Spent some time with Ron in the summer, talking about Pards, Coppell and the 2005-08 squads.

A really lovely, genuine, man with some great stories.

Utter utter bollocks. We wanted him a few years ago so a journalist desperate for a story has made a connection that's not there.

Also, remind me, when did players start coming out 45 mins before ko to warm up. Seem to have vague memories that they just used to run out before kick off and play..... It's always happened but with a less sports scientific approach which usually consisted of the forwards welting the ball at the k...

Remember Norman Hunters biography stating that he got pelters from the Reading crowd at EP once.....and actually put him off of his game That would be the 7-0 home win at the end of December 1979. Allan Clarke's last match as Barnsley player-manager before hanging his boots up, ISTR - and he took t...

Dont blame those people. Nobody made SJM flog it to The Russian or the Thais. It was purely his decision to sell up and recoup the money he loaned... Because the money that he would need to pump in to keep the club going each year was more than he had available. Not more than he was *worth* but wit...

The world is running out of idiots prepared to buy football clubs. In the old days they were lots of them, and they'd happily queue up to take on a club and take over its debts on the promise of glory and riches. But over the years people have wised up and seen buyers come a cropper so many times, e...

And to answer the OP - a club where the majority of debt is owed to the owners means that they'd be writing off the debt owed to themselves as well as the debt owed to others. Didn't Bolton's former chairman write off some incredible sum of money he was owed earlier this year more or less saving th...

Yep, it was Leicester. And to answer the OP - a club where the majority of debt is owed to the owners means that they'd be writing off the debt owed to themselves as well as the debt owed to others. Plus, of course, there are no guarantees that the administrator will sell the remains of the club as ...

Don't forget in the original plans for the MadStad the away fans would be located in the North Stand. The police made them change it to the other end because of proximity to the exit road for getting away fans out quickly and also for parking of away coaches.

With the 2015/16 now coming to a close, The Football League can confirm some key dates for the 2016/17, which promises to be yet another exciting one. The newly-branded Sky Bet EFL will kick-off on the weekend of Saturday 6th August 2016 but, before that, the all-important fixture release day will ...

It's not - the law is riddled with inconsistencies and things that just make no sense whatsoever.

George_ Brentford?

Special exemption for the first couple of years after promotion. Then the option to extend this if they can show they're moving to a new ground.

Not even the ludicrous laws in place at the moment would make a club convert to all-seater *immediately* upon promotion.

I think they're failing to understand the issues completely. For 'the safe standing lobby' yesterday's decision is a vindication of the fact that Hillsborough was nothing to do with standing. And in fact so many things are happening towards safe standing that the tide will soon be impossible to resi...

Which I suspect is as much down to there being 3 of them as it is the fact they're based abroad. It didn't hamper him from doing more business in one summer in players and backroom staff than pretty much any Reading manager I can remember. It smacks more of someone making excuses for a summer trans...

Absolutely no surprise to see Reading fans rounding on what seems to me to be mostly entirely reasonable comments :| The usual little hissy fit when anyone has the temerity to criticise the club (or its employees) from the usual suspects. No surprise either - in much the same vein - to see the foll...

Absolutely no surprise to see Reading fans rounding on what seems to me to be mostly entirely reasonable comments :| The usual little hissy fit when anyone has the temerity to criticise the club (or its employees) from the usual suspects. No surprise either - in much the same vein - to see the foll...

I'm not saying a Coppell and Madejski statue would be a good idea, but if for some reason it did come to pass, this absolutely has to be the model for it:

Apropos of nothing to do with RFC, but Stoke are renaming their stadium. Apparently being called after a defunct building society is naff! Just another way that Peter Coates, owner of Bet365 and Stoke, can funnel money to the football club without falling foul of FFP regulations. Stoke make a loss ...

Indeed, but there are people who depend on him in a pretty loose sense of the word. They depend on him to get an accurate and impartial picture of what's happening on the pitch. If he can't deliver that to them, what's the point of him - unless he's decided that he is the story, in a Paxmanesque, &q...

.... I can't understand why Dellor isn't allowed to be exasperated, especially in the heat of the moment. For exactly the same reason that Williams and McShane aren't allowed to be exasperated, especially in the heat of the moment. It's unprofessional, it stops you doing the job you're paid to do, ...