Great stuff, BB! Friday's goal really had the big dipper on it. It went over Johnson's left shoulder and actually hit the inside of side netting. I can still recall the sheer brute force of the shot. Only goal I have seen since that is similar is Jimmy Quinn's against Wolves in 96 and Thierry Henry...

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This article is by Nigel Sutcliffe, and was published on 5th October, 1990. From the Pompey dockyards to Elm Park for £5.10s a week -and Ron Blackman set a record which stood for 36 years Trevor Senior broke Ronnie Blackman's all-time club scoring record of 166 against Rotherham last month. And Blac...

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Excellent work - nabbing that for my screen saver if ok with OP.

Cheers strap, please use it if you want.

Video slideshow from Reading's 1913 Italian tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1-usT4T0lg

Footage from that Villa game was on Pathe News so they would be the film-makers (they only broadcast 45 seconds, though). Reading's other known appearances on Pathe News were the 1927 FA Cup semi-final and a 1935 game, so this is the oldest football footage I know of from Elm Park. However, there i...

Alan Sedunary has just passed me this gem of a link, with the question "How many would have been sent off in the final goalmouth scramble?" Hopefully he won't mind me sharing it with a wider audience. Joe Duckworth certainly earned his corn that day! 23,703 at a snowbound Elm Park on 16th...

Following on from yesterday's post on the 'South Bank over the Years', there are a few similar videos here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLR1rF ... WTVT_MntuA

A slideshow using photos from every decade of Elm Park's history, taken from the same spot in front of the Tilehurst End looking towards the South Bank. A nice bit of music too! If anyone's interested I'll do some more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Kkx39OAQU

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/5246/lineupl.jpg Presumably taken before the game against Genoa. Text says "The Reading team play today in Turin against our national eleven." I had a request for the line-up against Genoa to see if it could match up with the picture. Didn't attempt this...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10478162_10204962054270464_1784253008819179106_n.jpg?oh=5d812bd256dcd3e98a1b54face0924a1&oe=5518EEC9&__gda__=1423613100_244480af9058c90be6b328580d9bb407 Loads on here that I witnessed, one that hasn't been mentioned is Reading ...

http://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/article/kerr-pays-visit-151113-1176926.aspx Scroll down for original official headshot http://www.chrisdlee.com/page20.htm Google is your friend.... Cheers Royal Lady, The Biscuitmen site is tremendous isn't it, but then I would say that as it's mine :wink:

Does anyone have any player headshot photos they'd be willing to sell or copy for me, either club issue or press photos? For some reason I just can't find any, particularly 80's/90's. Cheers.

Reading FC 1878-79, winners of the first ever Berks & Bucks Cup.
http://www.chrisdlee.com/page3.htm

1929-30 scrap book, in which someone has cut out newspaper pics, hand coloured them and neatly assembled into the album. http://www.chrisdlee.com/USERIMAGES/1929a(2).jpg http://www.chrisdlee.com/USERIMAGES/007(6).JPG http://www.chrisdlee.com/USERIMAGES/008(8).JPG http://www.chrisdlee.com/USERIMAGES...

Regarding mystery tracksuit man above, In Biscuits & Royals Downs writes that Walbanks was helped by the ex-Reading centre half Bill Davies (202 League appearances '54-'61). Some of the older hna? contributors might recognise whether this is him or not. That's a great shout, looks like the same...

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Biscuit_Boy So 46% yes, 42% no and 11% not sure. What did the other 1% think?

just f*ck off ok, let it die

No problem, whatever you think is best

So 46% yes, 42% no and 11% not sure. What did the other 1% think?

Technically it's the third highest finish ever, but...whatever league you enter, you prepare a team to compete. If we were going into a League 2 campaign we'd assemble a team that would be able to play at that level. Ditto League 1 and the Championship, you bring in players capable of competing in t...