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CHRIS DUNLAVY: Things can get Ugg-ly

Is it cowardly for the owner of a football club to shy from the limelight? Or simply a sensible precaution?

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Chris Dunlavy
16 June 2024

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IS IT cowardly for the owner of a football club to shy from the limelight? Or simply a sensible precaution?
Dai Yongge, the Chinese supermarket tycoon who bought Reading in 2017, boasts a £600m fortune and owns a Westminster mansion across the road from Buckingham Palace.
Yet earlier this year, staff at the League One side’s Bear-wood Park training ground found themselve...

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