20 years ago today

[floyd__streete]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGCgRUXxQWY

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[Pepe the Horseman]

LIKE

[M Brook]

Sgt Pepper taught the band to play

[Forbury Lion]

LIKE

+1

[Rusty royal]

+1 too Are you watching Mark McGhee

[Royal Lady]

I loved that team - real fight and spirit too.

[leon]

great stuff

[Pearcehegone]

Forgot how good Shaka was. Remember being devastated when he left for Newcastle (i think)

[melonhead]

this post makes me feel old.

this game pretty much guaranteed that id support reading forever
incredible stuff.

[Ark Royal]

Ah, memories. One of the best games I ever saw at EP. We were brilliant and I still sigh at the reverse pass from Jimmy Quinn to get Gilkesy in for the fourth. Excellent Scotty Taylor reducer early doors on Steve Froggatt as well.

However, it still rankles that after watching a replay of the live coverage, Theo Foley somehow managed to give MoM to Shaka. Simon Osborn was the best player on the park that day by a country mile.

[Armadillo Roadkill]

That was marvellous. Oh for something like that this season.....

[strap]

Whatever we may think of McGhee, I have to say the first half of the match at EP v Stockport County on 28th Dec 1993 is perhaps the best RFC display in the lower 2 divisions I have ever witnessed. Extract from the db below:

Went to this. This first half was simply unbelievable, as Reading probably played the best football seen at EP since Jack Mansell's time. All one touch football running Stockport totally ragged.

No subs used.

Report by Clive Ellis from Daily Telegraph:

READING suggested for 45 minutes that they have all the qualities needed to run away with the Second Division title, only to let complacency destroy the prospect of a complete performance.
A brighter Stockport side could have made Reading rue their smugness after striker Stuart Lovell had scored two well-taken goals in three minutes just before half-time.
The balance of play, uncomplemented by finishing power, was very much with Stockport in the second half, but Reading clung to their lead without great difficulty and increased their advantage at the top of the table to a potentially significant seven points.
Reading are unbeaten in their last 15 League games and it was easy to see why in the first half, when a crowd of 11,240, almost twice their average this season, delighted in a highly skilful team display.
The experienced Kevin Dillon was the midfield pivot, but all around him there was ability, poise and intelligent movement off the ball.
Scott Taylor had three use-ful chances to give Reading the lead in the first 25 min-utes, but Stockport hung on grimly before Lovell empha-sised the gulf in class between the sides.
Winger Michael Gilkes and left-back Dylan Kerr set up Lovell's first goal, four minutes from half-time, and he took his tally for the sea-son to 14 with another assured finish after breaking clear down the right-hand side.
Andy Preece, Stockport's leading scorer, brought a notable save out of Reading goalkeeper Shaka Hislop with a 20-yard free-kick just before half-time, but Stock-port's first-half performance barely merited a goal and they were all puff and no pol-ish in a disappointing second half.
Kevin Francis, the 6ft 7in striker, was the inevitable target for Stockport County's aerial assaults, though the nearest they came to scoring was when the Reading defender Adrian Williams, under pressure from Francis, almost headed an own goal 20 minutes from the end.
Stockport have won only one of their last six League games and on this evidence their fate could be the same as in the last two seasons, when they reached the play-offs but on both occasions missed out on promotion.

[sandman]

What a team they were. Much like when we sold Gylfi, I wish we'd have been able to see more than one season from Super Si. Speaking of whom... http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/shoot-the-defence

[Ian Royal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGCgRUXxQWY

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PIl4s2fz0M
Most. Satisfying. Result. Ever.

[poohs pure]

When men were men, football was football and Reading Football Club had heart and soul. Happy memories of a time when this great club wasn't a watered down excuse of a club staffed by cúnts and followed by glory hunting fúcktards.