From the Guardian:
It’s 9.50am and Football Daily is scrolling through various social media disgraces for some hot content for you, dear reader. We’ve only looked at three posts, two we didn’t understand and another that brought our mood plummeting down to a level similar to Roy Hodgson’s after Iceland. Then we checked the third, @ReadingFC on TwiXer. Ah, a video. A bus rounds a bend. A man crosses a road. He’ll be fine, won’t he? He’d better hurry up. Oh dear. This might not end well. Smack! Man is sent hurtling through the air and skids to a halt near a bus stop. This is awful. Man gets up and walks into pub. What the [snip] have we just watched?
You may or may not be aware of video footage from this incident seven years ago, which led to a jail sentence for a bus driver in Reading and injuries to the victim who clearly wasn’t immediately feeling them when he took the decision to get up and quench his thirst. So why is a professional football club posting footage of such an incident with no obvious context? To sell tickets for a knees-up at the trendy nightspot that the discombobulated and bruised man entered, of course. “After the huge success of last year’s Pre-Season Social at the iconic Purple Turtle, we’re delighted to confirm we will be doing it all over again as we prepare for the start of the 2024-25 campaign away to Birmingham City,” trumpeted Reading in a separate article on their website. What does this tell us? Modern football really does live inside a ball of mostly noxious b@nter. Post first, lap up the lols, question your taste later.
