Our first game of pre-season took place on Saturday, an 8-0 win over Boreham Wood FC in what was basically the football equivalent of a fun-run. We now go over ten days without another game, which seems a bit odd to me. I went back to check on what we'd done in seasons past, and last summer we'd played four games – two against Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers, then Bayern Munich and Chelsea – before July 22nd. Our first ‘competitive' pre-season fixture this summer doesn't take place until July 26th when we face Atletico Madrid in Singapore. Then it gets hectic with PSG on July 28th, Chelsea in Dublin on August 1st, and then Sevilla in Stockholm on August 4th ahead of the...
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