Just back from a week in Tenerife and spent a rather enlightening and enjoyable evening chatting with a Reading fan.
Wow! He was passionate in his hatred of this Dai Yongge chancer. ( the kindest thing he called him )
When I made a daft joke about the infamous Thames Valley Royal’s Maxwell merger - he laughed and recognised I wasn’t a JCL. He wasn’t very nice about Oxford! Apparently a big money man who wanted control of Reading, who their supporters wanted, has buggered off to Oxford and has suddenly got them all excited.
He hated Arsenal, because they were Arsenal. Hated Liverpool because during the 70’s & 80’s they were always the ITV Big Match main game on a Sunday where he lived. Then he ’educated’ me on why nytid are called rags - he was spot on too!
Then he totally floored me! He was furious at the way we were being treated and said every other football supporter who wasn’t attached to the three red shit had had the scales lifted from their eyes and were starting to see the truth.
He wished us well for the future as did I to him.
Most Geordies were also completely different than this time last year in their take on the whole issue.
Slowly, slowly and all that.
The Reading supporter has really left an impression.
From small acorns maybe?