Readers of and contributors towards the Feedback section of the blog will have seen me apologising for not being involved as much ss normal in that part of MAYA in recent weeks. This is because voluntary work I do on the membership side of the Cardiff City Supporters’ Trust has “enjoyed” an unprecedented growth in. membership numbers in the last two months or so and this has meant that what was, very occasionally quite a busy task has, as times become something which regularly takes up three. or four hours a day and, sadly, MAYA is one of the things that has has t9o suffer as a consequence.
Hopefully, things will return to normality as far as the blog is concerned in the next week or so because the process started with the increase in members should become clearer from the end of next week, but, for now, I’m afraid I just do9n’t have the time to do the normal seven decades quiz this week, so, I’m going to do a quick quiz somewhat like I did with the Burton one where the initials of the answers spelt the name of the team we were playing. So, in this case, there’ll be seven questions with the first letter of the answer helping to spell Reading.
I’ll put the answers on here tomorrow;-
Question 1. Currently of no fixed footballing abode, has played for two clubs whose names began with an R.
2. Hampshire born forward with somewhat aristocratic surname who scored once for his first club and sixty eight times for his only other team,, Reading.
3. Apart from a spell in Beijing, spent all of his club career playing in Britain. Never played a hundred league games for anyone, but got closest to doing so at Reading
4. Midfielder who played over six hundred times in the Football League through the seventies. all of the way into the 90s. Made just over a hundred league appearances for Reading after signing for them from Newcastle. Finished his playing days with non League Creeksiders.
5. Hereford was probably the furthest north this busy midfielder got in a long career which, generally speaking, saw him featuring in the south west corner of England. Reading was his sec ond club and he managed nearly one hundred league games for them, but he played almost twi8ce as many for his first club. Once ran sixty yazrds with the ball to score at Wembley after the opposition keeper had come up for a corner with his team losing late on.
6. Played twice for his country with the caps bein three years apart. It’s arguable whether he did best at Reading or York in terms of goalscoring. Never got to play for a club from the country of his birth.
7.More than half of his leaguer appearances in a long career came for Reading. Far from a prolific scorer, his most memorable goal contribution came with an assist one miserable night (in terms of the weather at least!) in Northern France.
Answers.
- Andy Rinomhota has played for Reading and Rotherham United.
- Pat Earls scored just the on ce for Southampton, but scored nearly 70 league goals for Reading during his time with them in. the 70s and 80s.
- Sone Aluko.
- Kevin Dillon.
- Sammy Igoe played more games for Portsmouth, then Readng, but he was playing for Bristol Rovers when he went on a sixty yard run to score against Shrewsbury in a Play Off Final against Shrewsbury.
- Lee Nogan.
- Chris Gunter.
