Reading FC

Cureboy

Cureboy

Viv Anderson
Was having a rare look at the lower league tables this morning and was astonished to see Reading FC rooted to the bottom of League One, well adrift of safety and surely heading to League Two.

Considering they were Premier league not so long ago and Championship play offs even more recently...is this the biggest (or fastest) fall from grace of any club?

Once seemingly such a well run club too. Something gone badly wrong there with the Chinese ownership...
 
Strummer

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
LTLF Minion
Cureboy said:
Was having a rare look at the lower league tables this morning and was astonished to see Reading FC rooted to the bottom of League One, well adrift of safety and surely heading to League Two.

Considering they were Premier league not so long ago and Championship play offs even more recently...is this the biggest (or fastest) fall from grace of any club?

Once seemingly such a well run club too. Something gone badly wrong there with the Chinese ownership...
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Portsmouth FC are outside and would like a word.
 
Eddie Yates

Eddie Yates

Steve Chettle
Cureboy said:
Was having a rare look at the lower league tables this morning and was astonished to see Reading FC rooted to the bottom of League One, well adrift of safety and surely heading to League Two.

Considering they were Premier league not so long ago and Championship play offs even more recently...is this the biggest (or fastest) fall from grace of any club?

Once seemingly such a well run club too. Something gone badly wrong there with the Chinese ownership...
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good, can't stand Reading

boring club, boring fans, boring ground, boring town

no character at all
 
Eddie Yates

Eddie Yates

Steve Chettle
Cureboy said:
Was having a rare look at the lower league tables this morning and was astonished to see Reading FC rooted to the bottom of League One, well adrift of safety and surely heading to League Two.

Considering they were Premier league not so long ago and Championship play offs even more recently...is this the biggest (or fastest) fall from grace of any club?

Once seemingly such a well run club too. Something gone badly wrong there with the Chinese ownership...
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good, can't stand Reading

boring club, boring fans, boring ground, boring town

no character at all
 
Cureboy

Cureboy

Viv Anderson
Eddie Yates said:
good, can't stand Reading

boring club, boring fans, boring ground, boring town

no character at all
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I agree, that ground of theirs is a horrible, soulless cesspit. Wonder what the atmosphere is like at home games these days...
 
Bonfy177

Bonfy177

LTLF MORON
valspoodle

valspoodle

Steve Chettle
I remember when Northampton went from the Fourth Division to the First and back down to the Fourth in about eight seasons. Don't quote me on the time it took, but it was very quick.

I actually saw them play Sunderland at Roker Park during that yo-yo ride. A flat mate at the time had parents in Chester le Street and we happened to be visiting them at the time.
 
GOBIAS

GOBIAS

Ian Bowyer
Eddie Yates said:
good, can't stand Reading

boring club, boring fans, boring ground, boring town

no character at all
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Absolutely. Really boring bunch of ***** who only turned up when their shit team got to the premier league, then went again just as quickly. Absolute tin pot nothing *****. Good riddance, hope they carry on out the league.
 
Ashley

Ashley

Steve Chettle
Strummer said:
Portsmouth FC are outside and would like a word.
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Cloughie1975 said:
Oldham also-former Premier League members now residing in the National League.
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congo_red said:
They're just following a path previously trodden by Luton.
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Although they've since made their way back to the Championship and upper League One respectively, I'd put former FA Cup winners Coventry City and Bolton Wanderers in there as well. Far bigger clubs who felt well out of place when they dropped to League Two.

Reading are a nothing club who have never won anything and no one followed them before they got into the Premier League (and even then, the town is mostly filled with followers of the big London clubs). Recency bias might suggest they should be in the Championship at least, but in reality the lower leagues are their natural level historically.

The textbook definition of a tinpot club; soulless white elephant stadium, it's townspeople don't care about them, no real history and about as bland and uninteresting as a football club can get.
 
DanR

DanR

Steve Chettle
Reading gave Alan Pardew his first job in management, for that alone they deserve to be banished to the lower leagues.
 
I'm Red Till Dead

I'm Red Till Dead

Stuart Pearce
valspoodle said:
I remember when Northampton went from the Fourth Division to the First and back down to the Fourth in about eight seasons. Don't quote me on the time it took, but it was very quick.

I actually saw them play Sunderland at Roker Park during that yo-yo ride. A flat mate at the time had parents in Chester le Street and we happened to be visiting them at the time.
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About 10 years - Northampton Town FC League Performance 1920-2023
 
Strummer

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
LTLF Minion
DanR

DanR

Steve Chettle
Strummer said:
Mark Lawrenson does not like this post.
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Speaking of whom...spotted this on my last visit to Matlock, I wonder if he mentions that story! 20231025_143631.jpg
 
M

MaxiRobriguez

Bob McKinlay
Don't mind Reading but that's only because my uncle used to work for them and took me to the 3-3 game where Chettle ended up in net for my first away game.
 
DanR

DanR

Steve Chettle
Eddie Yates said:
£50 to sit & eat chicken in a basket while listening to that chomper

No ta
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Pay £60 and you get a pair of ear plugs so you don't have to listen to him.
 
alabamared

alabamared

Stuart Pearce
valspoodle said:
I remember when Northampton went from the Fourth Division to the First and back down to the Fourth in about eight seasons. Don't quote me on the time it took, but it was very quick.

I actually saw them play Sunderland at Roker Park during that yo-yo ride. A flat mate at the time had parents in Chester le Street and we happened to be visiting them at the time.
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That occured to me when I read the OP I think they won the fourth division in 1960 and reached the first division in 1966 (might be argued that was a bigger acheivment than West Ham winning the World Cup) they were back in the fourth division by 1969.
The 1960's were great weren't they?
 
Captain Sinister

Captain Sinister

Senior doom Monger
I thought Northamton town were the first club to be promoted from 4th to 1st in successive seasons, and then immediately relegated in the following successive seasons.
Never been repeated.
 
Bonfy177

Bonfy177

LTLF MORON
Captain Sinister said:
I thought Northamton town were the first club to be promoted from 4th to 1st in successive seasons, and then immediately relegated in the following successive seasons.
Never been repeated.
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I seem to remember this also Captain, sure one season they got a ridiculous amount of points 🤔
 
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