Europa League
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Portsmouth aren't in the Europa.
With my wife being from near Lisbon I often jump on the bus to Lisbon when we go there. She reverts to Portuguese type when she returns home and I don't bother waking her up.........at 10 in the morning. Often get told off for disappearing with the kids to Belem. There is a great little cafe just up the road next to the museum in Belem that serves quality that would cost silly money in this country. My Sporting shirt is ageing these days though. The adverts all over it are wearing off.
Is that the charming café that is usually packed out.
http://www.afar.com/places/antiga-confeitaria-de-belem-lisbon
I was thinking of this place near the monastery, where they serve Portuguese custard tarts....only the best. Apparently their record is 55,000 in a single day.
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Not normally packed out. It isn't really in the face of tourists. If you head from the big maritime thingamy on the quayside and head straight up through the garden and ponds and have the museum (is that the former monastry?) in front of you then the rode that heads up the hill on the right side of the museum. About 100 yards up on the right. Tiny little cafe. Rustic traditional food. Last time my wife and I had a meal and beer for 15 euros all in. She was in Portuguese mode moaning that I had taken an olive out of the bowl on the table. "If you leave the olives you don't pay for them". Had to chuckle.
Just looked at google maps and it is on the road called R dos Jeronimos.
Google street view. It is this one:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@38.6...6Z3NTV_mUTEotCp8YQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
Hey! Saints could end up playing the first Europa tie against a Welsh team... unlikely but it's a possibility
Cefn Druids maybe? I'd pay to watch them just for the name. Do they all have flowing beards and play in long white robes?
Our hotel was just at the bottom of that road opposite the monastery, just round the corner from the botanical gardens!
http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/arti...mpton-europa-league-group-stages-3127161.aspx
Jose talking about how good it will be for Saints to be in the group stage of the Europa. He's right....six guaranteed games will give us valuable experience playing good European sides who we are largely unfamiliar with. Les Reed talked about how everyone thinks it can harm your league form and how you shouldn't go into the matches expecting that. We see it all in a positive way in theory, but now we have to do that in practice. Look at what you gain from it, rather than what could go wrong. The qualifying round is much less attractive....we will get a good preseason and be prepared for the coming season.
Jose talking about how good it will be for Saints to be in the group stage of the Europa. He's right....six guaranteed games will give us valuable experience playing good European sides who we are largely unfamiliar with. Les Reed talked about how everyone thinks it can harm your league form and how you shouldn't go into the matches expecting that. We see it all in a positive way in theory, but now we have to do that in practice. Look at what you gain from it, rather than what could go wrong. The qualifying round is much less attractive....we will get a good preseason and be prepared for the coming season.
