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The excitement in the pub is unbearable this week as the dynamic duo of Bcheng and Shanghai Ultra salivate at the prospect of the most anticipated Chinese Super League season in history. But Guangzhou’s jaw-dropping feat in their… Read More
Are this Year’s “Green Samurais” the 2012 Chinese Super League Dark Horse? Shaking off 2011 The 2011 year became an unnerving saga for Hangzhou Greentown fans, most notably because home matches were bizarrely alternated between Jiaxing and Yiwu… Read More
One of the memorable stories of the 2011 Chinese Super League season was Jiangsu Sainty turning around a dreadful start to shoot up the standings with the club eventually finishing in fourth place, one spot out of the… Read More
Guangzhou Evergrande headed to Korea to face off against Jeonbuk Hyundai last night and showed that despite this being the club’s first ever Asian Champions League match, they were up to the challenge and then some. Unlike fellow… Read More
My thoughts about last night’s match are certainly complex, as I’ve said time after time before, I’m fine with a loss, especially in an away Asian Champions League match, I just want to see the players losing because… Read More
Hello from rainy Seoul, by the time this goes out, I’ll already be starting the journey down to Ulsan for the match. I (virtually) sat down with Will Evans of The K-League Tour to find out a little… Read More
Jiangsu Sainty have captured the signature of China under-23 international Jiang Jiajun from Yangtze Delta rivals Shanghai Shenhua in a $1.1 million (RMB 7 million) last-minute deal. The move was registered with the Chinese Super League just before… Read More
With the season about to start, we decided to give you a special, slightly out of the ordinary, pub talk. We convened supporters of five of the country’s top clubs and asked some of the questions that are… Read More
Facing local neighbours Shanghai East Asia, Shanghai Shenhua played out an occasionally eventful 0-0 pre-season friendly that saw manager, Jean Tigana, experiment with a 4-5-1 formation that had Nicolas Anelka as the lone striker for the first sixty minutes…. Read More
The Chinese Super League is back and so are Bcheng and Shanghai Ultra who make their long-awaited return to the pub after a seemingly endless close season. There’s so much to talk about this week, and with the… Read More
