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Matt is a genius.  Matt Rose, that is.  The Evening Post reports in Cow about that - century of cheer! that, after seeing glum faces in Reading, the 17 year old Reading School student decided to dress as a cow to cheer up 100 members of the public.  After fulfiling requests such as bursting into song while standing at [...]

Reading FC’s Dave Kitson, I see, was featured in another broadsheet sports section on Saturday. 
According to the article From Tavern to Tottenham via Sainsbury’s on the Dave Kitson road to stardom in The Times, bidding for the striker, who is now the highest-scoring Englishman in the Premiership (as known, I’m sure, by Fabio), would start at [...]

An interview with Dave Kitson, Royal who will never be king of the castle, appeared in The Guardian’s sport section today in which the Reading FC striker revealed a remarkably modest character.  Premiership footballers are getting a bit of criticism these days (quite rightly) for shameful behaviour off the pitch.  Players such as Arsenal’s Cesc [...]

Further to the last post, you may be interested in knowing that highlights of the Spurs-Reading game will be shown first on Match of the Day tonight, 10.30pm on BBC One (despite West Ham’s defeat of Man United, arguably the more meaningful encounter).  Subject to change, of course, perhaps if the game at Goodison Park [...]

More bonkers than bonkers. The current season has seen some pretty bizarre results, topped by September’s nutty Portsmouth-Reading game. Incredibly, Reading were today involved in a goalfest that threatened to equal that 7-4 classic. The Royals ultimately fell at Stamford Bridge, losing 6-4 to Spurs (who in their previous fixture whipped Fulham 5-1).
Berbatov grabbed 4 [...]

Several months ago, as I tried Zero Degree’s Strawberry & Vanilla speciality beer, I was thinking about other flavours that the microbrewery could play with: chocolate, to help banish the January blues (low calorie, of course); lychee, to coincide with the Beijing Games; coconut; papaya… The possibilities are seemingly endless (please excuse this well-worn expression).
There [...]

Reading’s chain bars continue to evolve. Changes have been made to student favourite Pavlov’s Dog and Bar 38, or whatever it’s called now has closed with Ivory Lounge taking its place. Now, The Fez is planning a revamp, says the Evening Post.
An application has been submitted to Reading Borough Council for kids to [...]

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I have been a very bad blogger lately, not having posted anything since the beginning of December, and fully deserve a lump of virtual coal.  Here’s a Reading Roars! roundup of recent Reading FC games:

West Ham 1 - Reading 1.  Reading’s respectable run, following on from successive defeats by Fulham (no, no, no), Arsenal (challenging [...]

What are you doing tonight?  Now, in fact, other than reading these words?  A very entertaining latin-flavoured guitar duo are performing at O’Neill’s right now in Reading (they started at 9pm).  One’s a Brit and the other is Venezuelan.  They are named Los Dos Amigos (”The Two Friends”).   Check them out!