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[Pat @pat_lev_]

@SammyRich89 @Club_1871 @eltonofficial sign him up

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

This is your day, your victory, you fought so hard to rescue your Club. Congratulations to you and all #ReadingFC fans and to @RCouhig. He knows what a passionate support the Club have. Good luck to him. And good riddance to Dai Yongge.

[Robbie Savage @RobbieSavage8]

up the ding 💙💙🙏🏻

[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

[Pat @pat_lev_]

@SkyBetLeagueOne @charliesavage84 @ReadingFC @SammyRich89 POWERBLASTER 🚀💥

[Pat @pat_lev_]

@SammyRich89 @TomLunn Was using my hand binoculars that’s why

[Pat @pat_lev_]

@TheCelticManor my wife has been sat in your hotel in a cold wet swimming costume for over two hours because you have lost her bag whilst she was using your pool. You are also are unable to provide basic hygiene facilities due to your water shortage…1/2

[Pat @pat_lev_]

@EdRennie @dannyellis83 Amen.

[Toby Tarrant @tobytarrant]

A 152 year old Football Club is being killed off and sold for parts.

After Bury folded, fans were promised it would never happen again and yet here we are.

@EFL this is on you.

@wwfcofficial and their owner Rob Couhig should be ashamed of their role in this as well:

[Pat @pat_lev_]

@STARReading @SellBeforeWeDai In the hope that we (at some point) are under new ownership, what have the EFL learnt from their failings during the previous 7 years (with RFC and others), and what refinements have been to the fit and proper person test.

[Pat @pat_lev_]

What a miserably inept organisation. If not directly at fault, certainly complicit. Shambles.

[EFL Communications @EFL_Comms]

EFL Statement: Mr Dai Yongge

➡️ https://t.co/1vhvOaHQMY

#EFL

[Toby Tarrant @tobytarrant]

Well done to all the @ReadingFC fans yesterday

Keep fighting the good fight @SellBeforeWeDai

❤️⚽️

[Jeff Stelling @JeffStelling]

@SQirl74 @SkySports When a club which was in PL not long ago is in the position they are in this the biggest story of the day imo. Why no reporter there ? Everyone knew there was going to be a protest !

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Reading fans are rightly extremely worried about the very real prospect of their club ceasing to exist but for the most part, it’s a subject which has received minimal mainstream media coverage. That has to change; it should be a subject every football fan is made aware of.

[Sell Before We Dai @SellBeforeWeDai]

You'll never know dear, how much I love you. So please don't take my Reading away.

#SellBeforeWeDai

[Charles Watts @charles_watts]

Absolute disgrace what is happening at Reading FC. A club being systematically asset stripped by an absentee owner with a history of running clubs into the ground. Fanbase & staff having to watch the thing they love slowly die. Frightening. Every football fan should take notice.

[Ji-Min Lee @JmlJourno]

Sellés: We got told it won’t be a problem to get our wages tomorrow. That info came today, so I don’t expect anything different…

Reporter: That’s excellent news.

Sellés: That’s not excellent news. That’s a normal thing… You do your job and you get paid for that.

#readingfc

[Pat @pat_lev_]

@tjhartridge1989 100% 0-1 incoming

[EFL Communications @EFL_Comms]

EFL Statement: Mr Yongge Dai.

👉 https://t.co/7uDZMW1UyE

#EFL