Hob Nob Anyone?

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**Hob Nob Anyone?**

URL	www.royals.org
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet forum
Registration	Optional
Available language(s):	English
Owner	Graham Loader
Created by	Graham Loader
Launched	November 1994
Current status	Active

Hob Nob Anyone? is an unofficial fanzine site dedicated to Reading Football Club. The name Hob Nob Anyone? is in reference to the Reading's association with biscuit making. For many years, the town of Reading was home to Huntley & Palmers biscuit factory. A HobNob is a popular British biscuit.

The site was one of the first football sites to hit the web^{[citation needed]}. When the site was first launced in November 1994, only a handful of clubs were lucky enough to be represented on the Internet^{[citation needed]}. Since then the site has continued to grow and grow from its days in the Second Division to the rise into the Premier League.

Hob Nob Anyone? was hosted at the University of East Anglia from 1994. Early in 1999, the site got its own domain names (royals.cx and royals.org) and moved to its own virtual server, where it has obtained over a million hits per month since early on in the year 2000. In the summer of 2002, Hob Nob Anyone? moved again to be hosted at Oscura Ltd. Oscura are a web development and hosting company located in the centre of Reading.

The site includes match reports dating back to the 1994-95 season, a forum with around 6500 members, fans analysis and an away fans guide.

The site also has a section dedicated to STAR^[1] and links up with Tim Dellor and the BBC Radio Berkshire Sports team^[2] and the local newspaper, the Reading Evening Post.^[3]

Hob Nob Anyone? has featured in football book Motson's National obsession, newspapers such as: The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, and The Observer, as well as in the Daily Star as site of the week.