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Chinese football team goes to UK, fights break out everywhere

Yet another black eye (and apparently also a broken jaw and an unconscious player) to China’s national football team, this one happened yesterday in London and featured an all out brawl between the Chinese team and the Queens Park Rangers, a division o... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Sun, Feb 18 2007

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