Kingsley Royal
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Kingsley, a seven-foot tall bipedal lion, is the official mascot of Reading Football Club. He was first seen during the 1997-98 season. Up until the end of the 2005-06 season he was played by Noel Selby Armstrong, who has since been appointed assistant kit manager at Reading.
The new man in the mask is Reading-born Andrew Hulbert. On 25 March 2007, Kingsley will run the Reading Half Marathon raising money for the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK [1], a registered charity. Kingsley was profiled in the EPL weekly preview show on 16 March of 2007.
The lion has been adopted as an unofficial symbol of Reading, due to the presence in the town of the Maiwand Lion.
Kingsley wears a shirt with the squad number 1871, the year Reading FC was founded.
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