Cameron Wilson
Profile:
UK trained journalist and long-time Chinese football observer Cameron Wilson has been writing about Chinese football since 2005 for various International and China-based news outlets such as Agence France-Presse, Goal.com, Shanghaiist, China Sports Review, That's Shanghai, Time out Shanghai and City Weekend. In August 2010 he decided to launch a website dedicated to Chinese football as a central despository for all of his writings ont he subject. He's traveled all over China following Shanghai Shenhua as a fully paid-up member of its infamous Blue Devil's supporters group. His association with China stretches back over a decade, having first arrived in August 2000 to teach English for a year in a rural town a few hours northwest of Shanghai. He took in his first Chinese football match during this time - a 2-1 victory for Shanghai Shenhua against Dalian Shide. He went home to the UK in July 2001 but returned to China to live in Shanghai in 2005. Since then he's been a Shanghai Shenhua season ticket holder and a member of the Blue Devil's supporters' club. The views expressed by him on Wild East Football may suffer from a slight bias to this effect. He is also however, still very much a fan of his hometown team, Dunfermline Athletic. A "Par from afar", as it were. A passionate believer in the power of the beautiful game to build bridges between diverse peoples and cultures, he was the first foreign fan to travel with the Blue Devil fans' club to an away match – a tremendous 3-2 victory for Shenhua over Beijng Guoan in September 2007. Cameron speaks decent mandarin and can crack jokes in Shanghainese.
Posts by Cameron Wilson:
- Pub Talk: Goalkeepers drinking the coolaid?
- Wilson: “Government football” and pitch chaos added to rich lore of Shanghai Derby
- Pub Cast: Shanghai Derby Special
- The Shanghai Derby: Your guide to the biggest game in town for a decade
- Away days: Shanghai Shenhua fans’ debaucherous Beijing adventure
- Pub Talk: Chopsticks Doghouse
- Wilson: An intriguing 2015 beckons for Chinese football
- Pub Talk: A tale of two cites – Beijing v Shanghai
- Shanghai Shenhua Stadium used as golf driving range
- Pub Talk: Chinese football’s grand masterplan for the future