Plight of Reading shows how football fans? dreams can easily spiral into a death vort

The Dai Yongge Show continues: eight seasons and counting at Reading. It is the soap opera no network can seem to cancel
And by our tennis balls shall you know us. And by our clown outfits and face paint shall you know us. And by our carefully worded media releases and painstaking analysis of tribunal documents shall you know us. And by the gigantic billboard we hired outside the train station shall you know us. Anyway, what we?re saying is: you know us. As for the next step ? yeah, we?re working on that part.
?Ripped apart while the world watches? reads the aforementioned billboard outside Reading station. But is the world actually watching? Beyond the RG postcodes it was hard to identify too many concentric ripples from the news last week regarding another mysterious takeover bid for the club apparently falling through. It?s hard to drum up much interest in A Thing Not Happening, particularly when the transfer window is closing and the big beasts of the Premier League demand to be talked about at all times.
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