Bonfy177
LTLF MORON
Just looked this was in the 60’s ……sure someone done something similar in the 80’s
…Swansea perhaps?
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…Swansea perhaps?
valspoodle
Steve Chettle
The 60s definitely have to be the decade of my life. Something happening all the time.
redforest
Geoff Thomas
Didn’t Wolves and Sheffield United play in the old fourth division in the 80s after being in the first division in the 70s? Both very much yo yo clubs with Sheffield Utd very rarely not involved in promotion or relegation. Even during the 6 years they recently played in the third tier they were involved in the playoffs 3 times. Burnley & Preston are the only 2 other teams that have won all 4 divisions.
I'm Red Till Dead
Stuart Pearce
It didn't happen like that though After promotion from the 4th in the 1960-61 season, they finished 12th in the 3rd the following season, then were promoted to 2nd, then the first, before being relegated the next two seasons and again spending two seasons in the 3rd finishing 17th, then 22nd to land them back in the 4th for the start of the 1969-70 season.
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David Layne
First Team Squad
EmmersonForest4
Steve Chettle
Reading are so boring that I can’t even dislike them. It’s just meh!
Steve B
Jack Burkitt
Yeah Swansea did something similar in the 80’s although they were in the top division for a couple of seasons I think 81-82 & 82-83. I watched Forest there one of those years.
alabamared
Stuart Pearce
That has always been the memory I carried around but on checking on the way up they spent two seasons in Div 3 and two seasons in Div 2.
Cloughie1975
John Robertson
Yes-I went to the Vetch Field in the final game of the 82/83 season.A 3-0 win took Forest
into Europe-with Brian Clough on his own without Peter Taylor.
alabamared
Stuart Pearce
After that they were relegated 3 times in four seasons then spent years and years knocking about in the lower leagues.
Ashley
Steve Chettle
Pretty much how I feel. The most "meh" club in the Football League. Really couldn't care less how well or badly they do. They aren't even relevant to anyone in their own town, let alone beyond that.
YellowBelly Red
Viv Anderson
Certainly there in 81-82 season. I went to the Vetch as my first away game in December 81...notable as most other games had been snowed off that weekend.
Happily, 2-1 to Forest, Willie Young header and a late Robbo penalty.
Bryn Gunn
Cash is King!
It pleases me to see them down there. They never brought anything to the table, crap ground, crap fans, crap kit… god knows how they got to the Prem.
Incidently, the first ever Stags game I went to as a kid was against Reading in the old third division, 1980’s.
Reading were crap then as well, about 160 fans in the away end with a token hardnut that had a golfing brolly
Incidently, the first ever Stags game I went to as a kid was against Reading in the old third division, 1980’s.
Reading were crap then as well, about 160 fans in the away end with a token hardnut that had a golfing brolly
alabamared
Stuart Pearce
I always remember the Paul Smith save against them at the WFCG
Quntib Hollox
Jack Burkitt
I hope I never have the opportunity to go to another away game there.
The last one was a long trip with a detour around some roadworks to watch an insipid performance in a 1-0 defeat in the rain.
The last one was a long trip with a detour around some roadworks to watch an insipid performance in a 1-0 defeat in the rain.
BuckeyeRed
Jack Armstrong
I was at that game. Wasn't that Moussi's debut? I remember a tackle by Jules absolutely demolishing their winger.
valspoodle
Steve Chettle
Moussi's debut if I remember was the first day of the season, a hot day, as usual, and it was a dull 0-0 draw.
Don't remember anything else about the game so you may both be right. He looked a world beater that first game.
alabamared
Stuart Pearce
It was the first day of the season and it was Reading's first game back in the Championship after being relegated from the Prem.
Eddie Yates
I ♥️ Nigel Farage 🇬🇧
You can't beat reminiscing about a drab 0-0 draw with Reading in a second division game 15 years ago
I watched it on the tele, it were shite
I watched it on the tele, it were shite
BuckeyeRed
Jack Armstrong
He certainly did. Looked like he'd been hit by a Mike Tyson left hook.
I was behind the goal in the Trent End and gave Marcus Hahnemann a huge ration of shite.
I remember that match, Sonko got up somehow and looked like he didn‘t know where he was, what day it was, and indeed, who he was.
From where I was sat in the lower BC, folk were mightily impressed with Moussi.
Sadly, he got crocked a few matches later and missed some time after.
I still fondly recall him being sent-off against Barnsley, when having scored late-on, he leapt enthusiastically into the Trent End; sadly, as he‘d already been booked, this led to an inevitable Red Card, but it was a first, as I cannot ever remember - before or since - a player leaving the pitch at the City Ground serenaded to the tune of „Aye, aye, aye, aye, Moosey!“ by Modern Romance.
Perhaps thankfully.
From where I was sat in the lower BC, folk were mightily impressed with Moussi.
Sadly, he got crocked a few matches later and missed some time after.
I still fondly recall him being sent-off against Barnsley, when having scored late-on, he leapt enthusiastically into the Trent End; sadly, as he‘d already been booked, this led to an inevitable Red Card, but it was a first, as I cannot ever remember - before or since - a player leaving the pitch at the City Ground serenaded to the tune of „Aye, aye, aye, aye, Moosey!“ by Modern Romance.
Perhaps thankfully.
Bryn Gunn
Cash is King!
This is it Eddie.
Folk moaning about the West Ham performance, christ, we play some nice football now. Doesn’t seem like five minutes ago we were getting played off the park by the likes of Reading and Wigan Athletic.
valspoodle
Steve Chettle
It's memories. When you're old like me, that's all that is left. You young lads are lucky.