Reading’s biggest win of the summer? Making us believe again
04.08.26, 14:26 Updated 04.08.26, 14:26 4 Minute Read
Anthony Tomas
Isn’t it amazing what a few meaningless results can do?
As Reading dropped out of the 2025/26 League One play-off picture like a lead balloon, taking just two points from their last six league games, many disillusioned fans called on the club hierarchy to start afresh this summer with a new manager, having already scraped the barrel of patience they had in Leam Richardson – a barrel that had limited volume to begin with.
Those calls were met with one answer, or should that be One Royal? Described as “a new supporter offering”, which sadly did not mean sacrificing a youth from Club 1871 at the altar of Jimmy Kébé, and instead was the club’s convoluted new method of paying monthly for your season ticket, met with further disgruntlement from supporters who felt as if they were being treated like customers. The backlash to the scheme meant the club had to dedicate time to defending it, and small matters like the first team manager had to wait.
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Anthony Tomas Anthony Tomas has been supporting Reading since he was first taken to Elm Park in 1997 and has worked as a sports writer for five years. He covers European football for Flashscore and has written for World Soccer Magazine and MUNDIAL, but owes it all to writing Reading Handball Club's match reports in the Reading Chronicle many years ago.