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Jeff Stelling urges EFL to take action over ownership following Reading protest

Andy Preston by Andy Preston
Monday, January 15, 2024 10:26 am
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Former Sky Sports presenter and TalkSport radio host Jeff Stelling gave his support to the Reading fans following their protest on Saturday.

The Royals fans got their game with Port Vale abandoned on Saturday after invading the pitch.

Speaking on TalkSport, Stelling said: “You’d never advocate fans going on the pitch, but I tell you what, it was the right thing.

“Look at the coverage of their plight that those Reading fans have got. They are desperate, they want him expelled as an owner.

“They can see their club being liquidated and going the same way as the clubs in China and Belgium that Yongge has owned. They were dissolved and don’t exist anymore.”

Stelling also urged Premier League fans to take note of Reading’s troubles, highlighting that they were in the top flight just over a decade ago.

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He continued: “In desperation they’ve gone on the pitch. They don’t care about points deductions, that doesn’t matter. What they care about is their club and the future of their club.

“If anyone who is a Premier League supporters thinking, ‘this doesn’t matter to us’, Reading were in the Premier League just over 10 years ago. We can’t afford to let Reading go the same way as teams like Bury and Maccelesfield.

“They’ve had 16 points taken off them. Fine them? They haven’t got any money

“The EFL have to take a look at the fit and proper owners test and the decisions they make. How was this guy allowed to own the football club in the first place.

“Through no fault of the fans, through no fault of John Madejski, its fallen into the hands of Dai Yongge and they can’t be allowed to be made the ultimate penalty of going out of business.”

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