"The Athletic" article....

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"The Athletic" article....

by skipper » 28 Nov 2021 21:27

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Re: "The Athletic" article....

by SCIAG » 28 Nov 2021 21:57

It’s a pretty comprehensive article. ATM I think it is £12 for a year’s subscription which is mad really so well worth signing up, particularly if you like European football or American sports or women’s football, or closely follow a top-flight club.

Here is the end of the introduction saying what the Athletic’s investigation revealed - it’s bullet points in the original but I am not doing the BBCode for that:
Extravagant spending saw 12 Reading players earning more than £1 million a year in the 2019-20 Championship season

Agent Kia Joorabchian has played a central role in recruitment, acting as an informal “advisor”, and continues to have an influence on player trading

John MacBeath, a board member of City Football Group, is a close friend of Reading’s chief executive Dayong Pang and regularly offers advice to his local club

How other clubs owned by the Dai family in Belgium and China hit financial trouble and ceased to exist

Madejski’s sadness at the “weird” state of the club and his wish he could help or at least be an ambassador

How team spirit unravelled in the years that followed that play-off final defeat.


There’s another article in there at the moment about Scott Dann, mostly focuses on his Palace time but also a fair bit about Reading. In recent months there have been profiles of Baba Rahman and Omar Richards, but generally there isn’t much if you’re only interested in Reading.

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Re: "The Athletic" article....

by Hound » 29 Nov 2021 09:47

taken that offer up - £1 a month is decent.

Will just have to remember to cancel before it becomes £7.99 again :)

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Re: "The Athletic" article....

by Hound » 29 Nov 2021 10:15

was quite a good article, well worth a read. pretty depressing stuff at times, so matches what was going on on the field pretty well

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