Hi Royals, Thought I'd return with an update on the protests against the EPPP. Some clubs are still making a noise on how this will detrimentally effect their youth system to the advantage of some Premiership clubs who will gain the future talent for themselves on the cheap. The Premier League are t...

Interview by BBC Radio with Palace fans on why they are protesting the EPPP ruling;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjuyLBiE ... r_embedded

As the EPPP will effect your clubs future as much as mine I hope that Reading fans can organise some form of protest against the FA/PL plans.

For the 3rd game running I thought we played some excellent stuff - especially around their box. Neat intricate passing. Just we a shame we again didn't have the killer instinct. Thought Mikele and Jem were outstanding and Kaspers and Pierce were solid, although they did only really had an out of s...

There was around 3-400 Palace fans boycotting the first 5 minutes in protest of the EPPP. The atmosphere was not good but certainly was not shocking as both sets of fans made some noise at times. The reason for the poor(ish) atmosphere can be put in part down to the high number of children as part o...

Um, yes there has. Currently players don't receive enough quality coaching before the age of 21 and EPPP will allow the best academies to provide the necessary amount of time to produce world class footballers. That seems to be the main reason why countries with lower populations than ours such as ...

Palace fan here. Don't deceive yourselves that it's a good thing for Reading. This is a plan to control the market by cherry picking the best from other, lower level youth academies. It will screw over the vast majority of the professional football clubs in this country. One of the reasons for this ...