host must win

Chapter 51 The Reliable Captain

In the two days of the weekend, Yin Jun took care of his personal affairs, mainly adding some furniture and purchasing some personal items, and through Keen's introduction, he went to find a reliable driving school to sign up. Yin Jun and Lu Qi Let's sign up together.

Yin Jun was planning to go to the second-hand car market to buy a car for transportation, but Keene told Yin Jun that he happened to have a Bentley sedan for sale. Although he had driven it for several years, the car was in good condition. Jun went to have a look, and if he was satisfied, he could sell it to him cheaply.

Yin Jun likes Roy Keane, the legendary captain of Manchester United. After getting along with him these two days, Keane gives him only two words: reliable!

Seeing what he said, Yin Jun immediately followed Keane to his home without hesitation, and also saw the car Keane was talking about: a Bentley Continental R!

Debuted in Geneva in 1991, it was the first Bentley of the Rolls-Royce era not to share a body with a Rolls-Royce model and the first two-door hardtop since the Rolls-Royce Camargue ceased production in 1985 vehicle type.

According to Keane, he bought this car shortly after he joined Manchester United, around the winter of 1993. Although it has been almost 9 years since now, he has been doing a good job of maintaining the car.

Keane has rarely driven the Bentley since Manchester United won the treble in 1999 when he re-purchased an Aston Martin DB7 Vantage.

Keane is not a player who likes to enjoy himself. His time is basically spent on football. Even during holidays, he rarely goes around to play.

Under such circumstances, his car has only driven less than [-] kilometers so far.

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Yin Jun is not a person who pursues enjoyment either. After seeing this car, he decided to buy it.Anyway, it is used for transportation, which is already very good.

Keane was also very straightforward. He received a symbolic £1 from Yin Jun, and then sold the luxury car he bought for £15 to Yin Jun.

For Keane, there is a sentence that can be summed up very well: he is ruthless to his enemies like the autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves, and he is as warm as spring to his friends.In the eyes of non-United fans, he is a devil, but in the hearts of Manchester United fans, his presence is reassuring.

Keane not only reassured Manchester United fans on the field, but also treated his own people off the field.Of course, if your teammates don't seek to make progress, he will also spray you bloody.

Last season, when Manchester United missed four consecutive Premier League titles and then lost to Leverkusen in the semi-finals of the Champions League, Keane said: "We indulged in the glory of the Triple Crown in 1999 and enjoyed that kind of success. The complacency that brought it has caught up with us and it's costing us. Those Rolex watches, garages full of fancy cars, XX mansions made us not care about the game, lost the game, lost the Rolex that earned us , luxury cars and mansions. That’s where we are, we’re the so-called ‘heroes of yesteryear’.”

To be clear, this was not Keane's post-match adrenaline-fueled speech in the dressing room, but what was written in black and white in his autobiography.This is his thoughtful observation and thinking, and then he decided to shoot at one of his teammates in the locker room, and even the coach.

Keane despises complacency, talent that falls short, and giving less than 100 per cent on the training ground.The contempt is real, and it's what makes him the player he is.

Such spirit was instilled in the team by Ferguson and his insatiable captain, and then produced a Manchester United that went on and on.

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Keane is indeed reliable. After learning that Yin Jun intends to hire a short-term substitute driver, he helped him complete the matter.Even, considering that Yin Jun's manager, Lu Qi, is a woman, the surrogate driver he helped Yin Jun find was also a more than 30-year-old local woman from Manchester.

This middle-aged woman is the wife of a fan friend of Keane's in Manchester, named Beatrice, and she is also a Manchester United fan.After learning that she was driving for the team's new player, Yin Jun, the woman even once expressed her willingness to work for them for free.

Of course, Yin Jun couldn't agree to such a thing, but signed a three-month driving agreement with the other party at a price of 3000 pounds.

Yin Jun has learned that it is very difficult to test for a driving license in the UK, not counting the theory test, and the pass rate of the road test is only 47%.

Driving in the UK is different from that in China. It is far from being as simple as "left rudder to right rudder, right to left".The first is a stronger awareness of actual combat.The new driver goes straight to the road in the first lesson.When Yin Jun heard the news, he couldn't help asking his coach, isn't it dangerous for a novice to go straight to the road and still not be able to tell the difference between the brake and the accelerator?The coach replied that what is learned in the real environment is the most practical and the fastest progress.

Yin Jun's second impression of driving in the UK is that he has a strong sense of safety.The coach emphasized to him many times that in the final road test, he has to drive in a normal driving environment for nearly 40 minutes. Steering, entering and exiting roundabouts, starting and parking, reversing, and side parking will all be tested. Driving habits, awareness, and level will be tested here. exposed for a period of time.

In addition, the examiner does not just look at whether a person can drive, but how strong his safety awareness is, whether it is safe to drive, and whether he can respond correctly when encountering problems.

In the final road test, candidates can make up to 15 small mistakes, such as adjusting the speed too slowly, the distance between cars is too close, etc., but as long as they make one big mistake, such as entering the main road without looking at the car coming from the right, starting without checking the blind spot, etc., it will easily lead to serious problems. Wrong security questions and you will fail the exam.

The British road test scoring standard stipulates that as long as it causes other vehicles to stop, turn, or slow down unnecessarily, it is a serious error.The roads in Manchester are narrow and there are many roundabouts. When I got out of the roundabout, I accidentally crowded the routes of other vehicles and affected their speed. The coach said that this was a big mistake and it was the focus of daily practice.

The third feeling is the British awareness of the right of way.From the main road on the auxiliary road, the main road on the small road, and entering and exiting the roundabout, it is necessary to ensure that the party with the priority of the right of way goes first.The party with the right of way must pass without hesitation.The coach said: "You have the right of way, why give up your right? If you hesitate, it will confuse others."

Knowing the difficulty of getting a driver's license in the UK, and because I have to participate in team training, I can only use my spare time to practice driving, which takes even longer.

Although Lu Qi can pick him up after he gets his driver's license, but as his manager, Lu Qi might have to leave Manchester at some point to do other things for him. At this time, he will definitely need a driver to pick him up. .

Yin Jun thinks that three months should be a more suitable time, and he should be able to get a driver's license by then.

(End of this chapter)