subject: Scouting For The Season Ahead [print this page] It's pre-season and many of the UK's top teams are on sunny shores bonding and preparing for the season ahead. If you are already buzzing with excitement as a result of various summer comings and goings, and you are just aching to see what the teams shape and performance is going to look like this season then perhaps you could go on your own scouting mission with Portugal holidays. Areas like the Algarve have been the pre-season home for many of the Premier League's top teams and this year Tottenham Hotspurs and Sunderland AFC. During their stay they will come up against various lower league teams from Portugal as they work on their fitness and general game, but hold out for the big tests against the likes of Porto, Sporting Lisbon and Benifca, when you will really get an understanding of how far your team has come.
Even if your team has flew across the Atlantic Ocean to tour the US or further still to the likes of Australia, you can still enjoy a few games of top class football which might just quench your thirst for the game until the season starts. Let's be far Portugal holidays are hardly a nightmare either. You can spend the best part of your days working on a glorious tan along any part of the country's exotic sandy coast before kick-off. This way whoever you are planning to fly away with everybody is happy, there sun, beaches and a whole host of holiday activities going on in resort, then the match at night.
Sure the missus will give you a little grief as she helps unpack the suitcases to find a few tickets and scarf's, but Portugal holidays aren't all about her. While she may nag saying that you have the rest of the year to enjoy football, she just doesn't understand how hard it's been this summer. If she were to open her mind to the fact that South Africa was disappointing, not only from an England perspective, but as a tournament as a whole so it could be down to Portugal holidays alone to reaffirm your faith.
Sure you could head to various places this summer but we all know what your conscience is saying and who are you to ignore it. The sure lure of a taste of what's to come this season along with one of the world's most visited summer destinations means that there is little to lose and a lot to gain with Portugal holidays.
