Andy Sharp

Living the dream...

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

Win and huge 3 points✅
Buzzing with the result✅
Another game where Richardson will get away with terrible management and horrendous football✅ #readingfc

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

An in form Marriott is papering over some very large cracks at the moment! I don’t care about his points record, our football is getting worse under Richardson and is embarrassing to watch! #readingfc

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

@BBCSport Neutral…pen every day of the week!

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

Can we all now agree that Jake Paul is an absolute 🤡 who should never have been allowed to step foot in a professional boxing ring?! Let’s back to making real boxing matches with real world class boxers! #JakeJoshua #RantOver

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

@AXS_UK I have sent a DM. Please can this be resolved asap!

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

@AXS_UK I’m trying to get Luke Combs tickets and continue to be told that I’m a bot…please help asap!

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

@WillHillHelp please can I talk to a human about my account! Your online bot is beyond useless!

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

@Orrgarde and it’s not even close!

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

@TalkReading Really? You were obviously watching a different game to me then! #ReadingFC

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

@implausibleblog Tell me you know nothing about business, without telling me you know nothing about business🤦🏻‍♂️!

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

@johneggers1 @onepeloton I’m having exactly the same issue John and being asked to pay £500 for a new screen. Clearly a common/known issue…awful from @onepeloton! I refuse to pay for a new screen for an issue which is clearly their fault and their customer service is awful and refusing to escalate.

[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

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

This!!!

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Very frustrating for staff and fans of #ReadingFC. And another reason why the English game needs an independent regulator to protect clubs, the hearts of communities, from owners like Dai Yongge.

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

@HMRCcustomers are honestly the worst organisation i've ever dealt with! Sit in a phone queue for 45 mins and then end a call...sit in an online chat queue, eventually get through to someone, then they "lose connection" and send you to the back of the queue! JOKE!

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

Great thread…small details matter!

[Geir Jordet @GeirJordet]

A subtle England penalty shootout innovation (since 2021) is their deliberate, structured & functional use of social psychology.

Here, Saka is picked up by John Stones after his penalty, to swiftly welcome him back in the team.

What did England do and why did they do it?
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[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

😢

[The Tilehurst End @TheTilehurstEnd]

152 years of history. Memories that will last a lifetime.

How did it come to this?

🎥 @rfctom / #ReadingFC

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

@RFCLatest MOTM 😂?! Had a good second half until the penalty, but was absolutely awful first half!

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

Why do companies continue to use Evri for their deliveries?! Literally the worst company ever!

@PetsatHome Evri hasn’t even tried to deliver my order, but apparently it’s now being returned to you? Is this really the sort of service you want to give your customers?

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

“It was the right thing to do!” 👏🔵

“The EFL have to take a look… How was this guy allowed to take over in the first place?!”

Jeff Stelling backs the #ReadingFC protest on the pitch, amidst worrying ownership issues.

[Andy Sharp @sharp_andy]

What on earth has happened to football? If that’s a penalty then I’m done…