In less than half an hour, we arrived at Southampton Airport.
Southampton is in the south of England, while Manchester is in the northwest of England.
If you take a bus, it will take at least 4 hours to arrive.
By plane, it only takes 1 hour and 5 minutes. Including the time from the airport to Manchester Grammar School, it is less than two hours at most.
Of course, although Southampton Private School is considered a wealthy private school, it cannot afford a private plane.
The school has booked round-trip air tickets for the players in advance, and each set of round-trip air tickets costs 137 pounds - which is the price of a 50-seat small plane on a low-cost airline.
After completing the check-in formalities, Carter took the players onto the plane.
At 9:30, the small regional plane took off shakily.
Even though the UK is a world power, its infrastructure is obviously lagging behind the times.
Many aircraft are old aircraft from the 1970s and 1980s. Not only do they not have a glamorous appearance, but the service on the aircraft is also not good. The flight attendants are all aunts.
Gu Ran sat on the narrow seat with his eyes closed, trying to relax.
Xi Tiao, who was sitting next to him, poked Gu Ran and lowered his voice: "There is a stewardess smiling at me... Do you think she has thoughts about me?"
Gu Ran:......
After an hour's flight, the little plane, which was creaking everywhere, finally landed safely.
After getting off the plane, the assistant drummer contacted the airport bus that had been arranged in advance and chartered the bus to Manchester Grammar School in Fallowfield.
Near noon, the airport bus stopped in front of a quaint red brick building.
Here is the gate of Manchester Arts and Sciences School.
On top of the three-story red brick door wall, there is a small white bell tower with a strong classical flavor.
When Gu Ran and the others stepped off the bus, the big brass clock in the clock tower just struck 12 o'clock.
At this time, several boys wearing gray expensive custom-made suits walked out of the red brick school gate.
These guys winked at each other as they walked:
"Hey, look, the country bumpkins from the south are here so early."
"They came at the right time. Isn't it just to eat lunch in our school cafeteria?"
"Haha, keep your voice down, don't let the country bumpkins hear it, it will be hard to clean if the glass is broken and broken."
These guys said they should keep their voices down, but in fact they didn't mean to shy away from it at all.
The players of the Southampton school team were all furious. Their fists clenched and they wanted to rush forward and let these guys dressed like dogs have a taste of the iron fist from the Southern Daddy.
"Light~"
"Light, light, light, light~"
System notifications sounded one after another in Gu Ran's mind.
Immediately afterwards, white bubbles condensed and took shape under the feet of the Southampton school team players.
Damn~
We haven't officially met yet, but you can't hold back the negative emotions of your school team teammates?
Come to think of it, the students opposite were so arrogant that they deliberately called them Southern bumpkins and mocked them for coming early just to have lunch...
If Gu Ran was a native of Southampton, he would be so angry that he would want to fight.
However, what Gu Ran is thinking about now is that there are still 4 pickup opportunities left today, and he must choose carefully.
The focus of picking up is still the physical training results and defensive results.
Gu Ran spotted the location of the bread and rust strips, took a step forward, and opened the white bubbles under their feet.
"Light~The host picked up the results from the ordinary bubbles: running training +10 hours, and the pick-up progress today is 7/10."
"Lamp~ The host picked up the results from ordinary bubbles: lower limb strength training +10 hours, and the progress of picking up today is 8/10."
Depend on……
Not a single physical training result was achieved.
This is like opening a blind box...
Gu Ran frowned slightly.
Xi Tiao grabbed Gu Ran and said, "Gu! Don't go any further! If you want to take the lead in this kind of thing, I'll take the lead first!"
Eh? I really don’t want to stand out...
Gu Ran looked back and found that almost all the Southampton school team players were looking at him with approval.
Rusty Stripe, Minato and others even took a step forward!
"You son of a bitch!" Coach Carter suddenly yelled, "Don't make trouble!"
All the students present were stunned.
The players of the Southampton school team immediately stood in order.
However, everyone's eyes were still staring fiercely at those boys in Manchester suits.
The faces of the boys in suits were a little livid.
Coach Carter's words "bastards" seemed to be scolding them, but it didn't seem to be the case, but it seemed like it really was.
It’s not easy to ask. If you ask, it’s like you’re trying to get into trouble and act like a pup.
The leader, a blond boy with a square face who was about 1.88 meters tall, cleared his throat and reached out to Coach Carter, "Hello, Coach Carter, I am the student representative of Manchester Liberal Arts School and the captain of the Corsair, Albert Bee."
Dayton.”
Gu Ran couldn't help but take another look at the pirate captain.
In the internal emails of the school team yesterday, the name Albert Beaton appeared many times.
According to the information, Albert has been training at the Manchester United youth football training camp since he was a child, and he was hailed as Manchester United's future midfielder when he was 10 years old.
However, when he grows up, Albert does not seem to intend to take the path of a professional player. The Beaton family is the director of this liberal arts school. Albert's goal is to enter a prestigious school like Oxbridge, and then enter...
Family business.
Of course, despite not taking a professional approach, Albert's football prowess cannot be underestimated.
In internal information, this player is defined as the core player of the Pirates.
He can play all positions in the midfield, whether it is a classical attacking midfielder, a modern attacking midfielder, or even an organizing midfielder, as well as a wing back, a full midfielder, and occasionally, a guest forward.
Scouts from British professional clubs really, really like this kind of snake oil midfielder.
Albert is characterized by a strong body, very good passing and receiving skills, broad vision, and strong awareness. He can take on the responsibility of being the engine of the midfield, and he has the captain's temperament to boost the morale of the team.
Such a guy who came out of Manchester United's youth camp...his blue skill bubble must be very good.
——Gu Ran calmly marked Albert in his heart.
Seeing Albert wanting to shake hands, Coach Carter just glanced arrogantly, then pointed to the bread behind him and said: "This is the captain of our Bucks Steel Horns team, Esther Knuss——
Bread, I'm waiting to shake your hand, don't pretend to be a noble gentleman here!"
Bread knew that the coach was not scolding him, so he immediately grinned, walked up to Albert, and shook hands with Albert vigorously.
The two hands squeezed each other and made noise.
Although the fancy name of bread sounds very soft, at this time, bread is not weak at all!
Yes, this is a gamble on the dignity of a "hillbilly"!
The muscles on Albert's cheek twitched slightly.
I don’t know whether it was because my hand hurt from being pinched by the bread, or because I was humiliated by Coach Carter, or both.
Gu Ran, who was standing aside, laughed secretly in his heart:
Just these little Manchester brats, they still want to face off against my trolling coach?
Not a Level at all!
Standing nearby and watching, I feel very uplifted!