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On Saturday, the Shanghai Saints and Sirens will be hosting their 7th All China Gaelic Games, a competition for all the folks into Gaelic football in this fine country. Over 180 players consisting of eight men's and six ladies' teams from Beijing, Dalian, Changsha, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Suzhou will kick off the tournament at 9:30am.

Everyone's having their own little calendar these days it seems. Second Chance Animal Aid recently came up with one, and this time, it's the boys from The Shanghai Rugby Football Club and Shanghai Hairy Crabs, and they've shed their clothes for a good cause!

All images by greggygate.

It may come as a surprise to some people to learn that the national sport of Ireland is not, as is generally supposed, drinking. Nor is, it would be appear, soccer, given the country's 5-2 drumming at the hands of lowly Cyprus last week.

Sorry to compete with our very own flea market stall tomorrow, however some of you may be interested in going to watch China's national rugby team play Saturday at 3 pm. They play a local expat team (if there can be such a thing), made up of various nationalities. The game will be at the Shanghai Rugby Football Club ground, which is in Jinqiao, Pudong. They can't offer you delightful knick-knacks and hand-made biscuit holders, but they can offer you big burly men, if that's, you know, your thing.

The "Year of France in China" may have ended, and Shanghai’s Oktoberfest extravaganza may be drawing to a close, but one particularly energetic and unique cultural phenomenon still waits in the autumn wings: Shanghai’s very own 10th Asian Gaelic Games, to be held at the Shanghai Rugby Football Club in Jinqiao, Pudong this Saturday and Sunday. The joys of Gaelic football may not have touched us all -- for those in the dark, it is a whimsical Irish combination of soccer, rugby, basketball and ballet -- but Shanghaiist must confess to being a full, if recent, convert to this most elegant and skill-filled of field sports.

Shanghai’s rugby sevens tournament returns to the Shanghai Rugby Football Club this weekend, but this time in an “international” format superior to last year’s, thanks to sponsorship from the mighty Guinness. The Guinness Shanghai International 7s Rugby Tournament, as it is now formally known, kicks off on Saturday morning at the SRFC in Jinqiao, Pudong (map), host to the great and good of Shanghai’s expat sporting events (cricket sixes in two weeks, Gaelic football championships the weekend after -- watch this space). Twelve teams are set to compete -- the top four Chinese sevens teams, a Hong Kong team, two Japanese teams, three Shanghai teams, a Nanjing team and a Nantong team -- over Saturday and Sunday. The teams will be divided into two pools, with 24 pool matches played on Saturday and eight on Sunday, following which the knockout stages start taking things down to the final which will start at around 3:30 pm on Sunday. The three Shanghai sides manage to represent the majority of the top international rugby-playing nations (apologies to any Uruguayans out there), comprising as they do the British Bulldogs, the Wobblies (a name to strike fear into the heart of any opposition) -- a healthy mix of Aussies, Kiwis and South Africans -- and a French team whose name temporarily escaped the SRFC coordinator when Shanghaiist spoke to him (“I think it’s ‘Le’ something,” he said). Notorious local side The Hairy Crabs are conspicuously absent, but then we are fast approaching the time of year when the inhabitants of Yangcheng Lake (hairy crabs, for those of you uninitiated to the phenomenon) are besieged by chomping diners, so maybe they’ve gone into hiding. No one sneaked them out in their suitcase to Hong Kong, that’s for sure. Entry to watch the games comes in at a reasonable RMB 30, and for those of you out there of the female persuasion, keen to see “hot guys performing in their natural surroundings” as the flyer so delicately puts it, not only is entry free on Sunday, but ALL your drinks from the Guinness beer tent are, too. Bonza. On Sunday, a bus to the action leaves O’Malleys at 11 am.