CONFIMRED - The 2nd final countdown

[Dirk Gently]

- 88th minute, Reading are drawing, Orient are ahead, so various tw@ts think the season is over and stage a pitch invasion for whatever reason they can rationalise (e.g "we got to do something", "stick one to the EFL" etc, etc.)

- 90th to 95th minute, Huddersfield score two injury time goals to beat Orient.

- Sunday Reading's play-off place is taken away as the points deduction is imposed.

[Dirk Gently]

There's usually a warning about pitch invasions before a game when there's a possibility of promotion /play-offs, cup final etc. Shouldn't read too much into the statement and how it might pertain to the change of ownership.

Would be nice to see it applied evenly - the celebrations in Wrexham this week certainly featured a comprehensive pitch invasion.

The unspoken understanding is that end-of-season pitch invasions won't be penalised as long as they're after the match has finished and don't affect the game itself. Everyone knows they'll happen and can't be stopped.

That's always been the case, but no-one can actually publicly say "if you must invade do it *after* the game" because that's effectively saying it's OK and has all sorts of legal implications.

[Silver Fox]

- 88th minute, Reading are drawing, Orient are ahead, so various tw@ts think the season is over and stage a pitch invasion for whatever reason they can rationalise (e.g "we got to do something", "stick one to the EFL" etc, etc.)

- 90th to 95th minute, Huddersfield score two injury time goals to beat Orient.

- Sunday Reading's play-off place is taken away as the points deduction is imposed.

If the match is abandoned the points deduction will be moot as they'll give Barnsley a 3-0 win

[genome]

in celebration, I shall be attending Rob Couhig day on Saturday dressed as the Statue Of Liberty, I shall be loud, brash, completely ignorant of all history, and shall be chanting 'USA USA USA' throughout the match.

O'er the land of the free and the home of the... ROYALS.

[Snowflake Royal]

Are we still under a suspended points deduction for pitch invasions? I'm assuming that the club's message is more about protecting any chance of the play offs from an EFL that is at the end of its tether with us!

Not for pitch invasions, its for match abandonments.

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Latest from Twitter for those who don't use:

HK saying announcement today or tomorrow latest.

Someone else claiming to be ITK saying RC at game on Sat and all club social media stuff has been completed.

BUT James Earnshaw saying work still being done on deal....

Huang Kad is at the game on Sat, even saying where he is sitting, so I'm inclined to think its likely he's right.

[Armadillo Roadkill]

Latest from Twitter for those who don't use:

HK saying announcement today or tomorrow latest.

Someone else claiming to be ITK saying RC at game on Sat and all club social media stuff has been completed.

BUT James Earnshaw saying work still being done on deal....

Huang Kad is at the game on Sat, even saying where he is sitting, so I'm inclined to think its likely he's right.

Thanks for that; venturing into the Musk-owned cess-pit that is Twitter is not for me, so updates from there are appreciated.

[Snowflake Royal]

Latest from Twitter for those who don't use:

HK saying announcement today or tomorrow latest.

Someone else claiming to be ITK saying RC at game on Sat and all club social media stuff has been completed.

BUT James Earnshaw saying work still being done on deal....

Huang Kad is at the game on Sat, even saying where he is sitting, so I'm inclined to think its likely he's right.

Thanks for that; venturing into the Musk-owned cess-pit that is Twitter is not for me, so updates from there are appreciated.

+1

Where's the infamous HK wlsay he's sitting?

[genome]

People are mental

[Snowflake Royal]

People are mental

I hope someone is getting the police involved with that

[morganb]

People are mental

If I was Huang I wouldn't be putting my ticket details up on the internet...

[Scutterbucketz]

The Times are reporting the Premier League advised the EFL to not sanction Dai's takeover in 2017 and they were told he'd have to sell if Reading were promoted to the Premier League.

Is this news? The big problem is that the PL has the money and the financial clout to fight a legal case from someone they refuse to sanction. They also have alternative information sources to the EFL that they can't share with them.

But the EFL is on such a shaky financial footing that if a potential owner who they turned down took legal action against them then they couldn't afford to fight it (and if they did, a defence of "The PL told us not to" won't hold water) and that would probably bankrupt them and see the end of the Football League and many of its clubs. So they're not able to take that risk of turning anyone down unless they have clear and defensible reasons why not that they can use in court. .

Pretty sure you can’t take an organisation to court if you don’t meet their specified criteria, so you’re giving the EFL waaaaay too much credit here.

[Scutterbucketz]

People are mental

If I was Huang I wouldn't be putting my ticket details up on the internet...

LOLzy. I wouldn’t be too worried about the 15 year old incel who sent that if I were him. But still, that is mental.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Yeah, nice to hear dd is alive and well

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Latest from Twitter for those who don't use:

HK saying announcement today or tomorrow latest.

Someone else claiming to be ITK saying RC at game on Sat and all club social media stuff has been completed.

BUT James Earnshaw saying work still being done on deal....

Huang Kad is at the game on Sat, even saying where he is sitting, so I'm inclined to think its likely he's right.

Thanks for that; venturing into the Musk-owned cess-pit that is Twitter is not for me, so updates from there are appreciated.

+1

Where's the infamous HK wlsay he's sitting?

Lower west stand - anyone who DM's him is free to buy him a beer at the game....

[Snowflake Royal]

Thanks for that; venturing into the Musk-owned cess-pit that is Twitter is not for me, so updates from there are appreciated.

+1

Where's the infamous HK wlsay he's sitting?

Lower west stand - anyone who DM's him is free to buy him a beer at the game....

What a privilege he's offering.

Lower West - ptrui.

[From Despair To Where?]

People are mental

If I was Huang I wouldn't be putting my ticket details up on the internet...

Oh, I think he knows full well that no-one will have the bollocks to do anything.

[genome]

Yeah, nice to hear dd is alive and well

It's way too coherent to be DD

[Brogue]

+1

Where's the infamous HK wlsay he's sitting?

Lower west stand - anyone who DM's him is free to buy him a beer at the game....

What a privilege he's offering.

Lower West - ptrui.

Paul the Royal User Interface?

[Snowflake Royal]

People are mental

If I was Huang I wouldn't be putting my ticket details up on the internet...

Oh, I think he knows full well that no-one will have the bollocks to do anything.

99.5% of the time that's right.

Worth the risk of the 0.5%? Probably not.