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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
Real Madrid will return to China this summer as part of the annual International Champions Cup, expanding from its traditional US home to incorporate both Australia and China this time around. Joining Los Blancos will be Milanese duo… Read More
Following last Tuesday’s draw for the AFC’s World Cup qualification second round, we now know that China’s long road to Russia will begin in Thimpu, Bhutan on June 16th and that if you combined the surface area of… Read More
It’s not too many years since women’s football was widely perceived as a joke among a majority of football supporters. While such an attitude was always unfair on those playing, it has also now become a point of ridicule… Read More
