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THE GREAT MOVIE DANCE SCENES ALL IN ONE PLACE! Guide reader Susan Edwards suggested this one - a terrific montage from more than 40 great movie dance scenes all set to Kenny Loggins and Footloose. SO YOU THINK YOU COULD BE KING OF THE WORLD? A super little ditty we stumbled on by the Sweet Gorilla Band - it's a cheapo vid, but with some stunning photography! YOU CAN QUOTE THIS AS ONE COOL SONG Recommended by @NicolaRBLClubs from Marlow on Twitter - and Nicola obviously has good taste in music. It's called Innocent Flow, by Reading band The Quotes. SING ALONG TO ONE OF ELTON JOHN'S FINEST... Turn the Lights Out When You Leave, kind of a country offering but with the video bonus of Teri Hatcher looking very far from a "desperate housewife!" EMBRACE THIS VERSION OF ASHES - WITH WORDS! Royals fan Megan Douglas pointed up this toe-tapping singalong football anthem at the end of last season. This week she tweeted it again - which reminded us it's a good anthem any time of the season. URZ! SOME OLD BULL AND BUSH - A TRUE LOVE SONG! Remember Tony and George's special relationship? But was it special enough for a re-make of the old Lionel Richie and Diana Ross classic...?
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 NON-LEAGUE CLUBS ON CENTRE STAGE FOR A CHANGE!WITH England playing on Friday evening, and no Premier League or Championship football on Saturday, non-league clubs in the area are looking forward to bumper attendances for this weekend's matches. Bracknell Town, Maidenhead United and Reading Town are among clubs offering incentives to fans who usually follow the Royals. Bracknell, who play Wootton Bassett Town in a Hellenic League Premier League match at Larges Lane, offer half-price admission to anyone carrying a Royals season ticket or used match ticket. Maidenhead United, at home to Bromley in the Blue Square Bet South League offer the same admission charges to anyone with a season ticket or match ticket for any pro club, while Reading Town, whose Hellenic League match is home to Witney United at Scours Lane, offer a free bar drink voucher to everyone coming through the turnstiles. The "non-league football day" is the brainchild of James Doe, a lifelong football fan of Harrow Borough FC. Its aim is to promote the semi professional game in this country by virtue of a fortuitous break in the football calendar. He said: "With no games for the big clubs it's an ideal chance to get out and watch their local non-league team instead. Given the current financial climate, clubs outside the Football League need all the support they can get so your presence at a game will be genuinely appreciated." If you just can't drag yourself away from League football, in League 2 Aldershot are home to Northampton and Oxford home to Morecambe.  WOLVES STAR ON THE ROYALS' RADAR FOR A LOAN MOVEROYALS manager Brian McDermott has revealed the club tried to sign one more player on deadline day - and now he's looking to bring in one more player on loan, probably Wolves' Michael Kightly. No names were mentioned about the man they missed on deadline day, but that was almost certainly Leicester striker Matty Fryatt, whose availability was presumably watered down once the Foxes sold DJ Campbell late in the day to Blackpool. The Reading boss, however, has hinted that he would still like to bring in another new face, and has the opportunity to take up the loan of a Premier League player not included in their parent club's maximum 25 registered players. Virtually every Premier club has found a way round the new regulations so as not to jettison a serious squad player - and apart from Craig Bellamy's ludicrous Man City-financed move to Cardiff, the only decent player who might be available is Wolves' Michael Kightly (pictured). He's been struggling for fitness since breaking a foot in March 2009, and has played only three games since - he's had setbacks, but he's expecting to be back in action in the next two months, and Reading are reported to have already put down a marker about loaning him. According to the Wolverhampton Express & Star Kightly is likely to have a recommendation about Reading from Marcus Hahnemann, Kevin Doyle and Stephen Hunt, so the omens are good about getting him. Whether or not the 24-year-old wide midfield man can regain sufficient fitness to be of value remains to be seen, but if he does get anywhere near his best he would be an asset. Meanwhile, Brian McDermott has given an in-depth report of the club's D-Day activity and thinking to the club website.  VERY INTERESTING MR BOND! ROYALS BOSS ON TEAM SPIRITROYALS manager Brian McDermott says he enjoys a "really good bond" with his current squad - and believes the deadline day additions of Ian Harte, Zurab Khizanishvili and trialist Lee Hendrie will add a significant experience factor. With so many ex-Academy players now coming through, McDermott says the influence of some wise old heads could be just the thing to balance things up and enhance team spirit. Like every Royals fan, the boss was sad to see the departure of Gylfi Sigurdsson, but he told the club website "It was a big deal for the club - and straight away off the back of that we've brought in Ian and Zurab." It's fair to say that the club would not have afforded either of those players without the money they received for The Sig. It's probable that the record £7million the club now quotes as the fee includes appearance and sell-on clauses, but whatever, it still wipes away most of the directors' fears of a turnover shortfall of up to £6million this season. Had Adam Federici's rumoured £2m move to Fulham worked out they would have been laughing all the way to the bank. As it is, despite Sigurdsson's transfer, there is still a strong squad, and McDermott added: "I've got faith in the players we've got, I love working with them and they've got faith in me too. It's a real good bond between us." Full Story from the club website.  ROYALS MAY GIVE HENDRIE ANOTHER BITE AT THE CHERRYPERHAPS the most intriguing news to come from the Royals on deadline day was that they have offered a trial to the former Aston Villa and England midfielder Lee Hendrie. His is one of those stories of a terrific footballer whose career drifted off the rails after he had looked set for the very top. More than 300 games for Aston Villa, England Under-21 regular, capped by England at senior level - then, in 2006, at the age of 29, it went pear-shaped. He had acquired the reputation of something of a Jack-the-lad - and now, as highlighted in an interesting article in the Daily Mail, he admits he made some mistakes along the way. From Villa he twice went to Stoke on loan in 2006 and 2007, then to Sheffield United on a three-year deal, only to have injury problems then find that the manager who rated him so highly, Bryan Robson, had been sacked. United didn't want him, so he went on loan to Leicester, then Blackpool. While with the Tangerines, he made his only appearance so far at the Mad Stad - and was sent off in the first half. He started last season at Derby and ended it on loan at Brighton. Now he's training with Reading, possibly in the last-chance saloon - which means the Royals' low stakes gamble could pay a handsome dividend. Boss Brian McDermott certainly thinks so from his comments on the club website. McDermott says: "I'm a great believer in giving people opportunities and, having spoken to him a couple of times, I know how hungry he is. He's a really bubbly character and he wants to play football - that's what he's about. So we'll see how things go." And if it turns out that "things go" right, the Royals just might have found someone to have a good go at filling The Sig's golden boots.  
 THE big Bank Holiday bonanza that is the Reading Festival, is over for another year. As usual there were around 80,000 fans spread over the Rivermead site enjoying a wide variety of music from hundreds of bands on six different stages. Some reputations were made and many enhanced. Some - but not many - left with fewer fans than when they arrived. And the weather produced just about all permutations apart from snow. It was hot, cold, wet and windy, mostly something of each in every day. It started as an absolute mud-bath and ended with parts of the site dry enough to be blowing up dust. The music was mainly fantastic, but the first night ended in controversy when the legendary Guns n' Roses (pictured) appeared nearly an hour late on stage, then ran out of time and suffered the indignity of having the plug pulled on them as they prepared for an encore because of the sound curfew licence for the site. Axl and co tried to carry on, then staged a sit down protest. The exact same thing happened to them again on Sunday night in Reading's sister gig at Leeds, and from the rant which Axl Rose aimed at organisers Festival Republic it looks as though we might not see them again at Reading. Click Here for full story.
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