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“The six pointer” is a well-worn football cliché but when Shanghai East Asia and Guangzhou R&F go head-to-head on Sunday night the CSL’s tie-breaker rules effectively make it an “eight point game.” Expect a gripping contest as both… Read More
The international break gives teams around the world the chance to recuperate and have longer to work on ironing out some issues. Changchun Yatai are hoping to iron out their previous defensive issues before returning to action this… Read More
This week your pubbers return to the pub to discuss the recent international break. Bcheng is once again in despair at the national team’s faltering progress, if you can call it that. Shanghai Ultra has little enthusiasm either,… Read More
Having completed another undefeated series of Shanghai Derby matches, the remaining 2014 CSL season holds little interest for Shanghai Shenhua. With all attention focused on the cup semi-finals, Shenhua head to one of the teams with much still… Read More
Financially-troubled Dalian Aerbin’s could go to the wall after the city’s FA said it would block any attempt by a potential new owner to move the club to their hometown, Nanjing. At the start of the previous CSL… Read More
Whilst the Canton Derby may lack the niggle and off-field antics of that between Beijing and Tianjin or the history of the many derbies in Shanghai, the rivalry in Guangzhou is growing by the year and this season’s… Read More
Following an unexpectedly intense derby between Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai East Asia, ‘s Cameron Wilson takes an in-depth look at the big changes in the Shanghai football landscape this year and how the fixture’s influence may spread beyond… Read More
Guangzhou R&F’s Abderrazak Hamdallah dreams not of a move to a big European club, but of playing in the MLS to be reunited with his brother in the USA, the Moroccan revealed on his club’s website. The striker… Read More
History is not something that can yet be applied to Chinese football in large doses, but there is already something of a resonance to this Shanghai derby, as, on Sunday evening, Shenhua and East Asia again provided an… Read More
There are now only seven games left in the 2014 CSL season and it’s going down to the wire. The sides in immediate danger of staying up all struggled over the weekend while a number of sides likely… Read More
