I believe that instead of doing a preseason public relations exercise (traveling to USA and playing glamour teams, 2 of which they lost) it would have been more productive this pre-season to get the players used to
the Wembley pitch size.
They could still have played Juventus later at Wembley, but with more experience of
the wembley pitch size.
If you are right about exaggerated reporting on reducing
the Wembley pitch size, would say Tottenham are also in his case, victims of unfair media reporting, because that issue was pretty widely reported.
Not exact matches
By the way, I don't believe the story that Spurs sought to have the
Wembley pitch reduced to the same
size as the old WHL
pitch.
Think the
Wembley pitch worries Tottenham as well, didn't they unsuccessfully apply to have its
size reduced?
Some Tottenham fans claim the
size of the
Wembley pitch, which Spurs had a request to make smaller turned down by the Premier League, is a factor in being unable to reproduce the kind of high - octane approach that harried teams into submission last term.