A website about Chinese football, in English
Away at Nanchang is the kind of game that’s easy to slip up with, playing an average (at best) side in front of a large home crowd, often times complacency sets in and especially when the game is… Read More
Revenge is sweet! Last year it was shortly after the World Cup break that Guoan went to Dalian and gave one of their worst performances of the year, one of the few toward the second half of the… Read More
Monday night football will take a whole different meaning tonight when the club takes on Dalian at Worker’s Stadium. An Andy Lau concert forced the move to Monday and after last night’s practice session on the Gongti pitch,… Read More
is of course a sensible football journal where one can find a reliable stream of news and views on the Chinese game. Well, as sensible as our eccentric subject matter allows, that is. You’ll forgive us, then, if… Read More
There are a lot of Chinese Super League oddities that take a long time to get used to, one in particular is the transfer window. Unlike in Europe where news of a friend of a transfer target’s brother… Read More
Beijing Guoan 1 – 3 Hangzhou Greentown I was excited about this match all week, it had me looking forward to the weekend for a reason other than the 2 days away from the office, so perhaps this… Read More
It’s finally here, Sunday night will see the Men in Green open up their season at home against Hangzhou Greentown, pitting watermelon kit vs. watermelon kit (though Hangzhou will be in their change whites), Griffiths vs. Griffiths, and… Read More
China’s not a sports loving country. In the US or much of Europe, even if you aren’t a sports fan, you know a bit about how the local side is doing that year, you’ll see it on the… Read More
Many believe that you can find a nation’s identity in how it plays soccer, often leading commentators to tie the rampant corruption in Chinese society with the corruption that exists in the Chinese game. Match fixing is not unique to China, even… Read More
A little untimely with this entry, as the story has been on the Chinese web for a over a month now. However, it would be remiss not to cover it. Regular readers may recall reading on the pages… Read More
