Hong Kong earned boss Ashley Westwood a record-breaking seventh consecutive victory, with a 2-0 win over Macau on Wednesday. Goals from Leon Jones and Raphael Merkies in the first half were enough to settle a largely uninspiring affair at Mong Kok Stadium. How much Westwood will have learned from the occasion is questionable, but there…
This is part two of the Post’s exclusive wide-ranging interview with Ashley Westwood, Hong Kong’s football head coach. You can read part one here. Football loves a rivalry, and pitting Hong Kong against its fellow financial hub of Singapore works on multiple levels. These two “Asian tigers”, drawn together in qualifying matches for the 2027…
Ashley Westwood asked for advice from Alex Ferguson when weighing up his Hong Kong job offer, but the Englishman has said he knew he could not resist trying to improve an “underperforming” team. In a wide-ranging interview with the Post six months after replacing the popular Jorn Andersen as the city’s football head coach, Westwood…
Hong Kong’s bid to win back the Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup was wrecked by a late strike from Xia Dalong, as the mainland visitors won a chaotic and bad-tempered clash 2-1 on Wednesday night. The hosts appeared to have all the momentum after Kyle Lau Ka-kiu struck shortly after half-time, following a first-half opener from Behram…