Reading FC was a West Reading club

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Reading FC was a West Reading club

by readingbedding » 18 Nov 2010 13:43

We moved to the Madejski, then the suburbs became interested.

But in my heart RFC will remain a West Reading club.

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by floyd__streete » 18 Nov 2010 13:47

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

True though. My family were all Earley FC fans until they amalgamated with Reading in 1889.

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by Red » 18 Nov 2010 13:50

The West Reading derby between 'ding and town certainly used to have a bit more spice to it than it does now.

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by readingbedding » 18 Nov 2010 13:51

Indeed, I would also say that West Reading is the heartbeat of the whole town.

RFC will always be a West Reading club to me...

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by floyd__streete » 18 Nov 2010 13:54

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


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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by ellpryjon » 18 Nov 2010 13:55

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


:lol:

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by readingbedding » 18 Nov 2010 13:55

Indeed, and there's nothing wrong with that.

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by Big Foot » 18 Nov 2010 13:58

floyd__streete 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.

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by Aubery Boyce » 18 Nov 2010 13:59

Oh West Reading...


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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by readingbedding » 18 Nov 2010 14:03

Also, perhaps the move to the Madejski was needed to attract the East Reading, Lower Legoland, Winnersh, Wokingham etc etc fanbase money.

Give in one hand and take with the other.

There were exceptions of course but RFC was a West Reading club.

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by Rainham Dagger » 18 Nov 2010 14:04

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 :|

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by Pat MaGroyne » 18 Nov 2010 14:05

Aubery Boyce Oh West Reading...

is shit m8.
Much prefer Lower Earley, or Woodley.

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by readingbedding » 18 Nov 2010 14:06

Thanks Mr Rainman Dagger.


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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by floyd__streete » 18 Nov 2010 14:06

Big Foot
floyd__streete 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."

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by readingbedding » 18 Nov 2010 14:07

Where all the streets are the same, and where everyone knows your name.

Lower Legoland.

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by floyd__streete » 18 Nov 2010 14:08

Rainham Dagger 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 :|


A Medway-based Dagenham fan slagging off the town of Reading :lol:.

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by Winnershroyal » 18 Nov 2010 14:11

readingbedding Also, perhaps the move to the Madejski was needed to attract the East Reading, Lower Legoland, Winnersh, Wokingham etc etc fanbase money.

Give in one hand and take with the other.

There were exceptions of course but RFC was a West Reading club.


Other than boring beyond belief, what is wrong with Winnersh?

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by readingbedding » 18 Nov 2010 14:12

Don't know, never been there, only through it.

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by handbags_harris » 18 Nov 2010 14:16

floyd__streete A Medway-based Dagenham fan slagging off the town of Reading :lol:


And those with more knowledge of the South West Essex area than you will know that there is also a Rainham there :P

West Reading > East Reading.

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Re: Reading FC was a West Reading club

by Winchester Royal » 18 Nov 2010 14:18

I'd rather live down the Oxford Road than up Cemetery Junction.

Not that either is particularly desirable tbh.

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