So when did the Biscuitmen become the Royals?
A list of club nicknames from 1960 recently tweeted by Groundtastic (well worth following for those who like their football history) made interesting reading, if you pardon the pun.
Town’s latest opponents aren’t the only club to have moved on.
Barnsley were Colliers not Tykes, Crystal Palace were Glaziers rather than Eagles, Notts County were Lambs not Magpies and Sunderland Rokerites rather than the Black Cats.
Coventry were Bantams, but not Bradford City (Paraders), Brighton were Shrimps, Colchester Oystermen, Leeds Peacocks, Rochdale Vallians and Watford Brewers.
It seems Reading became regal rather than sweet and crunchy in the mid-seventies.
It was known as the town of the three Bs, brewing, bulbs (the horticultural rather than electric variety) and biscuits, Huntley & Palmers had their base close to Elm Park, the football club’s home until they moved to the Madejski in 1998.
H & P closed their factory, once the biggest to produce biscuits in the world, some 22 years earlier, after which Reading’s new nickname was taken to reflect their location in the Royal County of Berkshire.
So what of Town?
In the 1960 list, they are just that, with Terriers nickname not coined until that start of the 1969-70 Second Division (now Championship) title campaign by then promotions manager Bill Brook.
The kit worn that season – the away version is sported by Frank Worthington – bore the new nickname and logo.
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