The penultimate round of the final round of the Premier League will be played on May 8.````
The weather in Yorkshire that day was windy and sunny.
A group of people who came from London were depressed.
Outside a stadium, there were still two hours until the game, and the place was already crowded with people. Almost all the fans preparing to enter the stadium to watch the game were dressed in white.
A group of people standing far away on the street corner were wearing dark blue jerseys.
Brady, Sol, and Fred, these three personal friends of Aldridge, are now married and have families. The football portal jointly established by Brady and Fred has made the two of them multimillionaires.
I am an ordinary wage earner, and my income is quite considerable.
There were three of them, two with their wives, one with his girlfriend, and some relatives and friends.
Brady was smoking a cigarette and leaning on the telephone pole with a look of helplessness on his face. They had broken away from the fan organization and were similar to honorary members, but they no longer participated in the management of the fan organization. If they went to the Lion King Stadium to watch the game, they would naturally not have to worry about tickets. They had them themselves.
Season tickets.
However, in this away game, fewer and fewer people come to watch the game.
Mainly due to time constraints, career, and family, there are always many constraints that prevent them from arranging their time freely.
At the end of the season, the old friends agreed to support Millwall together, starting from April, every game.
I didn't expect that today it would be difficult to get a vote.
Today's ticket was sold by scalpers for the equivalent of 1/3 of Sol's monthly salary.
One can imagine why they were depressed.
"How about giving Aldrich a call? See if he can help get some tickets?"
Sol had just gone to ask about the scalper's fare, and now he frowned and said softly.
Fred patted him on the head rudely. Dayi said Lingran: "Damn. Don't cause trouble for him at this time. Besides, we usually invite friends to watch games at the Lion King Stadium, and Aldridge has been troubled a lot about the tickets.
That's it, today is an away game and the game will start soon, where can he get you a ticket?"
Sol took the blame and refused to fight back even when he was slapped. He lowered his head and smoked a cigarette.
He is a more down-to-earth person. He never tries to make a fool of himself.
Not only was he and his girlfriend today, but his girlfriend also brought a younger brother. If he paid for the scalper's ticket, his whole month's salary would be lost here.
Brady is the "big brother" in this circle of friends. He is a righteous man and his opinions are usually the most important. At this time, his depressed expression disappeared and he smiled: "You are wrong about this. The more you say, the more important it is."
Please Aldrich. The happier he is, how should I say? Although he is not stupid, he has some superfluous thoughts, for fear that we
I deliberately distanced myself from him. After all, his family is so rich that it makes people vomit blood. Oh, forget it, just be slaughtered today. I am confused. We are not fans of Chelsea and Manchester United. These scalpers are quite capable of scalping votes.
According to my position, the tickets for the away team are twice as much as the tickets for the home team. It’s a shame for his whole family. I’m treating you today. Wait, I’ll swipe my card.”
After Brady finished speaking, he walked to a nearby ATM to withdraw money.
After withdrawing the money, Fred and Sol were asked to buy tickets based on the number of people, and he gave special instructions.
"See carefully before you give me the money. Don't let these scalpers fool you. If you sit among the fans of the home team, shit, I won't be able to go back to London today and you will be sent directly to the hospital!"
...
The attendance rate of the entire Premier League is very high, which is due to the maturity of the fan market. However, high attendance rate does not mean that every venue is full. Only some wealthy teams and the attendance rate of focus games can reach the standard of a full house and a hard-to-get ticket.
Today's game in Yorkshire is a sell-out.
Fans of both teams struggled to get a vote.
The supply of tickets for the home team exceeds the demand, and the tickets for the away team are really pitiful. The tickets for public sale at the home team's stadium have long been sold out, and then most of them fall into the hands of scalpers, waiting for fans to come and be ripped off.
The home team fans were ripped off willingly.
Many fans of the away team couldn't afford to be ripped off. Many Lions fans stopped coming if they couldn't buy tickets before. When they came and wanted to spend more money to buy tickets from scalpers, they were so frightened that they immediately went home to support them mentally.
Let’s take a look at the beloved crazy lion, what’s the support picture for bloodletting?
For Millwall, today is not a life and death battle.
On the contrary, for the home team fans, supporting their team today is really a matter of life and death for the club!
The penultimate round of the Premier League.
Millwall travel to Leeds, Yorkshire!
Before the penultimate round of the Premier League, Leeds United ranked 18th in the standings with 33 points. Manchester City ranked 17th with 38 points.
The theoretical possibility of Leeds United's success in relegation still exists. If they win two games in a row and Manchester City lose two games in a row, then Leeds United will have 39 points to leave Manchester City behind.
However, the theoretical possibility of this is almost 0!
First of all, they have to defeat Millwall, which is second in the standings today!
Therefore, this game can be seen as Leeds United fans pouring into the Elland Road Stadium to cheer for the home team and hope that the team will perform a miracle!
It can also be seen as Leeds United fans coming to see off the White Rose!
Miracles, miracles, if miracles are so easy to happen, wouldn't they be as cheap as street products?
Leeds United's poor performance all season suddenly overturned the unrivaled Lions at home?
Who the hell believes that?!
...
The game was about to start. In the tunnel of the Elland Road stadium, the players from the two teams stood in formation and prepared to play. The Leeds United team held their heads high and showed a decent fighting spirit.
Millwall is dismissive of Leeds United.
There are 38 league rounds in a season, and we have only won 8 of the first 36 games. What is the point of being ready to fight to the death? Why did you go there earlier?
As players, the Millwall generals have no sympathy for Leeds United.
Who made you so chaotic?
Who told you not to play football well?
As for how tragic and desolate the external media portrayed Leeds United's rapid decline, the Millwall generals only found it funny.
Thinking about it on the other hand, Leeds United is really unique. Even its failure seems to have become a "magnificent epic" in the eyes of the outside world.
After Aldridge walked into the stadium, he shook hands with Leeds United coach Gray. Then he calmly walked to the visiting team's coaching bench and stood still. He could not hear the home team fans booing him. The home team fans were busy building momentum for the home team, singing the military anthem of the White Rose.
Echoing in the Elland Road Stadium, I didn’t know it, but I thought the atmosphere at Leeds United’s home stadium was so magnificent and amazing.
He raised his head and glanced at the sky, and by some strange coincidence, Aldrich muttered to himself: "Today is a good day to say goodbye."
This situation and scene can’t help but make people’s thoughts wander.
In less than two years, Leeds United has changed beyond recognition.
O'Reilly is gone. Ridsdale was also expelled this season. Now Leeds United is run by a local consortium, but Leeds United's bankruptcy is inevitable. The latest news is that they are now even selling their home ground, and
The price is very very low.
Most of the young guards who competed in the Champions League in white clothes have left the team, either in the summer of 2002, or last summer, or even when the winter window opened, they still had to sell people to "supplement their families."
Nowadays, the only people who are still in the team can be named. Apart from the veterans who cannot be sold, there are only Alan Smith. Viduka, Mills, Robinson... Fortunately, there are no sighs.
Things are like people but old friends are not missing.
No one believed that Leeds United could successfully avoid relegation, but just when they needed victory the most and the hope of a life-saving straw, Leeds United ran into Millwall again.
This makes the "White Rose Legend" in the mouths of countless fans, and they cannot escape the shadow of the crazy lion!
Ridsdale and O'Reilly spent a huge sum of 60 million pounds to bring in a strong support team to Millwall. They cannot be said to have supported the backbone of the White Rose, but they are also half of the team that cannot be underestimated.
And when they performed the "Legend of the White Rose" to its peak, they happened to encounter the Lions in the Champions League semi-finals. No one expected at the time that it would be from that point on, the peak, and the turning point of decline. They would be defeated by the Lions in a record setting
After a bloodbath and then missing out on the Champions League, they struggled to survive last season. This season, they are only 90 minutes away from being relegated, and the leader of all this will still be Millwall!
Millwall doesn't even need to defeat the opponent, as long as they get a draw, Leeds United will undoubtedly be relegated! Because Manchester City, who started the game first, lost to Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium, Leeds United seems to be one step closer to a miracle, defeating the Mad Lions
, they will narrow the gap with Manchester City to 2 points. If they cannot win, it does not matter whether the gap between Leeds United and Manchester City is 5 points or 4 points.
As for Millwall, when they are 1 point behind Arsenal but have a greater goal difference than the opponent, getting 3 points in this game is no different from 1 point. Unless Arsenal loses the chain and cannot win the game, even if Millwall
Arsenal drew, Arsenal won, and the gap returned to 3 points. Millwall still had to score 3 points to top the table when they went to Highbury in the last round.
Thinking of this, Aldrich couldn't help but sigh.
Looking around the Elland Road Stadium, looking at the faces that firmly support their favorite team, looking at the Leeds United fans taking off their shirts and writing support for the team on their bodies, looking at the dazzling flags flying and slogans...
....
Damn, who did this?
If it is a team that is already on the line of relegation, no one will pay special attention to Leeds United fans.
However, Leeds United is the last English League One champion, the team that has survived in England's top competition for 14 consecutive years, and the team that was in the semi-finals of the Champions League three years ago!
At this time, the atmosphere at Elland Road was closer to tragic.
It will naturally move people.
However, deep down, Aldridge had no sympathy for Leeds United.
Just like last summer, the then Leeds United coach Peter Reid visited Aldridge, hoping to loan Millwall players to enrich the lineup, but Aldridge nodded and refused because of his good personal relationship with Reid.
The reason was the same as when he rejected Mourinho.
You can't protect yourself, Leeds United is in turmoil, I won't loan my players there, there are too many potential risks!
Leeds United are paying the price for their chicken-blooded team-building model, and the natural cycle is normal.
If you think it is unfair, then blame Ridsdale and not Abramovich. What Abramovich spent on Chelsea was his private wealth. Ridsdale can only overdraw Leeds United's future as a bet. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, novels are better Update faster!
