pre season friendlies

[colin's bell helmet]

anyone know if the official site are gonna show em free again like last year?

 

[trueblue gio]

ESPN HD for the USA matches

Sat 24th Jul Sporting Lisbon V Man City Friendly 01:00 ESPN / ESPN HD
Sun 25th Jul Man City V Sporting Lisbon Friendly 20:00 ESPN / ESPN HD
Thu 29th Jul Club America V Man City Friendly 01:00 ESPN / ESPN HD

 

[Sleeping_Easy]

ESPN HD for the USA matches

Sat 24th Jul Sporting Lisbon V Man City Friendly 01:00 ESPN / ESPN HD
Sun 25th Jul Man City V Sporting Lisbon Friendly 20:00 ESPN / ESPN HD
Thu 29th Jul Club America V Man City Friendly 01:00 ESPN / ESPN HD

If there on ESPN they wont be on the OS and i dont think the valencia game will be either with it greatly reducing chances of ticket sales. So i'm guessing none of them will be but there will be links in the matchday thread ;)

On a related topic can someone tell me if this list of friendlies is correct

23 July 2010 - 20:00 Sporting Lisbon - New York Football Challenge - 1am BST
25 July 2010 - 15:00 New York Red Bulls - New York Football Challenge - 8pm BST
28 July 2010 - 20:00 Club America - 1am BST
31 July 2010 20:00 Inter Milan - 1am BST
04 August 2010 - 20:00 Borussia Dortmund Ferrostaal Cup
04 August 2010 - 19:30 Valencia Thomas Cook Cup

If it is its certainly a rise on the previous friendlies we've seen against the likes of rochdale bury and oldham (no offence meant)

Also 1 last question whats meant when it says city X1 in a friendly against some team?

 

[garfresco]

A City XI usually means a reserve/youth team

 

[Falastur]

On a related topic can someone tell me if this list of friendlies is correct

23 July 2010 - 20:00 Sporting Lisbon - New York Football Challenge - 1am BST
25 July 2010 - 15:00 New York Red Bulls - New York Football Challenge - 8pm BST
28 July 2010 - 20:00 Club America - 1am BST
31 July 2010 20:00 Inter Milan - 1am BST
04 August 2010 - 20:00 Borussia Dortmund Ferrostaal Cup
04 August 2010 - 19:30 Valencia Thomas Cook Cup



Also 1 last question whats meant when it says city X1 in a friendly against some team?

You're missing the warm-up game against the Portland Timbers on the 19th, but yes that's right.

As for what City XI means, it means a team of players picked from any of our squads - and usually this means it gets drawn from the reserves and academy. When clubs agree a friendly with a City XI they're doing it for the draw of the club name, in the knowledge that they won't actually be seeing any star names turn up.

 

[colin's bell helmet]

ESPN HD for the USA matches

Sat 24th Jul Sporting Lisbon V Man City Friendly 01:00 ESPN / ESPN HD
Sun 25th Jul Man City V Sporting Lisbon Friendly 20:00 ESPN / ESPN HD
Thu 29th Jul Club America V Man City Friendly 01:00 ESPN / ESPN HD

even better that then watching it in glorious hd!!! not to fussed about the valencia game being on anywhere coz i'll be there it's just the games abroad i was hoping would be shown. sky sometimes have a few pre season games don't they so wonder if they'll show us against inter? seem to remember one of our home friendlies a few years back being on itv4 or channel 5 or sumat. couple of beltin games this year tho pre season really lookin forward to it.