Recent content by Tilehurst Seagull

I drive down from Reading for every home game, usually dropping into see my 89 year old mother in Dragons Green. Therefore coming from the North/North West it has always made sense to use Mill Road. Since the demise of the bendy buses there appears to have been a material deterioration of the...

I also had planned to travel and stay over in Norwich with my two lads in their early twenties who are My Albion + members. All the tickets were snaffled way before the time they would have been eligible. It also meant that I then couldn’t get a ticket despite being in the top tier of loyalty...

I was at that Barnsley game with my mate Kev who had driven up from Sussex to stay up in Yorkshire for a couple of days of cheap beer. I was a student at Huddersfield Polytechnic and living in ‘prehistoric’ conditions that led to Kev contracting bronchitis after kipping on the sofa. We stood in...

Unfortunately after a business meeting today I found myself attempting to cross Westminster Bridge from south of the river no more than 5 minutes after the carnage had ensued. I arrived just as the main bulk of the emergency services were beginning to attend to the injured. Needless to say it...

As another Reading exile I can confirm that if you catch it right the journey can be quite sensible - if 11/2 hours plus floats your boat! Some Saturdays I have to wait for my youngest sons U15 morning football to end before I hit the M4/M25/M23/A23/A27 and that can be a bit of a dash to get to...

Why not? More the merrier... Hang on, well you could if we had one...

What about The Thames Valley Seagulls - hang on that's 'TV's' - not sure with our Citys reputation that would work!

Yes, it is - Greene King pub and actually not as bad as it used to be! However I don't frequent it on a regular basis...It probably helped that one of our group used to work behind the bar for a while so we were 'tolerated'. Actually pubs in our part of Tilehurst/Purley are either too far away...

I've been exiled in Reading for just over 20 years after working for a company with a head office in the outskirts of the town and marrying a 'local' girl. There is certainly a divide between 'old Reading' and the big influx of people arriving for work and its proximity to London. This has led...

I was a student at Huddersfield Poly at that time and went to the Barnsley game with an ex girl friend (Boro fan) and a mate of mine from Wisborough Green who was staying with me for a few days of cheap northern beer. We stood on the terrace in front of the main stand with 20 or 30 other Albion...

Its a yes from me. Having to contend with a 200 mile round trip after Saturday morning U14 football can be a bit of a ball ache. Especially when you know that there will inevitably be some kind of hold up on the M4/M25/M23/A23/A27... but at least its not Gillingham... I am not impervious to the...

Don't worry they know 'we live among them', I still give them gipp about that disallowed Gary Hart goal at the 'clackerstick Dome' all those years ago. It will be more fun at my boys footy training next week...

Apparently it is not acceptable behaviour to leap up and down screaming YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS GET IN ! At a pub called The Spread Eagle in Reading...

yes, you are right, the future looks really bleak...

What terrible, terrible news, I first met Roy on the Albions pre season tour in Holland back in the late 70's. What beer fuelled larks we had... He was a true Albion stalwart that to me was part of the 'furniture' of following the Albion through thin and thinner across the length and breadth of...