Chapter 314 After winning the championship
The winner of the 2004-05 European Champions League Championship Trophy is the biggest dark horse of the season, from Tottenham Hotspur Club in the Premier League!
When this news came into the ears of the fans through the media, the entire international football world was very excited! No one could have expected that Tottenham, who was beaten by AC Milan in the first half, completed an incredible Jedi turnaround in the following time. First, he scored three goals in just seven minutes to tie the score three to three, and then broke through the Red and Black Army goal twice in the overtime stage, and decided to win before the game entered the penalty kick. While completely failing to make AC Milan's plan, he also won the first Champions League championship since its founding!
The reason why Tottenham's championship was able to cause such a strong response is even far beyond Porto, which won the Champions League last season. The great stimulation brought to people by the final magical reversal when it was three goals behind is certainly one of the reasons. The most important reason is that although Tottenham Hotspur this season and Porto last season's experiences are very similar, both of which have become the winner of the Big Ear Cup as a super dark horse, in fact, there is an essential difference between the two!
If Porto's championship win is more like a counterattack by a civilian team in people's eyes, then this time Tottenham's successful cup win in the Champions League marks that there will be another top giant in European football! Therefore, in comparison, fans and media will naturally be more interested in Tottenham, which is destined to enter the ranks of top giants, with more stars and more tactical and eye-catching styles!
No one believes that Tottenham will be divided and dismembered by various powerful men after winning the championship like Porto last season, and the championship lineup will be divided into pieces one summer. Not to mention how many people are willing to leave Tottenham, which has a strong rise momentum, even if they spend a lot of money to poach, with George's huge financial resources and Tottenham's current strong appeal, it is not difficult to introduce strong aids with similar or even better strength from the transfer market!
Therefore, it can be foreseen that Tottenham Hotspur, which performed the Istanbul miracle in this Champions League final, will probably become the focus of discussion among fans and media for a long time in the future. The image of its top giant will gradually take shape in people's hearts. It will never follow Porto's footsteps and return to silence after a moment of glory!
At this point, the gamble made by George more than a month ago has finally received extremely generous rewards. Through strategic relaxation of the competition for the league championship and concentrating his forces to make a breakthrough in the Champions League, Tottenham Hotspur got the opportunity to advance to the top giants earlier than Chelsea!
Next, Tottenham only needs to play steadily in the next two or three years to ensure that they can win one or two championships in the league and the Champions League. Then it is really only a matter of time before they become top giants!
As for AC Milan, who plays a stepping stone role in the Miracle of Istanbul, the Serie A giant will undoubtedly become one of the negative examples of the football world because of this Champions League final, and be used by fans as topics of conversation and jokes after dinner.
However, perhaps because of the four-goal turn of the Ross and Blacks last season, AC Milan did not respond too fiercely to the current situation. It only refuted some widely circulated rumors, such as "AC Milan players celebrated early during the break with champagne, which angered Tottenham, so they failed in the second half." Then they hid in the corner and licked their wounds, preparing to regroup and fight again next year!
Now the topic goes back to Tottenham. After the award ceremony, the Tottenham players did not stay in Istanbul, but flew back to London from Turkey on a plane arranged by George in advance. After all, although Tottenham has Bastulk, a "person" in the eyes of Turkish fans, when Tottenham has the label of an English team, George dare not bet whether Turkish fans will give Tottenham a big shot in view of Bastulk's face.
You should know that when preparing for the game before the game, Turkey, as the organizer of the final, has been asking Tottenham for trouble. So, for the sake of security and after soliciting the opinions of the players, George finally made the decision to return to London immediately!
Furthermore, being rich and not returning home is like walking in a night clothes. I and the players have gone through hardships to get a big ear cup. If I don’t take this opportunity to show off and celebrate it with great fanfare, and by the way, I’m so sorry for myself?
The Tottenham players who returned with the cup were treated like a city hero. London Mayor Ken Livingston personally brought people to pick them up, which gave Tottenham a lot of face. Tens of thousands of Tottenham fans who received the news rushed to Heathrow International Airport late at night, guarding the exit waiting for the heroes to return!
Although London is the city with the largest number of Premier League clubs in England, in the field of football, London is in an embarrassing situation of being suppressed by other cities for a long time - not to mention the famous Liverpool and Manchester United, even Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa have stood on the podium of the Champions League. As the capital of the UK, London, which has the most Premier League teams, cannot even make a Champions League championship. It really has no face to call itself the football center of England, and has become an eternal pain in London fans!
Now, with Tottenham successfully reaching the top in the Champions League and joining forces with Chelsea to win all the championship trophys this season (Chelsea is the double champion of the League Cup and the Premier League, and Tottenham is the double champion of the FA Cup and the Champions League), London fans can finally hold their heads up and declare that London has now become England's new football center!
Since the final of the Champions League has ended, the championship celebration that has been dragging after the FA Cup is naturally forced to be put on the agenda. In order to achieve the best effect, George specially obtained the consent of the London Municipal Government and set one of the routes of the celebration parade on Avenel Road! In other words, Tottenham's championship float will pass by the main entrance of the Highbury Stadium!
After learning the news, Wenger, Arsenal players and the Gunners' loyal fans gritted their teeth and wanted to rush over to smash the Tottenham celebrations, but they could only kill their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs and did not dare to act rashly!
Because they all know that if they make trouble at this time, it would be equivalent to giving the London Municipal Government and other fans a chance to take the target of public criticism. Arsenal will become the target of public criticism, and it will be difficult to have room for growth in London from now on! Therefore, no matter how much dissatisfaction there is in their hearts, they can only choose to swallow their anger now!
For Tottenham fans, this is undoubtedly another scene that can make them proud - in their opinion, the team is so exciting to show off the Champions League trophy that the opponent has never received before in front of the four empty city rivals!
Chapter completed!