Reading FC

[Aclaret]

Flying at the top of the Championship, don't even know who the manager is or even who plays for them. They've been quiet for the past few seasons, can they be a threat this season?

[GodIsADeeJay81]

https://youtu.be/i49-WpW1Ey0

One of my funniest away days, wonder if they've started invading the pitch...

I've read somewhere it's the best start to a season in the championship ever by a team?

[Aclaret]

They havn't great memories of Burnley have they

[GodIsADeeJay81]

I've never heard of their manager before today, but fair play his results can't be argued with.

Will be interesting to see how he gets on over the course of a season.

[Aclaret]

Rovers next up on Tuesday so lets hope Readings great run continues for at least another week.

[tiger76]

There's usually one team that emerges every season in the Championship, and defies the odds, we did it a few years back, followed by Huddersfield, Norwich came from nowhere a couple of years ago, so maybe Reading will be the surprise package this season, they're certainly on a roll, and in football once winning becomes a habit, it's a hard task for the rest of the league to stop you.

[Aclaret]

Just had a peep on the odds at skybet, Reading 6/1 for promotion Rovers 5/2 for promotion. ...what the hell do bookies know.

[ClaretTony]

don't even know who the manager is

Veljko Paunović, previously manager of Chicago Fire

[Aclaret]

Veljko Paunović, previously manager of Chicago Fire

Non the wiser Tony....how on earth do you recruit from Chicago Fire ! He's certainly doing well up to now.

[Bosscat]

Non the wiser Tony....how on earth do you recruit from Chicago Fire ! He's certainly doing well up to now.

Not sure how you recruit from Chicago Fire but I know Billy Joel didn't start it....


Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye" Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania

Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline

Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

[Aclaret]

Not sure how you recruit from Chicago Fire but I know Billy Joel didn't start it....


Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye" Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania

Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline

Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

[warksclaret]

There's usually one team that emerges every season in the Championship, and defies the odds, we did it a few years back, followed by Huddersfield, Norwich came from nowhere a couple of years ago, so maybe Reading will be the surprise package this season, they're certainly on a roll, and in football once winning becomes a habit, it's a hard task for the rest of the league to stop you.

I was going to say the same Tiger-almost every season someone who has been languishing in the lower reaches gets into the PL either automatically or the play-offs. I think its fair to say it was Burnley in Sean's first promotion when we finished runners-up to Leicester. That season we were one of the favorites to go down. We had a team of free transfers, small value purchases and several key players that Eddie Howe had acquired, and they all gelled

[ClaretTony]

Non the wiser Tony....how on earth do you recruit from Chicago Fire ! He's certainly doing well up to now.

I wasn't any the wiser when they appointed him either

[Stayingup]

Its an illusion. Created by fan URI GELLER. Hoping his team can 'bend' a few in at Deadwood this coming week.

[LeadBelly]

They used to be "biscuitmen" but now known as "Royals" - ideas above their station.
That's nice though; they can now hobnob with the aristocracy, including gingernut Prince Harry. Who gives a fig (roll) though, their credentials are really wafer-thin and thinking they'll be promoted this year is just crackers.

[missionprem]

I recall them wining 10 on the bounce. just Googled it, and it was 13 straight wins in 85/86 season. WOW where did that go?

[Clarets4me]

I recall them wining 10 on the bounce. just Googled it, and it was 13 straight wins in 85/86 season. WOW where did that go?

That was my last year at University in Reading.
I saw them a couple of times that season, Trevor Senior got 31 of their 74 goals ...

[warksclaret]

In the late seventies/early eighties their captain was a centre-half called Martin Hicks. If you google him he is in their HALL OF FAME. He came from Stratford on Avon, where I grew up, and saw him progress from amateur football through to Charlton, Reading for a long spell then Birmingham. I remember playing a one off friendly for a pub side when he was at his peak. When we turned up during post season he was playing for his mates and the opposition. That day I played striker and this giant of a man was CH and marking me. You could tell his class instantly. I managed to score two headers that day as we won 2-0. Always stays in my memory

[Cubanclaret]

You must have had a decent match Warks...

[Cubanclaret]

If I remember rightly Man United won something like the first 10 Or 12 matches of the First Division that same season. They still managed to cock it up and failed to win the league!

[Noblelight]

I recall them wining 10 on the bounce. just Googled it, and it was 13 straight wins in 85/86 season. WOW where did that go?

I used to go to all home games at Elm Park. That was a great season. The best win was a 4-3 at home to Plymouth. Reading came back from 0-3 to win.
UTC!