TV details for the first six rounds of the EFL to be confirmed by 9 July.

TV games and fixture changes until the FA Cup third round in January will be confirmed before the season, with TV picks for the second half of the season announced in November.

Earnshaw said there's a one-year option on Stickland's new deal.

Italian football kits get me moist #5131. Napoli 25/26, albeit this is a special edition 4th kit, commemorating 2,500 since Naples' founding. https://footballfashion.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SSC-Napoli-2025-Fourth-Kit-4.jpg Got to be honest not a fan of Emporio Armani as a kit manuf...

International breaks scheduled for: 6 September 2025 11 October 2025 15 November 2025 28 March 2026 With Bindon and Coniah now gone, that currently leaves just Elliott, Savage and Garcia as internationals? Potentially Dorsett, Tiv and Tuma if they sign new contracts. O'Connor doesn't seem to have be...

Rob Edwards confirmed as Middlesbrough boss. Interestingly* he's named Adi Viveash as one of his assistants. Don't think he's worked since leaving Coventry in slightly mysterious circumstances a year ago.

So it will be about 8k eligible for the Bearwood Day. 2 hour blocks on Sunday 13 July. RC said it will be a long day, so four blocks with 2k fans or five blocks with 1.6k fans? Still no idea how they'll manage the parking. Can only be space for 100-150 cars at an absolute push. Not on a bus route. S...

Notice they've now rejigged my loyalty points total, scrapping any points earned prior to 2021/22.

Which season was the last team photo taken? Don’t remember there being one in the last couple of seasons, presumably the club couldn’t afford a professional photographer. I’d have it taken at Bearwood, should the club ever manage to get a squad of players large enough to make such a picture worthwh...

Thought Couhig comes over very well on the interview Get the impatience to have the squad in place and obviously with so few under contract we do need to work quickly there, but fully agree getting the infrastructure and foundations right for the future is massively important and like the things he...

The four Tottenham keepers all went up and nabbed a Europa League final medal, leaving Son who was last in the line without. :lol: https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2025-05-21T212837Z_1503193376_UP1EL5L1NI5OZ_RTRMADP_3_SOCCER-EUROPA-TOT-MUN-REPORT-1747863019.jpg?resize=1800%2C1800

If there really is a Huntley and Palmers connection to the shirt, I think there's an opportunity to do a special edition biscuit tie-in. I'd buy some. TBF, they did a nice one for the 150th anniversary. https://images.webapi.gc.readingfcservices.co.uk/fit-in/1400x1400/92ccc240-491b-11ec-8fab-c530b8...

Lovely piece about Fran Kirby in yesterday's Observer.

Club now confirmed the Academy pre-season games:

U18 v Beaconsfield Town away Sat 19th July
U21 v Basingstoke Town away Sat 26th July
U18 v Thatcham Town away Sat 26th July
U18 v Bracknell Town away Wed 30th July

Stayed up in Liverpool last year for the Carlisle away match and saw him jogging through the streets on the Sunday. Suspect he's still got a place and family up there. Ince brought him in didn't he?

They're reconstructing the pitch too. https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2025/may/29/pitch-renovation/ https://www.barryrudolph.com/extras/nah.gif Strange, page must have been deleted. They've reposted it today. https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2025/may/30/pitch-renovation/

Yeah, I count old grounds too. Currently on 71, 3 missing from PL / Championship, 5 from L1 and 13 from L2. Hoping for a bit more luck in the cup draws next season. Walsall was the only new one bagged last season.

They're reconstructing the pitch too.

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2025/may/29/pitch-renovation/

Am thinking there's some sort of flower motif in one of the kits. It's crept into their most recent social media posts.

All depends on the kick off time. Last year all opening L1 fixtures kicked off at 5:30pm on the Saturday so if the same scheduling applies you'd like anyone at (H) or an Orient/AFC Wimbledon (A) for an all day drinking session in London prior. Interestingly* L1 and L2 start a week before the Champi...