so what? the old "things were worse in my day" brigade give it a rest grand-dads, the club have higher ambitions and a better class of fan now with higher expectations and that, trust me here, is a good thing progression>nostalgia Better class of fan? Not when I look around me there isn't...

You'd learn alot more playing us, Windsor and Eton, than a kids vs kids game! Hi Royalist. Unrelated really but I recall back in the eighties going to a series of league games between Windsor and Wokingham Town (both sides had teams of good footballing quality for that standard at that time) that d...

Great night. What a top memory. Drove in to Oxford at about three and park and rode in and smiling at the police lock-downs outside all the boozers on the way in. We got tucked away in the Three Goats Heads or similar and got on the drinking hoping to meet Morse and Lewis. Obviously no joy. At about...

T-Rex reminds me of what a lot of football followers do. They convert the memory of certain heavily-supported away-days into the hardening myth inside their minds that the club they follow is in fact so over-subscribed it needs a ground with at least a six-figure capacity. Fuelled by cliche and shar...

I still recall Harper asking us if Beard Day was a 'national' thing.

Of course it was James.

Man City. Pantomime club in a pantomime league.

Thames I LOVE IT WHEN WE'RE ON TV, IT MEANS EVERYONE CAN SEE HOW GOOD WE ARE. AND THE FANS I THINK THE FANS ARE REALLY BRILL AS WELL

A trip to OAE is due. Or maybe that is from whence you came Thames. Just a-pondering.

How about Ian Branfoot?

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RFC 0
Bradford City 3

Sat with Mr L Hicks (not sure if he still posts on here) in the seats.

Blinkin' hell - same game as me.

David Mills' comb-over.

Eastleigh Airport.

Milton Road.

Lepe Beach and the Rosthchild's secret kale fields.

The expression 'alroight, mush?'

Thalidomide floodlight pylons.

Can you do it in Welsh now please?

People tend to forget that there are quite a few thickos who go to football. The old brainpower doesn't extend too far and therefore is sometimes reflected in some of their behaviour. You could say there's a broad 'Scope' of the intelligence spectrum in a football crowd. Not that I'm inferring that ...

I'm envious of Coventry City.

For having an arena.

I'm glad he's staying. I'd heard the club were running an Ian Huntley lookalike contest next season. He'd be in with a chance...

(Yes. I know it's wrong.)

Sometimes it seems some fans can be as short-sighted and reactionary as the newer foreign owners in the game at this level. The cretinous Thaksin Shinawatra at Man City thinking that he can sack the manager of his own choice a year in to his first season at a club that has won little over the years ...

It was later understood to be a problem with being misquoted. Fae and Sonko were told 'You're not being axed. You're being told.'

Ian Herring

Super Kevin Bremner! I was at Keith Knight's debut and I seem to remember him coming through the youth ranks....?

Didn't he arrive from Cheltenham? Distant memory so may be completely wrong...

Ha. Just seen the other post. Think he did then.

Super Kevin Bremner! I was at Keith Knight's debut and I seem to remember him coming through the youth ranks....?

Didn't he arrive from Cheltenham? Distant memory so may be completely wrong...

Irv 'The Swerve' Gernon.

Happy days.

I was also in the RAT on Saturday. It is the human equivalent of HNA. Groups and cliques of generally like-minded (i.e. all supporting RFC) individuals, but with differing opinions. It is a familiar place to go on a match day, linking as it does beautifully with our old West Reading roots. It is a ...