3 Years Ago Today...

[arthurfondrelli]

[Royal Ginger]

Awful day. Feels like a bit of a sliding doors moment. We were more ready to go up then.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Brilliant day out. Shite game. Sums up pretty much every away game I go to.

[ItsAdzy]

Watched this from a bar in Spain with a few smug Swansea fans

Gutted I wasn't there...

[maffff]

12min: This is getting slightly over-the-top. After Adam Federici's goal kick is stupidly blocked by Borini, Zurab Khizanishvili even more stupidly pushes him to ground.



21min: GOAL! Reading 0-1 SWANSEA
Khizanishvili is lucky to be on the pitch



34min: Khizanishvili is really riding his luck here,



40min: GOAL! Reading 0-3 SWANSEA
I thought the Royals were the counter-attacking team? This is clinical. A low cross is poorly cleared by Khizanishvili



15.55: RED CARD (Jay Tabb, Reading)

15.57: Hearing news that Tabb has been sent-off for having one or two choice words with the referee at the break. Will update if I have heard that wrong or if the circumstances were different.

15.59: You can add Reading assistant manager Nigel Gibbs to the red card list as well for the same incident.

16.04: Tabb even took his place on the bench for the second-half but after a few minutes delay, he has to be forced off by his own club officials before we get going again.



57min: GOAL! READING 2-3 Swansea
Well I just can't believe this! From another McAnuff corner, skipper Matt Mills thunders a header into the top corner. GAME ON!





60min: Off the post! Karacan's low effort beats De Vries but clatters off the upright before Swansea clear in a panic.



80min: GOAL! Reading 2-4 SWANSEA
What is Griffin doing?

[JakeTheRoyal]

We had a better team then than when we up season after.

[kwik-silva]

I remember watching Tabb forced back down the tunnel and wondering if he'd been sent off. If only that Karacan shot had gone in...

[Silver Fox]

Cracking day out

[floyd__streete]

^

No it wasn't, it was utterly awful. Pubs packed out with goons in replica shirts and blue wigs. Then a predictably horrific performance in one of our biggest games ever.

[maffff]

If only that Karacan shot had gone in...

....then McDermott might be managing Liverpool?

[Silver Fox]

^

No it wasn't, it was utterly awful.

We had a super day

But then I don't think we bumped into you

etc
etc

[Pepe the Horseman]

I had a splendid day. The Green Man was gr8, both pre and post game.

[genome]

In was in a pub in Aberystwyth, as I went to University there... there are quite a few Cardiff and Swansea fans around Aberystwyth. I thought I had better try and keep quiet (there were about 100 Swansea fans in there, I was the only Reading fan aside from my girlfriend giving moral support and buying me several hard drinks at half time) but when Mills scored I jumped, knocking the table over and spilling several pints DIdn't give a fcuk.

Incidentally I had a gr8 time during the Cardiff semi being the only guy celebr8ing in the pub. Somehow I didn't get stabbed during either match but Aberystwythians seem to be an altogether better class of Welsh football fan and were quite tolerant.

[Libertine]

12min: This is getting slightly over-the-top. After Adam Federici's goal kick is stupidly blocked by Borini, Zurab Khizanishvili even more stupidly pushes him to ground.



21min: GOAL! Reading 0-1 SWANSEA
Khizanishvili is lucky to be on the pitch



34min: Khizanishvili is really riding his luck here,



40min: GOAL! Reading 0-3 SWANSEA
I thought the Royals were the counter-attacking team? This is clinical. A low cross is poorly cleared by Khizanishvili



15.55: RED CARD (Jay Tabb, Reading)

15.57: Hearing news that Tabb has been sent-off for having one or two choice words with the referee at the break. Will update if I have heard that wrong or if the circumstances were different.

15.59: You can add Reading assistant manager Nigel Gibbs to the red card list as well for the same incident.

16.04: Tabb even took his place on the bench for the second-half but after a few minutes delay, he has to be forced off by his own club officials before we get going again.



57min: GOAL! READING 2-3 Swansea
Well I just can't believe this! From another McAnuff corner, skipper Matt Mills thunders a header into the top corner. GAME ON!





60min: Off the post! Karacan's low effort beats De Vries but clatters off the upright before Swansea clear in a panic.



80min: GOAL! Reading 2-4 SWANSEA
What is Griffin doing?

And the rebound off the post fell right to Noel Hunt who somehow couldn't get a boot to it with a wide open goal staring at him.

It has been a rollercoaster ride since then, hasn't it?

[genome]

Didn't the Swansea defender make a ridiculous block?

[Libertine]

Not that I recall, but it is kind of a blur at this point. So I could be wrong. I thought it was off the post, Hunt couldn't get a boot to it, there was a massive scramble (where there could have been a block), and it ended up being cleared. Like I said, at this point I am not sure. From what I remember after it was finally cleared Hunt bending over and putting his head in his hands...

[Pepe the Horseman]

Yeh, Garry Monk made a ridiculous block.

[Libertine]

Prolly how it happened then. I remember was already going mental about our comeback and jumping up as a saw Karacan's beat the keeper thinking we had leveled it, and then was like watching what happened after that point.

[genome]

There were two blocks, one from Karacan's shot onto the post and one to deflect Hunt's rebound away.

[Snowball]

Jeez, is that really only three years ago? A championship, the Prem, relegation,
a last day missing-out, financial melt-down. All in three years?