Clive Lower

[CS @CS_UTD]

Match after match, fans are chanting against Leam Richardson in the stands, and our ownership group still thinks it’s a small ‘minority’ online. They’re either incredibly naive or fucking dumb. #ReadingFC

[Clive Lower @Clivey19]

Don’t forget only two England batting collapses until Christmas.

[Clive Lower @Clivey19]

@RFCLatest What a load of tosh. Irrelevant if players have played at Bradford before or not.

[Clive Lower @Clivey19]

@ElmParkRoyals Totally agree. Also been watching for over 40 years and feel real disconnect with club at present. We look tactically inept and that is on Couhig appointed Manager. I hope we can get out of this mess.

[Clive Lower @Clivey19]

@TheTilehurstEnd Cut our losses and get rid of Richardson? He has had two mini pre-season sessions now and we look tactically inept.

[Clive Lower @Clivey19]

@TheTilehurstEnd Michael Carrick is available as is Warnock. We need a proven Manager.

[Clive Lower @Clivey19]

@ElmParkRoyals Stevens was very poor. At fault for first goal and kicking was awful. Under pressure next week now.

[Clive Lower @Clivey19]

@ElmParkRoyals #EPR3 harsh, thought confidence was high and Reading played well. Just needed to take our chances. Best performance this season but showed again we lack a decent left back.

[Wycombe Wanderers @wwfcofficial]

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[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

[Jamie Hodder @Jamie_Hodder21]

👏🏻

[Clive Lower @Clivey19]

@ElmParkRoyals Fantastic video

[EPR @ElmParkRoyals]

We have incredibly talented videographers within our fan base don’t we. People just make you feel all the feelings!

[Clive Lower @Clivey19]

@Jamie_Hodder21 Big bad wolf it is until end of season urzzzz

[Clive Lower @Clivey19]

@TalkReading What a game that was.

[Clive Lower @Clivey19]

@ElmParkRoyals So no real benefit for season ticket holders of long standing yet again. Con to get season ticket money in early.

[Dave Harris @Handbags82]

The needing me counts 5 former @ReadingFC players & managers, and I think 15 players who have scored against the mighty 'ding.

[Clive Lower @Clivey19]

@TheTilehurstEnd How can they be fatigued when they haven’t played for 10 days. Tactically inept today.

[Neil Warnock @warnockofficial]

I will keep on saying it, we need ex players or managers in charge of VAR, people who know the game from an early age and all the tricks of the trade

Poor officiating should never be the talking point of any game #PremierLeague

[Clive Lower @Clivey19]

Good to see Goalkeepers union via De Gea supporting Reading #readingfc