Sitting in the visiting team's locker room at the red-top stadium, Hu Lai couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It is indeed a football stadium certified by UEFA with five stars. Even the visiting team's locker room is much more luxurious.

The visiting team locker rooms in some stadiums are very simple. Apart from basic cabinets and stools, there are no extra facilities. To exaggerate, there is not even hot water. You can only use cold water to take a shower. Even the stools are very uncomfortable and make you feel uncomfortable.

After sitting for a long time, my buttocks will feel irritated.

Of course, these little tricks are all intended to do everything possible to cause trouble to the away team and interfere with their game, thereby helping the home team win the game more easily.

There is no such problem at the red-roofed stadium where the veteran Premier League giant Tramede plays home. Their visiting team locker room is comparable to the home team locker rooms of some small clubs.

At least compared to the dressing room of the Flanders home team in Leeds City, it is only slightly inferior.

Of course, Leeds City Club will renovate the home team's locker room after the end of the season and upgrade it. For example, adding facilities such as a jacuzzi to help the players recover - it is said that this is the request of head coach Tony Clark.

Therefore, the premise of this project is that Leeds City must ensure that they can successfully avoid relegation. Otherwise, after relegation, it is hard to say whether Tony Clark can still coach at Leeds City, let alone the package of renovation plans he proposed for the club.

Tony Clark was standing in the middle of the visiting team's locker room at the Red Roof Stadium at this moment, saying loudly to his players:

"Everyone thinks we can't beat Tramed on the road. What they say makes sense. In terms of strength, we are indeed far inferior to Tramed. This is still their home court, in their 'red house'

, they are almost invincible. But let me say, if football always relies on these paper strengths to determine the outcome, then what is the meaning of the game? The most fascinating part of the football game is that we go on the field and fight hard, and when the final whistle blows

Before the sound, no one knows who will lose and who will win!"

Having said this, he paused and looked around at his players.

He still remembers the way most of the players looked at him when he came to this team on his first day.

Showing doubt, disgust, and disdain.

But now, after more than half a season of cooperation, those eyes have basically disappeared completely.

Especially after three consecutive victories, even if the next away game was a clean loss to Battleship Port, the players did not seem to doubt his authority as the head coach.

Selling players who clearly do not meet the team's tactical requirements and being disobedient, introducing players he likes, and passing a series of disciplinary requirements including forcing players to take a nap... The seeds he has sown in this team are still paying off.

After so much hard work, there are finally signs of breaking ground.

He raised his voice and continued: "So put aside the strength gap between us and our opponents, and forget how the damn media outside predicted this game! Give it your best! Show our courage to the giants! And at home

Compared with Tramed, we have nothing to lose. After all, everyone thinks we will lose, so isn’t the worst outcome just a loss?"

Hu Lai listened to the coach's words and thought that he had rich experience in relegation, but he had never seen such a relegation team coach. It was completely different from Zhao Kangming, the coach of Flash Star.

I care about every detail, but shout "I just want to beat you to death, or be beaten to death by you"...

Is this going to be relegated? Is this a crazy person?

Run quickly, the lunatic is beating someone! It’s all in vain!

But don't mention it, after being treated so badly by the head coach, Hu Lai actually had a surge of pride in his heart - the head coach doesn't care about the results, what else do we want to do? Just do it!

Not only him, but other Leeds City players were also shouting impatiently.

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The red-roofed stadium, home to England's old giants and traditional strong team Tramed, got its name from the red roof when it was first built. In addition to the roof, the overall exterior wall of the stadium is divided into upper and lower parts, with the upper part connected

The ceiling is red, and the lower half is white - exactly the same color as their home jersey.

Because the isosceles triangular shape of the main stand's roof looks like a huge red spire house from a distance, Tramed fans nicknamed the stadium the "Red House".

The nickname sounds very warm, just like the little girl's home in fairy tales.

But in fact, this was once the famous "devil's home stadium" in European football. During Tramed's most glorious period, this stadium was intimidating to any visiting team.

So there are rumors that the red in the "Red House" is not paint, but the blood of the opponent. The "Red House" is not a warm place full of fairy tale atmosphere, but the lair of some evil beings. Therefore, Tramed has

One nickname is "The Scarlet Witch", which is as feared as the cannibal witch in medieval legends.

In the past ten years, the "Red Witch" has lost its dominance of the Premier League, and the "notoriety" of this stadium is not as prominent as before.

But even so, playing in this stadium is not an easy task for any team.

Tramed's fans don't need to deliberately target the visiting team. They only need to cheer for the home team, which is enough to make many visiting team players feel breathless... After all, the 60,000-person stand capacity is not enough for the current Premier League.

It can indeed be regarded as a very large number. Correspondingly, the Flanders Stadium, the home stadium of Leeds City, can accommodate 30,000 people.

But there was a little accident in the "red house" today.

Tramed's fans noticed that the Leeds City players who came as guests did not seem to be affected by the noise they created.

From the beginning of the game, they played proactively. It didn't feel like they were playing away from home, but more like they were playing at their own home court...

If the performance of the players may still be an illusion of the fans, there is no way to count it.

Then, in the first twenty-six minutes of the game, it was the visiting team Leeds City who scored first, which may allow everyone to confirm this fact - today's Leeds City is different from the one they have seen in this season and a half.

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“Pete Williams——!!” Matthew Cox yelled in a long voice. “After receiving Lorenzo’s header, he stopped the ball with his chest and nimbly dodged Kirk!

Then he shot! Walker failed to touch the ball! Leeds City took the lead in the away game! What a surprise, it was Leeds City who scored first!"

Watching Pete Williams running wildly to celebrate the goal on the TV broadcast, the fans in the "White Rose" bar opened their arms, beat the time rhythmically, and then sang loudly along with the time:

"Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete! He is our genius Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete! He is the Pete who will always love Leeds! Ah - Pete Williams! Ah - Pete Williams!"

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This is a cheering song created by Leeds City fans for their favorite players. Whenever the players perform well, they will sing the character song.

Today Leeds City is playing away from home. Many of them cannot go to the away game, so they can only sing in front of the TV to cheer for the players.

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Leeds City fans were not happy for long.

Before the end of the first half, Tramed's French forward Pap Bonnet fired a powerful shot from the corner of the penalty area, helping Tramed equalize the score.

Just after the start of the second half, Tramed's Dutch midfielder Nick van Delft used a low shot from outside the penalty area to open up Leeds City's goal again.

"Vandelft!! Beautiful!! His shot was completely suppressed, and the football flew forward close to the turf, making it more difficult for the goalkeeper to save! Facing his fellow Dutchman, Vandelft

But there is no intention of showing mercy at all!"

As the score went ahead, Tramed's fans came to life. They sang and danced in the stands. Sometimes they were cheering for their team, and sometimes they were mocking Leeds City's little brother with their songs:

"Go where you belong! Champions League! Go where you belong! Champions League! You know which one we're talking about!"

This was followed by a huge burst of laughter.

Leeds City is not famous in the history of English football and can be regarded as an out-and-out unknown.

It stands to reason that there should be no hatred between them and Tramed in Manchester - in the long history, they and Tramed rarely had the opportunity to interact.

But Tramed's fans still mocked them mercilessly.

This has nothing to do with football, but mainly with regional hatred - stemming from the historical grudge between the two cities of Manchester and Leeds.

The UK is a traditional sheep-raising country and an important wool producer in Europe. Their wool has been supplied to all of Europe.

Later, after the failure of the Hundred Years' War with France, Britain decided not to simply export wool, but to vigorously develop the wool textile industry. The wool textile industry became Britain's "national industry". With the enclosure movement in the 16th century, sheep herding expanded.

market, increased wool production, and British woolen exports accounted for 78% of all exports.

At that time, Leeds was a famous woolen industry center in the UK, with a large number of woolen industry workers gathered.

The home stadium of Leeds City Club is called "Flanders Stadium", which also reflects the development of Leeds' woolen textile industry at that time - Flanders is not the current place name in the UK, nor is it Leeds, but a historical place name in Western Europe. Approximately

It is equivalent to today's Zeeland province in the Netherlands, East Flanders and West Flanders in Belgium, and Pas-de-Calais and Nore in France.

This place had the best wool spinning workers in Europe at that time. British wool raw materials were also shipped here and then exported throughout Europe.

The rise of the British woolen textile industry was also due to the poaching of a large number of Flemish workers.

In order to commemorate this period of history, the stadium of Leeds City Club, which represents the city of Leeds, is called "Flanders".

The rise of Manchester is inseparable from the British cotton textile industry. The cotton textile industry is grabbing the market of the woolen textile industry.

As Lancashire, where Manchester is located, began to imitate Indian cotton with cotton from the East and West Indies and Brazil, the British cotton textile industry gradually got on track. Coupled with the invention of the Jenny loom, an important symbol of the first industrial revolution,

Cotton spinning developed rapidly.

The cotton textile industry is Manchester's pillar industry, and the sales of cotton cloth have impacted the woolen market, causing woolen spinning factories to close down one after another. A large number of woolen spinning workers lost their jobs and had to run from Leeds to neighboring Manchester to find a living.

The competition between wool spinning and cotton spinning contributed to the success of Britain's first industrial revolution, and also caused hatred between the people of the two cities.

Therefore, even if there is no conflict in football, the teams from these two cities will not look down upon each other after they meet. (Note 1)

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Hu Lai heard the singing in the stands and understood it.

After all, he has been in the Premier League for two months and has played five games, so he has some knowledge of the ins and outs of the Premier League.

I know that England fans like to express their emotions with singing. They sing when they are happy, they sing when they are angry, and even when the game is too boring, they also use singing to express their dissatisfaction with the boring game, or simply to entertain themselves.

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For example, they will throw an inflatable penis during the game until the inflatable penis falls under the stands and is picked up and confiscated by the police. Then the fans will start singing a song repeatedly, which has one lyric: "

Give us our big cocks back!”

After Hu Lai has played football for so many years, this is the first time he has seen such boring fans...
To be continued...