Victor Meldrew I notice that Hamer is now back at the club.

He's been back a couple of weeks after warming the bench during his second month at Brentford.

The support. Half a south stand of traveling Toon Army supporters sang us off the pitch from start to finish today - they were terrific. I thought they were tame and quiet for long periods, and half of them buggered off after Long scored. The "best fans in the world" my arse. Nothing impr...

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Jerry St Clair Anyway, when I ditch my season ticket for the first time in 17 years next season, at least the club will get a family of 4 in my place.

Should have done it this season mush, nice to see Finch leading the way.

Aren't you supposed to be in prison?

It wouldn't be so bad if it was something related to the club, like Terry & June. ... It might be a "what the hell?" moment to start with from some fans (those that don't realise why it's our tune for a start) I haven't heard Terry & June being sung for ages - I can't remember the...

Plans are to expand to 30,000 not 38,000. 38,000 is a seperate phase and I can see then doing phase 1 then pausing. I know these figures have been reported everywhere, but I'd just like to point out that according to page 239 of this report from the Reading Borough Council Planning Applications Com...

first game of preseason river just finished season im surprised we have had any chances whatsoever They havent even finnished their season, they are only half way through it I thought it had just finished. There are two League tournaments in the Argentine Primera Division each calendar year. The Cl...

Rotherham's claim of 1870 is also fake - there's an article about it on a fan's webpage somewhere. Basically they've just taken the date of the oldest football club in the town regardless of the fact that there was no connection to the current Rotherham United. You're right, here it is. In short, R...

There was much confusion over the rules of football for some time in the late 1800's as different leagues had different rules. Am I correct in thinking that a large part of our 18-0 defeat to Preston was down to the fact we kept on giving away freekicks due to handball as in the competition we play...

Pulling it all together, the clubs currently in the League that are older than Reading are:-

Notts County (1862)
Nottingham Forest (1865)
Chesterfield (1867)
Sheffield Wednesday (1867)
Rotherham United (1870)

Stoke are disqualified for trying to claim another club's history.

Don't Sheff Utd try and claim a very early date of founding on the basis that there was a club called 'Sheffield' , even though the two clubs are different. If they do, it's pure garbage. Sheffield F.C. are recognised by FIFA as the oldest football club (1857), and they're still going, albeit in th...

Don't Sheff Utd try and claim a very early date of founding on the basis that there was a club called 'Sheffield' , even though the two clubs are different. If they do, it's pure garbage, based on the fact that Sheffield F.C. originally played at Bramall Lane. Sheffield are recognised by FIFA as th...

noise Stoke, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield Wednesday, and Chesterfield are all older than Reading.

And Notts County are older than any of them. 1862.

The Crystal Palace that were formed in 1861 have no connection to the current League club, who started in 1905.

Looks like the pedestrian access from this direction will be as crap as it ever was. What pedestrian access ? All those who can;t afford the car park will be bussed in or get the train to Green Park - they won't allow anyone to actually walk to our nice new ground..... They're installing teleporter...

David Lammy and Parmjit Dhanda? Though Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Departments of Culture, Media and Sport or Education and Skills respectively isn't that much higher than a plain MP.

Spacey was desperately reaching for, but failing to get to, Airbus UK F.C., the works team of Airbus UK (obv), based in Broughton. Though they are usually known as PSV Eindhoven, the club is offically just PSV, or Philips Sport Vereniging (Philips Sport Union); they started out as a works team. AEK ...

You wouldn't have to spit far to reach the brewery. I wouldn't though, they'd bottle it and sell it to Sharpy.

Intertoto != Fair Play Three UEFA Cup first qualifying round places are available for clubs for Fair Play. The nation with the best Fair Play record overall gets a place, as do two others drawn at random from all those nations whose overall Fair Play record is above a certain threshold. One team fro...

cmonurz Maybe, maybe not. Mr A is one of the few nobbers I have ever met (albeit very briefly), since when his moniker has seemed somewhat ironic.

For the most part, yes, but having stood near him up at Saltergate I have found it's entirely justified at times!

Jerry St Clair Has anyone got a vid of the two Archie goals? Pretty please put them on youtube so I can wet myself all over again?

Somebody must have that picture of McGhee scowling as our winner goes in, surely?

riverroyal Kerry Mayo will be rewarded for his service to the club with a testimonial against Reading in July.

Today's SadFact:-
Kerry Mayo is married to Kerry Mayo.