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The wind of change swept across Guangzhou on Thursday evening as dramatically as any of the city’s regular and dramatic storms thus far this summer. No sooner had the four-time Chinese Super League champions secured a 2-2 draw… Read More
With Fabio Cannavaro departing Guangzhou Evergrande in dramatic style on Thursday evening and Luiz Felipe Scolari announced as his successor, Wild East Football takes a look at some of the initial Weibo reaction to the changes. (This page… Read More
Guangzhou Evergrande have announced the arrival of 2002 World Cup-winning manager Luiz Felipe Scolari at Tianhe Stadium, following the shock dismissal of Fabio Cannavaro on Thursday evening. Evergrande drew 2-2 with Tianjin earlier in the day with a… Read More
Football fans can be notoriously complex to understand. Fiercely loyal one minute, fickle the next. There is not always underlying logic to their likes and dislikes, while often support can be divided. And so, this weekend’s top of… Read More
Xinjiang sprang the surprise of the round with a big win over Guangzhou Evergrande but there were shocks elsewhere too. Beijing BG set-up a fourth round derby with a win over Shijiazhuang Ever Bright, Shanghai Shenxin limped out… Read More
It’s surely extremely rare for such an eagerly anticipated match to have such a wildly unpredicted outcome. Last Saturday’s Shanghai Derby was billed as the biggest game in the city for over a decade, yet it must be… Read More
This weekend’s Chinese Super League action sees the return of the Shanghai Derby. At last, once more, we appear to have once more settled upon a deserving rivalry for such a title—the Shanghai International Port Group against Greenland-backed… Read More
Hello readers listeners, we have two treats wrapped in one package for you this week – a rare Pub Cast and a Shanghai Derby special. In the pub this week are Shanghai-based contributors, Shenhua correspondent Steve Crooks ,… Read More
A tale of football, defeat, alcohol, bird-chasing and general sordidness. Just another weekend for the infamous sino-foreign Shenhua fans group, the SEC, except it was an away trip in Beijing. The names have been changed to protect the… Read More
This week Chris Atkins joins Shanghai Ultra in the pub to discuss many things. Bcheng’s absence is a laughing matter, the ACL is good for Evergrande and Guoan, and some middle-ranking teams are on the agenda, as is… Read More
