As I said Nez, Reading really should have won at our place in December but again, they didn't and may rue that result. The week before that game we drew at swillsbrough and the day before that we had 3 players sent home with a virus.
I have been convinced our squad has been under a cloud with this virus even though I haven't heard or seen anything to confirm that opinion. Since the Wednesday game away, our performances have been ,for me anyway, flat and lacking in energy, but the last 4 games or so have ,again for me, seen us get back to the no nonsense high pressing team we are good at, and as poor as Wednesday were last Saturday, that performance was how we were playing earlier in the season.
I was so pleased to see Ryan Williams back and I hope he starts with him on Saturday, and also hope we at least set up to try and win the game and not to try not to lose it.
Yes Reading played very well that night and took us by surprise a bit.
However after we equalised very late on Will V stabbed at a ball in the penalty area that should have been put away to steal all 3 points...it must have been around 93 / 94 mins
Yes Huntley and Palmers main factory was there ( might still be not sure)
Let’s hope they crumble on Saturday
They are now the Royals because Reading is in the Royal County of Berkshire
So they could have been called the Berks, but that wouldn’t have fitted in with the gentrification of football.
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Around the 1980,s when Robert Maxwell of stealing pensions fame was Chairman of Oxford united he tried to merge them with Reading and call the new club the Thames Valley Royals.
Fortunately he fell off the back of a boat or did he.......
570 tickets sold for Saturday's game at Reading