Alex Dow

[Alex Dow @AlexDow9]

@FringeViews Stop spouting absolute shit

[Reading FC @ReadingFC]

Nine years ago today we lost not just one of our own, but one of our leaders 💙

Eamonn's name adorns a stand of our stadium, but his impact is throughout the whole club.

Eamonn Dolan - forever Royal.

[Talk Reading @TalkReading]

What a season it has been and although it wasn’t to be today, we’ve got our Reading back. That is the most important thing.

We have much potential as a club. Dedicated fans, an incredible team and finally a new owner.

Bring on 2025/26 💙 #readingfc

[JFiddes @JFiddesx]

Exactly what these boys deserved 😍😍 #readingfc

[Joe @iJC106]

IT’S OVER, READING FOOTBALL CLUB ARE FINALLY FREE OF DAI YONGGE🥳💙🤍

#ReadingFC

[Ed Ryding @EdRyding]

This squad are giving absolutely everything for us and are now hopefully just a handful of games away from joining their manager as legends of OUR football club 💙

Keep the faith. Up the ding 💪

#readingfc

[Alex Dow @AlexDow9]

Thought this day would never come 😍

[Reading FC @ReadingFC]

Reading Football Club is pleased to announce the sale in principle of the club to Redwood Holdings Limited.

Statement in full 👇

[Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball]

🗣️ "What we can NOT have is another Bury, we should've learnt our lessons from that."

Jobi McAnuff shares his perspective on the ongoing situation at Reading FC.

[Club 1871 @Club_1871]

Now that felt like a play off push atmosphere 💙

What a win. Not the prettiest but job done. Up the fucking ding 🔵⚪ #ReadingFC

[Simon Church @churchy18]

So the @EFL are going to potentially penalise the club, fans, staff and livelihoods of all associated families all because of an owner that THEY passed the “fit and proper test” fucking morons.

[Alex Dow @AlexDow9]

My ginger Pele

[Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball]

Steve Sidwell reacts to Reading FC owner Dai Yongge being told to either fund the club adequately or make immediate arrangements to sell.

[Ryan Dilks @RyanDilks1]

Upset a few with this…

People don’t understand the EFL’s hands are tied with this, everything they can do, they’ve done.

Fair play to them.

[H @dinghugo6]

Whatever happens from now on in, the message is clear❤️ #readingfc

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

"It's heartbreaking!" 💔

Jeff Stelling and Ally McCoist discuss the current situation at Reading, after they sold Sam Smith to Wrexham!

[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

[Alex Dow @AlexDow9]

@RockerFuller @GlobalBendemic

[Kevin Doyle @KevinDoyle1983]

This is a disgrace,Reading fc is being sold for parts,some fit and proper owners test that was @EFL

[Talk Reading @TalkReading]

KSV Roeselare 🇧🇪 1921 - 2019
Beijing Renhe 🇨🇳 1995 - 2021
Reading 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1871 - ?

Dai Yongge has killed two clubs and is well on his way to killing a third.

Reading Football Club, the 10th oldest in the world, is on death’s door. #readingfc

[Alex Dow @AlexDow9]

Latest news just shows that cunt had absolutely no intentions of selling the club at any point. Not enough words in the dictionary to describe the feelings towards that scummy little rat #readingfc

[Alex Dow @AlexDow9]

@deanocx The money from his transfer (albeit a stupidly small amount) will probably help the club more in the immediate future than him staying 🤷🏼‍♂️ we’d all like to think in that situation that we’d stay, but we don’t know the full story behind it