from Seol's country

bobjones2 · by **bobjones2** » 28 Jul 2006 17:34

Oh you Reading fans... I am Korean American and I started to follow Reading ever since Seol got sent there. The thing is, this is the first real year when I'm following professional football (WC fever has turned into full blown footie madness) and out of all the teams I could have got sucked in (i.e. ManYoo-Park Ji Sung, Tottenham-Lee Young Pyo), I'm getting sucked into Reading. This is utter madness, I've never been to Berkshire (i've been to england) all my life, hell I haven't even been to New Maldin. The closest connection to Berkshire I have is I read couple of speeches given by Warren Buffet, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. The other connection to Reading is that my buddy's dad comes from Reading Pennsylvannia. I am paranoid all of the sudden for no good reason at all that Reading F.C. will be relegated next season--and even so, I find myself keep getting obsessed over Reading. Why is it that I am obsessing over this guy named Sidwell or some obsure player from Sunderland, neither of whom I have never heard of (or even play) even when I was busy playing Winning Eleven 9? I find that I am obsessing over Majeski (sp?) an obscure businessmen I have never heard of, when everyone around me is following up over that other businessman in New York, George Steinbrenner.

I'm starting to daydream that this guy named Oser, whom I have never heard of before looking him up on Wiki yesterday, he would suddenly turn into Wayne Rooney.

Something about Reading reminds me of the Korean National Team. Reading F.C. has a very old history (i guess all your english football clubs do) and KNT has a long history considering Asia. Both never had shining moments, but the sudden spot light is very exciting.

My brain tells me upsets are almost nil-possible, but I find that I'm fantasizing about Reading at UEFA and beating Inter.

When will my madness end??? Good luck to all you loyal Reading fans, and whatever happens, I hope we all can see some good football (soccer to me). I have my fingers crossed that Seol will become the 20 goals scoring Seol at Anderlecht instead of the 4 goals scoring Seol at Wolverhampton.

RoyalBlue · by **RoyalBlue** » 28 Jul 2006 18:10

SpaceCruiser
RoyalBlue As for the warm, non-racist welcome, Spacey was unusually polite for once!

I am always polite to our foreign visitors. Unless they slag us off.

Have we got any of our French friends on here - just to test that claim?!

FiNeRaIn · by **FiNeRaIn** » 28 Jul 2006 19:42

bobjones2 Oh you Reading fans... I am Korean American and I started to follow Reading ever since Seol got sent there. The thing is, this is the first real year when I'm following professional football (WC fever has turned into full blown footie madness) and out of all the teams I could have got sucked in (i.e. ManYoo-Park Ji Sung, Tottenham-Lee Young Pyo), I'm getting sucked into Reading. This is utter madness, I've never been to Berkshire (i've been to england) all my life, hell I haven't even been to New Maldin. The closest connection to Berkshire I have is I read couple of speeches given by Warren Buffet, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. The other connection to Reading is that my buddy's dad comes from Reading Pennsylvannia. I am paranoid all of the sudden for no good reason at all that Reading F.C. will be relegated next season--and even so, I find myself keep getting obsessed over Reading. Why is it that I am obsessing over this guy named Sidwell or some obsure player from Sunderland, neither of whom I have never heard of (or even play) even when I was busy playing Winning Eleven 9? I find that I am obsessing over Majeski (sp?) an obscure businessmen I have never heard of, when everyone around me is following up over that other businessman in New York, George Steinbrenner.

I'm starting to daydream that this guy named Oser, whom I have never heard of before looking him up on Wiki yesterday, he would suddenly turn into Wayne Rooney.

Something about Reading reminds me of the Korean National Team. Reading F.C. has a very old history (i guess all your english football clubs do) and KNT has a long history considering Asia. Both never had shining moments, but the sudden spot light is very exciting.

My brain tells me upsets are almost nil-possible, but I find that I'm fantasizing about Reading at UEFA and beating Inter.

When will my madness end??? Good luck to all you loyal Reading fans, and whatever happens, I hope we all can see some good football (soccer to me). I have my fingers crossed that Seol will become the 20 goals scoring Seol at Anderlecht instead of the 4 goals scoring Seol at Wolverhampton.

Good post. 20 in his first seaosn might be a bit over the top but if he gets 10 or so everyone will be delighted with that, thats a very good total.

T-Rex · by **T-Rex** » 28 Jul 2006 19:49

SpaceCruiser This is great!!!!!!!!!! We truly are becoming international, aren't we.

We have posters from:

Holland (Hup Holland Hup and possibly one other)
USA (Royal Chicago and a few others, I think)
Japan (japanreading)
Norway (Ideal)
Sweden (Stuart Sweden ?? )

and now

South Korea.

Do we have any Icelandic visitors (apart from icelandicstokie)?

And from the furthest of all, Plymouth too.

And they still take 4000 to Reading!

SpaceCruiser · by **SpaceCruiser** » 28 Jul 2006 21:27

T-Rex
SpaceCruiser This is great!!!!!!!!!! We truly are becoming international, aren't we.

We have posters from:

Holland (Hup Holland Hup and possibly one other)
USA (Royal Chicago and a few others, I think)
Japan (japanreading)
Norway (Ideal)
Sweden (Stuart Sweden ?? )

and now

South Korea.

Do we have any Icelandic visitors (apart from icelandicstokie)?

And from the furthest of all, Plymouth too.

And they still take 4000 to Reading!

You don't count.

T-Rex · by **T-Rex** » 28 Jul 2006 22:02

FiNeRaIn · by **FiNeRaIn** » 28 Jul 2006 22:55

T-Rex
SpaceCruiser This is great!!!!!!!!!! We truly are becoming international, aren't we.

We have posters from:

Holland (Hup Holland Hup and possibly one other)
USA (Royal Chicago and a few others, I think)
Japan (japanreading)
Norway (Ideal)
Sweden (Stuart Sweden ?? )

and now

South Korea.

Do we have any Icelandic visitors (apart from icelandicstokie)?

And from the furthest of all, Plymouth too.

And they still take 4000 to Reading!

More than a few from the US at least about 10.

bassavage · by **bassavage** » 28 Jul 2006 23:49

bobjones2 I started to follow Reading ever since Seol got sent there.

Sounds like the Wolves chairman forced him here.

Flyingkiwi · by **Flyingkiwi** » 29 Jul 2006 02:15

bobjones2 Oh you Reading fans... I am Korean American.

What" with the user-name? You're not at Bob Jones University are you??

From Despair To Where? · by **From Despair To Where?** » 29 Jul 2006 15:56

SpaceCruiser
T-Rex
SpaceCruiser This is great!!!!!!!!!! We truly are becoming international, aren't we.

We have posters from:

Holland (Hup Holland Hup and possibly one other)
USA (Royal Chicago and a few others, I think)
Japan (japanreading)
Norway (Ideal)
Sweden (Stuart Sweden ?? )

and now

South Korea.

Do we have any Icelandic visitors (apart from icelandicstokie)?

And from the furthest of all, Plymouth too.

And they still take 4000 to Reading!

You don't count.

I think you mean he can't count.

Only one Trevor Morley · by **Only one Trevor Morley** » 31 Jul 2006 13:37

Fantastic thread - I love the way in which Seols every move will be followed in Korea - he'll probably get most coverage as he's the most likely to start every game...

OzBiscuit2004 · by **OzBiscuit2004** » 31 Jul 2006 14:00

SpaceCruiser
Are they actually from these countries or are they exiled royals?

I'm a born and bred Aussie. I did what a lot of Aussies do and travelled to the UK in 1989. Got a job with Foster Wheeler and the rest as they say is history.

SpaceCruiser · by **SpaceCruiser** » 31 Jul 2006 15:10

OzBiscuit2004
SpaceCruiser
Are they actually from these countries or are they exiled royals?

I'm a born and bred Aussie. I did what a lot of Aussies do and travelled to the UK in 1989. Got a job with Foster Wheeler and the rest as they say is history.

Good for you, I'm glad you're a Reading fan. I think a couple of foreign posters on here have actually been to Reading when they were over here for university - I think they are Hup Holland Hup and japanreading. There may be a couple of others who are the same....

rodnich · by **rodnich** » 31 Jul 2006 15:18

I'm from Australia!!!

SpaceCruiser · by **SpaceCruiser** » 31 Jul 2006 15:20

rodnich I'm from Australia!!!

And a hearty welcome to you too!

rodnich · by **rodnich** » 31 Jul 2006 15:22

Cheers mate.

Beats the usuall "F*ck of Newbie!" reply I normally get.

rabidbee · by **rabidbee** » 31 Jul 2006 15:36

rodnich Cheers mate.

Beats the usuall "F*ck of Newbie!" reply I normally get.

I've not even had that yet

rodnich · by **rodnich** » 31 Jul 2006 15:39

F*ck off newbie!!!

rabidbee · by **rabidbee** » 31 Jul 2006 15:51

rodnich F*ck off newbie!!!

From one to another,

Fcuk off newbie!

AllRoyals · by **AllRoyals** » 31 Jul 2006 18:04

I'm Swedish and not an Exile. We're a few Royals in Sweden. Not 2 many active here though. C u next week!

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