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[spadge]

just got my tickets who else is going?

 

[The One]

I'll be there.

 

[1973_Blade]

Me too. Never been and looking forward to it.

 

[Foxy]

As always, we'll be putting ourselves through the ordeal that is Reading

 

[Linz]

Me too. Never been and looking forward to it.

Savour that feeling before you get there because going to the Mad Stad is not a pleasant experience.

I've been four times now... got tickets for the fifth time and I think it's an awful place.

They rape your wallet to let you park in the only car park anywhere near, last time because it was a bank holiday the buses weren't running into town, it was raining, they wouldn't let us into the hotel for a drink because we were northern monkeys, it carried on raining, stewards are crap, atmosphere is crap and the stadium is full of people you knew were Chelsea fans until recently... we even won last time and that didn't make me like the place any more!

 

[Crookes Blade]

Groundwise if you've been to Pride Park, The Stadium of Light (the fake one), The Riverside stadium, the Ricoh Arena et al then you have been there before.

 

[1973_Blade]

Wow. My enthusiasm is well and truly curbed!

 

[Linz]

Wow. My enthusiasm is well and truly curbed!

Haha

I'm an avid traveller, but I just cannot stand going to Reading and I mean, I look fondly upon some shit holes.

The best experience I had at Reading was when we'd lost I think, 2-0 and some gobby southern tart was shouting her mouth off in the car park about how superior Reading was and generally being ungracious in victory.

Some Blades lads getting back into their car took offence at this.

All we then heard was:

SHAT UP YOU SLAAAAAAAG!

...from a car festooned with Blades stickers and a running battle ensued between the fat cow's tracksuit wearing pimps... I mean mates... and a car full of Blades lads who really weren't in the mood for some Southern neanderthals trying it on.

The last we saw, as we pulled out of the car park, were the Reading fans beating a hasty retreat and stuffing the gobby mare into their Nova.

Lovely place Reading. It's where evolution stopped

 

[spadge]

after reading all that im well looking forward to it haha
a stadium iv never been to so looking forward to it regardless plus the blades will be there so dont matter where it is.
any good pubs or places around it??

 

[silverfox]

any good pubs or places around it??

No!

 

[dutchblade]

Haha

I'm an avid traveller, but I just cannot stand going to Reading and I mean, I look fondly upon some shit holes.

The best experience I had at Reading was when we'd lost I think, 2-0 and some gobby southern tart was shouting her mouth off in the car park about how superior Reading was and generally being ungracious in victory.

Some Blades lads getting back into their car took offence at this.

All we then heard was:

SHAT UP YOU SLAAAAAAAG!

...from a car festooned with Blades stickers and a running battle ensued between the fat cow's tracksuit wearing pimps... I mean mates... and a car full of Blades lads who really weren't in the mood for some Southern neanderthals trying it on.

The last we saw, as we pulled out of the car park, were the Reading fans beating a hasty retreat and stuffing the gobby mare into their Nova.

Lovely place Reading. It's where evolution stopped

Last season, after that 0-1 win, standing outside the coaches...some Blades were singing, a text with alot of bad language in it....a socalled Readingsupporter with his kid (around9.10) asked them to stop using that bad language cause his kid was with him......lol. When he walked away he said...them fucking Blades..., and his son raised his middlefinger....lol....

 

[bricktop]

Having said that, going by train there is a cracking boozer on Reading Station called the Three Guineas, sells loads of real ales and is has got a really good atmopshere and is welcoming to away supporters.

Its probably in my top 3 away boozers

 

[JJ Sefton]

Ill be going but it really isnt a trip I look forward to.

 

[SotonBlade]

I won't be there this year, i'll be in Santorini with a bottle of Mythos!

 

[Linz]

Having said that, going by train there is a cracking boozer on Reading Station called the Three Guineas, sells loads of real ales and is has got a really good atmopshere and is welcoming to away supporters.

Aye... it's where we usually head.

But the lack of the ride element of the stadium "park and ride" facilities meant we ended up at a faux-Irish pub attached to a hotel last year.

 

[Berks_Blade]

Despite this being my closest game (less than 20 miles) I've managed to arrange to be away this year so that I won't be going. Got to see the win last year so don't want to push my luck with yet another Mad Stad day.

I've found the best parking option for fairly quick departure (takes hours to get out of the official carpark) and less extortion (some carparks around charge a tenner) is a park-and-ride near the M4 jct. Bus back there was quick last year, and then straight onto the motorway in a minute or two.

I'm told by our chef at work that they're playing v well, and he's pretty optimistic that their reshaped team (oldest player 25 on Sat) will do well.

 

[DazBlade88]

I'm going to this one.

I'm actually looking forward to it as much as I hate going to Reading. Because of Sky it was the first away game I'd missed for 5 years last season and we bloody won

The 3 times I've been to Reading we've never won, and the 2 times I haven't been we've won so if we lose this time I'll have to think about not going to Reading again