[Football] FA Cup Special: Reading v Bradford City

[perseus]

It is on the telly and the football wasn't very good in the first match. But its the FA Cup!

PS: Does anybody remember the Bradford Park Avenue Hooligan Army?


















































He was 6 ft 8 and half as wide and built like a brick shithouse.

 

[Simster]

Odd.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Apparently Reading are already at Wembley.

I know this because a large section of their support were singing it on Tuesday night.

 

[el punal]

Apparently Reading are already at Wembley.

I know this because a large section of their support were singing it on Tuesday night.

Are they in seventh heaven?

 

[AnotherArch]

If Reading get ahead and then revert to the tactics of last week's second half, it could be the biggest turn-off in terestial tv football history.

 

[brakespear]

Love watching the highlights of the match against Chelsea.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

#TeamBantams

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Pitch looks crap. I wonder at what stage Reading will start flinging themselves to the turf and trying to get City players booked?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Ah, there we have it. For a big bloke, Pogrebnyak really is an absolute girls blouse (or, "cheat" in traditional parlance). First whine of the evening in the referee's direction.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

...let the time-wasting commence. Come on Gooners.

 

[atfc village]

Biscuits 1 up and can't sell out for a Cup QF

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

2 zip

 

[Lady Whistledown]

...let the time-wasting commence. Come on Gooners.

Urgh. It's depressing, isn't it? They will ruin this game in the second half.

Although at this rate, it doesn't look like they'll need to. 2-0. Jammy.

 

[carteater]

2-0 reading, great start to be fair.

 

[atfc village]

Double drat and goal music how sad.

 

[ozzygull]

You lucky you don't live here. The plastic plastics will be out in force. It will be we this, and we that when discussing Reading going to Wembley, even though they have not been to a game since they dropped out with a whimper from The EPL a couple of years ago. Might have to take a holiday.

 

[vegster]

Nasty, spiteful and niggley game tonight. Not much sympathy for either side as they all seem nasty pieces of work, can't see 22 players left at this rate.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

You lucky you don't live here. The plastic plastics will be out in force. It will be we this, and we that when discussing Reading going to Wembley, even though they have not been to a game since they dropped out with a whimper from The EPL a couple of years ago. Might have to take a holiday.

I think I'd count myself lucky not to live there in any event, let alone during a cup run. As I walked through to the ground last week, I had the overwhelming feeling I was in the Crawley of Berkshire (pretty damning in a county that also contains Slough). Nothing overtly offensive, or particularly nasty, but essentially just a big dull modern industrial estate, providing cheap(er) housing estates for employees of an international airport, and with a few hi-tech companies & call-centres thrown in.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Incident with McCleary by the corner flag..was that Bradford supporters giving some abuse outside of what is normally acceptable?

 

[LamieRobertson]

Nasty, spiteful and niggley game tonight. Not much sympathy for either side as they all seem nasty pieces of work, can't see 22 players left at this rate.

Was that Mackie stamping on the Bradford guys hand and not being in the slightest concerned?