Anthony Tomas

Commentator, Writer, Editor

@WorldSoccerMag @flashscoreUK @OneFootball

🎙: ⚽️🏉🏀 / ✍️: ⚽️⚾️🏀🏈🏉🏇🚴‍♂️🤾‍♂️ /
3 caps 🇮🇪🤾‍♂️

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

Referring to goals scored so far in the tournament: "The guy who scored for Croatia." Didn't know his name, and it was not Croatia.

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

Forget the Salford studio and no MOTD-style highlights show, the worst part of the BBC's World Cup coverage is handing the Football Daily podcast over to a pair of muppets sitting in an LA bar giggling at players with "funny" names 😐👌

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

@FootballCliches Never has a World Cup stadium looked more Premier League International Cup

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

Happy to announce that in July, with the brilliant support of @CounterPressHQ, I will be launching @the_biscuit_RFC, a new and independent site covering all things #ReadingFC

Pre-launch is already here! Sign up now! 🍪

[The Biscuit @the_biscuit_RFC]

🍪IT'S TIME TO TAKE THE BISCUIT

💙Reading fans, we know subscription services are something of a touchy subject at the moment

🤍But if you want exclusive, extensive, independent coverage of the Royals from the 26/27 season onwards, sign up to The Biscuit today!

🔗Link in bio

[World Soccer @WorldSoccerMag]

📖 A guide to what's inside World Soccer's December 2025 issue:

https://t.co/GrgMGIdtSo

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

Always such an honour to have my work in @WorldSoccerMag, and to experience the mighty @MjallbyAIFs fairy tale first-hand was a true privilege! 💛🖤

[World Soccer @WorldSoccerMag]

Out now: #WorldSoccer December 2025

Featuring...
🇭🇺 Dominik Szoboszlai exclusive interview
🇨🇻 Cape Verde + other World Cup stories
🇸🇪 The miracle of Mjallby
🇧🇷 Copa Libertadores final preview

Plus plenty more...

Order your copy here: https://t.co/r0PB2camwd

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

@SweeperPod Delighted to say I was there!

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

Goals going in two by two, etc etc...
#UECL

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

Six. 😮‍💨

#CFC | #UECL

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

@samgoldman91 @FootballCliches @CDEccleshare Imagine if we also lost the definitive 7-4 in the same season...

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

Lee Carsley breaks plates 😉
#ThreeLions #England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇷

https://t.co/2pp8UBR7Tq

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

Delving into the world of satire for the first time! With a sporting spin, of course! #England

[NewsThump @newsthump]

NEWS! Lee Carsley won't sing the national anthem tonight after revealing he once enjoyed a family holiday in Corfu https://t.co/WX0wiOvo1M

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

@ElMengem @_JamieEvans_ @WorldSoccerMag Really appreciate that, Eli! Glad you enjoyed it!

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

Never thought I would walk into Tirana airport and see my own article for @WorldSoccerMag on the shelves!
Very weird experience but one I'd happily get used to 😉

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

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

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

@ChampionsLeague @FootballCliches after how many Matchdays can we look at this?

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

Can't believe I missed the San Marino win because I was too busy watching some tinpot country called Spain
#UNL

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

Now THAT... is a (potential) stat 👏👏👏
#EnclavesAllTheWay

[The Sweeper @SweeperPod]

🇸🇲🇱🇸 Today could be an historic day of football for countries located inside other countries!

If San Marino beat Liechtenstein & Lesotho defeat Central African Republic, it will be the first time two enclave nations that are members of FIFA have ever won a match on the same day!

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

🌏 What a mad start to this month's #WorldCupQualifiers! Australia 🇦🇺 beaten at home by Bahrain 🇧🇭, Japan 🇯🇵 thrashing China 🇨🇳 7-0 and South Korea 🇰🇷 being held at home by Palestine 🇵🇸 😱

It's all too much for a Thursday afternoon 😅
#WCQ

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

My first 2024/25 #PremierLeague commentary for @Flashscorecom and we already have the winner of Team News of the Season 🦅

#CRYWHU coming up at 14:55 BST on the app 😎

[Crystal Palace F.C. @CPFC]

As we kick-off our 100th year at Selhurst Park, we are delighted to reveal that an American Bald Eagle will return to the stadium on matchdays 🦅

#CPFC // @EagleHeightsUK

[Anthony Tomas @AMTomas90]

Always great to get a nice, quiet start just to ease yourself in when doing a match report for
@Flashscorecom😅
But at least I didn't have to do a rewrite in the final minutes... Oh wait... #SevillaFCVillarreal