The East StandChinese Super League crazier than ever despite no football
- CSL champions Guangzhou Evergrande keeping themselves busy with fines, sackings and a 100,000-seat stadium
- China international sacked for doctoring car licence plate, club fined for title celebrations and CSL trophy announced lost in same week
When it comes to the silliest football league in the world, the Isles of Scilly takes the prize.
The top – and in fact only – division in the five inhabited islands about 50 kilometres (30 miles) off the coast of Cornwall has just two teams, the Garrison Gunners and Woolpack Wanderers, for its 2,000-odd inhabitants.
Those two teams play 16 league games and two cups – one over two legs – between them, turning out every Sunday come rain or shine – and it is usually rain in their little corner of the Atlantic.
There were once four teams in the league but population decline saw two disappear, but still there has been outside interest. The New York Times are among the media outlets to travel there, while Adidas filmed a football commercial in 2008 featuring David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Patrick Vieira and Michael Ballack.
Globally famous stars in a strange land has echoes of the Chinese Super League when it made headlines in 2016. Clubs started splashing the cash on the likes of Oscar, Hulk and Ezequiel Lavezzi, and people started paying attention.