Why Reading are the most important club in England

[chandog]

I was on a tour of wembley stadium yesterday and found out that because Reading represent Royal Berkshire we are the only club in the country that can wear their home colours (Royal Blue) in every game they play. This is an FA law and has been since the club was founded.

That poses the question of why do we need an away kit when we can wear the home kit for every match?


PS. feel free to say if this thread is on the wrong board

[Aly Murty]

LOL.

[SpaceCruiser]

Is chandog on a wind up?

[rfcjoe]

I think you will find its chindog. Oh....

[chandog]

Is chandog on a wind up?

no honestly this is what i was told and in a way it makes sense to me
we are the club that is effectively representing royalty and that means any other team must change their kit to accommodate our blue home kit regardless of where the game is played

i guess that as this is the case we have an away strip simply to make more money

[The Cube]

Well, Berkshire didn't officially become "Royal" Berkshire until 50 years ago, and when Reading FC were founded we were just one of many clubs in the county. So it was remarkable vision on the part of the FA to spot that we would turn out to be the only club to turn fully professional, and that the County would get renamed.

(Actually I only bothered to post because of the opportunity to include "remarkable vision" and "the FA" in the same sentence without having to put a negative in anywhere.)

[The Surgeon of Crowthorne]

Did you know that the word "gullible" has been taken out of the dictionary?

[Sun Tzu]

Chandog - did they not mention Preston as well ?

[Skin]

Did the person who told you know you were a Reading fan before he/she told you or after?

[Barry the bird boggler]

[SLAMMED]

I was on a tour of wembley stadium yesterday and found out that because Reading represent Royal Berkshire we are the only club in the country that can wear their home colours (Royal Blue) in every game they play. This is an FA law and has been since the club was founded.

That poses the question of why do we need an away kit when we can wear the home kit for every match?


PS. feel free to say if this thread is on the wrong board

without the away kit, the club wouldnt be able to rob money off the parents of kids crying because they want a reading shirt and the home shirt isnt out yet sothey have to give in and buy them an away shirt. HTH

[retro_royal]

Love what they did with that book , took it and made a series with Geoffrey Palmer on Discovery Real Time Extra.

[Vision]

(Actually I only bothered to post because of the opportunity to include "remarkable vision" and "the FA" in the same sentence without having to put a negative in anywhere.)

Remarkable Vision would have sufficed.

I honestly never ever thought i would see this subject brought up again. How lovely.

[chandog]

Did the person who told you know you were a Reading fan before he/she told you or after?

He didnt know i was a reading fan

if it makes any difference he supported qpr

[Huntley & Palmer]

post of the day

[Morph]

I was on a tour of wembley stadium yesterday and found out that because Reading represent Royal Berkshire we are the only club in the country that can wear their home colours (Royal Blue) in every game they play. This is an FA law and has been since the club was founded.

That poses the question of why do we need an away kit when we can wear the home kit for every match?

PS. feel free to say if this thread is on the wrong board

For Fiction, find Anything Else.

[Whistle]

(Actually I only bothered to post because of the opportunity to include "remarkable vision" and "the FA" in the same sentence without having to put a negative in anywhere.)

Remarkable Vision would have sufficed.

I honestly never ever thought i would see this subject brought up again. How lovely.

There is perhaps a tiny grain of truth (relevance) in this legend. In the early days of the FA Cup when there was a clash of colours the older club (founded longest) got to play in their first choice. How the legend has come to be assoc with RFC I've no idea beyond our relatively early 1871 foundation/

[Royalshow]

I was on a tour of wembley stadium yesterday and found out that because Reading represent Royal Berkshire we are the only club in the country that can wear their home colours (Royal Blue) in every game they play. This is an FA law and has been since the club was founded.

That poses the question of why do we need an away kit when we can wear the home kit for every match?


PS. feel free to say if this thread is on the wrong board

I told you that months ago.

[Far Canal]

(Actually I only bothered to post because of the opportunity to include "remarkable vision" and "the FA" in the same sentence without having to put a negative in anywhere.)

Remarkable Vision would have sufficed.

I honestly never ever thought i would see this subject brought up again. How lovely.

There is perhaps a tiny grain of truth (relevance) in this legend. In the early days of the FA Cup when there was a clash of colours the older club (founded longest) got to play in their first choice. How the legend has come to be assoc with RFC I've no idea beyond our relatively early 1871 foundation/

It is believed to originate from the season that RFC chose an away strip of blue and yellow hoops. When we played an away fixture at Brighton, who play in blue and white stripes, RFC naturally had to use their away strip. The referee was uimpressed at the prospect of two teams playing in blue and ordered a change.
As RFC did not have a third strip, Brighton kindly offered to play in their away strip and an urban myth was born.

[Samrfc01]

This is actually true
I remember reading it a while ago