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Only played 18 minutes off the bench in the first game, and 67 of the return fixture before being sent off. Doesn't need much time to finish off shite like Spurs.

He has 2 goals and 2 assists in 85mins against Spurs though.

I can can only remember a geezer called Fondo shouting the bus driver is a bomba. That whole chapter is amazing.

Was a decent turnout by their fans like, fair play to the fascists. Wonder how many of the characters from A Season with Verona were in amongst that lot.

Kept that quiet didn't they, waited until I'd wasted me money.

Wait, was this streamed?

You're actually right. 3rd July for us, Hellas returned for their summer training on the 8th. Verona played their first friendly 5 days before us though, in the traditional fashion of beating some village team by double figures.

Yeah really. The Italians started treating their cup comps with contempt a long time before it became fashionable over here. I'm well aware of that, but they still have a competitive game next week (Coppa or not) and resumed training actually before most of our lot did. I just took a guess that they'd build towards the actual start to their season (league that is given cups mean little to most clubs nowadays). How....in fact, why, do you know when Verona strated training ? I forgot the date we returned FFS! I didn't know, I just checked.

Yeah really. The Italians started treating their cup comps with contempt a long time before it became fashionable over here. I'm well aware of that, but they still have a competitive game next week (Coppa or not) and resumed training actually before most of our lot did.

4-0 to the lads

Not really, Hellas have a Coppa Italia game next Saturday.

Anything less than a victory against this shite would be disgraceful.

Think he is an upgrade over Anita.

My word.

Was pure shite like. Hate pre-season. Highlight was seeing so many overweight yer das fuming at the Hellas players taking time oot to have a lie down on the pitch.

Both Diame and Perez will be ahead of de Jong in the pecking order. And rightly so.

no doubt the club have been fucking him around all summer long.

Son and Wanyama/Dembele are probably the starters who Spurs could be improved upon most easily, but you'd probably have to be buying a £50-60 million player to do so. Dembele from Dortmund, Keita from Leipzig, maybe. That kind of level. But they have their sights set on higher than Spurs.

Well the problem is they literally can't improve their team without going out and buying a genuine top class player. Their first 15 players or so, are extremely strong. They tried adding to the squad last year - Sissoko, Janssen, Nkoudou. £55 million worth there, and they didn't really do much except fill the bench. To improve, they would need to add a real marque signing, and that would mean breaking their strict wage budget. Something that's not gonna happen during stadium building. I can understand why they aren't buying.

Think they'll do very well again tbh. Probably will sell Sissoko and get Barkley before the end. A bit of continuity for them is fine, they've got a young and growing team. Still think they could do with another forward but they didn't struggle without Kane last season

Spurs are building a stadium. Their budget is limited.

30k isn't a bad effort in the circumstances. We got 36k in our first Champo game in 2009.

Prudhoe getting a shoutout on sky telly, what a time to be alive

Sunderland will be top half of mid-table. That league is pure shite.

Jees.