[Albion] Pre-Season game is Sporting Lisbon - Friday 3rd August, kick-off 7.45pm

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Hardly giants. We're a bigger club now which is strange.

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Very good.

 

[BNthree]

Will give this a miss and save my beer tokens for Charlton away. A decent South London club

Exactly what I've decided to do too.

 

[lost in london]

Timing is a shame, friendlies are a cheap way to take young kids who may or may not be interested along to a game. This will be way past bed time.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Bit of trivia: I learned recently that Sporting Lisbon is actually the full name of Benfica: Sporting Lisboa Benfica.

Sporting's real name is Sporting Clube de Portugal.

It's a decent enough friendly for us, a big club from a decent league which will give the team a good test before the league starts. That's the point of a friendly.

 

[Notters]

There are Pride events at Preston Park on Saturday and Sunday, I don't think the Police would allow us to play on those days.

and the whole of the rest of the City (except Coldean)!

 

[essbee1]

Exactly what I've decided to do too.

Moi aussi.

 

[Eddiespearritt]

After Sevilla, Lazio, Atletico Madrid I'm also underwhelmed by Portuguese "giants" Sporting on a Friday night. Given the 1901 policy of excluding friendlies when this was a clear promise at the outset, I'll be giving the opportunity to watch for an additional £25 (on top of over well over £3000) a wide berth.

 

[The Kid Frankie]

I take it there is no European awayday Friendly arranged apart from St Gallen then?

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Hardly giants. We're a bigger club now which is strange.

The club shouldn't have played this up, the headline is pathetic and the announcement very poorly timed with the turmoil at Sporting.

Sporting have been ever-present in the Portuguese top division since 1934, have won 18 league titles, 16 cups and the European cup-winners cup, have a 50,000 seat stadium, and their youth academy produced players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Figo, as well as many other national team-players.We've one season in the premier league and suddenly we're the bigger club? Yes, very strange.

Why do people let a bit of success go to their heads so much?

 

[Magic Sponge]

I'm in.

So am I

 

[studio150]

Masterplan by the Albion, to play Sporting Lisbon who will no doubt be fielding a mixture of youth players and trialists given the mass exodus of players, as this will boost confidence for the Watford game as we win 15-0.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Friday night suits me fine ...i’m In and looking forward to it

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Bit of trivia: I learned recently that Sporting Lisbon is actually the full name of Benfica: Sporting Lisboa Benfica.

Sporting's real name is Sporting Clube de Portugal.

It's a decent enough friendly for us, a big club from a decent league which will give the team a good test before the league starts. That's the point of a friendly.

So are we playing Benfica or Sporting? Or Sporting Lisbon? Which is the looney club? I’m confused.

 

[dazzer6666]

Game of footy, couple of pints, easy transport due to tiny attendance. Sounds like a decent Friday night to me.

 

[AZ Gull]

I take it there is no European awayday Friendly arranged apart from St Gallen then?

As far as I know, there is still a plan to have an away friendly in Europe the week commencing July 30 - Pre-season Friendlies 2018-19: First team, U-23s and U-18s

 

[AZ Gull]

Club originally said the game was going to be on Sunday 6th, wonder why they shifted it?

I don't believe that is the case. I think they originally said it would be some time over that weekend, and by the next day the Argus were reporting it would be on the Friday evening.

 

[Originunknown]

Sporting have been ever-present in the Portuguese top division since 1934, have won 18 league titles, 16 cups and the European cup-winners cup, have a 50,000 seat stadium, and their youth academy produced players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Figo, as well as many other national team-players.We've one season in the premier league and suddenly we're the bigger club? Yes, very strange.

Why do people let a bit of success go to their heads so much?

Precisely, money talks however. I believe Sporting don't have any.

 

[el punal]

Jeez! So complacency and arrogance has at last made an appearance, after just one season in the Premier League. The club have arranged a friendly with one of the top European sides, Sporting Lisbon, but in the opinion of some on here that’s just not good enough FFS!

For those of you that have that view, just remember where we’ve come from and what, and how, we have achieved the position we’re in now. A bit of humility wouldn’t go amiss eh?

 

[The Large One]

Bit of trivia: I learned recently that Sporting Lisbon is actually the full name of Benfica: Sporting Lisboa Benfica.

Sporting's real name is Sporting Clube de Portugal.

It's a decent enough friendly for us, a big club from a decent league which will give the team a good test before the league starts. That's the point of a friendly.

It's journalistic laziness which drives me up the wall.

They never have been Sporting Lisbon. It's the same for 'Inter Milan'...

 

[pauli cee]

As far as I know, there is still a plan to have an away friendly in Europe the week commencing July 30 - Pre-season Friendlies 2018-19: First team, U-23s and U-18s

I'm guessing that will be the P........S........G match then