The Whistles: A (somewhat) fictional story of a night on the road

What follows is meant as a semi-fictional account of one awayday. Any similarities to certain incidents is coincidental and all the...

Awayday lessons

Lately, there’s been an uptick in the number of Guoan fans (including sone foreigners) who travel to away games. Many of...

Love Football Hate Business: Fans from Shanghai and Beijing come together to make statement

There was a lot of excitement in Beijing and Shanghai this week about the arrival of Bayern Munich and Manchester United,...

Fights break out before the Chongqing derby

Chinese authorities tend to do a good job when it comes to keeping fans, especially visiting fans, safe. However what they’ve...

China Derby from a neutral perspective: Caught in the Crossfire

One match, four goals, and hundreds of thousands of “Shabis!” later a sizable contingent of contributors gathered to have a real...

An Evening with the Canton Blue Dream Army

This is an addition to my earlier match report on the Guangzhou derby and gives a view from the five or...

“Shenhua’s nuclear bomb has arrived ” – Wang Dalei

Shanghai is a frothing cauldron of wild excitement at the moment with just one name on the lips of anyone with...

An awayday in Changchun

A couple weeks back, this reporter made the trip north to Changchun for Beijing Guoan’s clash against Changchun Yatai, a great...

Meet Shenhua’s blue enchantress

Shanghai Shenhua fans have had little to shout about this season. Just as well then that the club’s online TV channel...

Soccer Saturday in Beijing

Here at , we spend almost all of our time focusing on the Chinese Super League (CSL) and not very much...