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£50k with £25k suspended. That’ll hurt. I’m sure one of their owners will rummage through some old trouser pockets for enough to cover that. Wonder if their manager was aware…

Dave Webb… Still over 800 tickets left for this (mostly in the Chapel next to away fans as usual). Should get close to a sell-out but thought they may been snapped up by now. QPR sold theirs, hopefully a much better atmosphere than the Bolton game.

🎶“Bring back the Who is the We want the Bring back The Prince”🎶 …maybe you just had to be there

My mistake - Football Special put me right.

Why? We've currently got a great partnership with Schlotterbeck and Jack Stephens and Wood who is capable as back-up. Unless injuries or a massive drop off in form from one or two players then priority will be a Larin-type back-up. Imo. Most likely go to someone like West Ham if he drops a division.

Easily knocked...

Guess you're on about a 1-0 win a few days before Christmas, there was a bit of snow about and remember going on a coach from outside The Warrens. Think we had a decent turnout that night but is was on a big open terrace back then so a bit exposed to the elements. Just had a Google and it was 21st December 1979 and saw this...

Yep, Reading away was a bit parky that night. Coldest I remember was a couple of games against Sheff Utd, early 90s at Brammall Lane, fine when we set off but all changed around Leicester and hit a blizzard. We had a full transit van and drove straight to the ground to see if still on, which it was, and then found a decent pub for a few hours. Went back there again after, left Sheffield late. Great day out other than losing 4-1. We also had a December game with them at St Mary's years later that was arctic. Tough call for tomorrow, both sides capable of beating anyone in this division but both having off days early season. Personnel available will dictate.

We had similar in Limerick (81 I think), height of the Bobby Sands protests so they were never happy with all the Union flags on display. They refused to play the National Anthem before as they should customarily do so we gave a full-throated rendition. After, we came out of the ground the OB penned us against the wall of the ground, moments later a big mob came piling out of the estate opposite and the OB just melted away. We had some decent lads there who started giving it back which coincided with the local constabulary’s reappearance and nipped a potential dodgy situation in the bud. Good trip though.

It was grim, since heard it wasn’t due to the earlier incident on the M27 but a hole in a pavement on Spicers Hill at Rushington which caused the chaos. I’ve got home quicker from Brentford than St Mary’s on Saturday.

Yeah, shame about the weather…when this kicks off tonight it will be 10 years to the day 7,000 of us when in the opposite direction to the San Siro…

Doesn't look like too many use it going on the number of responses. We did go in by bus a few weeks back and did notice the P&R go flying past as we were stuck at a bus stop and in traffic so guess it goes direct to the city centre. But it wouldn't have mattered how you tried going westbound yesterday it was gridlocked, over an hour from city centre back towards the M271. Sounds like it was from a bit of chaos on the M27 from earlier in the day.

I'm pretty sure our school closed early for a bit, long time ago mind,. This is sold out for home fans, ticket exchange open, hopefully everyone is as up for it as they were last weekend.

🎶 "Oh, Frankie-Frankie, Frankie-Frankie-Frankie-Frankie Worthington" 🎶 Great entertainers from the 70s like Bestie, Stan Bowles, et al, yep, shame we didn't get FW a year or two earlier.

Haven’t seen anything definite but Tonda said shouldn’t be long and Downes hasn’t ruled himself out of Saturday. Dobbin grew into that game last night, bit more promising. Excellent result. And watched a stream of the game, were those commentators on a bet to how many times they could mention the skates over the 90mins?