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Zhu Jun, the controversial owner of Shanghai Shenhua, made his club an international laughing stock last night after naming himself in the starting XI against Liverpool in the Port of Rotterdam tournament.

Xiamen Lions travel north tonight to take on Shanghai Shenhua with the home side hoping to put their Asian Champions League woes behind them and get back to the mini-run of form they have enjoyed of late in the CSL.

Off-pitch goings-on again overshadowed play as Shanghai Shenhua notched up their second win of the season, in a fine 3-1 victory against Wuhan.

Honduran striker Saul Martinez, hero of Shanghai Shenhua's 2003 championship-winning side, has made a surprise return to his old club and should feature in tonight's clash against Wuhan at Yuanshen Stadium.

Shanghai Shenhua finally got their season underway with their first victory of 2007 — against none other than last year's runaway CSL champions, Shandong Luneng Sunday afternoon.

Shanghai Shenhua's troubled start to their 2007 campaign continued Wednesday night at Yuanshen Stadium in Pudong after they slipped to a 2-1 defeat to A-League side Sydney FC in the Asian Champions League.

Yesterday, for the first time since China launched it's professional football league in 1994, Beijing Guoan beat Shanghai Shenhua on their own turf.

Batton down the hatches — a rumpus is brewing over plans to change Shanghai Shenhua's trademark blue playing strips to red — the colour of the team who bought them out last week, local rivals Shanghai United.

Cross the Shanghai derby from your local sporting calendar this year — the chief participants, Shenhua FC and Shanghai United FC, are to “merge”, according to an official statement from the former team’s website.

Normally this game is a title decider between China's two preeminent domestic footballing powers. But on a hot October afternoon both teams were just playing for pride after Shandong Luneng steamrollered their way to their second-ever CSL title at the end of August.

OK, so it's a bit difficult to type like Elmer Fudd, but you can always find inspiration by trying Google in Elmer Fudd language.

Derby fever strikes the city once again tonight when Shanghai Shenhua cross the Huangpu to take on Pudong’s Shanghai United in the CSL, with both teams looking to get one over their local rivals to make up for disappointing seasons so far.

Shanghai Shenhua's stuttering season in China's top-level professional football league, the CSL, has taken a major twist after the club announced it signed former Bayern Munich, FC Cologne, Hansa Rostock, Udinese and Rapid Vienna forward, Carsten Jancker.

More than 30,000 fans crammed into Hongkou Stadium on Thursday night to witness the Shanghai football derby, but went home disappointed after a dull 0-0 draw. (So dull we didn't get around to writing about it until today.)

"I think their approach is understandable," said Wu Hehu, deputy manager of Shanghai United Cinema Lines, the city's biggest cinema chain. even though we're already very rich, we want to suck money from pressured youths like the RMB-obsessed vultures that we are "No one wants to miss Valentine's Day's huge business potential."

"Beijing or bust!" That's been the Summer Break 2005 mantra for foreign soccer clubs. Manchester United plays there today. Sheffield United played there last week. And just a few days ago, a Beckham-less Real Madrid squad sloshed its way to a 3-2 win over Beijing Hyundai. Depending on who you read, Beijing's 70,000-seat Workers' Stadium was either less than half full or just barely half full for that match, but everybody reports that Real Madrid didn't win over many fans during its China tour. RMB 600 tickets were being scalped for less than one-third of face value. CCTV threatened a media blackout of the match because Real Madrid refused to sign some kind of "cooperation agreement." And reportedly some Real players failed to show at scheduled promotional events. A no-doubt scientific Sina.com survey showed that 96 percent of respondents said Real Madrid "came to China with the sole goal of making money" and 62 percent said they wouldn't support the team if it returned to China. Twenty-seven percent said Los Galicticos bored them.