Reading City’s ground vandalised

The Rivermoor had played host to the clubs first home league game on Tuesday night

Cherry Red Records Combined Counties League Premier Division North side Reading City have had their ground vandalised.

The Rivermoor was, according to a social media post by the club, broken into on Tuesday night with the changing rooms trashed and pipe work stolen.

City – who played their first home league game of the season on Tuesday night – had members of their club arrive on site on Wednesday morning to find the damage, with water left running.

Last nights feeling of jubilation after our win, have turned to feelings of sadness & anger this morning.

Having arrived at @Therivermoor we have found our changing rooms were not only broken into but trashed, the piping stolen and water left running all night 😭 pic.twitter.com/t52262OOEE
— Reading City FC (@ReadingCityFC) September 14, 2022

City manager Simon Johnson summed it up on Twitter: “Honestly. Repeat occurrence. Absolute scum of the earth.”

If you have any information on the break-in, please head to the Thames Valley Police website here and quote reference number 20220914 – 0458.

If you are able to offer help to the club, we can send on your details via our Contact Us page here.

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Tom Canning is the co-editor of Football in Berkshire. He has played at the lowest possible level of football in the Bracknell Sunday League Fourth Division. In real life Tom is a Freelance Digital Content Producer having spent 20 years at Reach PLC, starting out on the Reading Evening Post - as well as a year with The Cricketer Magazine. He co-founded Football in Berkshire with Darrell Freeland in 2016. He is the former manager of Bracknell Town Ladies Reserves and Binfield Ladies in the Thames Valley Women's League.

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