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Grimnir
So far the only game to be played and finished is Man United's thrashing against Dortmund in the China group.
Currently Juventus are leading Melbourne Victory with a wonder goal from half way in the Australia group.
Grimnir
Now, they've cancelled the Manchester Derby game that was meant to happen today. United say the officials cancelled it due to the state of the pitch and imminent bad weather. Ssn say that they've spoken to the officials and they wanted the game to ahead but the Manchester teams colluded and said the pitch was not good enough for then to play on. Sky reporter there was pitch side, and whilst it made the pitch at Bloomfield look luxurious, it was still playable and the excuse of rain was practically laughable.
BA81
Ninja
'Playable'
I wouldn't want an under 11 team playing on that, let alone multi-million pound footballers playing a meaningless pre-season friendly.
Grimnir
Ninja
There's videos of it as well. I've never seen us play on a worse pitch (and if the Dortmund game is anything to go on it will start cutting up from the first kick) .
Besides, there's an obvious difference between unavoidable obligations of a cup game and avoidable fixtures on an unfit pitch in China. Our pre-season schedule is short anyway (Mourinho reportedly forced the club to tack on the game against Wigan because he thought it was really bad) so I can't imagine anyones delighted about this.
bmg033
Grimnir
BR.
Shedender
Grimnir
Leicester v Barcelona kicks off 7pm BST tonight!
Grimnir
Is there a winner of an actual cup in this then?
Shedender
Aye, PSG ended up winning it with one game in the competition remaining - Inter (bottom) vs. Celtic (second bottom) which is played next Saturday. If Barcelona had beaten Liverpool by four clear goals (think that's what I heard) then they would've ended up winning it instead of the French side.