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by Ark Royal
16 Apr 2022 15:15
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Sheffield United (a)
Replies: 214
Views: 19914

Re: MATCHWATCH : Sheffield United (a)

Loving this https://twitter.com/readingfc/status/1515021780183916548?s=21&t=9CCgSwha4_jN1Fs76mRpzA Very nice. Laurent does seem to love it here doesn’t he? Or maybe that’s just how he is wherever he plays Brilliant. Absolute scenes with the winner and I hope Camilla is ok. That video has made m...
by Ark Royal
01 Mar 2022 14:29
Forum: The Team
Topic: Your worst 11 since supporting RFC?
Replies: 123
Views: 16375

Re: Your worst 11 since supporting RFC?

Michael Meaker plus ten others. To even see him mentioned in the same sentence as Simon Osborn still makes my blood boil. At best, he was fu cking awful. Also, as mentioned earlier, I have never heard a crowd give as much stick to a player as the Elm Park crowd did to Malcolm Swain in the early 70s....
by Ark Royal
23 Feb 2022 13:30
Forum: The Team
Topic: If you could attend 1 game you missed...
Replies: 75
Views: 9215

Re: If you could attend 1 game you missed...

Reading 6 Barnsley 2 in 69/70 season. Les Chappell's headed goal and the move preceding it was described as a thing of beauty. Also missed Reading 6 Barrow 3 from that season.
by Ark Royal
22 Feb 2022 13:42
Forum: The Team
Topic: Your Best 11 Since Supporting RFC
Replies: 94
Views: 11319

Re: Your Best 11 Since Supporting RFC

Started supporting: 1965/66
Best season: 1993/94

Hislop

Murty
Sonko
Wdowczyk
White

Little
Sidwell
Osborn*
Gooding

Friday
Quinn

* Any team picked without Simon Osborn in it is just wrong.
by Ark Royal
23 Jan 2022 12:59
Forum: The Team
Topic: Is this collectively, and singularly, the worst Reading team and management ever?
Replies: 33
Views: 3732

Re: Is this collectively, and singularly, the worst Reading team and management ever?

Terry the taxi at least had The decency to resign. I think it was the Oxford away game we were three nil down and we started to Sing Terry give us a wave, and he said something like that was the last straw they were taking the piss. Horrendous evening. In context, the most miserable performance I h...
by Ark Royal
14 Jan 2022 12:31
Forum: The Team
Topic: When we had wingers….
Replies: 39
Views: 4388

Re: When we had wingers….

Going back a while, but Tommy Jenkins for me. Glen Little is also an absolute must.
by Ark Royal
21 Dec 2021 12:54
Forum: The Team
Topic: 36 years ago today...
Replies: 50
Views: 6593

Re: 36 years ago today...

From Despair To Where? Might have been Rogers but I could have sworn it happened in front if the Tilehurst End.


Yes, it was right by the corner flag in front of the South Bank.
by Ark Royal
21 Dec 2021 12:51
Forum: The Team
Topic: 36 years ago today...
Replies: 50
Views: 6593

Re: 36 years ago today...

I was there but the game Is kind of a blur now. Cant really remember much of of game but do remember the distinct change in atmosphere after Deano scored the penalty and the general pandemonium every time we scored. My most vivid memory of the actual game itself is the Plymouth defender getting sen...
by Ark Royal
21 Dec 2021 12:34
Forum: The Team
Topic: 36 years ago today...
Replies: 50
Views: 6593

36 years ago today...

...saw the greatest comeback in the club's history. Reading (0) 4 Horrix (65 pen.), Senior (79, 80), Bremner (83) Plymouth Argyle (2) 3 Hodges (10), S. Cooper (44 pen.), Clayton (48) Reading: Westwood, Peters, Bailie, Beavon, Hicks, Wood, Rogers, Horrix, Senior, Bremner, Gilkes (Burvill, 51) Plymout...
by Ark Royal
05 Dec 2021 19:23
Forum: The Team
Topic: 150 years in pictures
Replies: 95
Views: 11342

Re: 150 years in pictures

If only these great pics and memories could be remembered with the EP music (and on) of its time too. Maybe the big party day in May they should play Mouldy Ol dough, Earles a Winger, Sing for the Royyaallss la la la la la , Lux Aerterna, Embraces Ashes, etc on the tannoy pre-match?....I’d draw the...
by Ark Royal
04 Dec 2021 19:47
Forum: The Team
Topic: BFTG Hull (H)
Replies: 70
Views: 11533

Re: BFTG Hull (H)

I will give the ref a very generous benefit of doubt for the first, but under the exisitng handball laws a more blatatnt penalty I have never seen. There are now two versions of the game: VAR and non-VAR, because if VAR was there, the decision would have been made for him. I was in the ED and every...
by Ark Royal
04 Dec 2021 19:35
Forum: The Team
Topic: BFTG Hull (H)
Replies: 70
Views: 11533

Re: BFTG Hull (H)

I will give the ref - and lino - a very generous sliice of benefit of doubt for the first, but under the exisitng handball laws a more blatatnt penalty I have never seen. There are now two versions of the game: VAR and non-VAR, because if VAR was there, the decision would have been made for him. I w...
by Ark Royal
02 Dec 2021 15:14
Forum: The Team
Topic: 150 years in pictures
Replies: 95
Views: 11342

Re: 150 years in pictures

https://i.ibb.co/rm3WZgK/755-B0280-4-EA5-4020-B67-C-39380164-A4-FF.jpg https://i.ibb.co/WVBrZcN/4-B07-F0-D6-2-BBA-4-F4-B-A806-4732-D2888-F0-A.jpg https://i.ibb.co/KjC9sCD/2-F694524-7-BE5-49-CD-9-D65-F07-ADE4653-B0.jpg Brilliant pics. Not seen the Arsenal pic before. L to R: Alan Wooler, John Harley...
by Ark Royal
02 Dec 2021 09:53
Forum: The Team
Topic: Favourite ever players as a team.
Replies: 41
Views: 5773

Re: Favourite ever players as a team.

Amazing to think that Simon Osborn only played one season for the club (32 apps, 5 goals - and every one of them special), but had such a massive impact on the team and fans. Without doubt one of the greatest players ever to wear the hoops. I have nominated him for the 2022 Hall of Fame. Part of a ...
by Ark Royal
02 Dec 2021 09:18
Forum: The Team
Topic: 150 years in pictures
Replies: 95
Views: 11342

Re: 150 years in pictures

https://i.ibb.co/rm3WZgK/755-B0280-4-EA5-4020-B67-C-39380164-A4-FF.jpg https://i.ibb.co/WVBrZcN/4-B07-F0-D6-2-BBA-4-F4-B-A806-4732-D2888-F0-A.jpg https://i.ibb.co/KjC9sCD/2-F694524-7-BE5-49-CD-9-D65-F07-ADE4653-B0.jpg Brilliant pics. Not seen the Arsenal pic before. L to R: Alan Wooler, John Harley...
by Ark Royal
01 Dec 2021 15:39
Forum: The Team
Topic: Favourite ever players as a team.
Replies: 41
Views: 5773

Re: Favourite ever players as a team.

under the tin The team I'd have like to have seen play against a Warnock side...
Hahnemann
Dixon Bikey Sonko Butler(D)
Kebe Hurlock Parkinson Gooding
Whitehurst Freeman


Dafuq. Hurlock and Whitehurst would have been sent off for fighting. Each other.
by Ark Royal
01 Dec 2021 11:26
Forum: The Team
Topic: Favourite ever players as a team.
Replies: 41
Views: 5773

Re: Favourite ever players as a team.

Amazing to think that Simon Osborn only played one season for the club (32 apps, 5 goals - and every one of them special), but had such a massive impact on the team and fans. Without doubt one of the greatest players ever to wear the hoops. I have nominated him for the 2022 Hall of Fame.
by Ark Royal
01 Dec 2021 10:57
Forum: The Team
Topic: 150 years in pictures
Replies: 95
Views: 11342

Re: 150 years in pictures

3rd May 1998. The last league game at Elm Park and a souvenir unused ticket. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AM-JKLUZRhAAbRbSLCVmC36iCCu9jgRQ40ippX5xqp_8sOrieqIYsapPWb-MuMzEAanAwh1_O9gqDwTLOuRitGBV7FT-SMVqErNpoRJ21USLKh03JQ8HRAcNY84GZo0IwuZ8SViT5CdTNUNAUoXOMfIcN1kC=w912-h601-no?authuser=0 https...
by Ark Royal
01 Dec 2021 10:45
Forum: The Team
Topic: 150 years in pictures
Replies: 95
Views: 11342

Re: 150 years in pictures

Ark, are you saying Matt Busby played for us? I can't find any record of this anywhere. Yes, he was a regular guest player for us during the war. He was based at Aldersh!t. Pardon me for this question, but was that allowed back then for players to be 'guests' during the war? I was born a long time ...
by Ark Royal
01 Dec 2021 09:59
Forum: The Team
Topic: 150 years in pictures
Replies: 95
Views: 11342

Re: 150 years in pictures

Autographed by the man himself and Matt Busby's last game as a player before taking over some struggling northern club. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AM-JKLWJdgtdbUHLbSrPtY5wIQRtPYOsUNHiEriP41qRC2ijhQL1MmmH99qn0bgiY4rrgQ3uTDwwK15mWRMzrCVWZJxdUhtW0BmyUZ3-oomek-u5sDiwP9CmNku9D-4JTJR5HKngtnEjmG...
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