Reading's intimidating atmospere and Mark McGhee

[alan partridge]

this made me laugh

'Going back to Reading for the first time wasn't funny. I don't think the experience unsettled my players but it gave theirs an extra charge. The fans were more vociferous and vocal than Reading fans are ever capable of being , simply because I was there. So it helped their team in a sense. '


full article here - http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9753,1401196,00.html

 

[HAMPSHIRE DAVE]

They may have been when our current boss went back the first time but come on!
Bunch of boring middle class tossers who just sit there and say nothing.
Like their town,dull amd boring.
How many for home games?
Here's a plan.
All teams like Reading with dull fans should be forced to leave their ground and made to play at somewhere like our place untill
they show some passion.
Clubs like Brighton have Reading's ground moved too where ever they want it in Sussex.

 

[dougdeep]

Your gate might be down today Ali. There's a cat show at the Rivermead.

 

[Rangdo]

Its down anyway.
As its the cup, STHs have to buy a ticket.
We're expecting about 15,000, and when we play them in the league in a month or so, about 19,000.

So, IF we ever get this f***ing planning shit at Withdean sorted out we'll be able to get 9000 in. So there.

 

[bhaexpress]

How many for home games?
16,700

On your basis of support, Brighton would never leave the Withdean...

No you know full well why we have such poor crowds, it's not a matter of choice with us.

 

[HAMPSHIRE DAVE]

16,000 for home games,pathetic!
What else is there to do in Reading on a Saturday in
the winter!
For that matter what else is there to do any time?

 

[Rangdo]

For that matter what else is there to do any time?

You could take a trip over to Swindon.

 

[Windmill]

They're usually off to the Bridge to support Moneybags FC.

 

[Starry]

And at the Withdean, you're not vocal.

At the Madejski you're not vocal. I've heard more noise in a graveyard.

 

[Fluffster]

I couldn't see us selling out Falmer for an FA Cup match against Leicester either...

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

starry - act intimidated.

It's a little game we play with Ali.

 

[Biscuit]

If we EVER got promoted into the Premiership ahead of Reading, who for instance, loose a play off final, then we'd all have to send CopOUT a post card from different premiership grounds..