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Hope not.
Can they not be prepared by going to the USA?
Long plane journeys are literally good for nothing.
Yeah cos all the best clubs in the world struggle with it don't they. City look really underprepared after there usa tour. Why on earth would we not be prepared if we had a tour of the usa?
Barcelona, Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool seem to be ok with it. Fulham, Bournemouth and many other smaller clubs too. The good old days of playing stocksbridge, baslow, grindleford and Worksop are fading away.
Those are money grabs not footballing reasons. Wrexham also went out and their star striker broke a few ribs and couldn't fly home for a while before it!
Players often complain about the travel times and the schedules on the US/Oz/Asia tours you are referring to.
It’s the modern way of doing things, unless you’d rather yo-yo between the championship and PL? Footballs about playing to your highest potential and striving to be the best and that helps by having money, I personally don’t like it either but you’ve got to swallow the truth sometimes and admit it’s just the way things are going.
Who gives a f*** about the players anymore? It’s hardly hampered Man City the last few seasons. Didn’t we go to the USA in the 70’s Australia in the 90’s, we went to china with Warnock and they complained about it but didn’t we get promoted that season?
Depending on what the injury is, the player may have ended up in the USA anyway.
It's physically one of the worst things to do, to get on planes and go long haul. The recovery time can be days after flying, so it's certainly not ideal
City also have players that are better than ours tecnically, often with physiology and a full squad of them. We've got a smaller squad which doesn't get the same rest andf recovery as we have fewer players playing more games.
Players are complaining to FIFA about the number of games and minutes that young players are playing, Bellingham was a great example.
I was going to say it’s a good time to catch up on a bit of reading, then realised that footballer’s don’t read and if they do, they’re seen as geniuses, like Ben Osborn.
In the 60s, when we an established top division side, we did the following tours:
I might be making things up here but I’m sure I read somewhere that by the 8th/9th game against Blackpool both sides were bored of each other and decided to mix the sides up so it’d be a Blackpool/Blades XI v Blackpool/Blades XI !!
Not true I'm afraid ;-)
I’ve certainly read something that was a bit quirky about that trip, apart from the fact we played Blackpool numerous times. I can’t remember which book it was in though, I’m presuming something that John Garrett had a hand in.
we need to go to Iceland to complete the Viking tour.
Did you compile a "definitive" list of games for that lot? I'd be interested in that. (Not necessarily on here...)
Also Latvian national team at the Lane...
I do have a list yes, not home until Friday, but can look then.
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