Pre-season is generally a low-key time of fitness drills, worldwide tours and friendlies played at a gentle pace – but sometimes they contain drama too.
Back in the summer of 2013, there was plenty of drama to go around. The setting was the International Champions Cup final at the Sun Life Stadium in Miami. Chelsea were taking on Real Madrid to be crowned champions of the pre-season tournament, but the match was really all about the subtext.
Jose Mourinho was the manager of Chelsea, having left Real after what he called "the worst of my career" in the 2012/13 campaign. With a final against the club he spent the previous three years at, there was bound to be plenty of personal feeling involved in the match.
