PORTSMOUTH v READING NPower Championship, 16 August 2011 at Fratton Park Link to BBC Sport Prieview: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14471709.stm Last season: 14/08/10: Portsmouth 1-1 Reading Who are Ya? (some of this info is courtesy of wikipedia) Since joining the league in 1920 The Royals have spent the majotity of their life in the third tier of English football, although they have had stints in each of the other three levels. In 1913 Reading toured Italy and beat Genoa 4â2 and A.C. Milan 5â0. After losing 2â1 to Casale, they beat Italian champions Pro Vercelli 6â0 and the full Italian national team 2â0, prompting the leading sports newspaper Corriere della Sera to write "without doubt, Reading FC are the finest foreign team seen in Italy." Highest League finish; 8th in Premier League 2007. Lowest; 16th in Fourth Division 1972 Honours: 2nd Tier (Championship) Champions 2006, runners-up 1995 3rd Tier (League One [inc Third Div South]) Champions 1926, 1986, 1994, runners-up 1932, 1935, 1949, 1952, 2002 4th Tier (League Two) Champions 1979 Full Members Cup: winners 1988 London War Cup: winners 1940â41 Football League Third Division South Cup: winners 1938 Yesteryear Not so many years ago, but who will ever forget the match on 29 September 2007? Pompey 7-4 Reading (but for a missed Reading penalty it could have been 7-5!). The eleven goal tally is a record for a Premier League match. Reading League Positions: 5 years ago (2006-07): Premier League â 8th (Highest ever finish) 10 years ago (2001-02): Div 2 [League One] â 2nd (promoted) 15 yesrs ago (1996-97): Div 1 [Championship] â 18th 20 years ago (1991-92): Third Division [League One] â 12th 25 years ago (1986-87): Second Division [Championship] â 13th Random Fact: In March 1983, (Oxford Utd Chairman) Robert Maxwell tried to merge United with Reading to form a new club called the Thames Valley Royals, Current odds (Monday morning) from SkyBet Pompey: 19/10 Reading: 11/8 Draw: 12/5
Well they just beat Leicester away, so a point would be acceptable. D'Urso will see us, to a highly questionable win, maybe.
A draw isn't really good enough though. We need 3 points to kick our season off and keep up with the front-runners
That's the stuff that dreams are made of. And it might even stop that miserable lot on the snooze site calling for SC to be sacked.
They shouldn't even print rubbish like that, what's wrong with these guys. Probably Premiership fans who have put their pompey shirts away and got the Arse/spuds/Chelsea ones back out again.
I just hope that CSI and others at Pompey realise that it's about 20 regulars on that site and they don't represent the views of everyone.
Pleased with the result of course. That said, because I live in Germany, Fratton Park is often out of the question. Over the moon when a match is televised, or when I can follow games on the radio. Last season I usually logged on to the live NEWS site when there was no such coverage to follow the blues. Seems this year league restrictions now limit even this play by play coverage. The result being that every 15-20 mins you get a tidbit of info about what's happening on the pitch. What a load of brown trout !!!
