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Soon as Branagan saved that penalty I knew we'd win. Which is odd as normally I don't like to get ahead of myself at the game but I just had an outright belief we'd win. Remember saying so and as the second half dragged on and we didn't get a goal people around me taking the piss. But I just knew.....

Think it's my favourite live game of all time.

I never went & can't fcukin remember why!!!!!

 

It was about a couple of weeks before wife was due so "we" decided it was best to watch on telly. I wasn't that bothered at the time, less so when reading scored twice but what happened next means I totally regret missing it.

It will take something very special to beat that feeling of when that equaliser went in. A last minute winner in the Cup Final perhaps...

What would have happened if Branagan hadn't saved the pen? Could we have got seriously embarrassed by 5, 6 or 7 goals?

No chance. That team had plenty of guts and would still have made a game of it.

What would have happened if Branagan hadn't saved the pen? Could we have got seriously embarrassed by 5, 6 or 7 goals?

 

No. But think that would have been game over. Thinking back that Reading side were clearly very naive. They didn't really shut the game down. Can't see many sides nowadays 2-1 up with 5 minutes to go at Wembley conceding a goal like our equaliser. They'd be defending deep and denying space making it hard to break them down. We broke right through the middle of them.

Watching that again reminds me of how tireless McAteer used to be.

He might be thick, but the lad had an engine on him.

Watching that again reminds me of how tireless McAteer used to be.

He might be thick, but the lad had an engine on him.

He was my favourite player as a kid. Followed by Alan Thompson and Mixu

 

Speaking of Mixu I need to see if my signed moose horns are still at my mums

 

Found this report, Scott Green the legend

 

 

A very unwelcome visitor appeared in the dressing room afterwards

There was silence in the dressing room afterwards yet Bolton’s Scott Green made an unwelcome entrance asking if anyone would swap shirts.

“That didn’t go down well,” said Gooding.

 

 

 

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/reading-fc-memories-mick-gooding-9033616

Our third goal is still one of the greatest I have ever seen. I had forgotten their first weren't too s shabby either

 

Indeed.

It seemed every player was involved.

Think only McAteer took more than one touch.

Sensational goal.

Did De fraitus do anything for us after this game?

 

Or in his career?

Didn't he score at selhurst park at the start of the next season? I remember thinking he'd get 30 goals that season... my judgements not improved

He scored in our first Pl win v Blackburn but think that was about it

That's was great beating them bastards too

He scored in our first Pl win v Blackburn but think that was about it

Aye, put it in off the underside of the bar from a yard out iirc.

 

He's an architect now.

Found this report, Scott Green the legend

 

 

A very unwelcome visitor appeared in the dressing room afterwards

There was silence in the dressing room afterwards yet Bolton’s Scott Green made an unwelcome entrance asking if anyone would swap shirts.

“That didn’t go down well,” said Gooding.

 

 

 

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/reading-fc-memories-mick-gooding-9033616

 

Slightly longer version

 

http://www.readingfcformerplayers.co.uk/news/87/Match_of_our_time_-_Mick_Gooding:_Reading_3,_Bolton_W_4

Seem to remember De Freitas scoring a top goal at home to Forest (?) in the PL the following season

Seem to remember De Freitas scoring a top goal at home to Forest (?) in the PL the following season

 

 

He did:  http://www.11v11.com/matches/bolton-wanderers-v-nottingham-forest-02-december-1995-22324/

"...who knows, they might just turn it around?"

 

In fact, I think the De Freitas Forest featured on that 100 greatest premier league goals dvd we put out at the height of the Allardyce years, that's probably where I remember it from

Wasn't it Fab who was playing for WBA and he missed the game because he was still in bed with his burd?

 

Roverrrs were poorly defending champions too when we thrashed them for our first PL win

I looked it up, according to his Wikipedia he thought it was a evening kickoff, a likely excuse, yet on checking the 5th April 1999 was a Wednesday - and a 3pm kickoff?

 

edit: my phone is shit, it were a Monday.

 

Malcolm's job is safe.

Edited May 26, 201511 yr by Youri McAnespie