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COFFEY MAKING A STIR IN CHINA

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
23 February 2025

COFFEY MAKING

By Richard Edwards

AS the crow flies, the distance between Whitby Town’s Turnbull Ground and Shanghai on China’s east coast is the best part of 6,000 miles.
Ashley Coffey feels like he has travelled a similarly long way while making his way from the Northern Premier League to becoming the only Englishman playing in a football super-power in waiting after signing for Shanghai Jiading Huilong in the January transfer window.
The striker turned 31 in December and is a living, breathing example of what’s possible for a player in the latter half of their career when y...

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