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Robert Jenrick: The truth

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The Premier League Goal Of The Month nominations for December 2006 will never be beaten

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Watching Match of the Day. Pisses me off! Commentator blandly uses stats saying Everton not won at Man City in 24! Don’t bother to mention Man City bank rolled by an Arab state. Fucking boring league

This the same Robert Jenrick complaining about hotels?

A day we’ve all hoped for and one you truly deserve as a fanbase, your continued support and relentless efforts have helped bring us to this moment 💙

Amy and I are thankful to be in a partnership with Rob and Missy Couhig! It’s Rob’s tenacity that has gotten through this last year. We are all very excited to be a part of the Reading family and we will be attending many games. #RCouhig @ReadingFC

A good day! Buzzing for all who love this club 💙

I also believe even if Selles had said no to Hull the Chinese w@@@@@ would have told him to go anyway because he wanted the compensation money

It’s not that simple. Selles had built a spirit and belief within the group. That heart has been ripped out. Plus the players know any offer in January will be accepted and they’ll be gone. Only one person to blame for all this and that’s the Chinese b@@@@@d.

Legends 😁

We want to thank Ruben Selles for his service to Reading Football Club. Ruben Selles was let down and lied to by our ownership. Despite this adversity, he built an on-field team that we could be proud of. While the ownership bond between fans and club has never been weaker, we think it is fair to say that the bond between the playing staff and fans has never been stronger. Under his management, a powerful “us vs them” mindset developed. Players and fans represented the badge, not the boardroom. We roared on the team, not the regime. We wish Ruben all the success in his future, but now we have to re-focus on our own - however uncertain it may feel. In Noel Hunt we have a Reading legend who deserves the same support. Our first-team squad is packed with Academy talent that he helped develop, playing in a system that has been drummed in at every level of the club and with a two-year contact, he is no caretaker - this is our gaffer and today is his first day. It’s impossible to support Reading without being constantly concerned about the ownership situation. It would be tone deaf to say “just focus on the football”, but while the owners continue to treat the fans with contempt, these players and Noel Hunt never have. It’s time to throw ourselves behind them. As for the takeover debacle, we remain committed to haranguing the club for updates and again call on the EFL for their support. The lack of communication from the club is impacting the mental health of our supporters and staff in equal measure. This is an issue of duty of care, but also decency. We demand better.

Roger Smee’s "credible" bid for #ReadingFC rejected by the unpopular owner Dai Yongge. Smee’s a former Reading player and chairman and the man who stood up to Robert Maxwell’s Thames Valley Royals’ nonsense in 1983. Smee spent “many months of diligently preparing a structured and connected bid in alliance with many of the town’s key local stakeholders” and is “disappointed” that his plans were leaked to the media. “I am equally sad to tell you my bid has been rejected. I believe it was firmly competitive with previous proposals that had been entertained and publicly granted exclusivity. I confirm the motivation for my interest is solely the future for Reading Football Club, ensuring it continues to play at its highest level, playing an integral role in the town’s sporting and cultural community.”

#ReadingFC fans call on EFL to urge owner Dai Yongge to communicate his reasons for rejecting “credible” bids for club amidst fears of player sales and administration. Fans hope "optimistically" that rejections mean negotiations with a “mystery bidder” continuing but also concerned about club being “unable to meet its financial obligations”. Becky Trotman @SellBeforeWeDai adds, “Points deductions, selling top talent without the means to replace them and entering administration would all detract from the club's value to any bidder. We see no reason why Dai Yongge would want this to happen, but we can imagine the fans of KSV Roeselare and Beijing Renhe had similar thoughts. We would love the club – as promised – to clarify at what stage the sale process is now at, but would also like to call on the EFL to lend their voice to the situation. How many more credible bids can be rejected without communication with the fans?”

It's a good day for sport. Reading win. Oxford battered at home and Swindon lose at home to the league's bottom club #UpTheDing #ReadingFC #Urzzzz

🚀 WHAT A STRIKE An early goal of the season contender from Lewis Wing!😮‍💨🔥 #EFL | #SkyBetLeagueOne

What. A. Goal. @winglewy 🐐 #readingfc

Dispiriting events at Reading should concern everyone in English football. Fans are lied to, players and an impressive manager are let down, and so are staff. A thoughtless, heartless owner damages a historic club. It’s another warning to all in football. If we tolerate this, then your club could be next. Fans at some other clubs fear similar pain or just feel relief to have escaped danger. Many will simply focus on their own form and fortunes. Football’s tribal. Most headlines revolve around the big names, the big games like Manchester City versus Arsenal. But Reading embody the pyramid, a local beacon and hub for nurturing talent. Neil Webb started there. The windfall from the Michael Olise deal helps sustain the club currently. Ted Drake learned his managerial trade at Reading before guiding Chelsea to their first title. Football clubs are community assets and have to be protected from individuals like Dai Yongge wreaking such misery at Reading. He has his motives and his methods but none seem aligned to the club’s future wellbeing. He doesn’t communicate with fans. Reading FC Women withdrew from the Championship because of financial difficulties. Sustained mismanagement of the club has seen a failure to pay men’s players and HMRC lead to points deductions. A proposed takeover by Rob Couhig, an American businessman welcomed by the fanbase, collapsed, leaving Yongge still in charge and supporters still in torment and again asking questions. Does Yongge really want to sell? If the club goes under is it then all about valuable real estate? Would administration and another points deduction actually be better than this shambles? And so Reading fans rally again, fighting for their club’s life. But Yongge doesn’t listen. He doesn’t appear to care about the negativity his ownership brings to the door of the dressing-room. Ruben Selles and his whole-hearted squad give everything they can on the field, and sit a defiant 12th in League One, but they aren’t detached from the mess. It must be dismaying and distracting. Losing Selles would be a disaster. He’s doing a good job in trying circumstances. If he left, Selles would be picked up swiftly by a better run club. Reading fans post messages of support to Selles and his squad. They will back them loudly at Bolton Wanderers today. It’s about finding the balance between demonstrating support for the team while demonstrating against the owner. Much is right about Reading: committed fanbase, stadium, training ground, the attitude of manager, squad and club staff. It’s just the owner. It’s a nightmare that Reading are living through. And it’s a cautionary tale all football needs to heed. #ReadingFC #EFL

The Daily Mail are upset about Angela Rayner enjoying herself on holiday. They were beyond furious when she sold a council house bought 17 years ago. They'll be apoplectic when the discover the Daily Mail is owned by a company registered in Bermuda to avoid paying tax in the UK.