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It means Couhig, 75, will take control of shares in the League One club, the Select Car Leasing Stadium and Bearwood training ground from former Reading owner Dai Yongge, whose tenure as majority shareholder since 2017 has been fraught with financial difficulties and years of fan protests.

He also performed weekly at the Silvershine Jazz Club at the Corks Club in Bearwood, Smethwick.

Before the 1960s, Bearwood Avenue was just one of two streets in Howie Acres where Black people could own homes.

Only Redwood Avenue, and later Bearwood, were excepted and church members bought property there.

Others point to the nearby light rail, which runs behind Bearwood Avenue and stops at a sleek, glass station off Sugar Creek Road that opened in 2018.