Paunovic is now a manager in La Liga with Oviedo, having secured promotion. Tigres fans in Mexico liked him a lot too I saw they'd been promoted, didn't know he was the manager. Pleased for him. Decent guy. When he's sat on the bench at Mastella or the Estadio Benito Villamarin he'll wonder where i...

We got rid of him because he was unprofessional and a bad influence on our younger players. Absolutely do not want him back. Which seems a bit strange, because both of his clubs in France (Bordeaux and Amiens) have emphasised his professionalism, his positive influence on the squad in general, and ...

Andy Carroll leaves FCGB to return to the UK.

11 goals in 21 games.

The praise from the club for him is really effusive. Unusually so.

Snowflake Royal

Sutekh Alex Pearce has retired from playing (last club Leatherhead) and is now u15 coach at Reading FC.

Yay! Welcome back Pearcey.

Wonder if he'll be teaching step overs

...of the sort you need time lapse photography to see.

At first I thought the title of the thread was a question.

The answer to which would be Brazil's World Cup squad of 1982.

I’d be up for changing our nickname back to The Biscuitmen. The Royal family haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory of late. Time to distance ourselves from them before one of them bangs a child and then buys them off again. +1000000 You know when some pr1ck at school gave themselves a nicknam...

I don’t think there are 600 odd better teams than us in the world. We're maybe similar standard to bottom third Eredivisie, bottom half Jupiler Pro-League, bottom third Portuguese, most of the Norwegian, Swedish leagues all bar the top two or three. I think any German, Italian, Spanish, French, Arg...

Brogue

Blue socks and shorts looks awful with it

Hmm, kind of agree - with shorts would have been a lot better.

It won't please everyone but I think it's a beauty. Both innovative and a nod to the town's industrial past. The colours are great.

Heritage and modernity at the same time. very clever. Well done.

Selles to Sheffield United?

Not an obvious choice, unless you have lots of young and inexperienced players you want to build a squad around over several seasons. If thats' the plan at Bramall Lane then good luck to them. If not, this could end in tears.

Given the emphasis Rob has already made about transparency in all financial affairs, I cannot see any danger of anything nefarious.

Of course if your brother is a well respected football agent and you're a manager in need of some new players, there's an obvious advantage.

Well, Missy is absolutely adorable isn't she?

It already brings a feeling that it's is a family not a corporation that is entrusted with the future of our wonderful club.

And she runs a bookshop.

leon This would be great news.

Agreed. It would be difficult to over state just how important he could be next season.

Crusader Royal Mark Bowen appointed DOF at FGR.
Wonder what the odds on that would be ?

Will he be a success there? I wouldn't bet against it. Although he probably shouldn't.

Nothing will ever beat:

We're Reading, We're Reading,
We'll kick your fücking head in.

If Hunt thinks he's got a role in his system, I'm very happy to accept his judgement. The position he plays is more determined by the manager than the player himself. If he told to stay up high and wide that's what he'll do. From my viewpoint, he has patches of ten to fifteen minutes of being brilli...

SJM is a true legend. Got photo of him with my lad when he was young - he was thrilled to meet Sir John, and still treasures the picture. Seeing him coming out to greet the away followings all over the country was always a great moment. Never approached him myself as I wouldn't want to impinge upon...

SJM is a true legend. Got photo of him with my lad when he was young - he was thrilled to meet Sir John, and still treasures the picture. Seeing him coming out to greet the away followings all over the country was always a great moment. Never approached him myself as I wouldn't want to impinge upon ...

Gotta feel for Valencia. Years of catastrophic mis-management, they're finally turning the corner, then they appoint the walking disaster that is Ron Gourlay. Maybe they should get Kia Joorabchian in as a football consultant and Paul Ince as manager and full out for oblivion.

Hope 5G reception improves. So frustrating. 5G would be an investment decision by the network providers, not the club. And frankly, the cost benefit case would never pay off to install infrastructure to cope with 10,000 simultaneous network connections 30 times per year for a few hours. Wi-fi upgra...