Birmingham and Reading - scary stuff.

[Hornblower]

In the bottom three, not long out of the Prem, just goes to show how fortunes can be reversed.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I think when you said "scary", you meant to say "funny".

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

There were banks of empy seats at the Ricoh. Reasons why we need to enjoy the good times.

 

[Hornblower]

I think when you said "scary", you meant to say "funny".[/QUOT

I care nothing for either club but I feel for the fans. We all know only too well what abject failure and fall from grace feels like.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I don't think Reading are in that much trouble. Gawd knows what is going on at Birmingham.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

B'ham have only played 4 i think.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I think when you said "scary", you meant to say "funny".[/QUOT

I care nothing for either club but I feel for the fans. We all know only too well what abject failure and fall from grace feels like.

Hmmm. I feel sorry for fans of clubs being screwed over by unscrupulous owners- which isn't actually all that many of the ones who've ended up in financial trouble really- but laughing at other teams' misfortunes on the pitch is what football is all about. A bit of schadenfreude is part of the game. Would be dull otherwise.

Do I feel sorry for Reading's fans because their team has been shit lately? Absolutely not, I find it highly amusing. Wasn't that long that we could only look on with envy at their set up and on-field success, and their ability to pinch the likes of Sidwell and Coppell from our grasp.

Well screw them, the worm has turned, and now it's our go. We've put up with more grief than most over the last twenty years and I for one plan to enjoy every minute of the current high period. Let Reading curse and moan and look on enviously at us for once. Feel pity for them? Not on your life.

 

[Mr Everyone]

Never (unless youre top!) look at the table until ten games at least!!

 

[Caveman]

It is only September for gawd sakes.

 

[Hornblower]

Hmmm. I feel sorry for fans of clubs being screwed over by unscrupulous owners- which isn't actually all that many of the ones who've ended up in financial trouble really- but laughing at other teams' misfortunes on the pitch is what football is all about. A bit of schadenfreude is part of the game. Would be dull otherwise.

Do I feel sorry for Reading's fans because their team has been shit lately? Absolutely not, I find it highly amusing. Wasn't that long that we could only look on with envy at their set up and on-field success, and their ability to pinch the likes of Sidwell and Coppell from our grasp.

Well screw them, the worm has turned, and now it's our go. We've put up with more grief than most over the last twenty years and I for one plan to enjoy every minute of the current high period. Let Reading curse and moan and look on enviously at us for once. Feel pity for them? Not on your life.

I think you're missing my point. I care not for the Brummys and Reading but I ponder with some trepidation what a fickle mistress football can be. I am Whoozey with success, I swoon at the championship table and would happily perform any act of abject degradation if Mr Poyet asked it of me (probably in the manner of Lord Percy from Blackadder). Nevertheless, I am a realist, and I worry that if the two aforesaid clubs can fall from grace in such spectacular fashion then could this happen to us? Of course it could, but perhaps the only way to deal with these concerns is to cast them aside and live in the present. Altogether now: "strawberry blond, your having a laugh" and "Where's the sea, where's the sea, where's the sea?"

 

[tonymgc]

I take great pleasure in watching Reading suffer. I hope they crash and burn

 

[Conkers]

Birmingham do have 2 games in hand. 2 wins and they go top 8.

 

[perseus]

Reading is a surprise but I expected Birmingham to struggle.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

THIS(ok then a proper answer)

Edna-the humble,the honest,the compassionate,the humility within me,asks to go with the - lets remember where we came from,not go above our station,be nice.

The devil however has knocked at my door,and has said come out to play,bring the Albion along for a while....

I asked God and he said it's fine,you will always return home,fear not,enjoy yourself and have fun,for i gave you free will-however-remember cause and effect,just as Edna has pointed out....God finally said there are those who don't wish to let you give green bar to the posts of quality at present,that's the way it shall be,unless it is not...i told God,i would give positive rep to Edna anyway....God? well she smiled approvingly.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Reading will go down, and I will laugh for hours on end.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Never (unless youre top!) look at the table until ten games at least!!

Maybe it's a false position,some big names to play yet-I prefer 12 to 15 games or my other indicator is where are we at the start of October-can't help peeping though,seems another 76 points to go what?

 

[Peever]

No surprise about Small heath and their struggles. Alot of their players have jumped ship since the relegation and financial/ownership gongshow and it was bound to happen. m

 

[Davemania]

Hmmm. I feel sorry for fans of clubs being screwed over by unscrupulous owners- which isn't actually all that many of the ones who've ended up in financial trouble really- but laughing at other teams' misfortunes on the pitch is what football is all about. A bit of schadenfreude is part of the game. Would be dull otherwise.

Do I feel sorry for Reading's fans because their team has been shit lately? Absolutely not, I find it highly amusing. Wasn't that long that we could only look on with envy at their set up and on-field success, and their ability to pinch the likes of Sidwell and Coppell from our grasp.

Well screw them, the worm has turned, and now it's our go. We've put up with more grief than most over the last twenty years and I for one plan to enjoy every minute of the current high period. Let Reading curse and moan and look on enviously at us for once. Feel pity for them? Not on your life.

Too right, we've suffered enough no harm in enjoying the reversal of fortunes, nothing wrong in that at all

 

[NMH]

With 2 games less played than all but 2 of the division (the two teams they still need to play) you can ignore BCFC's position. If they win today they might go up 10 league places, with a game in hand vs Burnley that a win could put them with Palace on 10 points.

So yes, fortunes can be reversed for them, simply by fulfilling a couple of fixtures and packing up points.

Reading are just a bit crap, at the moment. Was there any reason to think they'd be a top side then?

 

[Gus is god]

6 games gone lads really come on