Hàng Đẫy at seventy: a letter to an old ground
Wooden benches, a scoreboard turned by hand, and the best bánh mì cart in the city.
August 31, 2026
The referee shortage nobody wants to talk about
Forty matches a season are now run by officials with less than two years’ experience.
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Five young players to watch this season
Not the obvious ones. None of them has started more than ten league games.