?My third trip to a Play Off final ended in despair once again as Reading FC maintained their unenviable 100% heroic failure rate at this route to promotion. Football is a cruel, cruel game sometimes, it makes you feel like packing up being a supporter, but the truth is, you can change your car, you can change your house, you can even change your wife, but once you are attached to a football team you can't just dump them and go and ...
I was speaking with one of the Dad’s at the cricket club the other day whose son happens to be good friends with my son at school and within the cricket team, which is a good thing of course. However, it has become apparent that they are both in danger of suffering from that all too familiar young male syndrome of just about doing enough to stay above the academic abyss. They have both always been ensconced in the higher echelons of secondary ...
This weekend I was joined by my friends Steve and Richard as we completed our third and most arduous section of the Dorset coast path between Lulworth and Worth Matravers. We travelled by train from Winchester to Wareham where we were picked up by our B&B host David who drove us to his house at about 14mph and introduced to his Asian wife (Hong Kong) who basically worked as his happy slave. Like all couples who own B&B's David and ...
Against the odds and certainly against my expectations Reading FC reached the Championship Play-Off final at Wembley on Tuesday night. For me and thousands of other Reading fans it is, perhaps, the chance to finally put to bed this misery we suffered in 2001 at the Millennium Stadium and even more importantly the utter dejection at Wembley in 1995 when we missed a penalty when 2-0 up and went on to lose 4-3 in extra time. We followed ...
This weekend just gone has been so hectic that it is hard to recall the full measure of what has happened. I will start with Friday and the first leg of the Semi Final of the Play offs for Reading v Cardiff. As a neutral this game would have been about as interesting as watching Formula One, but as a supporter, it was quite tense and exciting in a frenetic way, with not much skill on show, but plenty of endeavour from both sides, the 0-0 ...