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JedMaxwell Tom McIntyre's just got promoted. I look forward to welcoming him back on loan next January when he's only played three times before Christmas.

Twice in the FL Cup and once in the FA Cup ?

Portsmouth won't be playing in the FA Cup before Xmas, so it'll 3 LC apps.

8) Remind me again how far United got in this year’s European competition … I can wait … And I can’t stand Liverpool, but them losing, along with all but Villa, has cost us a CL place. Would be seriously ironic for you if United are the team denied a place Actually glad England aren't the ones taki...

I never want them in a higher division than us. This season is our low point in 25 years and their high point; we avoided defeat in both games, and now I want them to stay down so we can restore natural order next season. However I will concede they're hitting form at the right time. If they beat L...

Close seasons are always boring, this one will be more so until the take over is confirmed, upon which half this board will break down into various pessimistic diatribes on being owned by hedge funds/investment groups while the other half will go down the overbearingly optimistic route. Therefore lo...

Would add the first season under Pardew to this after we got promoted, finished 4th and lost in the playoffs to Wolves. I quite enjoyed the 2008/9 season. If we’d beaten Brum in that final home game we’d have got automatic promotion, as we had a superior goal difference. I went to the game at St An...

The current issue (no. 88) of Backpass magazine (you can usually find it on WH Smiths) has a good 3 page interview with Jerry Williams on his career and covers the 13 successive league wins in 85/86.

Pepe the Horseman They should just play the whole tournament in one day.

Play it indoors too, to counter any weather issues.

changes for everyone just to satisfy 'the big 6' While it might mean more "shocks" as little clubs prove better at penalties it's just another step in destroying the oldest domestic cup competition in the world but then it's already badly devalued with clubs playing partly Academy sides a...

There’s something I really dislike about Burton. Not really justified as they are a solid enough club. Think it goes back to Stam 1-2 game in front of a full house, just brings back awful memories Probably the funniest goal we've ever conceded btw Sure there must be worse ones than that (the Darlin...

Steve Evans leaves Stevenage to go back to Rovrum. He left them in 2015, apparently over having a different vision to the chairman and directors on the way forward for the club after their promotion to the Championship. Doesn't change the expectation that Rovrum will be challenging for automatic pr...

If anyone is interested then its well worth listening back to the podcast from yesterday called Outspoken With White & Jordan which is just a kind of highlights thing of their daily talksport show. They had an FFP specialist on talking about Chelsea. He explained this whole thing around them se...

If anyone is interested then its well worth listening back to the podcast from yesterday called Outspoken With White & Jordan which is just a kind of highlights thing of their daily talksport show. They had an FFP specialist on talking about Chelsea. He explained this whole thing around them se...

This all seems pretty sensible and would argue that the relative harshness of an indirect free kick close to goal is one of the reasons it has never been enforced too strictly - given long throws and corners only result in goals what, about 3% of the time then the punishment fits the crime. Worth n...

ESPN are reporting IFAB run a trial to help enforce the six-second rule for goalkeepers holding on to the ball: https://twitter.com/DaleJohnsonESPN/status/1780201020020130025 As part of the trial, the referee shall: ⋅ start counting to eight seconds when the keeper has clear control of th...

https://assets-sports.thescore.com/soccer/team/239/logo.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/11/Reading_FC.svg/200px-Reading_FC.svg.png When : Saturday April 20 2024, 3pm Where : Pirelli Stadium, Princess Way, Burton upon Trent, DE13 0BH Capacity 6,912 First of the pre-season frien...

Rare midweek game for the U18’s tomorrow when they play Chelsea at Bearwood in a PL U 18 South match KO 1pm. Chelsea are the South league leaders, so will be a major test for the Royals. Chelsea are top of the South section but are second overall to ManU, Reading U18s are 13th of 13 southern clubs ...

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12873679/sky-sports-agrees-new-five-year-efl-deal-over-1000-matches-per-season New Sky deal means there will be 5 championship and 5 League 1 & 2 games live every weekend and all non Saturday at 3 games will be shown live, I think from what I can ma...

Fantastic news to share - Burton have banned inflatables on Saturday 8) They tried the same last time we did it there (2017); initially taking away inflatables from the first hundred or so people in the terrace. The gave up when they realised they didn't have enough stewards to enforce it. :lol: Un...

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LUX Looking forward to this evening’s games.

Who have Burton and Cheltenham got ?
Does it affect our magic number ?

The magic number is currently 0 so, no, their games won't change it.

After last night’s matches the Royals drop a place to 8th. Next match is the penultimate regular season match on Monday 22nd April when we travel to play Nottingham Forest at the Nigel Doughty Academy training centre in West Bridgford Nottingham KO 7pm For some context, Forest are 16th in the table...