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Reg me old fountain of all things Trivia, can you answer this one for me? Which Football team are known as the biscuitmen?

Reading

its readings traditional nickname pre-madjeski i think

Next nickname query, without looking it up who are known as "The Seals"?

Chester isn't it?

Yeah from their old ground Sealand Road.  I didn't know that until recently.

ooo I love footy trivia!  more please :)

Which team were once known as the Florians?

mmm dunno, but Florians is the nickname of people that come from Florence...so Fiorentina maybe?

we talking english football league here?

no idea, just made it up to pass the time. didn't realise anyone would take ME seriously on football trivia.

sweet :)

Reading are still known as the Biscuitmen!  I don't think a club loses a nickname when a new Chairman comes in.

One of my favourite items of trivia used to be: what is the largest English town or city never to have been represented by a top flight club?  Until the start of this season, the answer was Hull.  I think the accolade must now have passed to the 'city' [cough] of Milton Keynes.

no plymouth

OMG Axs I googled it and everything!

cheat.

I was trying to make you all think I was brainy!

Good luck with that.

A quick look at the map shows Milton Franchise as being quite a bit bigger.  Surprised myself when I checked it out.  (Yes, I am that sad.)

I'm sure i read somewhere it was plymouth. Unless that was a 'Franchise dont count' opinion

Milton Keynes Town (as they are cos they arent a City despite what they may tell you) has a poplutation of @186,000.

Plymouth the City has a popultion of @246,000

Kingston Upon Hull has a population of @257,000

Swindon in comparison has a population of @155,000

But these are based purely upon population of the City/town itself not the non-metropolitan district, which puts MK a little ahead of the muff.

Who are The Gable Enders?

The problem with quizzes on the web is people can just google for the answer.  I won't spoil it for everyone else...didn't know that until I looked it up.

Montrose?

What he said.

That's why you do picture ones. makes it harder.

Just a bit of Trivia..biscuit men of Reading comes from the Huntly and Palmer biscuit makers who were the main employers in Reading for alot of years....there is now a museum ware the factory was showing the life of a biscuitman!

 Here's a decent old skool quiz thread....some of the questions, you'd struggle to find on
the net.

 http://thetownend.com/index.php/topic,7173.0.html

 Good warm up stuff for those competing on the 1st Oct.....the last scorers of 4, 5 , and 6 goals v STFC still unanswered  :idea:

Going back to The Royals, which football club have always been called The Royals, they were formed before Reading.

I know Steve Foley was awarded 4 against Leicester at the time when we beat them 5-3, I think with hindsight one was given as an own goal post match though.  Probably says that on the thread but can't be arsed looking, even though it'd have been easy than typing all of this!

Keith East scored 5 back in the sixties but I ve never heard of anyone scoring six-must have been Maurice Owen I guess

 Against us Adje. Yeovil did the scorers for us on the original thread.