You search for it; I blog about it

The great thing about blogging on WordPress is that it tells you what search terms people used to find your blog. These are often quite bizarre and make you wonder how on earth they ended up on The Reading Fan and, more so, how disappointed they must have been when they arrived here and realised that, actually, this is neither a book club nor a dating site for potential wags to meet their future footballer husbands. But hey, never say that I’m not a traffic whore, so excuse me as I expand on some of the latest ways I’ve been stumbled upon.

Song for Jimmy Kebe

I’ve heard the East Stand sing ‘Run, run, run, run Jimmy’ a few times. I quite like that. My dad persists with singing ‘Poor little Jimmy’ by, I think, The Undertones. It hasn’t caught on; I can’t think why.

Rodgers v McDermott Reading

Well this is a blog for another day really. I may be selective with my facts somewhat, given that I prefer to count McDermott from when he was given the job full-time, but either way, his record is the superior of the two. I didn’t care much for Rodgers by the time he left and I care for him even less now that I see what his successor has achieved with the same resources. But as I say, a blog for another day.

Tim Dellor Brendan Rodgers interview

Loads of people search for variations on this. See here.

Elm Park Reading

A beautiful, magical place where Reading used to play their football and I, as an idiotic young boy, lost my two front teeth. I still have this image in a frame knocking about somewhere.

reading books fan

This is about Reading, the football club. Not the art of reading. Although you may find this blog post to your liking.

Steve Curtis Reading

No idea how you found me by searching for this fine, young gentleman.

Brian Howard girlfriend Reading

You wouldn’t believe how regularly this appears in my search terms. So much so that it’s actually in my ‘top searches’ box. I’ve no idea whether our dashing midfielder is currently betrothed or otherwise, but he sure seems to have plenty of admirers.

opinion piece Reading class

Thanks very much.

Newcastle away blogging plans

I’m about to leave for a ridiculously long journey up to Newcastle wearing some very uncomfortable jeans and I thought I’d quickly share the plans I have for this blog over the weekend, in the highly likely event that it all goes tits up. I’ve recently treated myself to an iPhone and will be using it to tweet, post pictures and podcast from the game. I’ll try to collate it all in a running blogpost, but I’ve never tried this before and alcohol could well be involved so that (or any of this) may not happen.

However, you should be able to find the individual stuff in these places:

Twitter updates

Pictures

Podcasts

Wish me luck!

Update

So the plan to bring it all together didn’t quite work. It almost did, but the copy and paste function of the iPhone wasn’t quite good enough. There is audio at the above link, but the pictures were too big to upload on the road. Never mind, I’ll bring it all together when I get home.

My Championship Fantasy Football team

Texaco look to have upped their game with their Championship Fantasy Football game this season, with the site looking a lot better and being easier to use than it was last season. Here is my team for this year:

Feel free to tell me what stupid choices I’ve made in the comments section. And yes, you read that right…Shane Long is in. I’ve just got the feeling it could be his year…

To join my private league, you’ll need this pin: 1825

We’ve been outed

I wondered where all those page views were coming from.