[Albion] Pre-Season game is Sporting Lisbon - Friday 3rd August, kick-off 7.45pm
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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.
Moreover, I’m just a little bit surprised we want to be associated with them at the moment.
TSB
Captain Hindsight
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
Technocrat
Nobody knows, they do it on purpose just to confuse people.
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?!
CorgiRegisteredFriend
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I’d rather go to AFC Wimbledon anyday
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
Sport Lisboa e Benfica, not Sporting.
Pendant alert
FFS, I can't even get my own pedantry right
Mr Banana
Tedious chump
https://twitter.com/AndyNaylorArgus/status/1007661133371789313?s=19
Don't forget your grace and courtesy, lads
Don't forget your grace and courtesy, lads
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
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- Dec 30, 2010
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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
Tedious chump
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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Haven't they been known as Sporting Lisbon in the UK for ever ?
HastingsSeagull
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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?
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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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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