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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Daniel Harris

Why what’s currently going on at Reading FC should agitate all of us

The League One match between Reading and Port Vale is abandoned as home fans invade the pitch in protest against their owners.
Reading fans taking things into their own hands against Port Vale on Saturday. Photograph: TeeGeePix/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Live News.

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There’s a reason you’re here, and it definitely isn’t the reliable hilarity of the planet’s favourite tea-timely email. Rather, what probably brought you to this debilitating wilderness of facetious smuggery is that you are an extremely poorly individual, jonesing for yet another hit to satisfy your congenital, preternatural and incurable footballaholism. Because regardless of race, class or nationality, sex, sexuality or gender, people love football, more than they love almost anything else – even in Reading. Which is why what’s currently going on with Reading should be agitating all of us.

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