Dave Kitson: Lanky, slow, knock kneed, ungainly, ginger and never looked like he enjoyed playing the game. Scored millions of goals.

Someone else - I'd like to see Wally Downes given a crack of the whip. He knows the club well, well respected by the players he works with and would sort out any problems with a leaky defence. Has good premiership experience as a number two with us and West Ham. I hope his agent has a least made a p...

European police investigating 380 potentially-corrupt matches, including a Champions League tie played in England. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21319807 Do you remember the Chelsea vs Barcelona game at Stamford Bridge a few years back? Didier Drogba's outrage at the end? There was somethin...

At Elm Park Tom Jones had his leg broken just in front of me by the halfway line. Wasn't particularly gruesome to look at but the sound of the crack echoed round the ground and made me feel a little queezy for a while. A Wolves player (Frogatt) also broke his leg at the same place on the pitch (a Si...

It all depends on what you hope to achieve and gain from watching football. When one supports a team, it is if an umbilical cord is attached. Eventually, that cord gets cut as mine has with Reading. I genuinely miss the days when I could identify with the players. As a child, Tommy Youlden lived in...

Fulham away in 1993. On a Sunday lunchtime. We filled the Putney End which had a capacity of around 3,500. There were hundreds locked out many of whomm just went in the Hammersmith End. Unusually for the Met, they were quite sensible about it and just formed a rudimentary line of segregation down t...

It's not as easy to just go out and buy a great keeper. Utd struggled to replace Schmeichel. To be fair Schmeichel was pretty much impossible to replace - he is the definitive goalkeeper that raised the bar for what we expect from goalkeepers in this day and age.. Regards Arsenal - They just aren't...

Owen is a great shame because as a kid he was brilliant to watch. Lightening fast and up front with Fowler was an exciting partnership. Seeing Owen play in the flesh rather than just on TV revealed what a truly great player he was: Always probing along the back four, always thinking about scoring g...

papereyes

QPR is not a foreign ground.

It was a superb day and so fortunate to have been there to witness it. It also prompted (in my opinion) the best thread ever on Hob Nob which made reference to all the friends and family members who had been loyal Reading supporters, but never lived to see the day they dreamed of - Reading promoted...

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQR9UzG98gtE7KEUUCWkHIqNs08Hmg9mg9WGJVRJdtk2XhOLwhexbOwFShQIQ Clearly he has been a very naughty boy! I'm Brian and so's my wife ! I can see a potential theme day here - Everyone can don flesh coloured swimming caps and Eric Morecambe glasses wearing a T-shir...

More songs than one liners but here's a few I recall: It's a bit cliche to give Brighton a bit of gheyboy banter, but alongside the usual: "Does your boyfriend, Does your boyfriend, does your boyfriend know you're here" song, some guy came up with "We can see you, we can see you, we c...

Didn't Jimmy Quinn smash Scott Taylor in the face with a headbutt (or more likely a power header?) during a training session once?

Snowball 5 is right


3 Goals in 42 Minutes 2005-06

and another one in 2008-09

and another one in 2009-10

Well let's hope for a few more on Saturday!

Any song that poked fun at the fattest of the 50 visiting fans from Grimbsy, Port Vale or some such other place: "Have you ever, Have you ever, have you ever seen your dick?" I remember when the Reading fans blatantly ripped off the Baggies, Baggies, Boing, Boing song for a few months - ba...

Derby this weekend. Long has a particularly good goals record against Derby - 5 goals in 8 games against them? (And a red card I think?)

A goal or two against a team he seems to have success against could spur him on.

Berbatov cost more and has been rubbish too Every time I've seen him he's been a good player, he does more than score goals IMO. Not quite £30 Million though! Berbatov has had a lot of unpublicised off the pitch problems over the last year - apparently he had to relocate a large portion of his fami...

From the reports of those that travelled up today it sounds like we didn't apply ourselves today. I'm always suspicious of poor performances before important cup games - players don't want to run out of steam or miss out on playing in important cup games - look at the dire performance at Plymouth be...

Maquisard So... I'll admit my ignorance ... and this seems as good a thread as any to do it... How is "Death" pronounced (when it follows "Steve")?

Depends on what part of teyn you hail from. In Toyle'urst we says "Steve Deff"

Selhurst park always seems to be a good day/night out in my experience. And this weeks game was better than the Johnson/Harper draw for atmosphere. Villa away was my first real experience of a 30k plus crowd for a Reading game (Simod cup, Playoffs and England games aside). When they equalised after ...