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A fans eye view of a trip with the Guangzhou R&F faithful to support their Provincial team There has been a lot of transfer activity in recent weeks but there has been little on-pitch action for Chinese football… Read More
With 2013 coming to a close, its time for the annual round-up of how Shanghai Shenhua performed. Correspondent Cameron Wilson gets out the enigma machine to try to make sense of the CSL’s soap opera club and comes… Read More
Capped once by Canada at the beginning of 2013, Mason Trafford ended the Chinese season without a club after Guizhou Zhicheng suffered relegation to a league where foreign players are not permitted. On the last day of the… Read More
Guangzhou R&F recorded their best ever China Super League finish, sixth, but it still felt like a disappointing year because either side of a run of fantastic mid-season form were two patches of terrible results which meant the… Read More
Chengdu Blades have a turbulent history which has been covered before for Wild East Football. This year the club found themselves in a nail-biting relegation scrap, with the Sichuan side surviving relegation by virtue of a superior head-to-head… Read More
Stephen Constantine is not a household name in the world of football coaching in the same way as the CSL’s Marcello Lippi or Sven Goran-Erikson is, but he boosts a remarkable CV considerably more diverse than either. In… Read More
A few weeks ago I sat down with Wu Lei at the national team’s hotel in Beijing. The young striker didn’t dominate the room when he entered, in fact few in the lobby paid attention to him, nor… Read More
With the season just over the half-way point, it’s time to look at CSL’s soap opera club Shanghai Shenhua and the surprising season the Hongkou side have had so far. Despite being shorn of world-class talent in the… Read More
The 2013 season could not have started more positively for the Shanghai Shenxin, with them avoiding relegation from the Chinese Super League thanks to the disbanding of Dalian Shide, while some quality signings brought optimism following the threat of life… Read More
Fairly early into any stay in China, you will almost certainly be told that this is a country with 56 ethnic groups, rather than the singular Chinese identity that it most coming into the country would imagine. Han… Read More
