SlowDownDerek
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It was fun watching them struggling to return to the top flight then we just show up, breeze through the division in a couple of years, yoink 12 points off them then leave them for dust.
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It was fun watching them struggling to return to the top flight then we just show up, breeze through the division in a couple of years, yoink 12 points off them then leave then for dust.
Regarding the financial situation I remember “the secret footballer” writing about a potential takeover for what seemed to very obviously be Reading - point 3 in this link illustrates how they have ended up here
https://thetilehurstend.sbnation.com/2017/1/5/13541998/reading-fc-takeover-the-secret-footballer
I imagine it took you quite a long time to think up that carefully considered response...F*** those bunch of biscuit c****.
100% on the changing the nickname. Will always be the Biscuitmen to me.Used to properly hate them in the late 90’s, like most and it was a decent rivalry. Changing their nickname to ‘The Royals’ is the most pathetic thing though, poor flowers couldn’t handle a bit of biscuit piss take.
How can you lose that much per week? That's 10 players on 75k, a whole premier league wage bill after all this time?Looking at the championship table earlier and seeing Readings slide reminded me of a conversation that I had a couple of weeks ago. Was talking to a mate who supports them and he reckons they have lost tens of millions since their relegation from the premier league. According to him their last set of accounts show that their wage bill has been at around 197 per cent of their turn over. Squandered the parachute payments and are now leeching around £ 750,000 a week. It's now gone beyond chasing the premier league to can they survive? I'm not sure if I should feel a bit smug about their situation but strangely I can't.
Anyone remember Fulham chanting that to us in the past? Lets not get too cocky.