There is actually a public case about Leeds football and Türkiye.
That year, Leeds United participated in the first leg of the 2000 Europa League semi-finals and challenged the Turkish team Galatasaray away from home.
As a result, before that game, Leeds United fans caused trouble in Istanbul, causing a conflict between fans from both sides. Two Leeds United fans were stabbed to death by Galatasaray fans.
This incident was very big. As a result, the Turkish Embassy in the UK received many threatening and intimidating phone calls, and some Turks and Turkish expatriates living in the UK were also personally attacked. In the end, the second round had to be moved to a neutral venue.
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It is even said that Dutch football hooligans issued an appeal to British football hooligans after the incident, calling on the two countries' football hooligans to join forces to retaliate against Turkish fans during the European Cup that year.
Hu Lai himself only found out about this bloody incident that occurred before Hu Lai was born, by looking back on the incident afterwards.
At first, he thought it was innocent British fans who were attacked by brutal Turkish football hooligans in the away game. Later he found out that it was a gang fight between football hooligans from both sides, with dog eating dog. It must be said that the fighting ability of British football hooligans is really weak, just like that of their country.
Just like the football team, thanks to the well-developed Fleet Street publicity skills, they all look strong, but are actually vulnerable...
Of course, this happened in the time and space before Hu Lai traveled through.
In this time and space, there is no Leeds United or Galatasaray, and Leeds City has not participated in any European competitions before this year. Naturally, there is no exciting drama between British football hooligans and Turkish football hooligans fighting on the streets of Istanbul.
No Turkish team is Leeds City's mortal enemy.
Leeds City also has little influence in Turkey, despite winning the Premier League title.
This may be explained by one incident. When the Leeds City team arrived in Istanbul, they actually slept peacefully that night.
You must know that before they came, they had heard about the fanaticism and... "impoliteness" of Turkish fans.
Before them, many European teams came here to play away games and were harassed by Turkish fans.
Therefore, Leeds City players are fully prepared.
For example, Charlie Potter prepared a lot of earplugs to block his ears when sleeping to minimize external noise interference.
As a result, when they woke up, they found that it was surprisingly quiet and normal outside the hotel yesterday.
what does that mean?
"This means we are looked down upon..."
In the hotel restaurant, Sam Landill, who was having breakfast, sighed to his colleagues on the coaching staff.
"It's normal to be looked down upon. We have never won against European teams before the pre-season. Moreover, this is the home court of Gulf Lighthouse. They have the home court advantage. Isn't it easy to beat us?" Matt said with a smile.
Clark said hey: "I hope they look down on us more..."
"Don't always think about good things!" Randhir poured cold water on him mercilessly.
In the players' dining area, everyone was also discussing the surprising scene last night.
"Isn't it said that Turkish fans are notoriously scary? From the descriptions in the media, I feel that almost all Turkish fans are 'devils' with horns on their heads and fangs in their mouths. Now it seems that they are all British ones.
Is it deliberately smeared by the unscrupulous media?”
"It's not a smear campaign, it's just an exaggeration..."
"Isn't this nice?" Charlie Potter came up, "I heard that the home stadiums of Turkish teams are all 'devil's home stadiums'. If it's really so polite... that's also a good thing for us, maybe.
It’s not that scary anymore…”
Everyone nodded and agreed with Charlie Potter's words.
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"FUCK..."
The Leeds City players looked at the flashing stands and were not sure for a moment whether it was the hand-held flares of the fanatical Turkish fans or whether they had really set the stands on fire, causing half of the stadium's stands to be engulfed in flames and smoke.
Among them, even the goal of the distant bay lighthouse became hazy...
"British bastard, look at this!"
A group of strong men with red paint on their faces and naked upper bodies were giving the middle finger to the Leeds City players on the field.
This is already the most "polite" greeting.
When the Leeds City players were still waiting in the player tunnel to appear, the live broadcast sounded: "Let us welcome our guests from afar, Premier League champion Leeds City!!"
The announcer's voice was very enthusiastic, and the fans in the stands were a hundred times more enthusiastic than him. They gave a Turkish-style "welcome" with deafening boos and roars.
It even beat the live Champions League theme song.
Then the Leeds City players began to walk out of the tunnel and towards the pitch. At this time, the Bay Lighthouse fans on the high platforms on both sides of the tunnel entrance roared and cursed to attack the "British guests" who had come from afar.
The scolding was very dirty. How dirty was it?
It's so dirty that if I wrote out exactly what they scolded them, I'm afraid this chapter would be blocked.
This left those Leeds City players who thought the Bay Lighthouse fans were polite before the game feeling speechless.
As Leeds City's number one star, Hulay is naturally the target of greetings from Turkish fans.
At this time, Hulay realized the disadvantages of knowing the languages of various countries. He understood all the words of Turkish fans scolding him!
It's routine to greet his family.
Some home team fans also attacked Hu Lai from a very strange angle. For example, they kept yelling at Hu Lai: "Your penis is like a toothpick!"
This is very confusing. If you say that a professional player's place is big, what does it have to do with playing with him? Even if Hu Lai's place is as small as a toothpick, wouldn't he be able to score your goals?
It's better to scold him as "asking you how much sorrow you can have, just like a group of eunuchs going to a brothel", at least you can get some luck, and curse Hu Lai for not cumming for ninety minutes... What? Turks don't understand Chinese? Oh, that's okay
Son.
Hulay listened to the dirty words being scolded by the Turkish fans and took a deep breath: It is really good to participate in the Champions League. You can understand different customs by following the team in away games...
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Facing huge boos and curses, Leeds City ushered in their first European game in team history.
As soon as the game started, the home team Gulf Lighthouse launched a fierce attack on Leeds City's goal amid the crazy cheers of the fans at the scene.
According to the information they had before the game, Leeds City is a team that is good at offense but poor at defense.
Then Gulf Lighthouse has the advantage of home court and uses a fierce attack to overwhelm the opponent and gain a victory.
However, after attacking for more than ten minutes, they discovered that Leeds City's defense was not so easy to break down...
The legendary offensive maniac "Mad" Tony Clark didn't let his team play against the Bay Lights in the game!
Clark looked at the Leeds City players who were being besieged on the field and smiled at Sam Randall next to him: "Ha, so why do I never deny the misunderstandings about me in the media? Because I just want them to treat me.
Forming this inherent impression. Who said that a coach who is good at offense will not let his team defend? I am crazy, but I am not stupid! I know that if I attack, I will definitely die, why should I attack?"
Randhir shook his head and said: "Sometimes, I don't know if you are deliberately trying to create this image to confuse people, or if your character is enough to confuse you, Tony..."
Clark glanced at him: "What's the difference? It's all confusing anyway."
Randhir tilted his head and thought for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "Hell, there really is no difference."
In the first half of the game, Leeds City focused mainly on defense.
In fact, since the pre-season training this season, Clark has spent a lot of effort on training the team's defense.
Although this will not turn Leeds City into a bus-type team with an impregnable defense, it can still improve the team's defensive level.
Especially when you make up your mind to shrink your defense.
Just like this game.
Facing the aggressive offensive of Bay Lighthouse, Leeds City shrunk its defense to avoid its edge. At the same time, they used the individual combat capabilities of Kamara and Lasky to carry out counterattacks and harass, reducing the pressure on the defense line.
Yes, the purpose of Leeds City's counterattack is not to score goals, but to defend.
Avoid the Bay Lighthouse from being too unscrupulous on its home turf.
The performance of Hu Lai, the Zhengyin center, on the court is not as impressive as that of his strike partner Laski.
Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that he was tightly defended by his opponents and maliciously treated by the fans.
As soon as he gets the ball, the boos are very loud. It can be said that it is the highest decibel level among all the players in the Leeds City team.
People who don't understand the virtues of Turkish fans will be surprised that this is Hulay's first time playing against a Turkish team, and he has never heard of any grudges between him and a Turkish team before.
Why do Turkish fans dislike Hulay so much?
In fact, it's not that Turkish fans don't like Hulay, nor is it that they have any personal grudge against Hulay.
There is only one reason why they treat Hulay this way, and that is that Hulay is the most threatening and famous player in Leeds City.
If the Turkish fans don't boo him, who will be booing him?
Should I just find some unknown person to boo?
So why don't Turkish fans do it? Their emotions are not in unlimited supply.
"... This actually just shows that Hu Lai made the fans of the Bay Lighthouse feel threatened, otherwise they would not be so crazy about Hu Lai... This is Hu Lai's first time participating in the Champions League. He should be very clear, something like this
The scene will definitely happen again in the future. As his reputation and performance increase, he will definitely be treated completely differently from other teammates when he goes to away games... But again, this is the only way to become a superstar.
Any top player must have a super strong heart. I think Hu Lai has this heart..." He Feng praised Hu Lai and comforted the Chinese fans.
This is Hulay's first appearance in the Champions League, and it is also the first appearance of a Chinese player in the Champions League.
So even though the game took place after two o'clock in the morning in the Chinese capital, there were still many fans waiting in front of the TV just to witness this historical moment.
It's just that after the game started, Hu Lai didn't have any outstanding performance.
In addition, every time he picked up the ball, there would be harsh boos from the stands, which really made the Chinese fans in front of the TV suffocate.
He Feng was also unhappy, but as a commentator, there are some things you can say and some things you cannot.
So he could only keep his displeasure in his heart, and on the surface he still wanted to explain the game fairly and objectively.
"He didn't get enough support. After all, the team's tactic is to shrink the defense. In addition, the Bay Lighthouse played more brutally, so this performance is normal..." Hu Lixin added to his wife's explanation.
Xie Lan nodded and just hummed.
This surprised Hu Lixin. He glanced at his wife secretly and found that she was watching the game seriously and attentively. It seemed that she was no longer worried about her son.
Although he doesn't understand why, Hu Lixin thinks this is a good thing. Otherwise, he would be shocked when watching a game, and his heart wouldn't be able to bear it...
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PS, two updates will be resumed tomorrow! Thank you all for your understanding and support!
Also, I really didn’t know how to code when I went out, and I didn’t even bring a computer with me.
I haven’t typed for many days, and when I come back to find my groove again, I feel that even my typing fingers are stumbling, and I often make typos...