Referee investigation

Author: Fang Yibo
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Yibo was the first to help unveil the football "anti-black" curtain; the first to report Geely's lawsuit against the Chinese Football Association; the first to obtain confessions from "black card" referees; the first to interview Yan Shiduo; the first to obtain the "black card" list; the only reporter to interview both the intermediary of "black cards" and the person himself; the only journalist to have a private meeting with Yan Shiduo in Hangzhou; the only Xinhua News Agency reporter besides the event participants to receive extensive media tracking coverage. He documented this unprecedented anti-black storm in the history of Chinese sports in a documentary style.