I always thought they were quite arrogant, but I had an interesting chat today with a Brazilian chap who is dead against the world cup being held in Brazil, claiming there's been widespread corruption with funds being embezzled by their leader. Nothing new. But what was new to me was that he doesn't...
USA need to be doing *MUCH* better than they are. A massive population, HUGE finances, living a life of luxury, no illegal sanctions against them, no real poverty, noone invading their country. Millions of footy mad hispanics in the country. The funds to bring in foreign mercenary players, which has...
People keep saying that we need to beat Uruguay. Not sure that's true tbh. If we get a draw on Thursday and Italy as expected beat Costa Rica then we'll go into the final set of games needing to beat Costa Rica by the same/greater margin as Uruguay beat Italy. Hardly an improbable scenario. Think w...
To be fair we were unlucky (and Rooney was not finishing) but we dominated that match. 50% more shots on goal 70% more shots on target 50% less fouls Infinitely less offsides 4.5x the number of corners In my (biased but defendable) view WE WOZ ROBBED and I'm very excited about the next two games tha...
Ironic then that you are all Reading fans. We're sh*t and we know it but we will follow Reading whatever happens because it's our town. How is this all of a sudden different with the England team? (Not flaming, just friendly banter!) I go insane when England play, moreso than Reading almost. I can't...
You'd have thought that living in England is enough of a reason to support the team, whether or not you're English, whether or not you even like football. It's the biggest sporting event of the most popular sport in the world and the country we live in is being represented. Why then is it proving so...
I'm a bit slow in the alleged news, and have to read up on the goss, but whoever takes over, whatever happens, and whatever I may have said about Sir John in the past, I want in on the first page to say a huge THANK YOU to this great man, who has done so much for Reading. Thank you John Madesjki. It...