2013/14 Pre-season Friendly Thread

Nice and easy:


(Kevin De Bruyne 29?, Andre Schürrle 90+2?)

Now for Real Madrid in the final at 01:00 on Thursday. :D
 
Squad that has travelled for the AIK game on tuesday:

Travelling squad: Lindegaard, Amos; Rafael, Evans, Evra, Jones, Smalling, Vidic; Anderson, Bebe, Carrick, Giggs, Nani, Zaha; Henriquez, Kagawa, van Persie, Welbeck

Hope to see Henriquez at some point!
 
Cosimo said:
Worth watching again and....
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Surprised you guys let him go, hes an immense goal scorer. Since he left Chelsea, you lot have struggled to replace him and his goals ie the Spanish donkey Torres hasnt quite worked out for you guys:p. Will be interesting to see if Mourinho gets Torres back to what he was.
 
Shamikebab said:
Squad that has travelled for the AIK game on tuesday:

Travelling squad: Lindegaard, Amos; Rafael, Evans, Evra, Jones, Smalling, Vidic; Anderson, Bebe, Carrick, Giggs, Nani, Zaha; Henriquez, Kagawa, van Persie, Welbeck

Hope to see Henriquez at some point!
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Rooney injured again?
 
tsinc80697 said:
Did BTS have the score and time at the bottom for the entire match? Sky Sports trialed that and it went down like a lead balloon.
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Yes it's there and the complaints have already started:

HangTime said:
Dear BT Sport,

After the complete ****ing train crash that was Sky Sports' attempt at introducing the concept of putting the football score at the bottom of the screen during live broadcasts about five years ago - so appalling an idea that it was dropped about two weeks into the season - why do you feel it necessary to resurrect such an abhorrent catastrophe?

It's quite simple really. The default camera angle that is used the majority of the time, will have the pitch at the bottom of the screen most of the time. Most players, with the possible exception of a mid-90s Eric Cantona, will be spending their time on the pitch, not in the crowd on the far side of the ground, which under said camera angle will usually appear at the top of the screen, except for when the ball is close to the near touchline.

So when choosing where to put a permanent opaque box showing the score, why do you think it wise to place it at the bottom of the screen, where it is most likely to obscure vision of what is happening in the match? Most broadcasters put it at the top of the screen, because it is least likely to be intrusive there. A lot of the time, it will simply cover an assortment of spectators, perhaps offering some friendly advice to Ashley Cole on how he might like to spend his time by means of hand gesticulation.

I can only imagine it must be an attempt to 'innovate' - and don't get me wrong, I am not against innovation in sports broadcasting. The little 'mini screen' that pops up every now and then, showing the reaction from the bench or whatever, maybe that will work. But moving the scores from the top left to bottom left isn't innovation. It's changing something for the sake of it, a desperate plea to be seen to be innovating. Worse than that, it is bloody annoying to boot. And just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, 90mins ticked up and the "+2" indicator to show how many minutes of added time were due appeared not alongside the existing score and timer, oh no. It appeared above it. On a new line. Higher up. Encroaching even further onto the playing area.

Sort it out BT. It's been tried before, and people hated it. Not because it was new, because it was an absolute crock of ****e.

Thankyou.
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Chelsea arrive in Thailand:

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Arsenal arrive in Jakarta:

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The streets are literally (Richard) lined with people for Arsenal.
 
^^^ Uhhh you are a few weeks behind arent you Tummy??:p...Arsenal are back in London and Chelsea are in America playing a few games:p.
 
Poor Arsenal. I bet they just knew they were going to lose at their own tournament when they came up against the mighty Drogba. 15 goals in 15 games against them.
 
Looks like Everton fans will get a refund on tickets but lots of people still waiting to hear about flight refunds.
 
G-MAN2004 said:
Poor Arsenal. I bet they just knew they were going to lose at their own tournament when they came up against the mighty Drogba. 15 goals in 15 games against them.
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It was classic 'the two faces of Drogba' too - a hilarious dive that the ref somehow fell for, followed up with a quality finish for the 2nd.
 
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