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

[Kalimantan Gull]

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.

its alright, was an article i found from 2017 that i thought was this year

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Interesting choice bearing in mind what’s going on there. They’ll have a squad, it just might not be very good!

Moreover, I’m just a little bit surprised we want to be associated with them at the moment.

 

[TSB]

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?

I don't think it's anything to do with that. They're a big club and it would have been a decent test, had their squad not been decimated by the acts of a lunatic dictator in charge and some absolute scum supporters.

It's a crap tie for legitimate reasons.

 

[Billy the Fish]

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

Nobody knows, they do it on purpose just to confuse people.

 

[Notters]

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

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

In what way? That's just short for Football Club Internazionale Milano No?!

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

I don't think it's anything to do with that. They're a big club and it would have been a decent test, had their squad not been decimated by the acts of a lunatic dictator in charge and some absolute scum supporters.

It's a crap tie for legitimate reasons.

This.

 

[Hamilton]

Underwhelming.

What are we expecting now? Barca? We've been spoilt.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

I’d rather go to AFC Wimbledon anyday

 

[BN9 BHA]

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

Sport Lisboa e Benfica, not Sporting.

Pendant alert

 

[Billy the Fish]

Sport Lisboa e Benfica, not Sporting.

Pendant alert

FFS, I can't even get my own pedantry right

 

[Mr Banana]

https://twitter.com/AndyNaylorArgus/status/1007661133371789313?s=19

Don't forget your grace and courtesy, lads

 

[BN9 BHA]

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?

24/7/99 opening game at Withdean, we played former European champions Nottingham Forest in a friendly.
I remember how far we have come
Not sure I can remember much about that day though, due to going on a pub crawl around Brighton before the match.



Sporting Lisbon have never won the European cup.
Cup winners cup yes.

 

[ferring seagull]

Well this made me smile !

http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/942422014?-2803:1015

 

[Guinness Boy]

https://twitter.com/AndyNaylorArgus/status/1007661133371789313?s=19

Don't forget your grace and courtesy, lads

Typical Naylor bollocks. This is why people hate him, not because they want The Argus and local journalism dead but because he’s occasionally a massive bellend. It’s not that it’s Sporting per se, it’s that they are currently a basket case with no players. Furthermore we announced the game the same morning as the BBC covered their woes in detail. Bad timing and a very uncertain test. But if you want to be PICKY then Atlético they ain’t. We arguably set the bar too high last season.

If I wasn’t away I’d be going for the reasons [MENTION=27279]dazzer6666[/MENTION] states. Friday night beer & football is s great thing. But it’s hard to be whelmed when you don’t know if they’ll have 11 players who can stand up. It’s almost like Andy missed that part.


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[Mr Banana]

Typical Naylor bollocks. This is why people hate him, not because they want The Argus and local journalism dead but because he’s occasionally a massive bellend. It’s not that it’s Sporting per se, it’s that they are currently a basket case with no players. Furthermore we announced the game the same morning as the BBC covered their woes in detail. Bad timing and a very uncertain test. But if you want to be PICKY then Atlético they ain’t. We arguably set the bar too high last season.

If I wasn’t away I’d be going for the reasons [MENTION=27279]dazzer6666[/MENTION] states. Friday night beer & football is s great thing. But it’s hard to be whelmed when you don’t know if they’ll have 11 players who can stand up. It’s almost like Andy missed that part.


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I was more wondering how that whole thread manages to be so grimly humourless

 

[Guinness Boy]

I was more wondering how that whole thread manages to be so grimly humourless

Maybe you were but that’s still my opinion. A professional journalist complaining about sniffy Brighton fans for a bit of click bait and a page full of mentions instead of digging around the story of who, if anyone, they’ll have left playing for them. He can’t even get their team name right.


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[Invicta]

Maybe you were but that’s still my opinion. A professional journalist complaining about sniffy Brighton fans for a bit of click bait and a page full of mentions instead of digging around the story of who, if anyone, they’ll have left playing for them. He can’t even get their team name right.


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Haven't they been known as Sporting Lisbon in the UK for ever ?

 

[HastingsSeagull]

These big European teams often seem to turn into foreign student night right? Friday could suit that. Shame to link up with the basketcase club of world football currently but probably agreed upon during the Schelotto transfer?

 

[Icy Gull]

A pre season game at the Amex with a chance to see what will probably be CH’s first team, with new players having their first game there, what’s not to like? I’ll be there waiting to write off all the new players as shit

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Maybe you were but that’s still my opinion. A professional journalist complaining about sniffy Brighton fans for a bit of click bait and a page full of mentions instead of digging around the story of who, if anyone, they’ll have left playing for them. He can’t even get their team name right.


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Isn't he just giving his OWN opinion, which is kinda what Twitter is for? And it's an opinion that is shared by plenty of Albion fans. I'm pretty sure he wasn't doing it to boost his ego...

As for the 'wrong' name thing, I was none the wiser as to the proper name. I figured that's what the vast majority of people called the club anyway

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