Gothenburg is dangerously expensive for young lads intent on sneaking a lager in the evening and even the coaches might find getting a decent drink limiting. ...especially those who need several to slake the thirst!
The pros of course are under strict instructions to behave with some Yorkshire clubs showing imagination in their tour venues.
Bradford City, Leeds, Huddersfield and Rotherham are in Austria. Hull City, Middlesbrough and Wednesday are off to the sun in Portugal. The Blades are in Spain, Barnsley have two weeks in Hungary and Donny Rovers have cut their losses by touring in Scotland. Here's the SatNav lads, see you there.
The Millers will have early morning,7am, runs in the mountains around Lindabrunn, a double session with late afternoon games and evening classroom stuff. Pencil cases at the ready chaps.
After pre-season warm ups at North Ferriby Utd and Guisley, Leeds are off to the Tyrol with Thomas Christiansen visiting old haunts. A proposed friendly at FC Ingolstadt 07 has been cancelled due to the local police not being able to accommodate what they regard as a risky match! Some Leeds fans may be stranded as a result of this latish news. Borussia Monchengladbach and Spanish side Eibar will provide opposition nevertheless.
Seclusion, isolation and one road in to tour venue, Kleinwalsertal, suited Stuart McCall's Bradford City, a venue recommended by Marc Klopp, son of Jurgen! Let's hope he knows his stuff.
The Terriers are in Kirchberg where early morning runs and late afternoon sessions will avoid the heat of the continental sun. Matches against Stuttgart and Torino will prepare the lads for their first ever Premier League game against Crystal Palace.
Let's hope that they remember Ray Palour, in 1995, being arrested and appearing in court after exiting a Hong Kong night club, tipping his prawn crackers over a taxi and punching the driver.
George Graham's Arsenal in 1987 were in Portugal where the lads met some US Marines, argued with them, so Charlie Nicholas lobbed a vodka bottle at their car and George had a message informing him that "half his team had been arrested for attempted murder".
Niall Quinn and Steve McMahon had a tiff on tour in Italy in 1992 which ended up in a scuffle and McMahon being pushed through a shop window.
Don Hutchison was photographed with only a beer lable to cover his modesty when partying in Ayia Napa. Manager Roy Evans soon sold him to West Ham.
Man Utd went to Iran in 1977 and their players had to have prior cholera injections which laid them low for days.
Peter Begrie in 1991 did not like being locked out of his Spanish hotel (probably a jape!) so he jumped on a motorbike and drove it through a glass window of the wrong hotel.
And then there was Bobby Moore arrested for jewellery theft in Colombia before the 1970 World Cup..never proven! Jeff Astle however had one too many on his plane home and was carried through the airport draped in a cape!
Below, some managers believe in pre-season character building
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