David B

A proud Dad, passions include sport (predominantly LFC), economics, most things Apple make and food!!!

[David B @DBreeney]

@suekhim I have 4 kids, 3 Primary school age, one yet to go to school. Based in Australia.Would love to be considered.

[🎴 @sbzcomps]

Conor Bradley vs Real Madrid

Masterclass

[David B @DBreeney]

@DiabolicalSpuds This was genius:

https://t.co/NxOPvllqII

[David B @DBreeney]

@RFCLatest Shaka Hislop!

[David B @DBreeney]

@TMFScottP I just got a flow hive too, where did you source your bees?

[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

[David B @DBreeney]

@linzcom I’ve always said if you want a stimulus, relax the fringe benefit tax rules!

[The Anfield Wrap @TheAnfieldWrap]

A Trent Alexander-Arnold comp on a sunny Tuesday afternoon ☀️

Enjoy

https://t.co/g8uRDReu25

[David B @DBreeney]

@RyanMarkMac This discussion here is the best I’ve seen on this topic:

[Shrug Life @shekfu]

Trying to keep track of this amazing back and forth Twitter thread between a novelist and the guy who was temporary CEO at Open AI for a hot second.

It all started when CEO dude starts pontificating about redistribution of wealth...

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

Yes Minister on bringing back national service

[David B @DBreeney]

@NeilMcMahon Ask @davidmcw

[David B @DBreeney]

@TMFScottP I agree, sadly I do it too often in the dark to enjoy 🤣. Its saving grace is that it’s pretty good value $16.90 return from Bundy to the City! Same trip (time wise) in the UK would be well over £100!

[David B @DBreeney]

@TMFScottP There really shouldn’t be any excuse for why southern highlands to Sydney should be a 2 hour train 🤯

[David B @DBreeney]

@CraigByron1 @mikejanda @DrCameronMurray And then reverse mortgage!

[David B @DBreeney]

@phildobbie You said “darrrta” yesterday instead of data. When did you stop being a Pom?! I hope you didn’t make the same mistake today 😀

[David B @DBreeney]

@TMFScottP The Irish put St Patrick’s Day bang in the middle of Lent for a reason!

[David B @DBreeney]

@TMFScottP @dan_michel95 I’m more of a tea fellow but we have 3 cafes in Bundy alone that all seem busy

[David B @DBreeney]

@ZacHall49286803 @Rx_605 Is that you @watsi_17

[David B @DBreeney]

@TMFScottP I’d say there was a generation that made this choice: https://t.co/rRTtpqV9ph

[Scott Phillips @TMFScottP]

So many unspoken truths when it comes to #property in Australia.

The biggest one might be that property is more expensive as a multiple of income, *specifically* because, as a society, we capitalised second incomes into property prices.

We did it to ourselves.

#ausbiz