I just wanted to play football, but I became a Hollywood god

On November 11, Southampton ushered in the second round knockout of the FA Cup at their home court.

Swindon City and Southampton are both League One teams, but Southampton is temporarily ranked first, and Swindon City has been in extremely poor form recently, losing seven games and drawing two in the past ten games. There was only one victory, and this victory came in the first round of the FA Cup, a difficult victory against a League Two team.

Swindon Town is currently ranked 24th in League One, which is the last place.

Therefore, although this game is the knockout round of the FA Cup, coach Adkins did not send all the main players.

After all, the third day after this game is Southampton's real tough match, the quarter-final knockout of the EFL Cup quarter-finals, away to Manchester City.

Southampton's main players today are only captain Davis, vice-captain Walton, and Hammond.

Even Lambert, who has always been conscientious, only played for half of the game.

Gu Ran, Chamberlain, Lallana and others are all taking turns.

There is indeed not much suspense in this game. Even if the Southampton team came on the bench, they still played against Swindon City.

In the first half, Southampton used a fast break from the wing and Garrod scored a goal.

In the second half, the team changed sides and fought again. Southampton got a penalty kick. Barnard scored it in one stroke, rewriting the score to 2:0.

In the end, Southampton defeated Swindon City 2-0 without any surprise and successfully advanced to the third round of the FA Cup.

After this game, Southampton had a day off.

After all the players returned on November 11, coach Adkins only asked the players to do recovery training and take targeted tactical lessons.

During this period of time, Gu Ran's competitive form has been very good, and his growth rate has been obvious.

So far, Gu Ran has accumulated 14 talent point bubbles.

Before playing with a Premier League giant like Manchester City, Gu Ran also rationally allocated the 14 talent point bubbles in a targeted manner.

The dribbling attribute is allocated 3 points, which is increased from 79 points to 82 points.

The speed attribute has been increased by 3 points, from 85 points to 88 points.

The balance attribute has been increased by 2 points, from 83 points to 85 points.

The long-range shooting attribute has been increased by 6 points, from 80 points to 86 points.

The focus is on improving long-range shooting attributes, mainly to target Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart.

As for the various usage skills, they have also been improved a lot in this month, and many common skills have been strengthened and upgraded.

In general, Gu Ran's current ability is definitely tenable in the Premier League.

Early on the 11th of February.

Gu Ran and other main players arrived at the Staplewood training base early. After a brief breakfast, they took the bus to the Etihad Stadium in Manchester.

The full name of Manchester City is Manchester City Club.

It is a top team in the same city as Manchester United.

Therefore, when talking about Manchester City, it is difficult not to mention Manchester United, and it is difficult not to mention the grievances and resentments between these two mortal enemies in the same city.

The feud began in 1902, the year the Manchester United club was founded.

Manchester City was founded in 1880, and in fact, Manchester United already existed at that time, but it was still called "Newton Heath".

Later, Manchester City officially determined the name of the team as "Manchester United" in 1894. After Manchester United was acquired by the Brewers in 1902, the first name they wanted to change was Manchester United.

As a result, the bosses of the two clubs in the same city held a private meeting.

The boss of Manchester United said that I will give you some money and you will give up Manchester's name.

Manchester City said I am not short of money.

Manchester United said that you deserve to be called Manchester?

Manchester City said Fake is your mother.

——No one knows the specific situation at that time. Anyway, it was probably like this. Within ten words of the conversation, the bosses of both parties got into a fight in the bar, and finally broke up.

After the incident involving the boss, the players from the two teams naturally became rude to each other.

Football in that era was not that standardized at all, and various killing moves often occurred. As long as players from both sides met, injuries were bound to occur.

In fact, this situation was originally just a small fight. After all, the teams fighting each other were far more than just Manchester City and Manchester United.

What really starts the hatred are two things.

The first thing is the famous "brown envelope incident" in football history.

In 1909, the Welshman Billy Meredith, known as "the first star in British history", was playing for Manchester City. According to the FA's salary limit order at the time, the maximum weekly salary of a player must not exceed 4 pounds - after all, the pound was still the world's hard currency at that time and was very valuable. Moreover, football at that time had not yet become commercialized and star-oriented. Players were aiming for the wages of the working class. 4 pounds a week was already considered very high. In order to retain the first star of British football, Manchester City bypassed the "4 pounds weekly salary order" of this working class and privately sent an extra 10 pounds a week to Billy Meredith in a "brown envelope".

Then, this inside story was exposed by a family, and the Football Association found Manchester City and Meredith guilty. Meredith was suspended for nine months, and Manchester City was forced to sell all 9 players in the first team.

The person in charge of the FA at the time was one of the top executives of Manchester United's board of directors.

When Manchester City was forced to sell players, Manchester United took the opportunity to buy six of Manchester City's absolute main players, including Meredith.

This is no longer just poaching, this is digging into the graves of ancestors!
The seeds of the feud between the wealthy families were sown.

The second incident that completely turned the two sides into enemies was the "Traitor Gate" incident.

In 1973, Denis Law, one of the "Three Saints" who played 404 games and scored 237 goals on behalf of Manchester United, was abandoned by the Red Devils and then switched to rival Manchester City.

In the 1974 Derby, Dennis Law faced his old club, which was struggling to avoid relegation, and scored the winning goal with his heel, sending Manchester United into the second division with his own hands, no, with his own feet!

Manchester United has been relegated 5 times in history, most of which were concentrated when the club was first established, especially during the "Newton Heath" period. However, they were betrayed by their own meritorious players and joined their rivals in the same city. They were kicked again. Relegation is definitely the most painful and desperate relegation for Manchester United.

From then on, whenever Manchester United met Manchester City, they were going to hell.

Subsequent well-known events include:
In March 1974, Manchester United's Makali and Manchester City's Doyle each got a red card for a fight during a game, but both refused to leave the field and continued to curse. In the end, the referee had to call the police and ask the police to take them away. locker room.

The scene when the police rode into the stadium to arrest the players was also a very classic scene.

In April 2001, Manchester United captain Roy Keane tackled Manchester City captain Alf Haaland, who had just given birth to his son. As a result, Arling Haaland was seriously injured and was still unable to participate in the game a year later and had to regretfully retire. , the devil Boo Erling Haaland can only be raised at home.

These are just tit-for-tat confrontations between clubs and players.

The battle between the two fans and the fans can really reflect the meaning of "mortal enemies".

This 100-year or 200-year grudge has penetrated into the blood of almost every Manchesterite.

In contrast, although domestic football clubs may have conflicts with each other, those grievances are nothing at all in front of truly century-old giants.

Manchester City is a club that has experienced ups and downs over the past 200 years.

The team's origins can be traced back to 1880, when Arthur Cornell, the local pastor of St. Mark's Church in Manchester, and his daughter Anna Connell jointly formed the club in the hope of organizing unemployed people.

When the team was founded, it was not a football team but a hodgepodge, basically based on cricket.

Later, in the autumn of 1880, Anna Cornell selected a few tall, strong, physically fit, and skilled players among these unemployed people to form the St. Mark's Church football team, and in 1880 In November, the first match was played against a church team in Anfield.

It was not until 1884 that the St. Mark's Church football team was renamed Gordon Football Club and entered the professional league.

It was renamed Ardwick in 1887, and was officially renamed Manchester in 1894.

Manchester City's original jersey was not sky blue, but black, with a Maltese cross pattern.

This pattern is very closely related to the Masonic logo, so to this day, some people still believe that the predecessor of Manchester City is a product of Freemasonry.

When talking about Manchester City Club, we have to mention the "Sun of China" Sun Jihai.

From 2002 to 2008, Sun Jihai played for Manchester City and performed very well. He was also selected into the Premier League Hall of Fame. This is the highest level for a Chinese player to play overseas.

In fact, players of that era generally had fighting spirit, hard work, a sense of honor, and their skills were not bad.

The national players of the 02 World Cup generation and the national youth team of the 05 Super Platinum generation, not only can they play against Japan and South Korea, they are definitely the best in East Asia.

The fans at that time were full of confidence. Everyone thought that Chinese football was about to rise. Who would have thought that the 02 and 05 generations were already at their peak.

It’s sad to think about it…

After more than two hours of driving, Southampton's bus slowly drove into the Manchester City Stadium, commonly known as the Etihad Stadium.

The entire stadium can accommodate 55097 spectators. It is the fourth largest football stadium in the Premier League and the eighth largest football stadium in the UK. The total cost is 5000 million pounds.

The stadium is bowl-shaped on the outside and oval on the inside. The east, west and south stands have three tiers of seats, and the north stand has two tiers of seats.

Initially, all the stands were named after their directions. The North Stand and South Stand were the seats behind the gantry of the stadium, and the East Stand and West Stand were the side seats.

In 2004 the West Stand was renamed the Colin Bell Stand, after Colin Bell was a famous former Manchester City player.

The Colin Bell Stand is behind the coaching bench and bench, with a clear view of the head coach and warm-up players.

The East Stand is also the long side of the stadium, opposite Colin Bell, and the view is generally good.

The North Stand "Family Stand" and the South Stand are the short sides of the stadium. The South Stand is the die-hard fan stand and has the hottest atmosphere.

Next door to the south stand is the away team fans stand, which will further stimulate the atmosphere of watching the game.

Especially when Manchester United comes to play a game, it is commonplace for fans from both sides to throw coins and bottles at each other across the aisle.

... (end of this chapter)