If you didn't support Reading who would you support and why?

[Alexander Litvinenko]

Not sure I would - although I'd spent a whole lot more time at Bracknell Town.

You don't choose your football team - family or circumstances choose it for you - and if I didn't support Reading I can't see me consciously deciding "who shall I support now?"

[Royal Lady]

QPR - only football loving person in my family who doesn't support them

[Royal Bahamas]

It would have been Liverpool, yet I am not a BR fan, but I would probably still follow them. I have always looked out for them since I was a kid. I have one of the greatest childhood memories of standing in the Kop as an 11 year old....a mind blowing experience at the time! (I was visiting a friend who had moved from Reading to Bootle). This is when "You'll Never Walk Alone" was a passion, not just a song.

I also look out for Doncaster, as that is where half of my family was born. Not been a great success, given the ability of some of the future stars that came through them.....but they will get it right one day.

[Lovely hot donuts!]

Watford I expect.
That's where my mum and her family were from and he supported them up-to her 20s. Then many years later when I came along and got into football, I made her take me to a Reading game and she's now an out and out royal!

Although, having said that, I do go and watch Maidenhead from time to time (such as tonight) but I wasn't aware of them till I was like 14 long after I was into football so chances are I'd never have supported them.

Having said that I can't fathom the circumstances in which I wouldn't support Reading. Born and raised here. Would surely rely on there not being a processional team in Reading.

[Royal Ginger]

Yateley Town. Pre-match warm up is a fag and a jumper.

Other than that it'd probably be Bournemouth for geographical reasons.

[super darren caskey]

Well as a kid i like Man Utd

When they was s*@t in the days of Jesper Olsen & Michael Duxbury

So mite have stuck with them

[LoyalRoyalFan]

What a shit thread.

[skipper]

Man City because my best mate is a city fan, and always has been. We went to all the old Division 2 games and the friendly's.

Or Albion Rovers, because I was great with them on Champ Man 2 and because their name is like two surnames, which shouldn't be allowed. Frickin' Scottish.

[Rex]

What a shit thread.

Arsenal then.

[SydenhamRoyal]

Oxford or Swindon or Aldershit.
Just for the sake of winding people up on here

[peterroyal76]

What a shit thread.

+1

[Stuboo]

I think I'll go Brentford - they have a pub on each corner of the ground and it's a nice place to watch football.

[facaldaqui]

I can't even think about this; all other clubs are alien to me. When I lived near Northampton for a bit, I became a supporter of the rugby and cricket teams there, but that's only because we didn't have decent teams of those in Reading. I never supported the Cobblers, though I went sometimes. Even so, I suppose, at a pinch, it would be them.

[RepressedRoyal]

Probably Chelsea, I went to see them quite a bit in the days up to ex Royal Kerry Dixon, David Speedie and Pat Nevin etc...I was also watching Reading at the time but it was a bit like watching Basingstoke Town now, I can remember one game when there was under 3,000 in the ground and me and my school mates were running up and down the Tilehurst End just for a bit of excitement. I remember going to see Chelsea beating Liverpool 2-0 in the '82 FA Cup with my mate's elder brother and witnessing unbelievable pre Hillsborough carnage in and around the shed and finding it really exciting!

I think my last Chelsea game was a defeat to Sunderland in the '85 milk cup semi- final (I was 17) and I then followed Reading independently from the "13 in a row" onwards as did a lot of my friends who also ditched their glamour clubs. A combination of age and a bit of success encouraged us to support our local team, which is something everyone should do.

Just a few changes at Reading since then...

[Man Friday]

Derby County. (Mum's side of the family all from Derby and I used to watch them every Easter whe we went up.)

[grey_squirrel]

What a shit thread.

+1

'Greed.

I presume what the OP means is "who would you support if Reading weren't around / had gone bust", in which case, FC Royals of Reading (or whatever the phoenix club would be called)

[Kitsondinho]

I ashamed to say Chesterfield....due to where I live and the likelihood of Kits Jr supporting them........

[ankeny]

Born in Caversham but moved to Chippenham and then near Abingdon so it could have been Swindon or Oxford

[Royal Dee]

Wednesday through the mothers side
glad im a ROYAL!

[oldebiscuit]

I would have gone to games with my cousins, so it would be either Leyton Orient or Hull Kingston Rovers.