football.guardian.co.uk - 10/14/2008
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BEIJING, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The most famous fan of a Chinese soccer club has decided to become a monk after the squad withdrew from the country's professional league last month in protest at the suspension of its top player. Wuhan Guanggu, a club based in the Yangtze river city of Wuhan, said ...
reuters.com - 10/17/2008
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reuters.com —
BEIJING (Reuters) - The most famous fan of
a Chinese soccer club has decided to become a...
monk after the squad withdrew from the country's professional league last month in protest at the suspension of its top player. Wuhan Guanggu, a club based in the ...
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China football flap prompts fan to become monk
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deadspin.com - 10/13/2008
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deadspin.com —
This story has it all: Ping Pong, drunken
urination, karakoe, and of course at the center of...
it all a man named Wang Hao. Wang, who is China's most famed table tennis player, was involved in an altercation with a security guard on Thursday when the ...
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Today's Drunken Ping Pong Karaoke Peeing Incident ...
sports.espn.go.com - 10/13/2008
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sports.espn.go.com —
BEIJING -- China's national table tennis team will
give Olympic medalist Wang Hao counselling after he reportedly...
got into a fight with a security guard for trying to stop him from urinating outside a karaoke club. Local media reports last week quoted ...
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Chinese 'celebrity' Wang to get counseling after ...
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Chinese Fan Gives Up on Football to Become a Monk
The Offside —
... you just want to give up watching football altogether? You know the feeling. One man in China certainly does. Mei Nansheng - also known as “the iron trumpet” - was apparently a huge fan of his local team F.C. Wuhan. But Wuhan has had all kinds of frustrations recently, starting with captain Li Weifeng being suspended for eight games and culminating in the team’s expulsions from the Chinese Football Asssociation. Enough was enough for Mei Nansheng, and so he’s decided to give up and become a Buddhist monk instead. Here’s a further explanation of F.C Wuhan’s problems via ...
What to do if your club doesn't play well....
SoccerBlog.com —
... 1. You can give it all away and become a monk.A fan of a Chinese soccer club called Wuhan Guanggu has decided to become a monk because his team is just not upto the mark anymore. ...
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