Superb IH, an excellent post. I've not been able to bring myself to watch any of the highlights yet, but I think I need to, so I can fully appreciate the noise when we got it back to 3-2 and then hit the post.
If Karacan's shot, or Hunt's follow-up, had gone in, I think my head would have been close to exploding, much like it felt when Forster scored the winner against Wigan.
I hate this game - back from Wembley
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Ian, my suggestion is that you now retire Hob Nob Anyone?. None of your posts will reach such quality ever again. A quite splendid read.
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Dear all,
maybe I will retire Hobnob Now as Handbags has suggested. Thank you all for your very kind and complimentary comments. (Especially Floyd, a nimble pensmith himself on many an occasion, although I do not mean to single anyone out above the other as I enjoy reading all of your posts on my visits to this portal at the various times I am drawn back to it, i.e. every day).
I think we all have similar feelings about our club when times like these come along, and I am glad now that I put my thoughts 'out there' and they seemed to chime with other Nobbers.
Cheers to you all folks, lovely words and once again, many thanks.
(No doubt I'll go back to short comments about perversion, beer and trains (and occasionally, pens)).
I love being a Reading fan, for every good and bad reason.
Love...Ian xx.
maybe I will retire Hobnob Now as Handbags has suggested. Thank you all for your very kind and complimentary comments. (Especially Floyd, a nimble pensmith himself on many an occasion, although I do not mean to single anyone out above the other as I enjoy reading all of your posts on my visits to this portal at the various times I am drawn back to it, i.e. every day).
I think we all have similar feelings about our club when times like these come along, and I am glad now that I put my thoughts 'out there' and they seemed to chime with other Nobbers.
Cheers to you all folks, lovely words and once again, many thanks.
(No doubt I'll go back to short comments about perversion, beer and trains (and occasionally, pens)).
I love being a Reading fan, for every good and bad reason.
Love...Ian xx.
Great post Ian - would be a loss to the board having you retire with just the WUMS and spacktards posting drivel. Made my hairs on me neck stand up reading that post.
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zummerset Great post Ian - would be a loss to the board having you retire with just the WUMS and spacktards posting drivel. Made my hairs on me neck stand up reading that post.
Cheers Zummers. No retirement planned. Leaving this board would be a cancer on the internet I love.
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Just to add my agreement to all those that said it was an excellent post. Not often I can be arsed to read mega long posts on the Team Board but that one was well worth it.
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Para Handy Just to add my agreement to all those that said it was an excellent post. Not often I can be arsed to read mega long posts on the Team Board but that one was well worth it.
Much as yours was on the community feeling of supporting this club and the turn-out at the Green Man made you feel and made me feel when I read it. Much the same for me and many others I suspect as I looked around me on Monday. Faces and people I'd not seen altogether in one place and for the same cause for many years.
Quite moving, almost (definitely).
Ian - can I just say that your post was the most articulate to ever grace this forum, encapsulating EVERYTHING that I - and probably 40,000 others - felt on the day. It really, truly, deserves a far wider audience then us tbh.
That howl the nano-second after the ball hit the post - it was primeval; it was from so deep inside 40,000 individuals that it was almost as if part of our collective DNA had been exposed.
Those 15 or so minutes between the start of the 2nd half and Noel's follow up shot being superbly blocked by Monk to go off for a corner was not just Reading FC at its best - it was football at its best - and I, for one, will remember those 900 or so seconds with as much pride as anything else I have felt in supporting Reading FC since the late 1960's.
That howl the nano-second after the ball hit the post - it was primeval; it was from so deep inside 40,000 individuals that it was almost as if part of our collective DNA had been exposed.
Those 15 or so minutes between the start of the 2nd half and Noel's follow up shot being superbly blocked by Monk to go off for a corner was not just Reading FC at its best - it was football at its best - and I, for one, will remember those 900 or so seconds with as much pride as anything else I have felt in supporting Reading FC since the late 1960's.
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A really good tactical analysis of the game for anyone who wants to relive it :
http://www.zonalmarking.net/2011/05/31/swansea-4-2-reading-sinclair-play-off-final/
http://www.zonalmarking.net/2011/05/31/swansea-4-2-reading-sinclair-play-off-final/
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Great post Ian.
As suggested that quality of writing needs a greater audience.
I suggest you find it...................
As suggested that quality of writing needs a greater audience.
I suggest you find it...................
I genuinely think that is the best post I have ever read on HNA?
Raises the hairs on the neck when you actually read about the moment Jem hit the post in that description.
It was like literature in HD.
Raises the hairs on the neck when you actually read about the moment Jem hit the post in that description.
It was like literature in HD.
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Watching England..I hate this game..sat in same block as Monday. 
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Winnershroyal Watching England..I hate this game..sat in same block as Monday.
Looks like England doing a Reading at the moment...
Elm Park Old BoyWinnershroyal Watching England..I hate this game..sat in same block as Monday.
Looks like England doing a Reading at the moment...
Man United, Reading, England... all beaten (getting beat) on English soil.
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Elm Park Old BoyWinnershroyal Watching England..I hate this game..sat in same block as Monday.
Looks like England doing a Reading at the moment...
When England went 2 nil down to 2 quick goals I was thinking deja vu and chanting in the pub "Reading in disguise....."
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Mr Angry Ian - can I just say that your post was the most articulate to ever grace this forum, encapsulating EVERYTHING that I - and probably 40,000 others - felt on the day. It really, truly, deserves a far wider audience then us tbh.
That howl the nano-second after the ball hit the post - it was primeval; it was from so deep inside 40,000 individuals that it was almost as if part of our collective DNA had been exposed.
Those 15 or so minutes between the start of the 2nd half and Noel's follow up shot being superbly blocked by Monk to go off for a corner was not just Reading FC at its best - it was football at its best - and I, for one, will remember those 900 or so seconds with as much pride as anything else I have felt in supporting Reading FC since the late 1960's.
This ^^^^ oh and absolutely superb post IH. I was going to say the celebrations for the second goal will live with me forever, if we had scored the third I would quite literally have exploded.
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Amazing post, Mr Herring... Brought a tear to my eye...
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Good to read all of your stories about our latest Wembley adventure,all 3 of which have produced a hatful of goals.
I had a crazy day of watching the full first-half on TV and then travelling to the airport during half-time and then a desperate time of
poor reception from phone and radio but eventually getting the last 10 minutes on BBC text on the phone.
I had a feeling that we would give it a real go in the second half because if you are leading 3-0 what do you do?
Do you try to close up shop or go for another goal but surely 3 would be enough?
When I left the house I was seething at defenders who had lost their rag and our idiot left-back who believes that football is just a walking game rather than a running one-hadn't we clever ones been predicting this all season that in our most important game his poor defending would mean more than his free-kick goal threat?
The real surprise though was Griff and Kish ,both usually bordering on immaculate,losing in it on the big occasion especially as they have had so many big occasions in their careers.
In all my years I have never just seen the first-half of a game and never want to go through that again-it's bad enough not being there but watching your side crumble on TV is not a pleasurable experience as unfortunately the ref's decisions were spot on and really Kish should have been sent off.
My wife didn't understand that although I said that I wasn't too fussed if we didn't go up as I felt our team is not strong enough when it comes to it as fans you always want your team to win.
Unfortunately our defence (and theirs) was and is just not good enough to be able to perform at the higher level.
It sounds as though you all still had a great day and let us hope for many more from our little old overachieving club that we all love.
I had a crazy day of watching the full first-half on TV and then travelling to the airport during half-time and then a desperate time of
poor reception from phone and radio but eventually getting the last 10 minutes on BBC text on the phone.
I had a feeling that we would give it a real go in the second half because if you are leading 3-0 what do you do?
Do you try to close up shop or go for another goal but surely 3 would be enough?
When I left the house I was seething at defenders who had lost their rag and our idiot left-back who believes that football is just a walking game rather than a running one-hadn't we clever ones been predicting this all season that in our most important game his poor defending would mean more than his free-kick goal threat?
The real surprise though was Griff and Kish ,both usually bordering on immaculate,losing in it on the big occasion especially as they have had so many big occasions in their careers.
In all my years I have never just seen the first-half of a game and never want to go through that again-it's bad enough not being there but watching your side crumble on TV is not a pleasurable experience as unfortunately the ref's decisions were spot on and really Kish should have been sent off.
My wife didn't understand that although I said that I wasn't too fussed if we didn't go up as I felt our team is not strong enough when it comes to it as fans you always want your team to win.
Unfortunately our defence (and theirs) was and is just not good enough to be able to perform at the higher level.
It sounds as though you all still had a great day and let us hope for many more from our little old overachieving club that we all love.
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Excellent post Ian. Supporting this club, even from great distance, has been a very rewarding experience for me personally.
I feel I am cheating a bit not having suffered through some of the struggles. I have a very positive feeling for the future.
I feel I am cheating a bit not having suffered through some of the struggles. I have a very positive feeling for the future.
IH - great post
That din was summed up by the startled look on my tourist, Bro's face and mouthing 'bloody hell' as the din reached a crescendo - after 50 years I think he finally gets what being a footie fan is about.
btw he was there to chaperon his footi mad son (9)- who I have converted to the true way - but who when we went 3-0 down wanted to leave. I told him this is what being a footi fan was about (and a Reading one in particular), to take it as a man and hey 'you never know'. A week on and he is still in emotional turmoil.
That din was summed up by the startled look on my tourist, Bro's face and mouthing 'bloody hell' as the din reached a crescendo - after 50 years I think he finally gets what being a footie fan is about.
btw he was there to chaperon his footi mad son (9)- who I have converted to the true way - but who when we went 3-0 down wanted to leave. I told him this is what being a footi fan was about (and a Reading one in particular), to take it as a man and hey 'you never know'. A week on and he is still in emotional turmoil.
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