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RE: ⚽️ “Home” Days: Reading v. Lincoln
Wow, that is quite the odyssey you went on... and not even a nailbiter game.
I do remember strikes and railway schedules quite well from the years I spent in the UK... many years ago. Even went through Reading a few times; my stepbrother was an estate agent in Bracknell. Seems nothing much has changed.
I hope you made it home again, safe and sound!
I didn't realise that you'd lived in the UK (although I forget quite a lot so hopefully you haven't told me before!) Where did you live?
When I was growing up, Bracknell wasn't very nice - it had "The Point" which had a cinema and bowling alley and that was about it. Saturday night was pretty much guaranteed "fight night" in the "town" centre. So we rarely went there.
Nowadays, there's a great, new shopping centre so a lot of people are now travelling to Bracknell instead of going into Reading.
Reading just made me sad. They've spent a load of money on the train station and built these amazing new high rise buildings (presumably flats & office space) but all of the shops are "pound shops", mobile phone repair shops and generally cheap, tacky, bargain stores. The contrast and conflict between the 2 dynamics feels so wrong - the place just doesn't make sense to me any more.
I got home safely, thank you 🙂 The whole day has really put me off travelling to football until something changes in our society and it goes back to the (comparatively) safe environment pre-Covid. I was so "on-edge" for the whole journey home - Fighting Reading "fans", Rowdy (and offensive) Portsmouth fans and then drunk, noisy Arsenal fans. By the time I got home, I was so sick of football fans that I'd like to avoid them for a
whilelong time.