October 28, 2004

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China's rapidly imploding Chinese Football Association (to catch up, try here and here) has now docked another major club points and levied a fine after the team walked off due to a disputed refereeing decision. The CFA now has seven of its top teams threatening to boycott the rest of the season until the proposed reforms are carried out. However the CFA refuses to postpone the games and insists that reform happens within the existing CFA structure.

To make matters worse the CFA proposed adding an extra game to decide who goes in the final eight World Cup qualifiers for the Asian zone. FIFA rejected this outright. China proposed this because they now face an uphill battle to qualify, having lost to Kuwait and now needing to beat Hong Kong by at least 2 more goals than the margin in the Kuwait/Malaysia match. More on that here, here and here.

The good news for Chinese sport is they won in the Asian Rugby Tournament against India last night, winning 50-15. No walkouts, no controversy.

posted by Simon on 10.28.04 at 10:03 AM in the




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