Birmingham owner Yeung held in Hong Kong

A Hong Kong court has rejected Birmingham City owner Carson Yeung’s bid to attend the club’s first home game of the season.

Yeung, charged with five counts of money laundering involving more than 720 million Hong Kong dollars (€65m), appeared in court today offering to increase his bail to 3 million Hong Kong dollars (€272,000) so he could fly to England to attend Birmingham’s match against Coventry and attend to club business.