Portsmouth North American tour goes severly wrong

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Pretty amazing....

Things have not been going so great for Portsmouth FC. Coming off an embarrassment-plagued season that resulted in getting relegated from the Premier League and going into administration (yet still making an improbable run to the FA Cup final!), the club decided to mount a summer North American tour as a way to prepare for the Championship and help get their finances in order. Well, that proved to be a big fat mistake. Here's why:

— The tour started with a 42-hour journey from England to San Diego because of a cancelled connecting flight.

— Midfielder Tom Kilbey and goalkeeper Jon Stewart (not that Jon Stewart) suffered injuries during the second game of the tour against Edmonton.

— The trip from Edmonton to Washington, DC left the team stranded in Chicago for nearly 28 hours because of a lightning storm. "The time it took us to get here, we could have flown to Australia," new Pompey manager Steve Cotterill told Reuters.

— All of the club's luggage was left outside in the rain during the storm and 14 bags never made it to their destination, including the kit bag.

— The team had to play DC United in 100-degree heat after just four hours of sleep and without training for three days.

— Since Portsmouth had no kits of their own, they had to wear DC United's away strip.

— They ended up losing 4-0, had a player sent off for allegedly spitting at an opponent and saw goalkeeper Jamie Ashdown go off with an injury. And because of the extreme heat, "the lads all lost 4kgs <8.8 pounds>" midfielder Michael Brown told the club's official website.

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/sow_experts/post/Portsmouth-end-horrific-tour-by-having-to-wear-D?urn=sow-258276

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