Reading Roars!

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 [...]

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 [...]

Reading FC’s achievements last season reminded me of Getafe CF’s exploits in Spain’s La Liga.  Indeed, both clubs have a few things in common.
Getafe is a small club just south of Madrid (and Reading is a relatively small club west of London).  Both towns have similar populations - 156,000 in Getafe’s case and there are [...]

So it’s confirmed: Sidwell out, someone else in.  That someone else is Boavista’s Kalifa Cisse (who?), signed by Reading FC for “just under” €1 million.
Cisse is a French defensive midfielder just 22 years of age.  Apparently there was quite a bit of competition for his signature (he was linked to Bolton back in January 2007).  [...]

Reports suggest that Chelski, sorry, Chelsea have agreed to sign Reading star Steve Sidwell, according to The Guardian’s Jeremy Wilson.
The Mirror says the club’s Special One, who has had a less than special season, offered the midfielder a deal worth a stunning £50k per week, but adds that Fergie has now also spoken to him.
So [...]

What’s black and white, and red all over?  An embarrassed Newcastle Utd, crashing to a 1-0 defeat by Reading at the Madejski this evening.  Not a great joke, perhaps, but the result, against one of the strong clubs in England’s top flight, is yet another to be applauded, especially as the visitors included Michael Owen, [...]

I’m not a Telegraph reader. I’m more of a Guardian man. But the still-not-very-compact paper’s Footballer’s Wines, written by the ubiqituous Adrian Chiles, is delicious.
Prior to a big game, Chiles writes about the two contesting teams as if they were wine products. Different, and funny. As you might have guessed, the clubs this [...]

Reading Football Club are certainly ambitious, there’s no doubt about that, but how about this for a goal (excuse the pun), suggested this week by the club’s chief exec Nigel Howe:
I would say [the club] has the potential to be bigger than Arsenal because its catchment area is hugely beneficial…If this club started winning some serious [...]

BBC Berkshire is inviting readers to submit their magic moments from Reading FC’s sparkling first season in the Premiership (despite that the season isn’t over yet).
It’s a tricky one, but the “moment” I’d suggest has to be Reading’s recent comeback against Man United (who are excelling domestically and in Europe this season) at the Madejski. [...]