Reading City served up with Berkshire Football Awards nomination

Reading City have been nominated for a Berkshire Football Award in the ManVFat Best Community Campaign or Content category.

I know I’m going to get a bit of stick for this one for sure, but it’s something that needs acknowledging for the sheer effort and brilliance that went into what Reading City did with what started out as a joke and has undoubtedly annoyed a lot of away fans headed to Reading FC.

So, back in November, the excellent Twitter account @footyscran shared a photo of a Chinese Selection Box that was available at Reading City FC. It was retweeted 198 times, quote tweeted 296 times and liked 5,254 times on the social media platform.

The only problem was, it didn’t exist.

Chinese selection box at Reading City FC (@ReadingCityFC) pic.twitter.com/WglydThnAo
— Footy Scran (@FootyScran) November 7, 2021

But then enterprising Cityzens chairman Martin Law ensured it did and its been a roaring success for the club. We’ve chronicled the story here, and we’ve even sent our own Neil Maskell to review it.

It was a viral sensation, it ended up on The Sun and it was very very funny. So we’re classing it as a campaign.

Do you think Reading City’s Chinese Selection Box is a worthy winner, or have you got other campaigns to tell us about? Scroll down to fill out the nomination form for the ManVFat Player of the Season (Female) award.

Topics: Berkshire Football Awards, Football in Reading, Reading City

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NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!

Can I come to the Berkshire Football Awards?

Yes! The awards are taking place at the marvellous Double-Barrelled Brewery in Reading and we’ll have food available. Tickets will be limited but on sale from 18th May. If you’d like to know when, so you don’t miss out, make sure you’ve signed up to our email newsletter here.

How to nominate someone for a Berkshire Football Award

Scroll down to the bottom of this article for the nomination form. Before you do that though, here’s what the judging panel are looking for when choosing the shortlist.

What’s the story? Tell us exactly why the person or place should be considered. We hate to get all ‘X Factor journey’ on you but the more detail you can include, the better we can argue for your nominee for the short list.

The sort of details we love to see include things like player awards, goals, clean sheets and any other significant contributions to the footballing community – obviously within the 2025/26 season.

Who has been nominated already?

We’ll publish all the nominees for the Berkshire Football Awards as we receive them.

You can view all the 2025 nominees so far here.6

Honours board

Want to know who’s previously won what at the Berkshire Football Awards? There’s a big long page with all the previous winners here.

Rules

Nominations will be open until midnight on Sunday 10th May 2026.

The Long List will be published on Friday 15th May and the Short List on Monday 18th May at midday.

Once the nomination window has closed, the nominations in each category will be put before a panel of over 20 judges for a decision, the top four announced online and the winners at the awards night on Wednesday 10th June.

We will accept nominations for people out of area, the only prerequisite is that the reason for nomination is that it must be because of an affiliation with a club we cover on Football in Berkshire (a full list is at the bottom of this page). We will present certificates and a trophy to the winners.

All nominations are done by you, the Berkshire footballing public
You can nominate as many people as you like for each award – the quantity of nominations counts for the judging panel..
That said, quality is just as important, the more detail you provide about why you are nominating, the better
Please try and avoid nominating your own family members
Due to difficulties in obtaining permissions under child protection laws we won’t consider any player under the age of 16 for nomination in any of the categories

Nomination Form

Nominations for the 2026 Berkshire Football Awards are now closed!

What’s next? Look out for the Long List of all the nominations which will be published here and across all our channels by midday on Friday 15th May 2026.

The Short List for each category will then be published at midday on Monday 18th May 2026. At that point, tickets will be made available to attend the awards night at Double-Barrelled Brewery in Reading on the evening of Wednesday 10th June 2026. If you’d like notification of when tickets are available, sign up to our newsletter here.

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