Reading troubles

[ShotOnTarget]

Home of Huntley and Palmer biscuit factory back in the day. The Biscuits was their nickname long before Royals,bit like the Glaziers was Crystal Palace's
nickname before the Eagles etc.
Any others,anyone can think of,weren't Brighton something before the Seagulls.
At least we've always been The Shots !

I think "The Soldiers" was an earlier nickname, back in the 1930's?

Yes we were apparently known as The Soldiers. This was verified to me back in the 70's by obviously much older supporters but The Shots was also used at the same time.

I always believed that the Soldiers nickname came from WW2 when some of the top professional footballers were appointed as PTI's (so were technically Soldiers) at Aldershot and turned out to play for the old Club in the wartime regional league.

[Old Bob]

Were West ham not known as " the raving irons" ?

Yeah, the Iron Hoofs

[lowerbourneshot]

Were West ham not known as " the raving irons" ?

Yeah, the Iron Hoofs

A strange derogatory term to use

[beechcroft]

Were West ham not known as " the raving irons" ?

Yeah, the Iron Hoofs

A strange derogatory term to use

Now you have done it !! get ready for an explanation as to what derogatory really means

[lowerbourneshot]

Yeah, the Iron Hoofs

A strange derogatory term to use

Now you have done it !! get ready for an explanation as to what derogatory really means

You know the slang iron hoof was used for ?

[Chalkie]

Reading reveal they lost £21m in relegation season

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... y64g63mryo

[ShotOnTarget]

Reading reveal they lost £21m in relegation season

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... y64g63mryo

[Aldershot]

In a week, Reading could cease to exist
https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/read ... st-3610230

[Aldershot]

The last time clubs were standing on this same cliff edge, Sky Sports News ran a countdown clock to the deadline for Bury and Bolton Wanderers to find new owners, with Jim White presenting in front of it.

Bolton were handed 14 extra days, and survived. Bury were expelled and the club liquidated.

Given the backlash and accusations of poor taste, SSN may not run one again but that does not stop a clock ticking away in the heads of every Reading supporter.

Reading FC are the seventh oldest football club in the country.

[ShotOnTarget]

Strangley enough, I found an old press cutting covering the demise of the old club, and the article featured an offer from Reading to bus Shots fans free of charge ti Elm Park.

What a nice gesture it would be to reciprocate.

[supershots]

Strangley enough, I found an old press cutting covering the demise of the old club, and the article featured an offer from Reading to bus Shots fans free of charge ti Elm Park.

What a nice gesture it would be to reciprocate.

On yer bike

[redblueuptoyou]

Strangley enough, I found an old press cutting covering the demise of the old club, and the article featured an offer from Reading to bus Shots fans free of charge ti Elm Park.

What a nice gesture it would be to reciprocate.

I’m with you. Put (ancient) rivalries aside and if we have capacity/budget do something for the fans. We’re all in the same boat after all.

[hepcat]

How will this pan out ? It's 100% humiliating for the EFL who-not for the first time-have approved unfit and improper people to take over clubs despite endless warnings and evidence. The EFL is actualy unfit to run the EFL. But-as with all quango's (or even public sector management) there is no come back, no penalty,no accountability-beyond finding a scapegoat if one is required- in fact only further well paid sinecures await along with an MBE or Knighthood.
Reading have been asset stripped making them a rent and debt club for anyone taking over. Bury must be terrifying Reading fans. There, another EFL approved fit and proper person-Dale-had bought the club for £1, had no way of funding the club at all, who-as with Yongge-was then suddenly deemed unfit by the same approving EFL who ordered him to sell the club. He refused (or rather demanded a ridiculous £3m ) and the club was expelled. Youngge could do the same. What will the EFL do then ? I would think they'd drag it out to the start of next season to make their minds up, but it looks bad for Reading. Madejski's Reading with the hotel/car park/ground owned by the club was perfectly sustainable . Anyone would buy that. But with the hotel/car park/ground flogged off (Reading have to pay rent to play at the ground they used to own) and Youngge tried to flog the training ground-who'd really want whats left ?
The FA/EFL etc are all incapable of running and protecting football/looking after clubs. It could be any club in the future. We need to get away from "Oh,its only Reading" to seeing the larger picture.It's us and everyone else as well. Spencer Day was fit and proper enough in 1991,given the same picture today,(say our mess began in 2024)the EFL would still approve him only to realise he's unfit and force a sale-which would 99.9% be certain to follow the Dale/Bury road to oblivion.
The whole league set up/governance is a joke-32 years after we set a trend.

[ShotOnTarget]

Strangley enough, I found an old press cutting covering the demise of the old club, and the article featured an offer from Reading to bus Shots fans free of charge ti Elm Park.

What a nice gesture it would be to reciprocate.

I’m with you. Put (ancient) rivalries aside and if we have capacity/budget do something for the fans. We’re all in the same boat after all.

My sarcasm was possibly a little too subtle. I would have thought a few weeks of empty buses to Elm Park would have seen the venture quietly disappear.

When the old club folded, the group I used to attend games with discussed who we should follow. Any rivals and big clubs were dismissed and we actually decided Fulham.

Little did we know that chapter 2 of Aldershot football was soon to arrive so the Fulham idea was quickly forgotten.

[Graham Stovold]

In a week, Reading could cease to exist
https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/read ... st-3610230

They will wriggle out of it somehow, the dodgy handshakes will be in full flow within the EFL & surprise,surprise, they will be saved.