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by From Despair To Where?
20 Sep 2025 23:45
Forum: The Team
Topic: Players at Reading who you had completely forgotten about
Replies: 29
Views: 1908

Re: Players at Reading who you had completely forgotten about

I think I might be mixing him up with Sean Long.

But I do remember Stephen Kelly.
by From Despair To Where?
20 Sep 2025 15:04
Forum: The Team
Topic: Players at Reading who you had completely forgotten about
Replies: 29
Views: 1908

Re: Players at Reading who you had completely forgotten about

Steve blatherwick Jim Leighton Chris woods Kevin Lisbie Steve Blatherwick set up Archie's equaliser in the injury time 1-0 down, 2-1 win against McGhee's Wolves where the injury time only occured because of an injury to Gilksey, who was playing for Wolves. I thinks that almost qualifies him for leg...
by From Despair To Where?
20 Sep 2025 11:17
Forum: The Team
Topic: Players at Reading who you had completely forgotten about
Replies: 29
Views: 1908

Re: Players at Reading who you had completely forgotten about

A while back I had a go at recent-ish players with common surnames who I reckon most fans would find hard to place. Here's some: A Smith N Smith B Smith K Jones S Brown A Wright B Roberts J Young M Dobson J Kelly S Kelly J Taylor R Scott Yep remember all of them. Alex Smith Neil Smith Ben Smith Kei...
by From Despair To Where?
18 Sep 2025 13:21
Forum: The Team
Topic: Rival Watch
Replies: 17904
Views: 6435255

Re: Rival Watch

Sutekh Wycombe sack Dodds, Lee Johnson is the early favourite to replace him.


Out of the frying pan, into the blast furnace.
by From Despair To Where?
17 Sep 2025 13:13
Forum: The Team
Topic: Injury watch 2025/26
Replies: 50
Views: 20453

Re: Injury watch 2025/26

Because he's O'Connor's agent.
by From Despair To Where?
10 Sep 2025 16:30
Forum: International Football
Topic: England - the future....
Replies: 3940
Views: 988436

Re: England - the future....

I don't have any agenda, I looked at the figures which seemed to show a drop off in form but realised I miscalculated when papes pointed it out and put my hands up to making an error. However, he is 32, the rest of the squad is relatively young and should be around for the next 6-8 years so England ...
by From Despair To Where?
10 Sep 2025 15:38
Forum: International Football
Topic: England - the future....
Replies: 3940
Views: 988436

Re: England - the future....

Kane's goalscoring form has also dropped off for England in the past 4 years. from 0.88 goals per game up to 2021 to 0.61 since 2022. isn't that just a particularly good 2021 skewing that? 2019 was better. ...and 2023 was as good as 2021. Yeah, I realise I miscalculated the figure so retract it sli...
by From Despair To Where?
10 Sep 2025 14:12
Forum: International Football
Topic: England - the future....
Replies: 3940
Views: 988436

Re: England - the future....

Agreed, and, good though he is, he's got far too much billy big bollocks attitude these days. To me it's the old Lampard/Scholes/ Gerrard conundrum again. How do you accommodate all three. Simple answer is you don't, you pick whoever best suits the system. Going back even further, Glenn Hoddle. Und...
by From Despair To Where?
10 Sep 2025 12:16
Forum: International Football
Topic: England - the future....
Replies: 3940
Views: 988436

Re: England - the future....

There will of course be a clamour to bring Bellingham back but I think he disrupts the balance of the team. Agreed, and, good though he is, he's got far too much billy big bollocks attitude these days. To me it's the old Lampard/Scholes/ Gerrard conundrum again. How do you accommodate all three. Si...
by From Despair To Where?
10 Sep 2025 09:25
Forum: International Football
Topic: England - the future....
Replies: 3940
Views: 988436

Re: England - the future....

There will of course be a clamour to bring Bellingham back but I think he disrupts the balance of the team.

Don't want to go overboard on one performance but of the big names that are missing, Saka is the only one I'd say walks straight back into the starting XI.
by From Despair To Where?
09 Sep 2025 11:26
Forum: General Football
Topic: The generic transfer thread
Replies: 11159
Views: 2098155

Re: The generic transfer thread

I guess if I was a professional football, I'd probably also spend €3m to not sign for United.
by From Despair To Where?
09 Sep 2025 11:22
Forum: General Football
Topic: SpuROFLs
Replies: 949
Views: 168876

Re: SpuROFLs

Enic reject 2 'preliminary expressions of interest' from groups looking to buy Spurs one was a Chinese consortium and the other was a consortium headed up by Amanda Staveley To be fair, I don't blame them. We all know about a Chinese owners but Staveley is heavily involved with Saudi Arabia and I d...
by From Despair To Where?
09 Sep 2025 11:06
Forum: General Football
Topic: The generic transfer thread
Replies: 11159
Views: 2098155

Re: The generic transfer thread

General ponder - I do wonder how long it will be until we see some superstar player be owned by a non club, maybe even owned by himself, and loaned out to different teams each season for crazy wages. Cough Mascherano, cough Tevez cough West Ham. It happens(ed) a lot in South America. Our old friend...
by From Despair To Where?
01 Sep 2025 09:20
Forum: General Football
Topic: Weekend Football
Replies: 7159
Views: 2661515

Re: Weekend Football

The Arsenal excuse train is pulling in at platform 1.

David Raya as to why he didn't save the free kick. He's used to Nike balls, not Puma balls.

Not like you've had all pre season to train with Puma balls.
by From Despair To Where?
01 Sep 2025 08:03
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: 3 more signings
Replies: 66
Views: 16895

Re: 3 more signings

Sutekh Not going to be hijacking the Guehi move anytime soon then.


But Isak is close.
by From Despair To Where?
01 Sep 2025 07:28
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Rumour - Dom Ballard
Replies: 34
Views: 12471

Re: Rumour - Dom Ballard

Signing for Leyton Orient apparently
by From Despair To Where?
31 Aug 2025 19:27
Forum: General Football
Topic: Scottish premier league.
Replies: 179
Views: 36096

Re: Scottish premier league.

They've been a consistently good Lowland League team since their formation in 2010. Never finished in the bottom half and only finished outside the Top 5 3 times.

It's not a big surprise that they've taken to the Scottish League.
by From Despair To Where?
31 Aug 2025 19:23
Forum: General Football
Topic: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round
Replies: 9261
Views: 2748348

Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

Typical Arsenal fans.
by From Despair To Where?
31 Aug 2025 19:03
Forum: General Football
Topic: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round
Replies: 9261
Views: 2748348

Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

#artetaout trending on Twitter :lol:
by From Despair To Where?
31 Aug 2025 17:18
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Spaculation Kevin Nisbet
Replies: 6
Views: 2404

Re: Spaculation Kevin Nisbet

If we could afford him then it's a no brainer because he's head and shoulders above any other forward we e been linked to this summer but that's a massive "if" with knobs on. Big, strong, good in the air and not afraid to mix it. In fact, if I had to compare him to any former Reading playe...
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