Old Reading Footage on VHS/film/Youtube

[fozzy]

Just to clarify.....you've got Oxford 1-3 Reading on VHS, yeah? 7-3-00? And you're gonna put it on You Tube?

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Goals highights, yeah. Youtube... will do..... actually....... have done. Now. Go see....
https://youtu.be/YpsFBw4ZdFM
https://www.youtube.com/user/FozzyRFC

[floyd__streete]

Fozzy that is terrific, cheers.

[Man Friday]

Remember it well. I did 'The Fans' Verdict' that night. (My 40th.) (50th wasn't so good - 7 March 2010. Well it was alright until just after half-time...)

[Brum Royal]

Is that 1-3 game at the Manor the night of the famous "are you really worse than him?" chant as they changed keeper at half time? Judging by the fumble for our second goal it would seem to be about right. A hugely entertaining night that one!

EDIT: Yes it was http://www.royals.org/matdoc/070300.html

Happy times

[handbags_harris]

Paul Lundin and Andre Arendse. Chain-smoking Paul Powell scored Oxford's opener, not a bad effort either. but those goals scored are embarrassingly easy. Oxford were truly sh*te back then, even more embarrassing is the fact they beat us at the Madejski in the November...

[fozzy]

No problem. Shout if there are any others.

Fozzy that is terrific, cheers.

[Ark Royal]

Found this complete video on twohundredpercent.net of the Big Match from January 1987 featuring extended FA Cup highlights of Reading vs Arse. Also includes the Shite vs Pox.

Loads of bad caps and poor upper-lip slug balancing acts.

https://youtu.be/RIrbJ-Q-B3Y

[Fox Talbot]

Great find. Only watched 8 mins so far. Started shivering with the memory of it. oxf*rd cold.

[floyd__streete]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3htEY3IXmEc Birmingham 1-2 Reading, 95/96
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VGvvxIQnIs Bury 1-1 Reading, 97/98

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkTFJEwZHYw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BKLK2_Cf-U .....goals from our Thames Valley derbies with Wycombe in 98/99

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1h0hDdzkHU Sheff U 1-2 Reading, 03/04.....classic Forster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7x0EUSOuls Halley's comet

[stealthpapes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3htEY3IXmEc Birmingham 1-2 Reading, 95/96

I went to a Birmingham away game and one of the strikers was dropped, so went along and sat with the away fans. Think we lost 2-1 though.

[wally bassoon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7x0EUSOuls Halley's comet

I remember this, it was a Friday night game IIRC.

[strap]

Alan Sedunary has just passed me this gem of a link, with the question "How many would have been sent off in the final goalmouth scramble?" Hopefully he won't mind me sharing it with a wider audience.

Joe Duckworth certainly earned his corn that day!

23,703 at a snowbound Elm Park on 16th Feb 1929. We were 17th in the 2nd tier at the time,

No idea if this is the earliest newsreel from EP, but quality is excellent for the day, so would have been a "professional" recording.

http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-nearing-the-goal-1929/#.Vmh8KBQ0qzE.facebook

[Armadillo Roadkill]

That's amazing. Thanks for sharing.

[Biscuit_Boy]

Alan Sedunary has just passed me this gem of a link, with the question "How many would have been sent off in the final goalmouth scramble?" Hopefully he won't mind me sharing it with a wider audience.

Joe Duckworth certainly earned his corn that day!

23,703 at a snowbound Elm Park on 16th Feb 1929. We were 17th in the 2nd tier at the time,

No idea if this is the earliest newsreel from EP, but quality is excellent for the day, so would have been a "professional" recording.

http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-nearing-the-goal-1929/#.Vmh8KBQ0qzE.facebook

That's great isn't it. Duckworth was renowned for his bravery and you can see why - keepers got no protection at all! As far as I know it's the earliest match footage from Elm Park, though there is a film around of a military sports day from the First World War.

[General B]

That's super.

[strap]

Just to update, the link to the EP video v Villa in 1929 came from Chris Lee's excellent site:

http://www.chrisdlee.com/

A must see for all things RFC related.

[The Cube]

Footage from that Villa game was on Pathe News so they would be the film-makers (they only broadcast 45 seconds, though). Reading's other known appearances on Pathe News were the 1927 FA Cup semi-final and a 1935 game, so this is the oldest football footage I know of from Elm Park.

However, there is footage of a fund-raising sports day at Elm Park held during World War 1. Someone posted a link to it a few years ago, but I didn't make a note of the link at the time, and haven't been able to track it down since.

[Biscuit_Boy]

Footage from that Villa game was on Pathe News so they would be the film-makers (they only broadcast 45 seconds, though). Reading's other known appearances on Pathe News were the 1927 FA Cup semi-final and a 1935 game, so this is the oldest football footage I know of from Elm Park.

However, there is footage of a fund-raising sports day at Elm Park held during World War 1. Someone posted a link to it a few years ago, but I didn't make a note of the link at the time, and haven't been able to track it down since.

Some bizarre action going on, but interesting to see the ground as it was then http://www.britishpathe.com/video/novel ... query/1915

[Uke]

Alan Sedunary has just passed me this gem of a link, with the question "How many would have been sent off in the final goalmouth scramble?" Hopefully he won't mind me sharing it with a wider audience.

Joe Duckworth certainly earned his corn that day!

23,703 at a snowbound Elm Park on 16th Feb 1929. We were 17th in the 2nd tier at the time,

No idea if this is the earliest newsreel from EP, but quality is excellent for the day, so would have been a "professional" recording.

http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-nearing-the-goal-1929/#.Vmh8KBQ0qzE.facebook

That's great isn't it. Duckworth was renowned for his bravery and you can see why - keepers got no protection at all!

No substitutes either, so the incentive was there.

Nobble the keeper, get sent off, it's 10 versus 10 but one side has no proper keeper...

[Mr.Swainey]

Alan Sedunary has just passed me this gem of a link, with the question "How many would have been sent off in the final goalmouth scramble?" Hopefully he won't mind me sharing it with a wider audience.

Joe Duckworth certainly earned his corn that day!

23,703 at a snowbound Elm Park on 16th Feb 1929. We were 17th in the 2nd tier at the time,

No idea if this is the earliest newsreel from EP, but quality is excellent for the day, so would have been a "professional" recording.

http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-nearing-the-goal-1929/#.Vmh8KBQ0qzE.facebook

I was one of the 23,703.

Did some gear with the Scorpions in the Spread Eagle after the game, was top.