QPR points deduction?

[LUX]

ok I accept Liebenrood Road.

Not Tilehurst Road though (I guess you mean around the Swiss Cottage -RIP BTW)?

So you also think Elm Park was surrounded by middle class streets galore?

[facaldaqui]

You came to Elm Park through middle class streets galore.

name one.

Any of those streets you zigzag through on foot from the Southcote to Elm Park.

[Hampshire Royal]

No, not really. It was just an old-fashioned ground built in an area that was fairly well-to-do when it was built. Not all the roads off Oxford Road were run down slums though. Mind you, I don't know what it's like now!

[facaldaqui]

ok I accept Liebenrood Road.

Not Tilehurst Road though (I guess you mean around the Swiss Cottage -RIP BTW)?

So you also think Elm Park was surrounded by middle class streets galore?

My comment was clearly about the streets on the south side of Tilehurst Road, which I used to melt away into. Nothing about being surrounded. But, as someone else said, not all the warren of streets off Oxford Road are Coronation Street housing either. Some big old houses on some of them.

[Wax Jacket]

Southcote Rd, Parkside Rd are generally large blocks of flats but relatively Ok ones. Westcote Rd could be the on facaldaqui is thinking of as that's got some huge properties, mostly broken into smart flats now.

the general rule on the Oxford Rd now is: South side, generally OK, North side, scummy. the roads between Tilehurst Rd and Oxford Rd are slowly getting colonised by youg middle class types moving up the ladder

[Mr Angry]

The Mad Stad lacks a chippy of the quality of the 555 Fish Bar on the Oxford Road on the night of an evening game; park outside Brock Barracks, pop in for a spam fritter and chips, walk up Wilson Road where you can get the first glimpses of the floodlights, then onto the West Terrace.

Genuinely happy memories of football nights past.

[Who Moved The Goalposts?]

The Mad Stad lacks a chippy of the quality of the 555 Fish Bar on the Oxford Road on the night of an evening game; park outside Brock Barracks, pop in for a spam fritter and chips, walk up Wilson Road where you can get the first glimpses of the floodlights, then onto the West Terrace.

Genuinely happy memories of football nights past.

Oh yeah. Very happy memories of this and then catching the "football special" bus back home to Tilehurst.

[Jackson Corner]

thats nonsense- hes on the record saying he hates everything about reading, that we arent a proper football team, that we embody everything he hates about modern football.[/quote][/quote]

Can't say I have heard this but it wouldn't surprise me. Ironic then that he is at a club that were the benchmark for the modern game. All seater stadium, Executive boxes, massive losses oh and plastic pitches that's the future.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

thats nonsense- hes on the record saying he hates everything about reading, that we arent a proper football team, that we embody everything he hates about modern football.

So where and when is he on record as having said these things?

[rhroyal]

Total contrast to the RFC experience where the middle class fan base melts away into the night towards Calcot or Lower Earley. The heart of this club was torn away with the move from Elm Park.

I'll have you know that I often have a drink in the hotel after leaving hospitality.....before melting away home to Marlow!!

Why are middle class fans bad fans? I consider myself middle class (doesn't mean rich; parents wasted their intelligence to become teachers ) but I've been the one receiving awkward looks in the East Stand for jumping up and screaming at certain moments and try to make plenty of noise (although a hopeless cause in our flat pack IKEA stadium much of the time).

[johnnym]

back on to subject.....has anyone heard any snifters of new info on this story, rather than waffle on about..stuff ??

thankingyou

[Svlad Cjelli]

back on to subject.....has anyone heard any snifters of new info on this story, rather than waffle on about..stuff ??

thankingyou

Nope - no-one from the FA or QPR will be saying anything in advance of the hearing.

[Mike Hunt]

Footballer in trying to wind up opponent shocker

fu<k I h8 this saying.

Leave it to the journo's and uneducated m8. You're better than that.

[brendywendy]

thats nonsense- hes on the record saying he hates everything about reading, that we arent a proper football team, that we embody everything he hates about modern football.

So where and when is he on record as having said these things?

in media interviews during and after the 05/06 season

[Hampshire Royal]

I don't care whether he professes undying love for us - he's an arsehole, always has been, always will be.

[facaldaqui]

Southcote Rd, Parkside Rd are generally large blocks of flats but relatively Ok ones. Westcote Rd could be the on facaldaqui is thinking of as that's got some huge properties, mostly broken into smart flats now.

the general rule on the Oxford Rd now is: South side, generally OK, North side, scummy. the roads between Tilehurst Rd and Oxford Rd are slowly getting colonised by youg middle class types moving up the ladder

If I had to guess your profession, I'd say you were an estate agent (or a robber).

[facaldaqui]

Total contrast to the RFC experience where the middle class fan base melts away into the night towards Calcot or Lower Earley. The heart of this club was torn away with the move from Elm Park.

I'll have you know that I often have a drink in the hotel after leaving hospitality.....before melting away home to Marlow!!

Why are middle class fans bad fans? I consider myself middle class (doesn't mean rich; parents wasted their intelligence to become teachers ) but I've been the one receiving awkward looks in the East Stand for jumping up and screaming at certain moments and try to make plenty of noise (although a hopeless cause in our flat pack IKEA stadium much of the time).

I don't see how class comes into being a fan. Really poor people can't afford to go, frankly, and so we're all in the disposable income category by default. Reading seems to me a town where a large proportion of the people are upwardly mobile; many--including myself and quite a few on HobNob, I suspect--have made the Gervais move from the council estates to the middle class lifestyle. I don't know whether to call myself middle class or, from my origins and accent, working class, so I don't bother to call myself either unhelpful term. All I know is that if you wear a gigantic New Zealand rainhat and Dryzabone coat to games you will be in the West Stand.

[Bandini]

ok I accept Liebenrood Road.

Not Tilehurst Road though (I guess you mean around the Swiss Cottage -RIP BTW)?

So you also think Elm Park was surrounded by middle class streets galore?

Hopeless, Lux. Tilehurst Road from Reading West station up to Water Road has been middle class for aaaaaaaaaages.

[Stuka]

So bearing in mind Reading are in for a shout at the playoffs now, would it be more advantageous to us if the spivs didn't get any points deducted?

[ZacNaloen]

Depends on the number of points shirley?