by Sutekh » 18 Feb 2024 08:05
by Mid Sussex Royal » 26 Feb 2024 19:01
by Sutekh » 27 Feb 2024 08:15
Mid Sussex Royal 41 years ago today...Reading 1-1 Southend, a third tier game watched by circa 2500 at Elm Park. For those interested, Gary Donnellan scored a late equaliser. For anyone moaning about our wide players today, believe me Donnellan was twice as bad.
Why call this game out? Because there are remarkable parallels with this season. Some guy on a football Facebook group posts random fixtures and tables from today's date through the years and from 1983 today:
Reading were in 16th place and 5 points above the relegation places, having played a game or two more than the sides below them.
Another parallel the club was for sale. The chairman, a certain Frank Waller was looking to sell the club having lost interest, initial interested parties earlier in the season included Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan. A few weeks later he agreed to sell to a guy up the road at Oxford, which is more than adequately covered on other posts. The only positive compared to Dai was that at least the wages and tax were paid on time.
Fast forward to the end of the season, the bottom two sides, Preston and Millwall, 11 & 12 points behind us on this day, survived comfortably and we were relegated on the last day with 53 points, our form following the Southend game wasn't even amazingly bad with with 14 points from the last 12 games. Going down with us (indeed we relegated them by beating them on the last day) were Wrexham who on this day 40 years ago had 42 points and were 12th.
I guess this shows anything can still happen....
by Sutekh » 25 Mar 2024 09:00
by stealthpapes » 25 Mar 2024 09:44
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by Franchise FC » 26 Mar 2024 07:51
WestYorksRoyal Funny we always show the picture of Doyle when the key goal was Asaba scoring against Watford.
by Sutekh » 26 Mar 2024 08:01
Franchise FCWestYorksRoyal Funny we always show the picture of Doyle when the key goal was Asaba scoring against Watford.
Yep, we could have lost that day and it would still have been the day we were promoted
by windermereROYAL » 26 Mar 2024 08:35
stealthpapes Happy "Give us the fucking results you wankers" Day one and all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxW-Sxa3fTY
by Greatwesternline » 26 Mar 2024 09:18
Sutekh 18 years old today.
by Sutekh » 26 Mar 2024 09:33
GreatwesternlineSutekh 18 years old today.
Still makes me laugh to think that season our home kit was blue and white, our away kit was blue, and then when faced with the obvious problem this brought about we had a third kit that was white.
If we'd played a team in dark blue and white we'd have needed a 4th kit.
by SouthDownsRoyal » 26 Mar 2024 12:52
Sutekh 18 years old today.
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by Sutekh » 30 Apr 2024 15:07
Uke Oh look, blue shorts.
by SouthDownsRoyal » 30 Apr 2024 19:42
Brogue
by Hendo » 01 May 2024 10:52
rabidbee Oh look, blue shorts.
by South Coast Royal » 01 May 2024 11:03
Hendorabidbee Oh look, blue shorts.
Oh look, white shorts
by rabidbee » 01 May 2024 11:05
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