Guangzhou Evergrande

From lions to Latin, symbols to ships, this is the definitive century of best-ever football badges

BADGES! From lions to Latin, symbols to ships, this is the definitive century of best-ever football badges

In Other News... AVB is adamant that their AFC Champions League quarter-final opponents masterminded a string of chaotic traffic incidents to delay their arrival.

Portsmouth to Real Madrid? QPR to Milan? Brazil to Boro? Kevin Stewart looks at the head-scratching player careers that follow precious little logic

Chinese Super League While the trickle of big-name players heading to Chinese Super League pitches has turning into a flood, there is just as big a pool for the competition's touchline-dwellers

Chinese Super League John Obi Mikel, Carlos Tevez and Oscar are the latest household names to flock to the Far East for lorryloads of cash – but there's more to the country's development than splurging sizeable sums on established stars

Lists Their exploits at club level would suggest at least a token cap by now, but not for these unfortunate few. For some it's an inevitablity; others a distant pipedream never to be fulfilled... 

Let’s all simmer down. We’re not saying that these are awful players – more that their price, age or surrounding circumstances make for 10 negative football transfers