The weekend was supposed to be a game against Manchester United, but due to the schedule adjustment, the game was postponed. Crystal Palace had a bye on the weekend. Wen Sheng originally planned to give the players a holiday and lost the Europa League away game. He was not happy, but he couldn't

He has not canceled the team's vacation plan, the promises he has made must count and cannot be changed overnight, and he has no habit of punishing players.

Crystal Palace will travel to Stoke for the next game, and their opponent Stoke is notoriously difficult to deal with.

Wen Sheng had a bad impression of them, not so much a bad impression of the team, but also a bad impression of Stoke City's head coach Tony Pulis.

Stoke City under Tony Pulis is notorious in the three-point territory of the Premier League. Prince is ridiculed as a different kind of Mourinho. He also pays great attention to defense, but he is different from Mourinho.

What is true is that Pulis's teams have a reputation for being rough and tough in the league.

Pulis is a more traditional British head coach. Every team he coaches is almost the same template. He is tenacious, high-minded and plays high, and his defense is especially good.

Wen Sheng disliked such an opponent very much, but he had to face it.

"I have no right to interfere with their playing style, but I really don't like their style. If there are still people who are interested in their tactics and think they are unique, I think that must be crazy!" During the vacation,

Wen Sheng said this about Stoke City in an interview with "The Times" reporter Oliver Kaye.

"No, to be precise, there is no problem with their tactics, but I think the roughness is a big problem. I think Mr. Pulis is similar to Roy Keane, who regards hurtful behavior on the pitch as a heroic act.

! I really feel confused!" Wen Sheng was the first to attack, and he attacked not one person, but two people.

Kai didn't expect Wen Sheng to be so aggressive. He had interviewed Wen Sheng many times, and Wen Sheng always gave him the impression that he was relatively mild. Unless sometimes the opponent was really annoying to him, he would verbally attack him.

For example, in the derby against West Ham United, Wen Sheng only criticized his opponents after the game. This was the first time that he used big hats to suppress others before the game.

However, he quickly thought that this might be the head coach's psychological warfare. People know how to engage in psychological warfare, so why can't Wen Sheng do it?!

"Just wait and see the show!" What Wen Sheng said was bound to cause a quarrel. Kaye would not remind Wen Sheng. He knew that the other party's purpose was to express these words through the media.

The good news is obvious. The Times' report on December 5th caused an uproar. Well, to be precise, Wen Sheng said it.

"Pulis and Keane = anti-football", the title of The Times in the newspaper is also prominent enough.

Roy Keane felt that he had been wronged. When he was a player, he was indeed retributive, but as a coach, he asked himself that he did not teach his players to treat each other harshly, but he knew that Wen Sheng did not like him.

It's no longer a matter of a day or two.

"Why did I offend you?!" Roy Keane himself was puzzled.

However, based on his understanding of Wen Sheng, Wen Sheng is a very thick-skinned person with no masculinity at all. He often scolds his opponents in front of the media, plays a coward after a shot, and hides in Beckenham for training.

The base is deaf to what is happening outside the window.

"Wen, haha, he is not a man at all! Football is a man's sport! And he can only yell and curse a few words, and then hide in Croydon and act stupid!"

"What he said is not worth a penny, and he never knows how to respect it. He really thinks of himself as a genius?! But in my eyes, he is nothing. He said that Tony can only defend. Does he himself?

Not like that?!”

"I'm not surprised at all that he said such a thing, because he is very good at verbal sparring, and he wouldn't dare to have a duel between men with me!"

Roy Keane immediately responded and talked a lot.

Pulis thinks this is Wen Sheng's psychological warfare before the game. There are not many head coaches who are not thick-skinned. Pulis is also thick-skinned. He has suffered a lot of criticism in recent years.

Arsene Wenger, who is a technical school, is very dissatisfied with their tactics and often criticizes the Potters. He said that Arsenal suffered a lot from the Potters, uh, suffered a lot of injuries.

At the end of February this year, Arsenal won 3-1 in Britannia and shortened the gap to the top of the table to 3 points. The cost was that Ramsey had his ankle tackled by Shawcross. The tragedy at that time was simply too tragic to describe.

Going a little further, after the Potters were promoted to the Premier League, their style has always been relatively rough. Arsenal's technical skills are always a bit hurt when they play there.

So Wen Sheng is really not the first person to criticize the Potters' tactics, but Wen Sheng has undoubtedly raised the bar. Putting Pulis next to Roy Keane is a huge provocation in itself.

Roy Keane's reputation in English football is not very good. Not to mention that he turned against Sir Alex Ferguson. His moral character of "I just don't like you and I want to hurt you on purpose" is very difficult.

To please the public, the style of football in England is changing.

Players are all raised by their parents. Their careers are so short, how difficult it is.

Injury may mean that the career will be shortened or even ended. For the club, players are their assets. Player injuries mean the devaluation of assets, which means that they may suffer great economic losses.

How can Roy Keane's blatant remarks be liked by the vast majority of people?!

Pulis likes players like Roy Keane, and he especially likes to introduce old-school English players to his team, but Pulis doesn't like others saying that he is a murderous coach.

"I will understand Daniel's behavior because he is afraid of us! Yes, this means that he is afraid!" Pulis's light words seemed to bring Wen Sheng out of his original shape.

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As Roy Keane said, Wen Sheng always shoots in a different place, fires the gun, and immediately shuts up and says whatever the outside world says.

However, his opening remarks caused the crowd behind to attack Pulis' team. Wen Sheng's old friend Ian Wright, as a double star of Arsenal and Crystal Palace, stood up and criticized: "Pulis

His tactics are too conservative and extreme, and his team will not attack at all! We should call on the referee to be stricter. Intense confrontation is our tradition, but hurting people is definitely not our tradition!"

Ian Wright also has evidence.

Tony Pulis is now considered to be the second player in the Potters. When he first coached the Potters, they were in the English Championship in the 2004-05 season. That season was called the "binary" season by their own fans, which was his game score.

is converted between 0 and 1. Later in October, Stoke City drew 1-1 away from Leicester City, and Stoke City fans witnessed the following four months.

In the league, the team has the highest score in a game, and the subsequent results are: 1-0, 0-1, 0-1, 1-0, 0-0, 0-1, 1-0, 1-0

,1-0,0-0,0-1,0-1,0-1,0-1,0-1,1-0 and 1-0.

This exaggerated record was broken when they faced Leicester City again. The score was an incredible 3-2, and Stoke City won.

Pulis was sacked at the end of that season, with the Potters' own fans and owners unhappy with his ultra-conservative style.

It’s just that reality is stronger than people. In the end, Pulis only stayed at Plymouth for one season, and was invited back by the Coates family, the owner of the Potters. There was no way not to play Pulis’s set of Potters and get bad results.
Chapter completed!