Chinese team repaint stadium gold for luck – and it works
Guangzhou R&F see their fortunes change for the better after they celebrate their fifth big home win in the Chinese Super League
A superstitious top-tier Chinese team repainted their whole stadium gold to bring better luck following a dismal run – and this week duly celebrated a fifth big home win on the bounce.
Guangzhou R&F last month took the drastic action believing that gold made for better feng shui than blue, the colour of the Chinese Super League club’s strip, badge and originally their home ground too.
It followed a rotten sequence of just one home win in four months.
But since painstakingly repainting their 20,000-capacity Yuexiushan Stadium in mid-July, the team in southern China have seen their fortunes dramatically reverse.
On Wednesday, they beat Fabio Capello’s big-spending Jiangsu Suning 4-2 at home to climb to third in the CSL and make it four home wins on the trot in the CSL, scoring 18 goals in the process.
