No reason, don’t know what you are talking about.
Venue announced for the China away game - Hangzhou Olympic Sports Expo Centre
A small 80,000 seater that doesn’t have an existing tenant
Source
https://m.dongqiudi.com/article/4804172.html
About 200km south of Shanghai. Famous for its West Lake and the Longing tea.
There is a small (by China standards) airport in Hangzhou but no direct flights that I can see to Australia (plenty to intermediate points like Singapore, KL , Bangkok), but probably easiest to fly into Shanghai and then HSR.
As above Shanghai F1 is on the weekend before.
Some tix for that are now available the F1.com (at a premium to the local China tix, but still cheaper than Melbourne) - https://tickets.formula1.com/en/f1-3182-china
Imagine ruining a holiday by watching a Socceroos game 
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Pretty stadium from the outside.
The indoor centre next door looks pretty cool
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Just a small city of 12 million. No need for a big airport! What a mind bending place China is.
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Nice Lotus roof that matches that smaller one… but it’s an athletics stadium first, like many of those in Asia.
This is rad, don’t think it has been posted yet
It was a fun tournament. Lots of good games elsewhere, too. Iran vs Iraq was an all-time classic.
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Uzbekistan vs North Korea at Olympic Park was a highlight. Halfway through the game the most torrential rain I’ve ever seen at any sports event exploded out of nowhere and it was over by full time.
Also set a record that afternoon of being out of my seat and onto a train in 19 minutes.
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Bought final tickets on a whim, dragged my mate along. We won. He loves bringing up the time I randomly surprised him with “we are going to the football out some pants on”.
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Kim Jong-Il
Ole ole ole!
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I would suggest the RBB will have you beat there
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the BRB *
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disagree, considering their crowd numbers, they have definite not been “right back”
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For me the highlight was being behind the goal when Palestine saved a pen v Iraq. They lost, but it was a tight fought game and they weren’t humbled (unlike against Japan)
Some white guy wearing a Palestine keffiyeh asked what did I think I was doing and accused me of being against freedom because I was wearing a Japan jersey to the game at Newcastle.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
I would have had a jersey on too tho so probably not me at that time. Still my favourite one, I can wear it to sports and protests!
I don’t understand the link between a Japanese jersey and freedom? Or was it because you were in Newcastle?
I think the notion is, if you love freedom you should support Palestine always. Which is a bit silly even for me.
That’s pretty much what I got from it.