Colliahhh
Well-Known Member
Just to clarify- everything I've been posting is about the Beijing match, but the website also links to the Shenzhen one too
I thought we lost the Tianjin match 1-0? I remember reading about the game in a City magazine my aunt used to send me and being really disappointed that we lost - I was sufficiently young back then to not really get that playing strength is generally subpar in preseason, plus I don't think I appreciated that we weren't as good then as I thought we were. I had a poster of that game up on my wall for years afterwards, otherwise I'd surely never have remembered.
Not quite as fun fact: Did you know most China Towns were formed by Cantonese and Taiwanese fleeing China? Where they weren't the numbers were boosted by those same two people. That said great Chinese giant businesses followed...
Might not be quite a 'fun' fact in that sense, but that is really interesting. What were they fleeing? Ethnic persecution? A despotic emperor? The glorious revolution? Famine? Economic crash? Other?