Happy 15th Birthday To The Tilehurst End

Happy Birthday dear The Tilehurst End . So much has happened in 15 years, both personally and for Reading Football Club, but two things have remained strong: your support for this website and the dedication of the team who keep it and the podcast going. Since our first articles in March 2011 (back on WordPress, remember them?

) we’ve seen Brian McDermott, Nigel Adkins, Steve Clarke, Brian McDermott (again), Jaap Stam, Paul Clement, Jose Gomes, Mark Bowen, Veljko Paunovic, Paul Ince, Ruben Selles, Noel Hunt and Leam Richardson in the managerial hot seat. The club has also switched ownership between Sir John Madejski, Anton Zingrarevich, back to SJM, the Thai consortium, to He Who Shall Not Be Named and now finally to Rob Couhig and co. Two playoff finals, a promotion, two relegations and an FA Cup semi-final later, we’ve seen fanzines and podcasts come and go.

The Whiff was just wrapping up its final issue as we went live in 2011, while the Royals Post Podcast with Westy, Williams and Johnny Fordham morphed into the TTE Podcast in 2013, which you still listen to, and now watch. We’ve even outlasted the end of the club’s official programme and the demise of The Reading Evening Post. We’ve been fortunate to have interviewed countless legends of the club from the past 40 years, from Shaka Hislop and Stuart Lovell to Phil Parkinson, Kevin Doyle and dozens more .

On top of that we’ve had the two previous Reading managers on the show while they were in the role, in Ruben Selles and Noel Hunt. What matters the most is that, as a website and podcast, we’ve been able to provide thousands of hours of content for Reading fans everywhere. We’ve been there for commutes to away games, while you’ve got that spare five minutes in the office, as audio for long sleepless nights raising children, as something to read in the stands before a game and, of course, providing that much-needed bathroom-break reading material.