Following the success of the two previous years in
That was all dashed a week and a half ago and although a game was fixed up against Recreativo, just promoted to La Liga in
If that wasn't bad enough then we've had today's revelations that the first game against Recreativo has now been called off because they wanted to move it to the Wednesday and we are to play an Italian League XI, opposition that frankly sounds about as attractive as Alense who we will play on the Friday.
Even now that first game isn't confirmed and it could well be that Tuesday evening will be spent watching the players train. Steve Cotterill said today: “We hope to have two games out there and our supporters will be able to come and watch them.
“They will be on Tuesday and Friday and at the end of the day, if the Tuesday game out there happens to be cancelled then we will just let our supporters come in and watch us train. If they can make the effort, we owe it to them to accommodate them if anything goes pear shaped.”
It's wait and see what happens now, but the reaction from supporters set to travel has not been good, those I spoke to today feel badly let down.