I've been having an email exchange with a Portugese friend of mine who supports Sporting. I was telling him that the general feeling amongst us Reds was that we were facing the new season with more confidence than we have for a good few seasons. This is part of his reply to me: "they have been splurging this year , and I haven't seen morale so high in a long time...the presentation match was last sunday. The stadiuam was full to capacity , great party , they brought in all the old glorys to personally give the new guys their jerseys for this year , they even had a great big lion in a cage , and there was much rejoicing and , pride and enthusiasm. And we took in 3 nil from Valencia , just to keep this in perspective. I am of course still very exited for this year's performance , i put great hopes on our manager and we kept the best of last year's squad. We'll see!!!!" I feel the same for us this season.
