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Reading FC’s co-chairwoman Khunying Sasima Svrikorn has co-written a new club song which will be played before Sunday’s opening home game of the new season.

The song ‘They call us the Royals’ will be broadcast over the PA system just before kick-off against Leeds United, along with a music video which will be beamed onto the big screens.

Lady Sasima, who flew in from Thailand this morning, says it is all part of a show to welcome the club’s fans to the new season.

“I, along with my friends, wrote a song as a gift for Reading Football Club,” she said.

“We have made a music video together with it. So it will be an opening show.

“I was in the studio for many days doing that. It’s so meaningful for us to open the season well and for us to feel the spirit and the emotion of the fans with us. They have to be inside us.

“So we wrote the song which I’m pretty proud of. We tried to do the song in a trendy way.

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“I used to compose songs for my country, we did the Asian games, by this one we’re aiming at the crowd. This is British rock.”

Sasima added: “This is a good opportunity to welcome our fans to the first home game of the season.

“I didn’t do it alone. I did it with friends.

“The one who wrote the melody is a world class composer, his name is Henrik Algren, he’s a friend of my friend’s son.

“We worked together well. I shared my idea, my concept. I wrote something and he corrected it. We had a lot of fun. But I can’t claim I did it on my own.”

“They Call us the Royals”

Verse 1

We started when all the odds defied us

Through passion and dreams we reached new heights

We were marching proudly from Elm Park into the stadium

We forced our rivals to make way

pre chorus

Now we’re here and we’re strong, we’re going to bring it on

Can you hear when we shout come on

chorus

We will fight til the end, they call us the Royals

With our might we’ll defend, the glory of Reading

Like the kings of our land, they call us the Royals

Let us sing every man, we stand by the Royals

Verse 2

We rise to the challenge of our rivals

We’re fighting the butterflies tonight

It’s our moment, feel the expectations rising

We smell a victory today

Rap

How we love the thrill of a good game

How we like the smell of the fame

Doesn’t matter if we learn or win

Unstoppably we burn within

Getting ready to shed our sweat

Everybody get ready and set

Let’s celebrate tonight. Or blood is blue our wings are white.

chant

Blue and white, blue and white, blue and white

Give us blue and white, blue and white. Everybody come on.

A capella

Like the kings of our land. they call us the Royals

Let us sing every man, we stand by the Royals