Watford Fc 2-0 Reading - 09/02/2021

Perhaps we can have a Mooney phrase book,

He’s gone down like a packet of biscuits there
That shot was a pile of soup (lazar)
...?

 

I've never has much respect for football teams whose name is the present participle of a verb

 

Now you’ve got me trying to think of any others at all. And so far nothing.

 

I was already expecting a loss here, now that XM has won MOM I think something will also happen that results in us being deducted 3 points.

 

Red card for Hughes for looking aghast at the ref too often, and injury to Sarr for being kicked yet again, Bachman to throw the ball into the face of their forward, and then bring him down trying to retrieve the siuatuon, red card penalty and lose 1-0.

 

There's a Barking FC founded the year before us and used to play at Vicarage field

 

How about Berming ham - covering or protecting ham with a berm.
Sittingbourne FC
Gilling ham though how ham can have gills is hard to work out

 

He did - “the greatest player you never saw”. Except I did, playing for Cardiff

 

Racing was the first that sprung to mind.

 

In the words of Dr Fritz Fassbender

"Help. Oh how I need that thing".

 

The prem is awash with -ters -hams and -tons but the race for 2nd place in the championship sees the 2 -fords in the league fighting it out to be the only -ford in the prem next season

 

Santander or Avellaneda?

 

Sporting Lisbon is another.

 

Getting ready for tonight with help of San Lorenzo

 

I saw him destroy Watford once, at Elm Park in the mid ‘70s. It was my first away game. 0-3.

 

That seems more believable than the "goal" Attwell gave them

 

We're playing Reading
This Friday night,
Last time we played them
We got quite a fright.

TDB got injured
And we took our first L,
A repeat of that happening
Would be footballing hell.

Reading this season
Seem to be quite good,
Qualify for the play offs?
It's possible they could.

Watford's performance
Needs to improve,
I hope we can get Pedro
Back into his groove.

But results are what matter
At this stage of the season,
It's vital we get one
By any rhyme or reason.

A draw against Reading
Would be a bust,
Cos make no mistake:
A win is a must.

Lose tonight's game
And we'll be in quite a big hole.
Prediction: Watford 0, Reading 1;
Deeney (own goal)

 

Did you read the book - very good. He sounded like a grade A nutter

 

Rimin(i) FC

 

Reading 94

 

Some killer acts there, probably more adventurous than the list of those who played at Glastonbury that year.

Interesting to know what Radiohead played - The Bends from 1995 was when they became great. Were they already playing songs from that album, or still ones from the Pablo Honey era?

 

Great line up. The only one I can remember from that year is Cypress Hill. God knows what I was doing the rest of the time! I do remember swiping a bottle of port from my parents' drinks cabinet on the morning of the festival.

 

They played The Bends and Just - a sneak preview of what was to come.

 

Any Royals fan would be outraged by that. They're proud to be authentic gerunds and despise the present participle, which they regard as being 'effette' and 'pompous'.

 

Saturday's the day to have gone...

 

Royals? They are & always have been "The Biscuitmen" in my book. And tonight they'll just crumble as we totally dunk'em.

 

We aren't great against good teams. Reading have a lot of quality, Olise, Richards, Ejara, Joao would all walk into our 11. Will be tough but if we are serious about automatics this is the kind of game we need to be winning at home. Will be twitchy, very important we don't concede first.

And for the love of god, lets hope Troost Ekong has been working on his passing out!

 

I was having a beer at the ULU student bar in London in January 1993. A band started playing while we were there. They were pretty good, they were called Radiohead.

 

Oh it was soooooo good. Common People for the first time. Radiohead playing new songs from The Bends plus The Manics blowing everyone away with songs from the Holy Bible. Crikey even Terrorvision were alright! Best festival day ever.

Reading 95 was pretty good too. Never went again after seeing The Stone Roses in 96. That was tragic

 

Point tonight wouldn't be the worst result. That + wins at Luton and Millwall would probably be very close to enough

 

How is Alice now?

 

I agree.
I would say a defeat would be the worst result. Perhaps controversially, I would claim that a win would be the best result.

 

We will also be hit with a transfer embargo and forced to give 5 year Contracts to Deeney and Gray.

 

We don't need to be forced. That will happen anyway.

 

Would those players walk into our team? Richards sure, their Joao is better than ours for now, although I think JP has the potential to be much better. Ejaria and Olise are harder to compare as they've been used in various roles this season, they are both a similar standard to our players in those positions (although I do accept that they both have greater ceilings)

Will be another test of how far we've come, I think we've only had Bournemouth of the promotion-chasers since the change in formation, and that didn't end well (granted, on paper Bournemouth should be right up there, and they massively caught us out with their *********ry which I'm not sure Reading will do)