how he'd left Elm Park.

I loved it how we kind of got our nets stuck around the Wolves propellors in that era, starting with that 4-2 game when Graham Taylor brought them to town and we mashed 'em. After that we had a hex on them for quite a while.

My memory of that game was Scott Taylor's almost arrogant dragging of his right boot in a dummy before crossing inch-perfectly for the sublime Simon Osborn to clip it in with his head. Also Parky's surge in to the corner to cross for Quinn to head the second.

As for the crowd that day? I've rarely heard a Reading crowd so raw and up for it, still makes me shiver, that 'Are you watching Mark Mcghee?' Think the roof shook on the South Bank that day. When they eventually put us out in the play-offs in the 'noughties it was a bare scratch on the arm for us really. The blood feud that Fatso (inadvertently) started by leaving for Leicester just as we were about to play Wolves was a fantastic time. They really hated us for a while, those grebos and Led Zeppers. We'd already duffed them up so many times it wasn't quite true.

I remember a nice touch when Mr. McGhee brought the Molyneux lot back for Gilkes's testimonial (even though he was now on Wolves pay-roll) and hostilities were suspended for a while, as the South Bank and the Fat One made up for a minute or two. A nice little moment.

Great days. Sorely missed.

[Thaumagurist*]

I remember a nice touch when Mr. McGhee brought the Molyneux lot back for Gilkes's testimonial (even though he was now on Wolves pay-roll)

Eh? No, he didn't bring the Molyneux lot back. He was manager of the 93/4/5 side for the day.

[rhroyal]

How long do you reckon it'll be before the old dog Reading fans look upon 05-07 as they do that team from 93-95?

[Ian Herring]

You're almost like a cloned kind of human spell-checker or pedantry-search engine. Fantastic.

How do you remember all this stuff?

Most of us are just old bastards with half-pissed recollections of games with the rest of it disappearing into a mulch of pre-Alzheimer's falsely-recollected drivel.

I doff my cap to you.

[wolsey]

How long do you reckon it'll be before the old dog Reading fans look upon 05-07 as they do that team from 93-95?

Strange thing to say - SCC's team is easily the best Reading team I've seen (But I only go back to 1970).

If anything it's a number of newer fans who don't realise how good the 05/07 team were.

[Ark Royal]

does anyone remember this game:

13 August 1994 Division One Wolves (Away) L: 0-1 Report not available

i remember the highlights, we played some really good football and shouldnt have lost

Isn't this the one where Quinn misses a sitter? Blasts it over the bar?

We were great that day and Wolves were really lucky to get away with a result. Fantastic pass by Dylan Kerr to put Gilkesy away and the shot from Quinny is, I believe, still rising. Will probably eventually meet up with the penalty miss from York the previous season.

[Gandalf Presley]

This thread has brought some great memories flooding back. For me, the 93-95 team were the best footballing team in my near 26 years of support. Being in my early 20's at the time, it was probably at my peak in terms of attending RFC games home & away.

Although not necessarily the most ecstatic but certainly defining in their own way:-

Oldham (A) 94-95; outplayed a team just recently relegated from the Prem. Osborn scoring ana amazing goal and it showed that we could cope in a higher division

Preston (A) 05-06; another fantastic performance. Lilttle's goal that day cam from a great team move. PNE conceded very few goals at home that season yet we put 3 past them. My thoughts after that game were that I had witnessed a promotion-winning performance. Just a shame that I didn't back my convictions at the bookies!

[Archie's penalty]

does anyone remember this game:

13 August 1994 Division One Wolves (Away) L: 0-1 Report not available

i remember the highlights, we played some really good football and shouldnt have lost

I was there as well. First game of the season and you could tell we were going to do well that season. My dad ripped up the tickets a week before the game as punishment for something I had done. He then taped them up in an act of forgiveness.

1994-5 is still the season where I have watched the most Reading games live - 10.

Last year was my closest since that time - 8.

[Nick Shorey my Lord!]

Oldham (A) 94-95; outplayed a team just recently relegated from the Prem. Osborn scoring ana amazing goal and it showed that we could cope in a higher division

The nutmeg and lob cracker.

You can tell I wore out the "Record breaking royals" video

[Archie's penalty]

Osborn (sp?) was amazing wasn't he?

[Nick Shorey my Lord!]

Osborn (sp?) was amazing wasn't he?

Amazing player at a knock-down bargain price. If we hadn't of lost him to injury I think we'd have taken 1st.

Has anyone mentioned how we were robbed of promotion thanks to the re-structured premiership?

[Thaumagurist*]

Osborn (sp?) was amazing wasn't he?

Why the (sp?) You've spelt it correctly!