In the early morning of August 27, 2024, two high-profile legal events were staged separately in Hubei. The first was the Shishou Municipal People's Court, which kicked off a bribery case concerning Tan Hai, an authority figure in soccer.
Immediately afterward, the Xianning Intermediate People's Court also pulled back the curtain, focusing on the bribery case of Liu Yi, the former deputy head of the preparatory team for the change of the Chinese Football Association, a trial about power and morality in soccer.
