Quote Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier View Post
I'm finding a lot of mutual apathy mate; it just does not smell right does it? Even the mad, crazy Welsh are giving it the BIG swerve.
I'm really looking forward to it, especially the games in the refurbed Khalifa Stadium. I played league there in 78/79 when it was fairly new and the original pitch had an early version of artificial grass which affected the bounce. The worst bit was that it tended to take skin off when you did a slide tackle and due to "muscle memory" (where we tend to go in the same way every time) it would scab over and then rip off the scab the following week - and after a few weeks of that I was developing a hole in my leg so I had to bandage up before every game. I am sure it's going to be lush and airconned nowadays but it was f*****g hot, humid and painful when I was playing there.