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And the time? ;)

Disappointed, but plenty to do in Beijing instead, feel for anyone that has travelled from UK / Oz/ NZ for this. It looks like the rags have bottled out, lets see what is said at the press conference at 4:30PM local time. The pitch can't be any worse now than it was early this morning, why...

It hasn't rained here since around 5AM or so this morning, the sun is shining, it's around 30C, the weather forecasts do say there's a chance of thunderstorms later on today. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, the City reps told me this morning that the game is on as far as they are...

The original design for the Bird's Nest had a retractable roof, it was taken out of the design early on.

From Wikipedia: "The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00, which is eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, despite China spanning five geographical time zones. The official national standard time is called Beijing Time(Chinese: 北京时间) domestically and China Standard...

11:30AM GMT, 12:30PM BST, 19:30 CST

I've just picked up my tickets from the Intercon, according to the City reps the game is going ahead but they did say that ultimately the decision is not the club's to make. It's still dry here this morning. There's a German beer garden opposite the Intercon and around five minutes or so walk...

I saw an advert on a bus stop when I arrived in Beijing on Saturday, sure enough it shows the rags as the home team. It's stopped raining!

No landslides in Beijing, also, it hasn't rained today (yet). There's nothing on the OS about the game being postponed, perhaps wishful thinking by the rag loving UK media? One thing that is a little strange though, I'm in Paddy O'Shea's right now and it's very quiet, the place is usually full...

What, is he playing?

Getting the train to Beijing later today, we arrive around 5pm. I'll probably take a look in Paddy's tonight and end up in one of the Blue Frogs. The forecast according to the Weather underground is for thunderstorms all day Monday. I was there in 2012 for the game v l'arse, there was a...

If you add some sugar and yeast and wait for a week or two it will taste much better

Indeed, Champers is the best tipple when scoffing fish & chips

Sun Ji Hai commentating, love him to bits but I don't understand a word

Bet you can't guess how long it took me to figure out how to post a piccy on Bluemoon? Had a brief word with her indoors, she says yes, the tickets are expensive, but only once in four years? All I have to do is stay off the 'pop' for a few days...

t'was Beijing, I've got some piccys somewhere

Thanks for that info, I'll look into that. I found my tickets from 2012 a couple of nights back, the face value was 585RMB, I paid around 250RMB for each ticket in Beijing around two days before the game. On the night tickets were being sold for 100RMB. I suspect something similar could happen...

The promoters here asked for my supporter number, they said they won't sell tickets to anyone without one. When we gave them the numbers they said 2800RMB a ticket. There is a US site advertising the game but as far as I know they haven't offered any tickets for sale yet. @acton28 Have you...