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Friendly match 29 July

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  1. 3rd eye

    3rd eye Well-Known Member

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    The club were trying to line up a prem team for the last friendly but none of them could confirm they would field their strongest sides, so now the match is going to be against a La Liga team.

    We won't have it confirmed until it's all signed sealed and delivered, who do you think it could be? It is not Barcelona or Real Madrid.


    By the Way - it's Sunday 28th not 29th
     
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    pompeymeowth Prepare for trouble x
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    I will guess, Málaga.
     
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  3. PompeyLapras

    PompeyLapras Well-Known Member

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    Please not Chelsea AGAIN
     
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  4. 3rd eye

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    No - fear not it won't be Chelsea.
     
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  5. PompeyLapras

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    You promise?
     
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  6. 3rd eye

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    Ok - yes I promise <laugh>
     
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  7. PompeyLapras

    PompeyLapras Well-Known Member

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    I've heard rumours of Real Betis.

    I'd quite like Athletico Bilbao. Shame it wouldn't be away, could get a Brittany Ferry from Portsmouth to Bilbao yay.
     
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  8. 3rd eye

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    It is apparently not Bilbao.

    That's a shame because they could have brought some fans over with them.

    So far we only know who it isn't <doh>
     
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    Didn't we play Betis a couple of seasons ago during the season? Would prefer to play someone different if we did.

    Maybe Malaga would be nice. Or Majorca, are they still in La Liga?
     
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    pompeymeowth Prepare for trouble x
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    Bilbao and Sociedad have one of the best rivalries in football. All the fans meet up before the game and, rumour has it, one team, will "take it easy" if a chance to win the league is possible for the other.

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    Real Betis are over here the week before, and playing Bolton on Friday 26th so they are a possibility, and would explain why the match has been moved from Saturday to Sunday.
     
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    Could you imagine that today in the UK between any of the rival clubs?
     
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    If only you played in blue and white stripes that could be us and you getting all chummy before the inevitable first head butt......
     
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    I have heard that decades ago that could have been us............ we used to be very friendly.
     
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  15. I am the Hermanator

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    Yep your right about Betis playing the Hawks PL.

    Our friendly could be against Rayo Vallecano. They're in England palying Millwall, so an extra 80 or so miles won't do them any harm.
     
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    Wait a tic, I was thinking we played Betis in a friendly some time in September/October time the same season, but thinking about it, was it a Russian team of some kind? I know we played someone in a mid-season friendly.

    Did Deportivo get relegated as well? Last time I heard they were in the drop zone or at least near it.
     
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    What about Villarreal ?

    Just won promotion back to La Liga.....
     
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  18. 3rd eye

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    And so now we know................ Vallencano

    They have the smallest stadium in La Liga, a capacity of only 14,708.
     
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  19. Wooperts_duck

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    Alfredo Di Stéfano the brilliant Argentinian footballer from the past, was a former manager of Rayo Vallencano who are the third biggest club in Madrid.

    Another former manager was Juande Ramos, later of Spurs fame.

    Francisco Medina Luna, aka Piti , is their captain :huh:
     
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  20. pompeymeowth

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    I think they used to have an old Granny as an owner, who was heiress to a honey factory.

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