They still don't like us

[USA_Loyal_Royal]

I agree that rivalrys can fade away unless reignited. the only way that it could be reignited is if aldershot, swindon, oxford started rising into the higher levels with us. for me i hate west ham and qpr and i see them as our "new" rivals. we have been creating history with these clubs in recent memory.

[Jackson Corner]

I think it's kind of sweet that they still think of us as rivals. Sadly as the years go buy there are less of us who remember when we did play on a reguler basis and it was the first game you looked for when the fixtures came out.
I remember my uncle once telling me the rivalry started around the 2nd world war with Aldershot being an army town and Reading a brock barracks town. Having said that I've never heard it from anywhere else and he did drink a lot of whiskey!

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

I agree that rivalrys can fade away unless reignited. the only way that it could be reignited is if aldershot, swindon, oxford started rising into the higher levels with us. for me i hate west ham and qpr and i see them as our "new" rivals. we have been creating history with these clubs in recent memory.

True rivalry is always based on locality. Anything else is just a temporary grudge.

[SPARTA]

http://www.shotsweb.co.uk/mb/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32036


They have scored two goals at home this season and are bottom of the football league, get around 1800 home fans and somehow have the audacity to take the pizz out of our loss against Arsenal

Love to have the opportunity to stuff em like the old days.

Aldershot? Never heard of them.

[SHORT AND CURLY]

What the newer supporters have to remember is that Aldershite were once on a level playing field with us.

In the old 4th Division we used to play the likes of Barrow, Rochdale, Mansfield, Workington etc. We looked out and relished the fixtures against Aldershite, Oxford and the Swine.

In the FA Cup if we were lucky enough to beat the likes of Wealdstone or Hendon we might get draw bigger club like Rotherham or Wrexham. If we got through that we might get one of the 'Big Boys like Southampton or Sunderland

The point I am trying to get over is that these days we as fans are really spoilt playing in the top flight. Some of me yearns for the terrace swells, the Jolly Porter, the atmosphere, the shitting it, the chasing and the running away and of course taking over the Wreck!

[sputnik]

In the old 4th Division we used to play the likes of Barrow, Rochdale, Mansfield, Workington etc.

Barrow ? Frequent visitors to Elm Park in our Division 4 days were they?

[biscuitman]

Barrow ? Frequent visitors to Elm Park in our Division 4 days were they?

Once.

[MrWestHam]

You won't be able to find a single WestHam supporter who will name Reading as rivals. Absolutely crazy. There are a few who registered that you got the hump when Pardew came to us from you I suppose but no-one goes looking for Reading on the fixture list.

Millwall and Tottenham are the only teams that really get a stir from the majority and that goes back for decades. The hypocrisy of the sheffield united claim riled a few but that's standard northern behaviour so no-one really cares.

Really quite surprised that so many on this thread nominated us.

[Terminal Boardom]

I remember going to watch Hayes v the shite in a non league game about 6 or 7 years ago. The shite were still singing anti-Reading songs. Quite sweet really knowing that they still care about us.

[leon]

You won't be able to find a single WestHam supporter who will name Reading as rivals. Absolutely crazy. There are a few who registered that you got the hump when Pardew came to us from you I suppose but no-one goes looking for Reading on the fixture list.

Millwall and Tottenham are the only teams that really get a stir from the majority and that goes back for decades. The hypocrisy of the sheffield united claim riled a few but that's standard northern behaviour so no-one really cares.

Really quite surprised that so many on this thread nominated us.

No, not really. You're just poverty stricken cunts.

[Royal Dee]

One might confuse recent Aldershot fans as "closet Reading fans", the ones that have never seen a Reading Aldershot match. They spend more time talking about Reading than there own shit club. Even if they don't want to admit it or are in denial that's the truth. I know one Aldershot fan that actively goes out of his way to hate our club. The more successful we get the more they seem to make the rivalry bigger. Maybe its because they are bored of watching the shit football they get served up and have to make their footballing life a bit more exciting by watching/talking about us.

I suppose you have to have clubs like Aldershot to make you feel better when things are looking down.

[westongeezer]

You won't be able to find a single WestHam supporter who will name Reading as rivals. Absolutely crazy. There are a few who registered that you got the hump when Pardew came to us from you I suppose but no-one goes looking for Reading on the fixture list.

Millwall and Tottenham are the only teams that really get a stir from the majority and that goes back for decades. The hypocrisy of the sheffield united claim riled a few but that's standard northern behaviour so no-one really cares.

Really quite surprised that so many on this thread nominated us.

Quite surprised that you see many people on here claiming Wet Spam as a rival, tbh the only thing i remember was the "Sock gate " fiasco that no one cared about, ask many of our supporters about Wet spam and Danny fkingDire is all we know, and the FACKING Famous GSC.....

[MmmMonsterMunch]

You won't be able to find a single WestHam supporter who will name Reading as rivals. Absolutely crazy. There are a few who registered that you got the hump when Pardew came to us from you I suppose but no-one goes looking for Reading on the fixture list.

Millwall and Tottenham are the only teams that really get a stir from the majority and that goes back for decades. The hypocrisy of the sheffield united claim riled a few but that's standard northern behaviour so no-one really cares.

Really quite surprised that so many on this thread nominated us.

I think it's pretty clear from this thread that:

1) We don't have any rivals these days just a few teams we dislike
2) We generally hate West Ham & enjoy getting 6 points off you each season
3) You should fcuk off back to KUMB

[Born 'n Bred Royal]

Ha West Ham a rival? Don't flatter yourselves. The only teams we hate are Oxford, Swindon and Aldershot, but given that we've been in a higher division than them all for years we don't really have any proper rivals.

West Ham is a sh*t club with egotistical fans who like to think that they are bigger and better than everyone else, I may dislike them but no real Reading fan would consider them as a rival

[Barney]

Bless their little 4th tier football.

Over run by Bradford today in front of 2,100 fans !!!

And they think they are rivals of a Premier League outfit ???

Was all good fun wading into the Eastbank in the 70s, but I'm afraid they should set their sights as having Farnboro as their rivals rather than us.

Oh...and 92nd today out of 92 clubs

[Lovely hot donuts!]

Having seen the OP & the way Aldershot are doing this year, there is nothing I want more than Aldershot away in the 3rd round of the fa cup. We'd probably stuff 'em and the whole place would be quiet apart from that crampt away corner. Then they might shut up about us and focus on Basingstoke Town, Farnborough & Woking a their real local rivals.

[MrWestHam]

Ha West Ham a rival? Don't flatter yourselves. The only teams we hate are Oxford, Swindon and Aldershot, but given that we've been in a higher division than them all for years we don't really have any proper rivals.

West Ham is a sh*t club with egotistical fans who like to think that they are bigger and better than everyone else

Do you not see how these two paragraphs are completely contradictory?! Let alone some of the excessively patronising comments by others about your rivals. Funny.