Very interesting financial analysis Colin! Sorry to be pedantic, and as much as I’d like to forget about Shrewsbury given our recent match there, but they’ve been in L1 a season longer than us, making us the third longest standing club in the division.
I’m pretty sure I saw Maik Taylor, the former Fulham keeper and now Birmingham City goalkeeping coach, at the game on Saturday. Hopefully he was more impressed with Crocombe as Beadle didn’t really have much to do.
I have a spare ticket for the game today as one of our group has pulled out with illness. Will be at Oxford station in about an hour if anyone wants to buy it?
Reading’s match against Bristol Rovers on 9th September was called off yesterday, which suggests our game against them on 14th October will also be off
Thanks Paul it’s great to be rounding off the weekend reading a FV again. Nearly being crushed when we scored was my overriding memory of the last visit to Derby!
Thanks for all of your reports again this year Paul! Agree that this season ultimately ended up with an anticlimax and with your frustrations at some of the shortcomings, but I’ve been so glad to be able to go to matches in person, see some great football and experience some away days again that...
Never had control of the game - blatant booking not given for the foul on Long, which set the tone and ruined the game as a spectacle. At least we’re now getting results out of games where the refs are so incompetent (eg Ipswich) even if some may call it boring
Thanks Paul. I went, or rather, crammed, into the Past and Present the last time I went to watch us at Gillingham and enjoyed it. Not quite up there in the micro pub stakes as those found in Middlesbrough or Southend but they’re a very welcome addition to towns that perhaps don’t have the...