Was Dai Yongge, Reading’s disreputable owner, watching? Is he keeping abreast of his club’s League One promotion challenge or does he choose to spend sunny spring afternoons in alternative pleasures?
Rumour has it, the Chinese billionaire remains holed up somewhere in Britain, but no one really knows. That tends to be the way with this troubled club at the moment: unanswered questions, wary suspicions and the unsubstantiated hearsay of an existential crisis that heaps shame on English football.
