Rhys Williams

Freelance festival guy and technical production manager

[Reading FC @ReadingFC]

Reading Football Club is pleased to announce that Redwood Holdings Limited have completed their takeover of the football club.

Statement in full 👇

[Lewis Coombes @LewisCoombes]

Reading fans making their feelings known on owner, Dai Yongge.

500+ days and counting that the club has been up for sale.

Tonight’s visitors Wrexham - what #ReadingFC would give for a ‘Deadpool’ Hollywood A-Lister hero…

@BBCSport @SellBeforeWeDai @BBCBerkshire #EFL

[Greg Double @Dubstep1988]

Getting a Welshman to hold a sign that says “Dai Out” just hits a bit different.

All class. 👏

#readingfc #WxmAFC

[Sell Before We Dai @SellBeforeWeDai]

Sign the petition here: https://t.co/GlFVbJFxey

SBWD, @STARReading and @YuanfenYang, have launched a petition calling for a Parliamentary Inquiry into Dai Yongge and Dai Xiu Li, who must be held to account.

Please go online and sign the petition (and ask others to do the same!).

We’ll also have paper copies outside the ground tomorrow so come and find us outside the megastore, at STAR base and around the stadium.

#readingfc

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

But you’re not in Westminster, are you? You’re in Dubai.

[Rhys Williams @TeamMilkMilk]

@elonmusk If ANY president and Any unelected technocrat have total carte blanche to do WHATEVER THEY Want with no recourse.... Well that's a fascist dictatorship isn't it.

[Samaritans @samaritans]

The New Year can stir up all kinds of complicated feelings, especially if you’re already having a hard time. Add in the pressure to celebrate and it can all just feel like too much.

If you find this a hard time of year, you're not on your own – we’ll be here all night long 💚

[Sell Before We Dai @SellBeforeWeDai]

On the takeover subject, we know purchasing a football club is expensive and loss-making.

We know #ReadingFC may be in the third tier currently.

So why would we be the best purchase an owner could ever make?

A 🧵:

[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

[Rhys Williams @TeamMilkMilk]

@RCouhig Up The 'Ding!

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Morrisons totally free jacket potato and Heinz beans. Do spread word, especially to anyone who's struggling to be able to afford to feed themselves (or family) at the moment... https://t.co/ucOneoFQQE

[Rhys Williams @TeamMilkMilk]

@danmarkgreen83 Memories of standing in the west stand with my mum. Would have been maybe 13 at the time. Williams and morley defitnely my fave players as a child alongside shaka.

[Rhys Williams @TeamMilkMilk]

Sad I can't be there to join the fans on the pitch. This is the right thing to do. We have to be radical to Force the efl to take notice. #pvfc #readingfc we want our Reading back! Up the f*ING ding!

[Rhys Williams @TeamMilkMilk]

@BBCGlos learn to pronounce the opposition players names. It's. Offensive. Maybe ask the @BBCBerkshire team for some tips. #cltvrea

[Rhys Williams @TeamMilkMilk]

@blackdeerfest only one request for 2024.... @CatClyde please :)

[Rhys Williams @TeamMilkMilk]

@JointWasteSols @MoleValleyDC which part of your risk assessments says its OK for your workers to pile rubbish in front of a fire exit? Rubbish collection at roses cottages this morning. #dorking #rubbish

[Rhys Williams @TeamMilkMilk]

@SC_Leasing @Whitley_CDA 🍀

[Hotbox Events @hotboxevents]

Alexa, play Taylor Swift 🎵

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[Hotbox Events @hotboxevents]

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[Hogs Back Brewery @HogsBackBrewery]

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