Daily Mirror today - Reading

[Buzzer]

Just shown this thread to a mate of mine at work who's a Reading STH and has been for over 25 years.

We're chuckling at Holt and chuckling. Anyone know what team he supports?

 

[The Large One]

Couldn't agree more. Holt's brief is to write "controversial" columns but this is just bollocks from top to bottom.

Who says Hunt deliberately kneed Cech? You can' tell from watching the replay 100 times.

Coppell put out a team that got a draw at Old Trafford. (more than almost anyone else manages). What's the problem.

The fact that Holt can't name a famous Reading player is a typical myopic Premiership-obsessed hack attitude. They've been a lower-league club most of their days - doesn't mean they haven't had their own legends.

And Reading fans had every reason and right to give Pardew and McGee abuse - both professed loyalty and then f***ed off.

Holt's underlying motive seems to be a kind of snobbery against small clubs crashing the Premiership party. If it wasn't for teams like Reading punching above the weight the Premier League would be even duller than it already is.

We all know Madjeski's an arse. But so is Oliver Holt.

Spot on.

But then I've got less time for football hacks than I have for over-paid fairies diving in the area. I'm not talking about match reporters waxing lyrical about a game they are there to write about. I'm talking the drivel-laden, petty minded 'article writers' who write with an agenda for controversy - and nothing else.

As a general rule, football hacks are the biggest bunch of hangers-on and social parasites, all hanging on to the coat tails of people they write about. They're on a par with gushing 'celebrity journalists', who have little more to do that write about things most of us don't give a shit about - like the fact that Steve Coppell (quite wisel) doesn't want to talk to a bunch of hangers-on and social parasites, and would rather be with his own team.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Couldn't agree more. Holt's brief is to write "controversial" columns but this is just bollocks from top to bottom.

Who says Hunt deliberately kneed Cech? You can' tell from watching the replay 100 times.

Coppell put out a team that got a draw at Old Trafford. (more than almost anyone else manages). What's the problem.

The fact that Holt can't name a famous Reading player is a typical myopic Premiership-obsessed hack attitude. They've been a lower-league club most of their days - doesn't mean they haven't had their own legends.

And Reading fans had every reason and right to give Pardew and McGee abuse - both professed loyalty and then f***ed off.

Holt's underlying motive seems to be a kind of snobbery against small clubs crashing the Premiership party. If it wasn't for teams like Reading punching above the weight the Premier League would be even duller than it already is.

We all know Madjeski's an arse. But so is Oliver Holt.

 

[Buzzer]

Spot on.

But then I've got less time for football hacks than I have for over-paid fairies diving in the area. I'm not talking about match reporters waxing lyrical about a game they are there to write about. I'm talking the drivel-laden, petty minded 'article writers' who write with an agenda for controversy - and nothing else.

As a general rule, football hacks are the biggest bunch of hangers-on and social parasites, all hanging on to the coat tails of people they write about. They're on a par with gushing 'celebrity journalists', who have little more to do that write about things most of us don't give a shit about - like the fact that Steve Coppell (quite wisel) doesn't want to talk to a bunch of hangers-on and social parasites, and would rather be with his own team.

Agreed - but some footie writing can be sublime when done well. Speaking as a Torygraph reader, I think Tony Francis and Henry Winter have written some fantastic pieces of prose over the years. There used to be a shop in Charings Cross that had books and books on the stuff. Fantastic.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Couldn't agree more. Holt's brief is to write "controversial" columns but this is just bollocks from top to bottom.

Who says Hunt deliberately kneed Cech? You can' tell from watching the replay 100 times.

Coppell put out a team that got a draw at Old Trafford. (more than almost anyone else manages). What's the problem.

The fact that Holt can't name a famous Reading player is a typical myopic Premiership-obsessed hack attitude. They've been a lower-league club most of their days - doesn't mean they haven't had their own legends.

And Reading fans had every reason and right to give Pardew and McGee abuse - both professed loyalty and then f***ed off.

Holt's underlying motive seems to be a kind of snobbery against small clubs crashing the Premiership party. If it wasn't for teams like Reading punching above the weight the Premier League would be even duller than it already is.

We all know Madjeski's an arse. But so is Oliver Holt.

Agree entirely, Madkeski has always been a bit of a twat but you can't help admire Reading and what they have achieved. It gives us hope that with Falmer we will do the same thing.

 

[Hiney]

nah...too far...nothing on it....apart from Northampton, I have done my away games for the season, I cant be arsed to go to any more........therefore COME ON IRISH

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Agreed - but some footie writing can be sublime when done well. Speaking as a Torygraph reader, I think Tony Francis and Henry Winter have written some fantastic pieces of prose over the years. There used to be a shop in Charings Cross that had books and books on the stuff. Fantastic.

Best football writing I every read was The Glory Game by Hunter Davies, a fly on the wall of the dressing room account of Spurs in the early 70s. Unparalleled uncensored access to the players, that book just couldn't be written nowadays.

 

[ditchy]

Designed entirely to stir up ratings for phone in on friday .. no doubt he is on an earner for listerning/caller figs for the evening .. Utter cock but just earning some money i suppose !

 

[Gully]

Tom, not sure how the Security Services stitched up the Mirror about the faked pictures, it still relyed on Piers Morgan deciding to print them. The actions of that man and his tawdry rag put the lives of British Servicemen at risk, for that I cannot forgive them, I would not use the Mirror to wipe my nether regions if I ran out of Andrex. There are few people who buy the Sun in Liverpool because of the way they reported Hillborough, you will never find a Daily Mirror in my house.

As for Reading, have to say that I am starting to warm towards them, Coppell has them playing excellent football. Despite the fact that they have access to untold millions they have achieved this season without spending anything like the same amount as some of the clubs at the business end of the Premiership. Have a suspicion that they might just turn Man Utd over in the replay.

 

[Yorkie]

It's no wonder that Coppell won't speak to the press.

 

[brighton rock]

must be horrible having your club run by a boss only intrested in his own rapor

 

[Icy Gull]

must be horrible having your club run by a boss only intrested in his own rapor

Even worse, God forbid, if he than makes a good job of it rather than being an aggressive orange dickhead owner of a 2nd tier team who falls out with everybody and got rid of the only quality manager you had had since Venables eh??

 

[Simster]

Madjeski is still a cock for naming the ground after himself though.

He would be, if he had done that. But he didn't. He paid for the ground himself (I'm not even sure he was on the board himself at the time) and the club's directors at the time insisted the stadium was named after him.

To be honest, if Norman Cook (or whoever) stumps up £20m of his own money for a stadium in the town as a way of giving back much to a community that helped him become a millionaire, I'd have no problems naming the stadium after him.

So that really is piss poor journalism - he hasn't even bothered researching a fact as critical as that. But then The Mirror has been a crappy nothing paper for years now, which is a shame really.

 

[Man of Harveys]

So why has Majeski had other stuff that he's paid for named after himself, like the big old pouf's "Fine Rooms" at the Royal Academy, say? Was that all out of his hands too? Doubt it.

 

[Simster]

So why has Majeski had other stuff that he's paid for named after himself, like the big old pouf's "Fine Rooms" at the Royal Academy, say? Was that all out of his hands too? Doubt it.

I dunno. All I'm saying is that HE did not name that stadium after himself, and that two bit hack should have found that out before going on a rant.

 

[ROSM]

also in his defence - he saved Reading from the Robert Maxwell Thames Valley Royals saga. Maxwell then did his best to try and bankrupt him as revenge.

I dont mind his ego - just his hair and choice of friends.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Holt was the ghostwriter for 'Totally Frank' - Frank Lampard's Autobiography.

Not particularly keen on Madjeski, but there are far worse Chairmen about. Although, I do find it rather nauseating naming a stadium after him. I would politely decline that honour and call it something far more fitting. Another with a Stadium named after themselves is Firoz Kassam

 

[Sheebo]

I like coppell and Sidwell now on reflection.. and Ingarmarson BUT.. Hate the club. The song 'Where were you when you were shit?' has never been so true. And their fans are shit. They're the new glory club - like Man U were in some respects for the people of Berkshire. Twats really. Remember they took about 2-3 hundred two seasons running to Withdean!? JOKE..

I'm very bitter though as Coppell Sidwell and Ivar are 3 of their BIG influencial people this seaseon and i strongly believe if we had the stadium a few years back they would still be with us and we'd be the team in the Premiership...Honestly..

 

[Soul Finger]

Couldn't agree more. Holt's brief is to write "controversial" columns but this is just bollocks from top to bottom.

Who says Hunt deliberately kneed Cech? You can' tell from watching the replay 100 times.

Coppell put out a team that got a draw at Old Trafford. (more than almost anyone else manages). What's the problem.

The fact that Holt can't name a famous Reading player is a typical myopic Premiership-obsessed hack attitude. They've been a lower-league club most of their days - doesn't mean they haven't had their own legends.

And Reading fans had every reason and right to give Pardew and McGee abuse - both professed loyalty and then f***ed off.

Holt's underlying motive seems to be a kind of snobbery against small clubs crashing the Premiership party. If it wasn't for teams like Reading punching above the weight the Premier League would be even duller than it already is.

We all know Madjeski's an arse. But so is Oliver Holt.

Absolutely spot on mate

 

[unnameable]

Well said, sheebo.