My affair with Reading

MARK SEGAL had a break from his beloved West Ham to run off with another team

Support for your football club is non-negotiable. You choose, or are told to support, a team when you are young and that’s it, you are stuck with them for the rest of your life.But what if you could have a season off? What if for just nine months you could follow someone else, cheer on another team, become a red rather than a blue?It’s not something many of us would contemplate and as a West Ham fan for nearly 30 years it’s the sort of thing I’d dismiss in an instant. Except it ha...

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