Pepe the Horseman Marcus Rashford to be unveiled as a Barca player today. Not sure how he manifested that move, but here we are. Good luck to him.

Not sure that's a correct use of manifested

No way were 22000 there today, watched on Royals tv and the East stand was nowhere near full, loads of empty seats visible in every stand in view of the camaras Yeah, was well short of 20k Over 20,000 It was half empty at kick off, with grim traffic around the ground and big queues to get in, plus ...

Just got back Ahmed, Camara were plusses - Ahmed in particularly looks keen as mustard, I'd be starting him v Portsmouth. Garcia was ok in places too. We should have had a pen in the second half after an obvious handball that the ref must have been blinded to. O'Mahoney's foul in the first half was ...

TBF I've seen worse shoot-out's in men's football without any reference to the participant's gender - for example, the 1986 European Cup Final. England were fortunate in the extreme there, not because of the pens, but because Sweden were better over the 120 minutes, apart from a 20/25 minute bit in ...

That’s them through then, who will they get in the knockout round? The top two from this group play the top two from the Germany / Sweden group C. Assuming France win group D, England play the group C winners - at the moment that's Sweden, and France would play Germany. But Sweden play Germany on S...

I do think commentators and pundits go in too easy on the women's game if we really want to hold it to equal standards comparable to men. That Stanway shot was a good effort, but there is now way it should go in. But the analysis seems to be letting the GK off scott free. That's a little harsh, the...

I do think commentators and pundits go in too easy on the women's game if we really want to hold it to equal standards comparable to men. That Stanway shot was a good effort, but there is now way it should go in. But the analysis seems to be letting the GK off scott free. That's a little harsh, the...

England much improved, and now 2-0 up v Neths

The same guy who gave it the big one to the away end after scoring against us last season. Big no from me. I can remember that prize whopper Keith Scott "giving it the big one" towards our travelling support for two different clubs, so he clearly had an issue with Reading FC. And then he ...

Have STAR and SBWD reached out to Wednesday supporter groups to see if they can help with advice/ideas etc.? Seems to me Chansiri is exactly the same as Dai except worse in that he's vocal and takes swipes back at everyone which could make things a whole lot worse for everyone. A couple of articles...

Various sources saying Guehi to Liverpool is close. I'm still not convinced this is happening but a couple of reliable Liverpool sources going with it - just not the likes of Ornstein and Romano yet. Pretty much a done deal, Liverpool want a replacement for Quansah, plus still haven’t replaced Mati...

Reading's new home kit

Today is 100 years to the day that the modern offside law was brought in! Ive mentioned it before on here as its one of my favourite english football history moments. changing it from 3 oppo players needed fo to be onside, to 2, and heralding a number of seasons of chaotic defences and record break...

Staying in Italy, the Pozzo family have almost completed a deal to sell up at Udinese, which will mean a change of tack (ie less signing Udinese players) at Watford.

Winston Biscuit Kieran McKenna the frontrunner to get the Brentford gig if Frank leaves

Source?

Everywhere I've looked at is fancying Justin Cochrane to get the nod

grey_squirrel SJM "surprisingly" binned Evans for Branfoot in 1991 after taking over from Smee.

There are several inaccuracies in this post and it's making my head hurt. It's like an M C Esher picture.

Was chatting to an Italian chum this weekend about the plight of Sampdoria, and he reckoned: a) historically they were no big deal, a small fry Serie A / B yoyo club up to early 1980s, when they were bankrolled by oil money and won Coppa Italia, the ECWC (RIP!) and then Serie A, and at the same time...

hopefully, yes

Scutterbucketz I want to post a “funny” joke about Rob Couhig and Dai Young. It’s more of a play on words really. In fact now that I’ve had to think about, it’s not remotely funny, so I’m not going to bother. Should I have posted the joke in this thread or other one?

the other one IMO

Good idea for a thread, fair play.