Against the odds and certainly against my expectations Reading FC reached the Championship Play-Off final at Wembley on Tuesday night. For me and thousands of other Reading fans it is, perhaps, the chance to finally put to bed this misery we suffered in 2001 at the Millennium Stadium and even more importantly the utter dejection at Wembley in 1995 when we missed a penalty when 2-0 up and went on to lose 4-3 in extra time. We followed ...
This weekend just gone has been so hectic that it is hard to recall the full measure of what has happened. I will start with Friday and the first leg of the Semi Final of the Play offs for Reading v Cardiff. As a neutral this game would have been about as interesting as watching Formula One, but as a supporter, it was quite tense and exciting in a frenetic way, with not much skill on show, but plenty of endeavour from both sides, the 0-0 ...
Some of you may have noticed a distinct lack of Blogs over the last week or so, this is because cricket has temporarily taken over my life as I run two under 15 Colts sides.They have had five games in less than two weeks. On top of that George has played two adult games and two school matches, plus I have also played in three Sunday matches culminating in a batting average of 3.5 and seeing my first delivery of the season dispatched ...
Even if you are not a saddo like me and in general, you pay no particular interest in the British weather, you would have struggled not to notice the heat and dryness that the south of England has been subjected to in the last month. You don't often see statistics like these; The warmest April for 350 years (though how well the temperature was measured in the 1600's is any ones guess) included the hottest April day since 1949 (27.8c) ...
That dastardly wedding, you know, the one last Friday, has been wiped cleanly off the news in the last few days as something new seems to be happening almost on an hourly basis. No sooner had the last of the street parties cleared up before we had the death of Saif Gadaffi (son of the Colonel) and surprise, surprise, the announcement of a prolonged war in Libya. We then had a brief respite before the CIA (or was it the FBI?) announced that ...