10 of football’s weirdest pre-season friendlies

Weirdest pre-season friendlies

Preseason exists for a number of reasons. Getting your players fit for the new campaign is the primary objective, of course, though there are obvious financial benefits that come with tours.

But sometimes, the lawlessness of clubs organising their own fixtures leads to random match-ups that you'd never find in common competition. How did that non-league team even get a phone number for the Bernabeu? Why on earth were those Champions League players in that part of Wales? And who exactly decided that seasoned internationals would get anything at all out of thrashing a Sunday League side? 

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