There's no excuse if he's guilty, and it seems likely he I; the FA don't tend to just float charges based upon flimsy evidence in cases like this. In any job, if any condition (health, mental health, whatever) means you cannot abide by strict and transparent rules, you should get support. But it won...

Many congratulations to our ex goalkeeper, Alex McCarthy, for getting promotion to the Premier League with Southampton yesterday; I hope he gets his chance as their first choice keeper next season. One of two players that I was really disappointed to learn that he was leaving Reading. The other was...

I don't know about anyone else, but for me, with it being close season, the whole club ceasing to exist suddenly feels less painful than it did when we were actually playing. I sort of get what you mean. It's all a bit, well, distant right now. Almost abstract. However, as the season approaches, as...

ITK Eddie reporting on Twitter the hold up is Chiron want the loans taken off the asking price, sounds reasonable to me. Surely this would have been covered in the exclusivity agreement>? Seems eminently reasonable to me, otherwise its wouldn't have been a loan, it would have been a gift. Thing abo...

If an invoice doesn't quote a purchase order that matches one that was approved it isn't getting paid. Unless you operate your company without any sort of accounting / finance software this scam would never work. I didn't do that, even as a sole trader. Auto approval under a certain value still need...

As he's about to become extravagantly rich and his time at Reading was a major part of making that possible, perhaps Michael would like to pay some or all of the fine himself?

Black boots should be mandatory. I would have said the same thing a few years ago. At one time only Alex Pearce wore black boots, and it fitted his solid no-nonsense style. Now black boots just look like the equivalent of having to do PE in your underwear because you forgot your kit. Colourful boot...

Tuesday 7th of May.

Clyde1998 Just as a reminder, the match kicks-off at 12:30.

I though this was a wind up, so I checked....

It's a really good job you reminded us (me) or I would have been sailing down the A33 at 14:00 wondering where everyone was.

Thanks.

The Selles comments in the local news underline just how important it could be to get the new owners fully committed in the next few weeks. The planning for pre-season and for contracts has already started. Possibly the most important thing the new owners will do is provide the guidance and backing ...

Mid-table Championship. Football at three o'clock on a Saturday. £400 season tickets. Go into most games knowing a win is possible. Team made up of academy products and a few seasoned pros. Good cup run and dump out one of the top six PL teams at home. Premier league. Get dicked by billionaires at o...

I probably should wait until a takeover is confirmed, but hopefully Dai is on his way out. In terms of how I'd like to see incoming owners go about business, I think there are several priorities to focus on: 1) Communicate with the fans Oh how we have missed communication. What is your vision and a...

The parties will need to go in depth into expensive legal and financial analysis, that then gets reviewed, amendements proposed and negotiated, projections and models created etc. etc. Most of this I assume will not have been done before exclusivity because lawyers and accountants cost a lot of mone...

I'm with IR on this: VAR = more correct decisions. Now, for some reason almost every VAR intervention seems to take for ages in the Premeir League. The Bundelsiga and Ligue 1 seem to get most VAR referrals done in seconds - it's really rare for them to drag on. We don't need to get rid of VAR, we ju...

WestYorksRoyal If people are debating it, it can't have been a clear error. Compare it to Derby where even their fans were admitting we'd been mugged.

This.

Not a great performance - not sure how many attempts on goal we made, but it felt distinctly disjointed and tepid. Didn’t think the ref was bad really - I know a lot of people believe he should have given a penalty for handball, but if he doesn’t see it, he can’t give it. Hence my criticism of the r...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-06/chiron-sports-said-to-make-site-visit-for-reading-football-deal?embedded-checkout=true Chiron Sports Said to Make Site Visit for Reading Football Deal A consortium backed by Chiron Sports Group visited Reading FC on Friday, as the investor group ze...

What about Off at Eleven (OAE)? I vaguely remember that, but not what format it took. I first signed up to this portal when it was a shade of pale blue and lots of cascading messages down the page like a Windows Explorer tree, with titles of "X" then "Re: X" then "Re: Re: X...

Bit dissapointed the poll has no Ian Royal option. Assume it was an oversight.

I voted Wing. Bindon has improved throughout the season and is now starting to regularly put in very good performances. But, for me, Wing has been our most consistent, industrious, effective, and at times spectacular, player. Yiadom would be in with a shout too if he hadn't missed so many games, but...