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Reading FC and England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

When's the DVD out?

[Wycombe Wanderers @wwfcofficial]

The points are shared in Bucks 🤝

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

It's like watching Reading, we should've got something from that game but we manage to throw it away #england #readingfc

[England @England]

The #ThreeLions are narrowly defeated by the world champions at @WembleyStadium.

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

@ChrisWarbey Fuck off

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

You just knew we'd concede again after we went 2-1 up, Pereira shocker again with crosses to the back post
#readingfc

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

Three points at this dump please lads #readingfc

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

The British state says we don’t have money to fund national defence.

But in the last week we learned it found £12 billion for welfare for foreigners, £665 million for Angola & now £88 million for Gaza.

There’s a magic money tree. It just doesn’t involve the British people.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

A man has been jailed for two years after throwing a plastic bottle at police and swearing at them during anti-illegal migrant protest.

The pro-Palestine activist who defaced the Churchill statue in London walked free.

A two-tier justice system.

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

One of the worst decisions I've ever seen, officials can't have a prem team worried about going out too early can they #readingfc

[Goals Xtra @GoalsXtra]

Unbelievable call! Reading's Paudie O’Connor sees his absolute stunner chalked off for high boots! https://t.co/9G6FhXdvBx

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

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[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

15 September 1940. Battle of Britain reached its climax when the RAF shot down about 61 German planes and damaged 21 others. The Luftwaffe had failed to gain air superiority. Hitler postponed his plan to invade Britain. It was a key turning point in the Second World War.

[Westminster Abbey @wabbey]

'Never was so much owed by so many to so few'
- Sir Winston Churchill

The Abbey's RAF Chapel is dedicated to 'The Few' - the airmen of the Battle of Britain who fought against extraordinary odds to defend the country from invasion in 1940.

The chapel was dedicated in July 1947 at a service attended by George VI and members of the Royal Family. The magnificent stained glass window was designed by Hugh Easton and includes the badges of 70 squadrons who fought in the Battle.

You can find out more about the chapel ahead of our annual Battle of Britain Sunday service this weekend at: https://t.co/0seDYH6NKF

[AngloFash @AngloFash01]

People cheering this on because being against ‘Colonisation’ is all the rage have no idea what they are talking about.

Scotland enacted the act of union in 1707, not England and there was a Scottish king on the throne.

This whole idea that Wales, Ireland and Scotland are oppressed by England is lunacy. They all played their part in the empire and have a history of conflict towards each other.

Just because England has been the dominant power of these shores and historically the world, doesn’t mean you need to be a bitter crybaby about it.

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

Such a frustrating watch, concede two shit goals to throw it away after wasting loads of chances, what's the manager going taking off Lisbie and Marriott?

[Reading FC @ReadingFC]

Defeat in Cambridge.

90' | 🟡2-1👑

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Twenty five years ago today, a 62 year old man with cancer in his bones walked 2,687 people out of the South Tower, and then he went back inside.

Rick Rescorla was born in Hayle, Cornwall in 1939. British Parachute Regiment in Cyprus at 18. Colonial police in Northern Rhodesia. Then he came to America, enlisted in the US Army in 1963, and in November 1965 he went into the Ia Drang Valley as a platoon leader with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry.

Hal Moore called him the best platoon leader he ever saw. His men called him Hard Core. He sang to them in the dark, Wild Colonial Boy in an Australian accent, because he had worked out that men who are singing are not men who are panicking. That is Rescorla on the cover of We Were Soldiers Once and Young, bayonet fixed.

Thirty five years later he was head of security for Dean Witter, later Morgan Stanley, in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

In 1990 he brought in his old friend Dan Hill and the two of them walked the basement. He warned the Port Authority that the parking garage was wide open, that somebody could drive in a truck full of explosives, walk out and light it off. Nothing was done. Three years later the 1993 bomb went off about thirty feet from the spot he had flagged.

After that he told Morgan Stanley the towers were still a target and the next attack would come out of the sky. He wanted the firm to leave Manhattan. The lease ran to 2006, so they stayed. Twenty two floors of the South Tower, roughly 2,700 people.

So he drilled them. Every three months, everyone, no exceptions, down the stairwells two abreast while he stood there with a stopwatch. Traders pulling seven figures resented being marched down concrete stairs by a Cornishman with a clipboard. He kept doing it anyway.

8:46 a.m. The North Tower is hit. Port Authority comes over the South Tower loudspeakers and tells everyone the building is secure and to go back to their desks. Rescorla picks up a bullhorn and tells his people to get out.

He phones Dan Hill. "The dumb sons of bitches told me not to evacuate. They said it's just Building One. I told them I'm getting my people out of here."

9:03 a.m. The second plane hits the South Tower, floors 77 through 85. His people are already in the stairwells, moving exactly the way they had been drilled, and Rescorla is on the bullhorn singing to them. Cornish songs. A version of Men of Harlech he had rewritten for Cornwall. Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming, can't you see their spearpoints gleaming.

He called his wife Susan from the stairs. They had been married two and a half years, met jogging in New Jersey. He told her to stop crying, that he had to get these people out safely, and that if something happened to him he wanted her to know he had never been happier, that she made his life.

Someone told him to get out. He said, as soon as I make sure everyone else is out.

2,687 Morgan Stanley employees went home that day. Thirteen did not, and four of those were Rescorla and the men who stayed in the building with him: Wesley Mercer, Jorge Velazquez, Godwin Forde.

He was last seen on the 10th floor, walking up.

The South Tower fell at 9:59. They never found him.

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

Some fall off that

[Harrogate Town AFC @HarrogateTown]

We are delighted to announce the signing on Michael Craig on loan from @leytonorientfc ✍️

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

@talkSPORT 0-4 to scum, disgraceful

[Reading FC @ReadingFC]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A 5 star performance for our first 3 points of the season!

90' | 👑5-0🟡

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

Good backup striker, down to the manager now to make it work #readingfc

[Reading FC @ReadingFC]

Welcome to RG2, Jamie! 👑

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

@JinKhangura Scored 14 last season, a good back up striker imo

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

@CS_UTD Salford will be offering silly money

[Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @tomrfc95]

So why can't Oxford stay the 8th? Makes no sense at all

[Reading FC @ReadingFC]

Our Carabao Cup third-round tie against Brentford has been confirmed for Tuesday 15th September, kicking off at 8pm.

In addition to this, our game against Oxford United has been postponed until a later date.

More Details below 👇
https://t.co/2W5Im6mpHi