Relive Reading FC’s Legacy The Ultimate Programme Collector’s Book!
Ask any old-school Reading fan: flipping through a battered matchday programme brings back memories quicker than a YouTube highlight reel. “Reading FC: A Programme History” starts where the club’s roots run deep—capturing forgotten faces, muddy pitches, and the roar of Elm Park crowds, all with rare photos most of us have never seen. The book doesn’t just skim the surface. Once you’re past the opening chapters, it’s a full-colour time machine straight to 1910, with every page showing a different season’s programme cover. You’ll spot the changing sponsors, oddball artwork, and the kind of pocket-sized nostalgia that only a true collector cares about. But what really gets you is the back section: eight pages tracing who actually made these programmes, from the printers in town to the local characters who wrote the match notes. It’s like meeting the unsung legends behind every souvenir. For anyone who’s ever queued up outside the ground, or picked through a pile of old programmes at a car boot sale, this isn’t just a reference book. It’s a bit of Reading’s soul, pressed between glossy pages. ROYAL MAIL TRACKED 48 Publisher: S & T Sales & Marketing Ltd Published: April 24, 2026 Price: £21.99 Softcover: 279 pages ISBN-13: 978-1915697486 Dimensions: 18 x 25.4 x 1.75 cm
