by Schards#2 »
01 May 2008 08:18
Through 36 years of Reading support, I have only ever really been fuming when I felt the players/manager/club were not doing everything they can to get the best possible results. This hasn't been that often but, increasingly, I get the feeling that this is the case this season.
It's all rumour but I hear about Kitson having a bust up with Lita, Lita with Coppell, Shorey with Kitson, Shorey playing out his contract, various players falling out with manager and now this.
If we go down having given it our absolute best shot, I can live with that. If we go down because of petty squabbles, people refusing to play in the same side as others, people saving themselves for a move, then I can't live with that, in fact it would be an absolute f***ing disgrace.
It's taken over 100 years to get here, this is the highest paid squad in history by a huge margin, the fans are paying the ticket prices in history by a huge margin. If the players throw the fans dreams and aspirations in the bin over petty personality clashes and self interest I will have lost all respect for them and they will have undone the fantastic work of the previous few years.
Given the sums they are being paid, if they can't give it 100% every second they are working doing a job most of us would do for nothing, they are a disgrace. I really hope that is not the case.