Moments of Glory - The Story of Football in Reading

Reading has always been a football crazy town.'
Thousands of local players and supporters would agree with that and Moments of Glory captures the fun, fanaticism and the facts about football in Reading through the stories of people who play, watch and help to run the local game.
International star Neil Webb, a former Reading player, says in his introduction:
I have so many reasons for being grateful to football in Reading. I enjoyed every game I played, those on the parks and school pitches in Reading as much as those at Wembley!
This is the story of street, school, park and professional football. It follows the fortunes of the Royals through to the magic of the Wembley play-off and digs into the history of the many grassroots clubs still flourishing in the town. It recalls the rivalry between two extraordinary local teams which drew huge crowds season after season, the fanaticism of a supporter who called the Samaritans for the football results, the man who stood up a film star for a football match, the women who have broken into the notoriously male world of football.
There are interviews with stars of today and yesterday, backroom workers, pressmen and referees, who tell their own, comic, exciting and eccentric stories, about the greatest sport of them all.

On the front cover inset is my Granddad, Len Grant. Wearing his England schoolboy's cap which he was awarded for playing in the first schoolboy international in 1906.