From today's Guardian West Brom’s tour of China an interesting read.
From today's Guardian West Brom’s tour of China an interesting read.
Here is a brief video of it. I wonder who had the foresight to put this on YouTube. A genius I'd imagine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCvLrMQHLJ8&t=74s
Here's the link
https://tinyurl.com/ybcya5lv
Apparently the journey took 90 hrs after leaving West Bromwich. Albion were down to play 3 games only in China but Bert Millichip was persuaded to add an extra game in canton on an appalling pitch refereed by Jack Taylor. We won 6-0. the final game of the tour was played against Hong Kong again winning, 3-0. 3 months later Albion visited Syria playing 2 games in 3 days. This mini tour was after we got knocked out of the Caledonian cup, who remembers that?
Great article and bit of Film. I spent a lot of time in China in the 80,s and 90,s and have a lot of very special, and not so special, memories of my time there. That China has gone no though unfortunately.