by bigmick » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:35 am
Whether or not this tournament or indeed any other pre-season affair is a waste of time largely depends of course on how we approach it. If it turns into a seloctoral free for all where all the names get thrown into a hat and the random number generator chooses the formation, then yes it's a waste of time at best, and a fecking damaging exercise at worst.
If however we use the games sensibly, to give the team that is going to start against Villa at least an hour together, along with likely subs for that game and any "rotations" which may or may not occur for the next game against Chelsea then we may actually gain something from it. Having said that, that would apply regardless of where the tournament took place, and in any case has almost no chance of happening given our usual silliness in the coming months.
"se e in una bottigla ed e bianco, e latte".