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China | Football at all compass points on EastSouthWestNorth

By John Turnbull ⋅ March 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

James Montague has dissected the “footballing Venn diagram of … political and social hatreds” that constituted the recent East Asian Championships in Chongqing, China (“Football? What Football? The Asian Game Is about Politics,” Guardian Unlimited, Mar 3). Within Asia, Montague concludes, football still comes with political intrigue, readily available in every permutation of a four-team round-robin featuring the hosts plus Japan, South Korea and North Korea. (Mar 5)

The Chinese commentator for whom soccer brought pain

By John Turnbull ⋅ November 29, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Articles on the downfall of Chinese football commentator Huang Jianxiang and on the end of Lansdowne Road in Dublin.

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