With apologies to everyone else on the thread for the slight derail, the team I played for was the Carnegie's Taipei pub team!! Many a night dancing on the bar at stupid o'clock. Our private parties in there were something else.....
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When I lived in Taiwan I played for an ex-pat football team and our manager was Glasweigan. His contract was coming to an end on the railways but he was married to a local girl and didn't want to leave. He therefore came up with a scheme to open a genuine Scottish chippy in the middle...
Pie and a pint in the North Stand at the Amex = circa 9 quid. Is football no longer the working class game?
*opens worm can, lights blue touch paper and retreats*
The thing that Dan Hancox is railing against in the main Guardian article as linked has been around for donkey's years abroad.
I lived in Sydney 18 years ago and there were "food courts" absolutely all over the place. We regularly went to one in the Greenwood Centre in North Sydney for lunch...