Dai Yongge: Reading owner disqualified and told to sell club by 4 April

BBC Radio Berkshire’s Reading commentator Tim Dellor:

Do Reading fans feel reassured or less confident following today’s court hearing?

Most will be left feeling more anxious and uncertain. The hearing gave us more questions than answers.

Reading’s plight has been ramped up. Had the judge issued the injunction the club sale could have been relatively easy to envisage.

We would be closer to Dai Yongge leaving the stage, and the club would have been able to move on from years of uncertainty.

Instead, with Rob Couhig’s securities remaining in place, and Yongge’s seemingly obstinate refusal to sell to him, or anyone else, while they are in place it seems the impasse remains.

The really worrying message from the hearing came from the EFL.

For months there have been calls from some quarters to disqualify Yongge from ownership – which they have now done.

By 4 April Reading will need to be sold, or they will be told they can’t play any games while Yongge is still at the helm.

Reading have never had any success in play-off campaigns previously, so to finish in the top six but then not be permitted to even take part would be a new level of ridiculous in this long-running saga.