Reading FC was a West Reading club

[Gordons Cumming]

I'd rather live in Bracknell.(than Lower Earley)

[No Fixed Abode]

Elm Park was a good metaphor for West Reading actually; shabby, ugly looking and unloved by the population at large.

Madejski Stadium sums up all that one would associate with our fans from other areas of town: plastic, a bit souless and generally shit.

VaLOLid. Seriously though, whenever I have to venture west of the Ramada I begin to feel unsafe and no little depressed. I genuinely feel for anyone who lives in the other half of the town, a genuinely gloomy place it is with your weird Oxford Road streetlighting and run-down sex shops. You all buy your dinner from the 555 fish bar too. It is like a different town, indeed a different world. West Reading = the DDR, East Reading = the BRD, they should build a brick wall along the IDR. And aren't your accents weird: "dayn tayn to pop in to the caynsil."

Of course, Cemetry Junction Area is gr8.

[OldBiscuit]

Does the West Reading Laundry still exist?

It might be a brothel now.

Oh West Reading (oh West Reading) is wonderful (is wonderful), oh West Reading is wonderful, its full of smack, and crack and brothels, oh West Reading is wonderful

[soggy biscuit]

Can I just say as an non Readingensian (and perhaps as such I don't "get it") but I find all this West/East Reading stuff hilarious.

If your family going back several generations were all Geordies, Brummies, Cornish whatever - you can kind of understand a bit of local pride - but to get this coming from someone from Reading is LOLaughable. And to then further split it out by a kind of "my bland suburb of a bland town is better than yours" is, well

If you think that is bad then you to see the rivaly within those areas, SSW Reading folk hate SSE reading folk with a passion!

[oldebiscuit]

If you think that is bad then you to see the rivaly within those areas, SSW Reading folk hate SSE reading folk with a passion!

what are you on about? and what is sse and ssw please?

[Red]

Biggest rivalry is probably on the Shinfield Road, divided by which pub you drink in.

Sportsman FTW FTR.

[Millsy]

The general consensus is that those from Earley are the most refined of all Redingensians.

Few people know that the Garden of Eden was actually somewhere in Earley.

Thanks.

[Linden Jones' Tash]

I live in Caversham and would love to know which area is a 'no go areas', as they seemed to have passed me by. This has confused me. - also what serious crime, other than the odd mugging?????? Its no nivarna, but its nothing like you have suggested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire

Evesham road, Alston Walk, etc. I think you will find it difficult to get a taxi to those destinations. Also, most of the recent shootings and murders in Reading have been committed in Caversham. Not a dig, but a fact.[/quote]

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That's because a common misconception is to amalgamate lower caversham (proper working class area which used to have it's own cork mill, car factory, and eel industry) with caversham heights ( where you moved to when you made your fortune (in cork, cars or eels). But as implied above, lower caversham is the hardest 'burb in reading, it just doesn't advertise

[LoyalRoyalFan]

So would you say that Reading is a middle-class town or a working-class town?

Is it a rough place, or a lot better than most places in the country?

[prostak]

So would you say that Reading is a middle-class town or a working-class town?

Is it a rough place, or a lot better than most places in the country?

Middle-class transience with an element of genuine danger. Legitimately or not, I feel I'm far more likely to be randomly assaulted in Reading than my current hometown, Manchester.

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

The general consensus is that those from Earley are the most refined of all Redingensians.

Few people know that the Garden of Eden was actually somewhere in Earley.

Thanks.

That's the Garden of Gulab, and a fine meal they serve too

[LoyalRoyalFan]

I think that the majority of Reading is actually pretty rough and certainly not middle-class.

[No Fixed Abode]

I think that the majority of Reading is actually pretty rough and certainly not middle-class.

That's because of 'multi-culteral' Labour. Martin Salter is well known for 'loving' the Oxford Road. Not sure why - it's a dump of the highest order and now we have a Mosque that makes it look even rougher.

[Forbury Lion]

The fans should form AFC West Reading as a belated protest against the move the the South.

[Forbury Lion]

Biggest rivalry is probably on the Shinfield Road, divided by which pub you drink in.

Sportsman FTW FTR.

+1

Sportsman review - watched as a guy took on allcommers at the pool table, when one guy beat him in a fluke match he snaps and chases him out the pub with the pool cue.

The Maidens, formerly known as the Merry Maidens - Chav central, rumour was that customers would be banned from entering if they were wearing socks after one heated argument results in a spotty teen taking his sock off and running outside to fill it with stones to use as a weapon.

[LoyalRoyalFan]

Wasn't Reading named as the chaviest place in the country?

[Red]

Biggest rivalry is probably on the Shinfield Road, divided by which pub you drink in.

Sportsman FTW FTR.

+1

Sportsman review - watched as a guy took on allcommers at the pool table, when one guy beat him in a fluke match he snaps and chases him out the pub with the pool cue.

I too have had a pool game in their once that resulted in me running for my life up the Shinfield Road. Thing is I'm normally more of a darts man.

[readingbedding]

West Reading fans enjoying the match.

'READING we are HERE'



Year, opposing team and score for a lovely prize.

[SLAMMED]

1981, Oxford United, and we won 2-0.

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

Sanchez, Earles, Beavon, and Bowman in the piccy???