Pirated Ronaldo

Chapter 513 The Ritual Day Arrives

December 12th is a traditional British holiday, Boxing Day.

The long-awaited Christmas battle in England, which is also the most delicious visual feast for everyone between Christmas and New Year's Day, has finally kicked off.

This is a country of football, the only country in the world that has successfully made football a "product" and promoted it to the world, and has achieved great success. Football has extraordinary significance for English people, and it is inseparable from all aspects of social life. Football, then, how can the English lack the element of football when they are carrying out Christmas carnival?
Four games in eight days, presented enough exciting and exciting enjoyment for the English people, even if a fan has nothing else to do at Christmas, he can find enough fun around football.

From this point of view, the Premier League is very successful. It has captured the psychology of the English people and successfully raised itself to a level that cannot be enlightened by other industries in this country. The UK is a country with extremely developed industries and the largest arms, As a manufacturing place of petroleum products, computers, TVs and mobile phones, British companies have global innovation and competitiveness in many fields, but no matter which industry, it is impossible to have the same influence as football in this country.

Football is not only a product, but also a kind of entertainment. It is like traditional leisure and entertainment industries such as film and television, opera, TV, etc. It can bring people the release of passion and relaxation of mind.

The Christmas game of the Premier League starts from the game on Boxing Day, and the game on this day has a unique name, called the Boxing Day game.

In order to attract attention, many games on this day are carefully designed, such as West London vs. Chelsea vs. Fulham, England's traditional strong team vs. Liverpool vs. Newcastle, London North-South Derby vs. Charlton vs. Arsenal, these The games are very interesting. Although the strengths and weaknesses of many opponents are clear, the gap in strength has been narrowed to the minimum during the Christmas game. It is the best time for the underdogs to be upset. If those weaker players It's not surprising that the team is going all out to beat the opponent.

Compared with the other three super teams, Manchester United's game today is a little flat, and the opponent is only West Bromwich Albion, which was 17th last season and could be relegated.

In other words, according to the arrangement of the FA, Manchester United is not the protagonist in the first half of this year's Christmas game. Their task is to take on the task of making the Premier League ignite people's attention in the second half.

The third game: opponent Bolton, which is a rival team of Manchester United for decades, three months after the Manchester United Munich tragedy, the two teams met in the FA Cup, Bolton fans made a plane dive in the stands The action to stimulate Manchester United players, this move made all Manchester United hated to the bone, and never forgive the team that is only 30 minutes north of Carrington Castle; in the fourth game, Arsenal played against Manchester United, This is undoubtedly a strong dialogue, the final battle of this year's Christmas war.

This year's Manchester United, the game was relatively flat in the first half of the Christmas game?Totally wrong!No matter who the opponent is for Manchester United this year, they are the absolute protagonists.

Aspect [-]: The team suffered unprecedented heavy losses, what kind of posture will Manchester United appear in front of people?

Aspect 19: Ferguson, who has coached Manchester United for [-] years, has temporarily resigned. Queiroz and Roy Keane, the old and the young, have joined hands to take over the Manchester United coaching seal. Can they take on important responsibilities?

Aspect [-]: It is said that the Salford Police Department has approved the application of the Manchester United club. Ronaldo will play in the Boxing Day game. This is his first game after the Port of London tragedy. Can he still show his strength and become Manchester United's sharpest and strongest right winger?

Aspect [-]: It is still Ronando. Everyone knows that Ferguson announced several appointments before leaving office, including the appointment of Ronando as the fourth vice-captain of the first team. At that time, people speculated that Ferguson was in recognition of Ronando. The contribution to the team and the compensatory rewards given do not have much practical significance, but on Christmas Day, Manchester United's old captain Roy Keane and new captain Gary Neville announced a decision to reporters. Ronando will wear the captain's armband on Boxing Day!
Aspect 11: It’s still Ronando!At the beginning of this month, Ronando was named the best player in the Premier League in November, but he was under special investigation by UEFA in the Lisbon own goal incident on December 12. The Premier League awards team immediately announced the suspension of the awards. Before Christmas, UEFA finally announced the conclusion of the investigation on the own goal incident, and believed that the own goal was an accident. This result was not expected, so the awards team had no reason to delay the award to Ronaldo.

Oh, God!It is the first time that the Premier League has to award an award to a "suspect" who is on bail!
According to the "good intentions" of the awards team, they planned to make an exception and send the trophy to Ronaldo at Ronaldo's home, or anywhere else, and it would be over, but Manchester United disagreed!Manchester United chairman Joel Glazer said that the award this time is the honor of the Manchester United club and must be held publicly at Manchester United's home stadium, Old Trafford, in accordance with the usual practice. Ronaldo will wear the Manchester United captain's armband as a "prisoner on bail" and receive the Premier League Player of the Month trophy!
In addition to the above five highlights, there are many other highlights in Manchester United's game, which are dizzying enough.

For example, this is Wayne Rooney's first game after returning from injury, the first game of all Manchester United players after the "No Christmas in 2005" declaration, and the first home game of the Manchester United fan group after launching a full-scale mobilization and supporting the team , Sir Alex Ferguson, the former Manchester United coach, appeared in the Old Trafford box for the first time as a "guest". El Glazer will accompany Mr. Portuguese ambassador to the UK on the stands to cheer for Ronaldo in person...

All of these, everyone knows that the game that Old Trafford ushered in on Boxing Day will definitely not be ordinary.

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For the games on Boxing Day, except for the last Aston Villa game against Everton, which was scheduled in the evening, the other 9 games were all scheduled from noon to afternoon, divided into three start times.

In fact, the Boxing Day War really fulfilled a sentence, the plan is not as fast as the change!

For example, when the Premier League took the match between Villa and Everton as a separate game on Boxing Day, it seemed reasonable. Villa ranked 6th and 10st in the first two seasons. 4. The rising momentum is obvious, and Everton is even more amazing. Last season, they overwhelmed Liverpool and got [-]th. These two teams will definitely play well when they meet, but!After half a season, the situation has changed drastically. Both teams have been reduced to fish belly, and it has become a garbage battle!

Similar to this game is the game between Portsmouth and West Ham, which is even more dramatic.

This game was considered a very coincidental classic at the beginning of the month, because Lao Lei happened to return to Portsmouth, and he led the new team to face the old owner West Ham. With Lao Lei's character and skills, No matter how you want to play an exciting game, right?But everything changed in a blink of an eye. The old Ray was broken by Ferguson and he was lying in the hospital. Matthew Taylor was beaten even worse. Portsmouth, which was full of bags, was easily solved.

On the contrary, some other games that were not expected by others are now eligible to become the highlight of the Boxing Day war, such as the dark horse Charlton at the beginning of the season against Arsenal, and the dark horse Wigan Athletic against Manchester City this season.

However, no game has changed as much as Manchester United's game. Who would have expected that an ordinary league game in the original plan has become the focus of everyone's attention...

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Brian Robson, West Bromwich Albion manager and Manchester United captain in the 'Robson era' in the 80s, has mixed feelings.

He became the head coach of this small team in central England in 2004. He has been conscientious and led the team on the road to relegation. At this time last year, West Bromwich Albion was in the same situation as this year. On the verge of relegation, Ferguson helped him a lot at the end of the league. At that time, Manchester United was far behind Chelsea and Arsenal in the league, and there was no hope of catching up. In the penultimate round of the league, Manchester United and West Bromwich Albion They met, and eventually the two sides played to a tie.

Bryan Robson actually relied on Ferguson's "mercy point" to keep his team in the Premier League with difficulty!
Just look at last season's team standings to see how important that draw is. At that time, West Bromwich Albion had 34 points, while the two teams behind them, Crystal Palace and Norwich, both had 33 points. As a result, the two teams were relegated, and West Bromwich Albion was lucky to be able to avoid relegation by one point.

This season Brian Robson's team has met Manchester United for the second time. The previous time was in the last 11 of the League Cup at the end of November. At that time, Ferguson voluntarily gave up the League Cup and played with all substitutes and young players. -Robson once again got an honor. He led the underdogs to "beat" the giants Manchester United. This can at least add to Brian Robson's personal record list. Anyway, if you win, you win. The team led by the former captain of Manchester United won Manchester United, which is also a gimmick.

For the same reason, the FA deliberately arranged West Bromwich Albion as Manchester United's opponent in the Boxing Day match at the beginning of the season.

Now, Bryan Robson is facing a difficult choice, to fight, or not to fight?
In other words, Ferguson once analyzed that all the weaker teams in the Premier League will selectively choose a few games to die during the Christmas game!

For example, for a team like West Bromwich Albion, if Bryan Robson spreads the strength of the team and fights hard every game, he must be out of his mind, and the result is likely to be nothing. Unfortunately, he had a four-game losing streak. It is estimated that he will be scolded to death by the fans immediately. When the club chairman finds a new suitable head coach, it is time for him to pack up and leave.

West Bromwich Albion's schedule during this Christmas period is really fucked up!
An away game against Manchester United, a home game against Tottenham, an away game against Liverpool, and a home game against Villa. Just look at the schedule and you will know how Bryan Robson is feeling now. Except for the last game in the four games, Manchester United have already cleared them up. The appalling Villa team faced strong opponents in the first three games. Isn't this the rhythm of strangling West Bromwich Albion?
Bryan Robson can only choose one of the two opponents, Manchester United and Tottenham, to fight with all his strength, because one of these two games is on the 26th and the other is on the 28th, with only one day of rest in between!
On December 12, the last round of the league before Christmas, Bryan Robson happened to meet Portsmouth led by Lao Lei, and the result was an away goal. It is a pity, but there is nothing wrong with it. Lao Lei Ben is a famous coach. After he returned to Portsmouth, after some rectification, although the team lost to Manchester United and Tottenham in a row, their morale has improved, and the game against Tottenham was not bad. Brian Robson's West Bromwich Albion can't beat Old Ray's Portsmouth, which is normal.

However, immediately after the Port of London tragedy broke out, Lao Lei was exposed to a shocking shady scene, and was beaten by Ferguson until he was admitted to the hospital.

Brian Robson is angry!If this incident could have happened a few days earlier, he could have easily scored 3 points against Portsmouth. He scored 6 points. Isn't this a big loss? Portsmouth is now his important relegation competitor!

Ferguson couldn't organize the team's training or command the game because he beat Lao Lei?The monster Ronando was suspected of criminal charges, and he was unable to play?

These disturbing news made Brian Robson ecstatic. Manchester United is now as chaotic as possible. On the 23rd, Manchester United experienced turmoil. On the 26th, it will be the match between West Bromwich Albion and Manchester United. One pot of porridge, Brian Robson can take advantage of the opportunity, just like he did in the League Cup at the end of last month, defeating Manchester United and scoring an important 3 points. Let Manchester United have this kind of thing, it is their own business, it has nothing to do with West Bromwich Albion!
However, Bryan Robson had just made up his mind and arranged for his players to give the turbulent Manchester United a hard blow in the game on Boxing Day, and the situation changed again!

Everyone knows what happened next. The Manchester United club was united from top to bottom, and even announced that all players would give up entertainment during the period from Christmas to New Year's Day and concentrate on playing games. During the two days of Christmas Eve and Christmas on the 24th, I went to the club to participate in training as usual, as if Christmas had nothing to do with them. What's even more amazing is that on the night of Christmas Eve on the 25th, all the players did not go out Instead of carousing with family and friends, get together for a simple meal and chat.

This incident cannot be false. For example, according to the photos sent by the reporters, the curtains of Ronando's house were wide open at that time, and it was possible to clearly see what those young people were doing. There was absolutely no carnival, a group of young people Get together, just drink a little wine, then eat, chat, and everyone goes home before 10 o'clock in the evening.

Nima!If all the stars in the Premier League can be so self-disciplined, the Premier League will be invincible immediately!God Ma La Liga and Serie A, can they beat a team composed of such players?

After getting these news, Brian Robson wanted to cry without tears!
All the bad luck was spread on his head!With Manchester United looking like this, they will definitely have a big fight in the next Boxing Day game!
****!The team led by Lao Tzu is West Bromwich Albion, which has no grievances with you, not Portsmouth, which has offended you!Are you Manchester United not bullying?I suffered a loss in the hands of that bastard Old Ray, and now he comes to bully my West Bromwich Albion, is this unreasonable?
Of course, Bryan Robson understands that no matter how much he complains, it is useless. The facts are already in front of him. He is in trouble now, and he may encounter a Manchester United team that is crazy and wants to find someone to vent. Still holding on to a little bit of luck, after all, Manchester United has just encountered a catastrophe. If it is just a show of external strength and meddling, it is not impossible for Manchester United to be so weak that it will fall down with a single poke!

With such complicated feelings, Brian Robson led his relegation underdog West Bromwich Albion into the gate of Old Trafford...

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Old Trafford on December 12th, the first spectacle, players from both sides participating in the game entered the stadium in three groups.

In England, it is an unwritten practice for players from both teams participating in a Premier League match to enter the stadium two hours before the game. Fans have long been accustomed to this rule. Many fans will come to the match team to enter the stadium before entering the stadium. Near the dedicated channel, chatting while waiting for the buses of the two teams to arrive.

Cheering to your own team's bus and giving the opposing team's bus the middle finger is something many fans love to do.

Today, this rule has also been followed. Two hours before the game, the buses of the visiting team West Bromwich Albion and the home team Manchester United entered the stadium just a few minutes apart. The bus attacked, but when Manchester United's bus drove into the passage, there was warm applause and the atmosphere was very warm.

However, after the Manchester United team's bus drove into the stadium, the fans did not disperse, but continued to wait there, unwilling to leave.

One hour before the race, a small convoy appeared at the entrance of the dedicated passage. This convoy was really small, maybe it couldn’t be called a convoy. There were only two vehicles. A Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle was in front, followed by a A police car with flashing lights followed closely behind the Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle, both as protection and as tailgating.

"Welcome the monster! Welcome the Prince of Old Trafford!"

"Heroes of the Red Devils! Welcome!"

"Long live! The new captain of Manchester United! Long live! The guardian of the Red Devils! Cheers! Manchester United is with you!"

(End of this chapter)