It always used to be said that Reading fans had long memories. Well, I'm not so sure that that is true any more, and so this page is to help us remember those who have wronged us in the past. Just to make things easy, the table shows the current whereabouts of the villain concerned, and the date when we might next expect to see him. The order of the table is in the order that we will come across them, with the nearest meeting at the top.
Some people say
that we should forgive.
I say that we should never forget.
(Well, actually, I say that we should never forgive, either.)
| Name | Reason | Current Location | Next Encounter | Hate Rating |
| Alan Pardew | Attempted to resign from Reading on 10/9/2003 after clearly stating that he would be here for a long time. | West Ham United manager | ? | 10 |
| Mark McGhee | Walked out on Reading on 14/12/1994 after saying he would stay. | Brighton & Hove Albion manager | ? | 10 |
| David Swindlehurst | Broke Paul Canoville's leg at Sunderland on 21/10/1986, effectively ending his career, and got away with it. | Crystal Palace reserve manager? | ? | 7 |
| Guy Ipoua | Hit Barry Hunter three times right in front of the referee, and taunted the Reading fans, on 27/11/1999, and got away with it. | Livingston | ? | 6 |
| Steve Bruce | Moaning Wigan Athletic manager who gets in for his ludicrous post-match comments following the 2001 Division 2 play-off semi-final, second leg on 16/5/2001. | Birmingham City manager | ? | 8 |
| Richard Carpenter | Broke Chris Casper's leg at Cardiff on 26/12/1999, effectively ending his career, and got away with it (but his insurers have now admitted liability in advance of an out-of-court settlement). | Brighton & Hove Albion | ? | 9 |
| Ron Futcher | Elbowed Martin Hicks off the ball on 25/10/1986, breaking his jaw, and got away with it. | Bury youth team coach | ? | 10 |
| Paul McLaren | Injured Graeme Murty with a horrendous tackle from behind at Luton on 25/3/1998 and got away with it. | Rotherham United | ? | 7 |
| Roberto Martinez | Persistent diving cheat who was responsible for three yellow cards for Reading players in the 2000/01 season alone. | Swansea City | ? | 8 |
| Gerard Lavin | Deliberately smashed a ball into the East Stand crowd on 7/8/1999 injuring a Reading fan. | Farnborough Town | ? | 10 |
| Mark Stein | Blatantly dived in the area for Bournemouth on 7/11/1998 conning the officials into awarding them a penalty. | ? | ? | 9 |
| Tommy Burns | Totally shafted our club with a series of bizarre transfer dealings between 3/1998 and 8/1999 - as a club insider put it, "He set us back five years by establishing a wage structure we couldn't afford on players he couldn't motivate. The place just fell apart." | Deceased | 10 | |
| Geoff Vowden | Pushed Reading's Terry Bell leading to an own goal that sent Reading to Division 4 for the first time ever. | Sunday League in Kettering? | ? | 8 |
Note that to get into the list, it's not enough to have scored significant goals against us, or to have managed Oxford - these are those people who have cheated Reading out of something, whether on or off the pitch, and who deserve to feel our wrath for that reason.
And I would like to explain that the reason Jason McAteer is not on the list is because his actions against Reading were not those of a cheat or thug like the people listed above. It is true that he should have been sent off in the 1995 Division 1 play-off final, but that was the failure of the referee, not McAteer. All McAteer did was to mistime a tackle and play brilliantly afterwards. I may not like him, but this list is for sneaky cheating individuals rather than the likes of him.
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