After chaotic start, are five-time Hong Kong champions a club in crisis or transition?
Having long ago agreed to coaching duties with Hong Kong this week, the interim Eastern head coach Cristiano Cordeiro has landed himself with a calendar clash.
“It’s chaos,” he said, a light-hearted comment that would aptly describe Eastern’s embryonic campaign.
Beaten in their opening match by newly-promoted Supreme Sha Tin, who have since lost four straight games, Eastern then received two red cards in a 4–1 defeat by Tai Po.
One of them went to Leung Kwun-chung, who duly resigned as vice...