Dear
@EFL
we need your help. Our owner is killing our club, so instead of just charging us and docking points (assume that will happen) please reassure us you'll look at his suitability to continue to own our club and take action to ensure
@readingfc
survives? Thanks.
#readingfc
Approach sports bar manager here in Spain to ask if
#readingfc
game will be on tomorrow night. Turns out he's from Tilehurst and very happy to put it on the TV for me. Result!!
Let's remember many RFC staff, who've nothing to do with the mess we're in, have worked really hard ahead of tomorrow's landmark game. Let the owners and VP know what you think of them, but also enjoy the efforts made by others behind the scenes. We're only 150 once!
#readingfc
From the return of 👬 mascots and some 🦁 familiar faces, to 𝙑𝙄𝙋 guests, 🎢 fairground rides and the 🔫 masterblaster.
Here's a full run down of the anniversary activities to expect at tomorrow's match, with plenty of reasons to be here around the ground! 👇
#REACOV
Disappointed no player of the season announcement today. Understand it will be done at the gala dinner that the majority of fans won't be at. Club has lost all connection with fans and are totally clueless when it comes to PR.
#readingfc
@ReadingFC
Would suggest the distress caused to staff is more likely down to not knowing from one month to the next if they'll be paid or have access to funds to do their jobs properly. Don't blame fans for Dai's failings to do right by HIS employees
#SellBeforeWeDai
Lee Ryan (formerly of Blue): "Don't you know who I am?". Yes mate, you're a washed up, drunk, sleazy former boy band member, who if he was that fussed about sitting in business class, should've booked and paid for it. Hate this sense of entitlement 😡
Sad to see some fans digging out others over the
#readingfc
sit in. Fair play to those who chose to take part but not an option for everyone or something everyone feels comfortable with. Let's just respect each other please. In fighting between fans not what's needed.
The disrespect being shown to
#readingfc
fans by the club is totally unacceptable. Radio silence on vacant managers position, player departure news coming from their new clubs, scout being poached by Stoke (only been here 5 months) and rumours we're up for sale. TALK TO US!!
@ReadingFC
@MacronSports
@UniofReading
Really good to see the club using its profile to spread important messages on the key issue of climate change, knowing some (many) will knock them for it. Let's set an example to the rest of football and beyond.
And won't be the only ones sadly. EFL very points deduction happy recently with no care for fans. Maybe they should look internally at who declared the owners "fit and proper" in the 1st place? System hugely flawed and they make up rules as they go. Feel for
@LaticsOfficial
fans.
Wigan will begin next season on -4 points after failing to pay player wages on time.
The EFL has also announced the club has been deducted 3 points for this season, so finish with 39 points.
#WAFC
Took a friend's ten year old to the game today. Only his 2nd game and he's hooked. Wants a shirt for Xmas and gone home with little voice left. Its moments like these we must never let Dai take from us
#readingfc
#SellBeforeWeDai
@readingfc
Fair play to
@itvfootball
. Commentators and pundits clearly done homework on our situation and very sympathetic to it. Good to see protest having desired impact without being overly disruptive. Well done all
#readingfc
Once had someone tell me I know lots about football for a woman, so very supportive of this as I know my fellow
#readingfc
fans will be too, both male and female.
#HerGameToo
@Tom5Mc
@ReadingFC
This must be amazing for you to get to play with someone you cheered on from the stands as a kid. Can't wait to see you line up in the same team 😍
@johnkane1234567
@sainsburys
I'll only buy British strawberries so I find this labelling helpful. I don't find ones imported from abroad to be as tasty or juicy. Waiting for someone to now accuse me of discrimination..
@wwfcofficial
Feels like a lot of your fans are as disgusted by this as Reading fans are. Another example of a club's owners being totally out of touch and just out for themselves.
With the exception of a small few, namely Ian Hart and Jason Roberts, the ex premier league "stars" we've signed over the years have been crap and clearly not cared about our club. Geat to see Dann, Carroll and Drinkwater showing so much passion ❤
#readingfc
Very sad to miss the game tonight having been struck down by covid. Went to uni in Oxford and remember the 1999 game very well. Went out in Oxford in my Reading scarf that night!! Was very brave back then 😂
Give the boys a cheer from me
#readingfc
Feel bad for the comms team at
#readingfc
having to churn out this sort of rubbish when every single fan knows the CEO couldn't care less about us or the club. Tough gig for them and not an easy time to just quit and get a job elsewhere. Sad times.
@pott95
If we get relegated because of the points Dai cost us then we live with it and pray we have a League 2 club to support next year. If we go down because fans have cost us points, that's harder to live with. Let's not be a contributor to our own downfall. Pitch invasion won't help
Lovely warm welcome from
@StevenageFC
for us
#readingfc
fans. All sharing the same bar. Love a visit to a traditional football club. Hope it's a royals win!
Booked to speak on Radio Berks at 7.20pm about the renaming of the
#readingfc
stadium. Personally I'm fine with it and having heard from the SCL owners, who are local guys that support the club, I think they're a good fit. I'll still be calling it the Mad Stad though!
I've had the privilege of watching this club in its glory days but fear I'll never see them again. I feel for younger fans who haven't known success and under the current ownership never will. I know its only a game but its heartbreaking 💔
#readingfc
Sorry
@willow1871
but I don't think I can listen to your
@BBCBerkshire
post match show. Just too fed up and furious with
#readingfc
to waste any more of my day on them. We've hit one hell of a low this afternoon.
Can't wait to start Reading this. Have followed
@BlindDad_Uk
and
@Kika_GuideDog
on Twitter for a while now and am looking forward to reading their back stories. Such a fab team ♥️
I'm actually going to watch a live game of football in a stadium this evening. Such a novelty! New shirt, new stadium (sort of). Not long to go now
#readingfc
@BerkshireBoys_
@ElmParkRoyals
Lovely afternoon at the SCL watching the
#readingfc
legends game. Wonderful to see so many former players on the pitch and relive fond memories. Best game this season for sure!
Loving recent posts by
@StanCollymore
about greed in football and Premier League's refusal to support EFL clubs properly. If you fancy a chat about the situation at
#readingfc
Stan, drop us a message. Issue with terrible owner in our case but all comes down to lack of regulation
Forest fan walks past me and I hear him say "we deserved to win that game". Not sure he watched the same match as me. Not sure the linesman was watching at all!
#readingfc
#forest
@willow1871
@TimDellor
Vital the team put in a great performance this afternoon with so many non regulars coming to watch. Let's give them a reason to keep coming back. Players bring your A game and us fans will create the atmosphere. If you're coming to your first
#readingfc
game- thanks and enjoy!!
@SkyNews
This is nuts. Not because its them. Crazy to give awards to anyone based on how many kids they have. I opted not to have any kids. Do I get an award too?
Let's put aside the negativity, blame game, bickering and the "I'm a better fan than you" crap for a minute and put things into perspective. Yes being a
#readingfc
fan sucks but at least most of of us have a choice to go or not. Hope they bag 3 points for you
@JohnLawrence329
If you know someone who'd like to go to a
#readingfc
game, but can't afford a ticket, then there's loads being given away this weekend. Take your kids, take your mates, take your mum. Atmosphere is going to be cracking!!
Would you like to go to the Cambridge United match?
Thanks to all your generosity there are hundreds of tickets available!
All you need to do is fill in the form in the link before 9 AM on the 14th of March.
Also please RT this tweet.
#readingfc
Please let this be the start of something new and positive. A long way to go yet until Dai is gone but hopefully the rest of the process runs smoothly and we'll be rid of him in a couple of months
#SellBeforeWeDai
#ReadingFC
@staples5230
@SkyFootball
They're not saying it will, but sport has its part to play and it starts with getting people to take notice. All these comments and media coverage prove they're already achieving that. Club definitely can't stop here though and now needs to take tangible action.
Not been this excited ahead of a
#readingfc
game in a long time. Just hope if team Coppell get a pen they let
@GraemeMurty
take it. Look out Kingsley!!
Wednesday was more enjoyable, and a better team than Boro would have punished us in the 2nd half, but 3 points is 3 points!
#readingfc
@willow1871
@BBCBerkshire
Very impressed with our
@Rick_Stein
hake meal box. Have week off work so this is our "dinner out" night. Mackrel pate, grilled hake and sticky toffee pud with clotted cream all delivered from Cornwall. Minimal cooking needed. Delicious!
Whatever happens today let's respect peoples choices. Pitch invasion not something everyone feels safe/comfortable or physically able to do so don't judge them. Turning on each other makes us weaker as a fan base. I've been anti pitch invasion but might change my mind
#readingfc
Matchday!!! Won't be the same as going to the stadium but will have
@willow1871
and
@TimDellor
on the radio and the
#readingfc
game on the TV via iFollow. One upside- I can watch the match with a G&T in my hand. Cheers!
Nice chat with
@Noelhunt20
after the game. He called out Long and Abrefa before kick off so was very chuffed with himself! Great to get the win to top off a lovely hospitality experience with my Dad today
#readingfc
#FACup
Unless your fuel gauge looks like this please don't buy fuel. Panic buying idiots out in force today. Did we not learn nothing from the loo roll mess last year? I genuinely need fuel as almost running on empty but suspect not the case for everyone in this queue
#fuelshortage
Think the
@BBCBerkshire
podcast with
@hahnemann1
is my favourite so far. Got a funny look on the bus for giggling to myself when he talked about Murty's penalty. Such good times ♥️ nice work as ever
@willow1871
and
@jhwinstanley
@TheTilehurstEnd
@mrblthomas
Totally agree with this. I don't sit in 1871 but love seeing them behind the goal and don't feel I'm less of a fan for not being there with them. I also don't feel they've caused any sort of divide. We all support in our own ways.
@DSNYNewscast
Have always stayed in Disney resorts for added benefit of fastpass but not sure what benefit there is now other than being able to pay $15 earlier in the day than other park visitors. Trip booked for March 2022.
@ReadingFC
@AndyYids
This is brilliant news. Probably could have got a move elsewhere for more money, so staying put shows commitment to the cause, club and manager. Great stuff.
It's come home!!! So so happy for these girls and proud to be a woman who lives for football. Over to Gateth, Harry and the lads now!!
#HerGameToo
#ENG
#Euro22
Shame that after a positive start to the season, we've recently lived up to the expectation most people had for
#ReadingFC
. A team lacking in fire power up front, a weak midfield and a frail defence. World Cup break might do us good
@willow1871
@BerkshireBoys_
@ElmParkRoyals
Very proud of my
@thameswater
colleagues for making this happen and very lucky to be the one who got to go and take the official photos
#clapforkeyworkers
@RamsTrust
@STARReading
Thanks Rams Trust and those Derby fans who get it. For those holding a grudge against a few Reading kids who live to start fights, maybe try and rise above them rather than sink to their level. Could be your club again in the future.
What a fab hour and a half I've just spent listening to
@ElmParkRoyals
podcast with
@liammoore93
. As a fan to hear a player speak so openly and passionately about the club you love is amazing. What a top bloke. With him as captain we only have good times ahead
#ReadingFC
Highlights of 2022 - leaving a job that was dragging me down for one where I'm happy, respected and thriving, two weeks in Disneyworld, and just the small matter of getting married in secret. Looking forward to what 2023 will bring. Happy New Year people 🥂
Proud to have been part of the
@thameswater
team involved in
#FatbergAutopsy
and hope it makes people think before they flush for the sake of Vince, Phil and our mate Manhole!
@paullewismoney
I work in PR and get plenty of emails from journos which start the same way. They don't know me, they're just buttering me up for a statement they can tag on the end of the story they've already written in most cases.
@ElmParkRoyals
If we sack Ince we become another joke of a club that sacks managers every season and it achieves very little in my opinion. Poor run of form in recent weeks, as expected from day 1, but Ince needs to use WC break to regroup and recover some of our early season form.
@ByChrisMatthews
@SellBeforeWeDai
@ReadingFC
So has plenty of money in the country but chooses to spend it at the casino and on a mansion instead of paying his employees or HMRC. Total scum. Any chance of a follow up on his mate Pang (RFC CEO) who has vanished into thin air?
And this my friends is why you never leave a football match before the end. Incredible second half that we won't forget for a very long time.
#readingfc
Please start Carroll and Puscas Tuesday evening. Would love to see it! Tom Holmes great today. Good to have him back, now lets get T Mac fit and look to them as our future.
#readingfc
@willow1871
@BBCBerkshire
Our society is broken. Whatever your political beliefs this is very sad and very wrong. Someone left for work this morning like any other day but sadly won't be returning. Thoughts with those left behind. RIP.
Anyone else get tired of Sky commentators going on about how the Bristol keeper deserved some good luck just because he made a good save midweek? In fairness he had a great game but the commentary bias was unnecessary
#readingfc
@Houlton11
True protestors were great. Kids kicking tennis balls around, playing with balloons, doing knee slides etc were adding no value and made it all look a bit silly. Saw some lad prancing around like we'd been promoted.
Results might have picked up just before Clement was sacked
@TimDellor
and
@willow1871
but standard of football was still terrible. He had to go! Spot on with you comments about fans dreading going to the Mad Stad. I was one of them!!
Had this coming for several years now. It's the culmination of too many terrible decisions by owners and CEOs past and present and now we're paying the price. "We" being the fans as I think we're the only ones who genuinely care
#readingfc
@BBCBerkshire
@willow1871