This is the post of a cnut that has no friends and it's sat at home having a conversation with himself, imagining there is a reasoned debate going on amongst a number of in the know types. Yeah, we kind of worked that out when he resurrected a 5 and a half year old thread. also this. It seem Readin...

... as a lot of the issues he runs into is down to coaches/players thinking they know the rules when they don't, or intepret them incorrectly. They could solve a lot of that problem by making it compulsory for anyone commentating or summarising on TV to also have some form of referee badge... Or at...

I only learned today that in the 1982 world cup draw, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland were not allowed to be put into the same group as Argentina due to the Falklands war. The draw took place nearly three months before Argentina invaded, so unless FIFA had some inside information from the th...

I don’t think there are 600 odd better teams than us in the world. This is why the Club World Cup should include everyone. I actually really like this idea. Make the CWC a straight knockout tournament. The top 1024 teams based on those rankings qualify and it's a random draw right the way to the fi...

How long it takes for a trophy to be presented now. I checked footage, and for the 1981 cup final, the time between the game ending and the cup being lifted was only three minutes. This season, from the game ending to the official on the pitch presentation, took 29 minutes. Even if you count just th...

I get it's about 'half-empty modern souless bowls' and maybe rubbish football. But its just madness to put these sort of perfectly decent stadia at the bottom whilst choosing decrepit terraces, uncomfortable outdated stands and terrible sight lines at obsolescent stadia ahead of them. It's not 'mad...

The Bolton game was, without doubt, the worst I've felt after a Reading game. It felt like we were robbed of promotion that year. Bolton should have been down to 10 for an hour, and their player who should have been sent off set up their equaliser. Walsall and Huddersfield were really annoying, but ...

Brogue The Rudge statue looked ok

It does look like he's about to ring a doorbell though.

PieEater

RG30 Gillingham (A) Saturday 12th July 3pm KO confirmed.

The worst ground in the League, but will probably still go.

Three sides don't look too bad, but the away end looks terrible. I've not been there since we played a league cup tie there about 30 years ago, before it got rebuilt.

Turns out Mike Gow has nothing to do with the EFL, he is some kind of social media user with a special interest in Reading FC (aren’t we all?). So why was he wearing an Everton shirt? He was the guy who did a large amount of very detailed investigation into the court cases in China surrounding Dai ...

Any Pheonix Club will have to start small.... I once worked out that a Sunday pub team is 12 promotions and sh*t loads of money and luck away from winning the Premier League. So, to begin with we need to form a team ourselves made up of fans. I actually think this is the ultimate challenge and achi...

In terms of venue, Wycombe or Aldershot probably. I just think Slough and Maidenhead would be too small. Reading have a larger fanbase than AFCW had, when they reformed, they were constantly filling out Kingsmeadow which was about 3000ish. Even allowing for some fans giving up on football / watchin...

not really ‘getting’ the problem that some folk here have with RC :?: Seem to have a decent set-up for the kids and yoofs game. Took in a game last season and was pleasantly surprised with the pace and enthusiasm (if not the quality), it’s a charmless ground admittedly. Decent locally brewed beer, ...

If the existing club gets liquidated, could we be in a bizarre situation where the the new club Board spawned out of STAR are negotiating with Dai to use the SCL? Or would we refuse to give him a penny on principle? I imagine the running costs would be too high for a start-up Phoenix Club without a...

Would the first step need to be that Reading FC cease to exist as a club? Not to be pedantic, I'm truly curious if this needs to happen first? We could start an alternative Reading FC now if we wanted, but I doubt we'd take many fans. But if we got kicked out of the EFL and had to start at the bott...

That said, McCarthy against Liverpool is probably the best single performance I've ever seen from a goalkeeper. Those of a certain age might remember Steve Francis at Ipswich on the last day of the 86/87 season. We were absolutely battered, but Francis kept their score down to one, and Steve Richar...

Burnley conceded on 42 mins tonight. Has DeatH’s record already gone? I believe it has. Fair play, that's some run for James Trafford, at 1,132 minutes without conceding a goal, beating Death's football league record by 29 minutes. Just the 7 bookings for time wasting in that run though :lol: How m...

Did any Reading player other than a defender win a header all game? We just looked like we got bullied off the ball too easily by a bigger and stronger team. If we'd looked a bit less knackered we might not have been so wasteful with our passing, and given them a bit more to think about. Not having ...

I'd like to think ongoing funds wouldn’t be too difficult for a while, if we can't attract major attendances compared to the level we'd be at, no point in trying. I think if we are stuck somewhere crap like Scours Lane, we'd get to a Darlington style situation, with a totally inadequate ground, but...

Only team to finish second in the 2nd tier and not be promoted? The caveat to that would "...since automatic promotion was introduced". In the early days the top and bottom clubs had play-offs. The obvious one is the heaviest defeat, 0-18 v Preston. We used to also hold the heaviest home ...