Reading may have agreed an initial fee of £1m (€1.4m) with Wolves for striker Seol Ki-Hyun, but midfielder Steve Sidwell has turned down the offer of a new contract.

Twenty-five minutes gone and still no breakthrough despite an unexpectedly open early spell.

Hwang Sun-hong sent the whole of South Korea into ecstasy when he scored their first goal of the World Cup against Poland in the Asiad Stadium.

In World Cup year, and in his quest for career advancement, the golden boy of Korean football has played a worrying lack of football.