J. Reading

Egham Town · FA Cup · Goalkeeper · #0 · England · 34 yrs

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J. Reading

Goalkeeper · #0

Legal name: James Reading
Age: 34
Nationality: England
Height: —
Weight: —
Preferred foot: —
Injured: No
Current club: Egham Town EGH

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Eddie Howe leaves Newcastle United with Matthias Jaissle set to replace him

theguardian.com · 3 hours ago

Howe leaves after five years in charge at St James’ ParkAl-Ahli’s German coach in line to take over Eddie Howe has left Newcastle and is set to be replaced by the German coach Matthias Jaissle, who is currently in charge of the Saudi Arabian club Al-Ahli.Although the timing of Howe’s abrupt departure following almost five years in charge at St James’ Park is unexpected, his position had been under intense scrutiny from Newcastle’s Saudi Arabian owners for some time. Continue reading...

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England’s 1966 World Cup heroes were fun, humble and unlike today’s stars

theguardian.com · 7 hours ago

After lifting the trophy 60 years ago, some still supplemented their income by performing in working men’s clubs and as after dinner speakersWith each passing World Cup I am reminded of the times I spent in the company of those wonderful “Boys of 66”. What a privilege it was getting to know them in a much simpler era when, unlike today’s mollycoddled stars, household names remained unaffected by money and fame.Where were you on 30 July 1966, the day England won the World Cup? I was at my nan and grandad’s house. They had a minute television which seemed no bigger than a matchbox. Intermittently the picture, which was in black and white, would roll around the screen. It was infuriating. My grandad talked about needing to get the “horizontal hold fixed” (unless you are of a certain age you will need to Google that). I was nine years old. Continue reading...

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WSL brings back Sunday evening kick-offs after indifferent viewing figures

theguardian.com · 13 hours ago

Move part of an overhaul of its broadcast strategySunday evening games were dropped last seasonThe Women’s Super League will bring back Sunday evening kick-offs this season as part of an overhaul of its broadcast strategy after indifferent viewing figures last season.The Guardian has learned that the WSL will offer six different TV slots to broadcasters after releasing its fixtures for the 2026-27 campaign later on Thursday in a significant change from last season, when the majority of televised games took place on Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes. Continue reading...

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Uefa calls emergency meeting as opposition to Fifa plan hardens

theguardian.com · 17 hours ago

55 members to meet on Thursday to coordinate response‘Uefa knows there is significant and growing opposition’Uefa has called an emergency meeting of its 55 members for Thursday afternoon to discuss a coordinated response to Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors. A European boycott of Fifa tournaments is among the options under consideration.As the next major event in the Fifa calendar, a boycott of next year’s Women’s World Cup has been mentioned in preliminary discussions, although there would be a reluctance in some quarters to make the women’s game suffer as a consequence of a protest against Fifa proposals that primarily revolve around monetising the men’s World Cup and Club World Cup. Continue reading...

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Football Daily | Gianni Infantino’s big World Cup sale and Fifa’s race to the bottom line

theguardian.com · 20 hours ago

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!We begin Football Daily’s 29 July 2026 edition with a trip back to 26 February 2016. Gianni Infantino has been elected as the new Fifa president on a promise to clean up a disgraced organisation. “A good day for football,” says the FA director, David Gill. “A good day for the sport,” concurs the American Fifa executive committee member, Sunil Gulati. “Who’s that bald loser on the news?” says an unnamed Republican candidate.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading...

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Manchester City leading opposition to Premier League’s £1.5bn EFL proposal

theguardian.com · 22 hours ago

Meeting on Thursday to discuss landmark settlementCity have concerns about how the package will be fundedManchester City are leading the opposition to the Premier League’s plans to offer £1.5bn to the English Football League in a landmark financial settlement which will be discussed at a meeting of the 20 clubs on Thursday.The Premier League wants to put its proposed offer, which would be spread over 10 years, to a vote in the hope of getting the matter resolved before the start of the season, but City are understood to have come up with a counterproposal amid concerns about how the package will be funded. Continue reading...

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Awakening giants: Dortmund add stardust to their rise through leagues

theguardian.com · yesterday

Manuela Zinsberger and Alexandra Popp have made surprise moves to third-tier club looking to join eliteLocated in Austria during a pre-season training camp, the Borussia Dortmund women’s team, squad as well as staff, are plotting how to reach the 2. Bundesliga after missing out on promotion last season.Dortmund finished two points off the top and a place in the regional playoffs despite a goal difference of +101, and the club have wasted no time in signing big names to make sure there is no such near miss this time around. Continue reading...

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Uefa has to show backbone: concrete action can make Fifa’s World Cup plans untenable | Nick Ames

theguardian.com · yesterday

European football has shown an increased willingness to talk tough with Fifa but words can only be wielded so many times• FA joins criticism of Fifa plan to sell off World Cup stakesAs the World Cup neared its conclusion, one leading figure in European football pondered how Gianni Infantino might attempt to rinse away the damaging stain of the Folarin Balogun scandal. It all came down to money. “He will just announce more funds for everyone,” was the gist, although the tournament passed without any explanation of how Fifa would carve up its record $15bn (£11.2bn) haul.That was the tip of the iceberg. Infantino’s plan to sell chunks of the World Cup to private investors, announced on Tuesday, nine days after the final, has sent shock waves around the sport and left senior personnel scrambling. There is little time for a coordinated response given Fifa, at the height of what passes for football’s holiday period, has given FAs until 19 September to decide whether to accept the initial $20m payment that would effectively count as endorsement of the new scheme. Continue reading...

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FA joins criticism of Fifa plan to sell off World Cup stakes to private investors

theguardian.com · yesterday

FA in talks with other European associationsOptions include boycott and potential breakawayMembers given 19 September deadline to opt inThe Football Association has joined Uefa in condemning Fifa’s plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors.In a statement released on Wednesday morning the FA said it was yet to see any details of the controversial proposals, and expressed grave concerns over Fifa’a governance. Continue reading...

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Is Kazuyoshi Miura the oldest goalscorer in competitive football history? | The Knowledge

theguardian.com · yesterday

Plus: UK prime ministers’ football allegiances, top-flight W teams in England and united UnitedsMail us with your all of your questions and answers“Kazuyoshi Miura recently scored in the Emperor’s Cup at the tender age of 59 – is he the oldest goalscorer in football history?” asks Terry Winter.If we were picking an all-time Knowledge XI, King Kazu would be in the mix for a place. He’s appeared in various age-related queries over the years, and tales of his exploits always give us hope as we wheeze through middle age. On Saturday, Miura scored his first competitive goal ⁠in nearly four years as ⁠Fukushima United thrashed Iwaki Furukawa 7-0 in the Emperor’s Cup. Continue reading...

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Abusive chanting against immigrants in English football on rise, new data reveals

theguardian.com · 2 days ago

Reported incidents of all discrimination reach new highReports of abuse in grassroots football rose for fifth yearAbusive chanting against immigrants has become a feature of football matches in England, according to new data from Kick It Out.Last season 39 reports of anti-immigrant chanting were made to the anti-discrimination charity, more than the previous two seasons combined. Phrases such as “stop the boats” and “send them back” were reported as being heard “at all levels of the game”, Kick It Out said. Continue reading...

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Retaining Rodri is key to Manchester City success under Enzo Maresca

theguardian.com · 2 days ago

New manager’s No 1 priority must be to persuade World Cup-winning captain to stay as Real Madrid circle“Welcome home,” was Khaldoon al-Mubarak’s warm greeting to Enzo Maresca on his appointment last month as Manchester City manager. Now, after two previous spells at the club, the Italian’s task is to keep the chair content, and ensure a three-year contract does not end early. To achieve that, Maresca’s tenure must continue Pep Guardiola’s glittering legacy of 20 trophies across a decade of excellence.The key to the 46-year-old, who was Guardiola’s assistant during the 2022-23 treble season and City’s elite development squad leader two years before that, being successful can be summed up in two words: “Keep Rodri”. Yet with Real Madrid almost certain to launch a bid for the peerless No 6, and him seemingly wanting to play for the Spanish giants, a move away from City may become inevitable. Continue reading...

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Milos Kerkez: ‘I’m delighted – Andoni Iraola is the perfect fit for Liverpool’

theguardian.com · 2 days ago

Full-back on being reunited with former manager, the shock of Arne Slot’s sacking and being mistaken for a bridegroomIt has been quite the summer for Milos Kerkez. There was time at home in Serbia, holidays in Montenegro and Spain, a frantic knock on his bedroom door one day to tell him that Arne Slot had been sacked, an unexpected reunion with Andoni Iraola shortly afterwards, and thousands of well‑wishes sent his way after being photographed escorting a bride into church in his hometown of Vrbas. Congratulations on the wedding are also extended at the start of our interview on a rooftop terrace at Liverpool’s team hotel.“No! This is wrong, everyone gets this wrong!” the full-back exclaims. “It was my oldest brother. In Serbia it is normal for the younger brothers to take the bride to the church. That’s what I did and now everyone thinks I got married. It was Rade, not me. There are three of us – Rade is the oldest, I’m the youngest and Marko is the middle one. I keep having to explain to people that I never got married. I was going around the club when we started back and people were congratulating me. I’m like: ‘No, I’m not ready for this yet!’” Continue reading...

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How Premier League Futures programme is helping former academy prospects

theguardian.com · 2 days ago

In six months Iyiola Adebayo went from captaining West Ham youth teams to delivering pizzas but he has found a new direction“Within six months of being the captain at West Ham and playing in the Youth Cup, I was delivery driving at Domino’s,” says Iyiola Adebayo.Adebayo had joined at eight the academy that produced Rio Ferdinand, Joe Cole and Declan Rice and the defensive midfielder from Tilbury was tipped to follow in their footsteps when awarded a scholarship before anyone else in his age group. However, a dislocated shoulder set him back in the first year and despite making appearances for the under-21s and under 23s, he was released at 16. Continue reading...

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Reading remove online shop items with spelling errors

bbc.co.uk · 2 days ago

The League One football club says the images of the merchandise in its online shop have been removed.

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John Stones set for Inter move after shining for England at World Cup

theguardian.com · 3 days ago

Defender left Manchester City on free transfer‘I still feel I have so much to give to a club’Inter are closing in on signing John Stones as a free transfer after the 32-year-old defender left Manchester City in June.Inter and their rival Italian club Juventus were interested in Stones before the World Cup and the Nerazzurri are now in pole position to recruit him following his impressive form in England’s run to the semi-finals. Continue reading...

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Fifa president Gianni Infantino called to appear before Congress over Trump ties

theguardian.com · 3 days ago

Democrat Jamie Raskin pushes Fifa to release records of contact with Trump, administration and family businessJamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, has launched an investigation into the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, seeking documents that would detail the ties between soccer’s governing body and Donald Trump and his administration.In a Sunday letter, Raskin wrote to Infantino and called for Fifa to provide any documents and communications related to gifts, payments or benefits provided to Trump and his associates, as well as the visitor logs for Fifa’s office space in Trump Tower, which it acquired last year. The committee also requested that Infantino sit for a transcribed interview. Continue reading...

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Trial to be introduced in bid to prevent goalkeeper tactical time-outs

theguardian.com · 3 days ago

Measures planned to run throughout 2026-27 seasonIfab yet to give permission for proposed rule changeEnglish football will introduce a trial this season in an effort to end the goalkeeper tactical time-out.The trial – backed collectively by Pro Ref (formerly Professional Game Match Officials), the Football Association, Premier League, English Football League, Women’s Super League and National League – aims to prevent goalkeeper injuries used to disrupt momentum and allow opportunities for tactical instruction. Continue reading...

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Mind the ever-growing gap: the Premier League keeps spending big

theguardian.com · 3 days ago

English clubs have spent more on players this summer than the other four major European leagues combinedThe financial power of the Premier League is unmatched. The teams in England’s top division have collectively invested more than £1.4bn in new players already this summer (through disclosed fees alone), around £303m more than the 76 clubs from the Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A combined.These figures are the gross spend, so take no account of players sold to help balance the books. Factoring this in only increases the divide. The clubs of Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga are £203.4m and £72.2m in credit from their transfer dealings respectively. While La Liga (£163.1m) and Serie A (£124.1m) have spent more than they have earned, they are an ocean adrift of the Premier League’s net spend of £523.6m. Continue reading...

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Spurs’ plans for new training facility in London park blocked by high court

theguardian.com · 3 days ago

Judge quashes Enfield council’s decision to grant planning permission for new women’s and girls’ football academyA council’s decision to allow Tottenham Hotspur Football Club to build a new training facility in a park in north London has been quashed by a judge at the high court.The campaign group Guardians of Whitewebbs told a hearing in June that Enfield council’s decision to grant planning permission for a new women’s and girls’ football academy on 6.5 hectares (16 acres) of land in Whitewebbs Park was unlawful. Continue reading...

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Player headlines

Eddie Howe leaves Newcastle United with Matthias Jaissle set to replace him

England’s 1966 World Cup heroes were fun, humble and unlike today’s stars

WSL brings back Sunday evening kick-offs after indifferent viewing figures

Uefa calls emergency meeting as opposition to Fifa plan hardens

Football Daily | Gianni Infantino’s big World Cup sale and Fifa’s race to the bottom line

Manchester City leading opposition to Premier League’s £1.5bn EFL proposal

Awakening giants: Dortmund add stardust to their rise through leagues

Uefa has to show backbone: concrete action can make Fifa’s World Cup plans untenable | Nick Ames

FA joins criticism of Fifa plan to sell off World Cup stakes to private investors

Is Kazuyoshi Miura the oldest goalscorer in competitive football history? | The Knowledge

Abusive chanting against immigrants in English football on rise, new data reveals

Retaining Rodri is key to Manchester City success under Enzo Maresca

Milos Kerkez: ‘I’m delighted – Andoni Iraola is the perfect fit for Liverpool’

How Premier League Futures programme is helping former academy prospects

Reading remove online shop items with spelling errors

John Stones set for Inter move after shining for England at World Cup

Fifa president Gianni Infantino called to appear before Congress over Trump ties

Trial to be introduced in bid to prevent goalkeeper tactical time-outs

Mind the ever-growing gap: the Premier League keeps spending big

Spurs’ plans for new training facility in London park blocked by high court

Player headlines

Eddie Howe leaves Newcastle United with Matthias Jaissle set to replace him

England’s 1966 World Cup heroes were fun, humble and unlike today’s stars

WSL brings back Sunday evening kick-offs after indifferent viewing figures

Uefa calls emergency meeting as opposition to Fifa plan hardens

Football Daily | Gianni Infantino’s big World Cup sale and Fifa’s race to the bottom line

Manchester City leading opposition to Premier League’s £1.5bn EFL proposal

Awakening giants: Dortmund add stardust to their rise through leagues

Uefa has to show backbone: concrete action can make Fifa’s World Cup plans untenable | Nick Ames

FA joins criticism of Fifa plan to sell off World Cup stakes to private investors

Is Kazuyoshi Miura the oldest goalscorer in competitive football history? | The Knowledge

Abusive chanting against immigrants in English football on rise, new data reveals

Retaining Rodri is key to Manchester City success under Enzo Maresca

Milos Kerkez: ‘I’m delighted – Andoni Iraola is the perfect fit for Liverpool’

How Premier League Futures programme is helping former academy prospects

Reading remove online shop items with spelling errors

John Stones set for Inter move after shining for England at World Cup

Fifa president Gianni Infantino called to appear before Congress over Trump ties

Trial to be introduced in bid to prevent goalkeeper tactical time-outs

Mind the ever-growing gap: the Premier League keeps spending big

Spurs’ plans for new training facility in London park blocked by high court