The battle of Marbella sounds like much ado about nothing compared to one pre-season trip with the Jambos.
I'll get to the free-for-all friendly against Almeria shortly but first a stroll down memory lane which became a story of balls on toast and spitting in your pasta. Jim Jefferies used to take us to Il Ciocco every year, it was a training camp high up in the Italian mountains and it was also used by Rangers.
For an entire week we had to run up hills and do altitude training and it was horrendous, I was possibly the only player who actually enjoyed it. At the end of the week we played a bounce game against a team which was made up from the waiters who worked at the hotel and guys from the local amateur side. Every year without fail it would end up in a rammy. The trigger would be one of their players not liking one of our tackles or vice versa and it would all kick-off.
