some nostalgia for 'vintage' fans

[Linden Jones' Tash]

a good read and my first 'proper' Reading game

http://thetwounfortunates.com/great-foo ... ng-1985-6/

[Fox Talbot]

Spacey spotted one mistake but missed two others.

Frankly, I think the writer undersells that remarkable season.

[Linden Jones' Tash]

The wolves game was my first time, was on the south bank and 16 - though I subsequently took to the Tilehurst End and still prefer watching games from behind the goal.


I seem to remember the "we're gonna score in a minute" chant leading to a Kevin Brebner bundled effors around that period, but it might not have been that season....


It was proper long ball stuff though

[LUX]

Hmm, bit of detective work, is that your website, LJT?

[Linden Jones' Tash]

No, not mine, but I know the author and we are about the same vintage

[Sport Economist]

Thanks for the comments folks (I'm the author). Apologies also for the error which has now been corrected - not sure how the 2 season thing had lodged into my head. Others have referred to one or two extra errors which I would also be happy to amend if people can point them out.

As regards the depth of the piece, the site is a pan-football one and not just aimed at Reading fans. I'd love to have given a blow by blow acount of every game and a deeper analysis of the players but we hope to strike a balance between creating something of interest for Reading fans and others who may be interested (for instance, a Watford fan of facebook has linked to a piece providing a wildly different piece about Trevor Senior). The series is now 40 pieces strong and this is the first time we have covered Reading (1993-4, 1994-5 and 2005-6 are hopefully to come among others) but we did cover Terry Bullivant's 1997-8 team in another series:

http://thetwounfortunates.com/hopeless- ... ng-1997-8/

[Fox Talbot]

Thanks for the comments folks (I'm the author). Apologies also for the error which has now been corrected - not sure how the 2 season thing had lodged into my head. Others have referred to one or two extra errors which I would also be happy to amend if people can point them out.

As regards the depth of the piece, the site is a pan-football one and not just aimed at Reading fans. I'd love to have given a blow by blow acount of every game and a deeper analysis of the players but we hope to strike a balance between creating something of interest for Reading fans and others who may be interested (for instance, a Watford fan of facebook has linked to a piece providing a wildly different piece about Trevor Senior). The series is now 40 pieces strong and this is the first time we have covered Reading (1993-4, 1994-5 and 2005-6 are hopefully to come among others) but we did cover Terry Bullivant's 1997-8 team in another series:

http://thetwounfortunates.com/hopeless- ... ng-1997-8/

14th game of the season - not 14th home game.

Gillingham match was New Year's Day not Boxing Day. HTH!

[VINTAGE ROYAL]

thanks for that, as i am vintage royal

[Ark Royal]

Good article and well researched.

As someone said, the Gillingham game was on New Year's Day and before kick-off we were NINETEEN points clear and our record was P24 W20 D2 L2. Our record after that was a distinctly average P22 W9 D5 L8. We did enough in the first half of the season to clinch promotion.

[Vision]

I just like the general feel of the article.

So what if a couple of details aren't quite correct; any idiot can do a google search and put up a list of facts but it's far more interesting in this stat orientated age of pedants to write something that reflects the actual feel and emotion of that period of time.

[Fox Talbot]

Good article and well researched.

As someone said, the Gillingham game was on New Year's Day and before kick-off we were NINETEEN points clear and our record was P24 W20 D2 L2. Our record after that was a distinctly average P22 W9 D5 L8. We did enough in the first half of the season to clinch promotion.

Better than 2005/06 - P24 W18 D5 L1.

The 1985/86 side was like a steam-roller that came out of nowhere.

[creative_username_1]

Thanks to certain psoters on AE my first thought on seeing the word Vintage is usually 70's bushy vaginas