Father Green

Chapter 85: Ex-Girlfriend, Current Boyfriend
The FA's work efficiency was surprisingly fast this time, and the results of the penalties for Southampton and Millwall came out before the next round of the league started.

Stewart was fined [-] pounds for malicious pushing due to his interference with the referee's judgment and some small actions during the game, and he was best suspended for three games.Abdul was suspended for two additional games due to malicious fouls, and the Millwall coach and the club were fined £[-] and £[-] for mismanagement, respectively.

As for Southampton, Hammond, who is a kicker, will definitely not be able to run. He was suspended for two additional games and fined [-] pounds.Charlotte was warned and fined £[-] for repeatedly provoking the referee team and making bad words, while Southampton was also fined £[-] for mismanagement.

The result of the entire penalty seemed to be innocuous, many of which were due to the fact that the two sides were Championship clubs, and the most important thing was that the FA wanted to cut the mess quickly, even though the impact of this incident would be dissipated.

Charlotte has no objection to the result of this punishment. The only thing that feels "unhappy" is that the punishment for Millwall is a bit light.
But Charlotte quickly put this matter behind her, because tomorrow is the No. 18 round of the league.

Charlotte still attaches great importance to this game, and its importance is even more important than that of Millwall in the last round.Because Southampton's opponent in this round is Birmingham, which was relegated from the Premier League. It's not that the status of the Premier League made Charlotte fearful. How afraid, but what he really paid attention to was West Ham United, which is currently ranked in the middle and lower reaches of the Championship standings.

The reason why Charlotte attaches great importance to this game against Birmingham is because of their head coach, Birmingham's head coach is Neil Adkins.That's right, the former head coach of Southampton, the guy who led Southampton from the League One to the Championship and then moved to the relegated Birmingham.

To be honest, Charlotte is very grateful to this guy.If he doesn't jump to Birmingham, how can he be the head coach of Southampton?

As a thank you, Charlotte feels that she should use all her strength to deal with the opponent. This is a respect for the opponent. Well, Charlotte just simply wants to get the three points.

And when Charlotte was preparing for the battle of her predecessor, Les Reid found Charlotte.

"A reporter from China wants to interview you, and they submitted an interview application to the club. At the same time, Mr. Curtis thinks this will be very helpful for the club's overseas expansion, so he hopes that you can spare time to accept the interview."

"Chinese media? Overseas expansion?" Charlotte pouted, talking about overseas expansion for a team like Southampton.He remembers very clearly that Southampton will gain a firm foothold in the Premier League under the leadership of Pochettino and Koeman in the future, and their rankings are in the middle and upper reaches of the standings. It was at that time when Southampton was the most "highlight" , The Saints' influence and fan base in China are very limited.

Not to mention comparing with "upstarts" like Chelsea and Manchester City, even Tottenham, Newcastle and Everton can beat the Saints by several blocks.

"What time?" Charlotte is willing to accept media interviews as long as it does not affect her preparations and player training.After all, this is good for the club, the media, and yourself. It can be described as a win-win situation. The premise is that the other party does not dig holes casually.

"The other party's application is today or tomorrow." Les Reed's face was a little strange.

Charlotte immediately rolled her eyes: "Okay, let Mr. Curtis lead the team for tomorrow's game against Birmingham, and I will accept the interview."

Les Reed obviously knew that Charlotte was joking, so he didn't answer, just smiled.

Everyone in the club knows that the new head coach and the chairman, Mr. Curtis, seem to be at odds, but who wants to stand behind him is the owner of the club, and Mr. Curtis can't clean up this situation without any reasonable reason. Young head coach.

Charlotte took out her tablet computer, checked the schedule and said: "Let's put it on the 25th. After the match against Birmingham tomorrow, the team will take a day off to let the players relax their tight nerves. Then start normal training on the afternoon of the 24th, let’s put it on the [-]th.”

Les Reed nodded. The English league has a winter break unlike other leagues.The English league also has games on Christmas, especially the Christmas game of the Premier League, which is the climax of the entire Premier League.

But leagues and clubs are also humane. Except for the two days of the 24th and 25th of each year, there are no games. In order to facilitate the holidays for the players, they can spend Christmas Eve with their families.

Those two days are the Christmas holidays for each team, but in order to prevent the teams from getting tired of the battle, the long-term head coach will usually start to help the team decompress and relax a month in advance, basically starting from mid-to-late November At the beginning, the team has more opportunities to take vacations.

After all, players are human beings, not steel machines.To give a simple example, for example, the Spring Festival will be in the beginning of February next year, but the employees of almost every company will be a little absent-minded and unintentional to go to work after the New Year's Day.

Such a situation is similar to the Christmas game that started near Christmas in the English league. It can affect the performance of players.

But obviously, a day and a half of vacation is obviously not enough.Players from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain, which are only separated from the UK by the English Channel, may be able to go home to spend Christmas Eve with their families, but players from other regions can only bring their families to the UK for Christmas festival.

So Les Reid also felt that this time period was the most suitable.

As soon as Les Reid walked out of the office, Charlotte patted herself on the head, and just forgot to ask which media the other party was.

The players' minds have been on Christmas recently, and Charlotte's minds are on the players.

In the UK, the weather in November is already very cold.But it's better for Birmingham in central England, because Southampton by the sea is colder than Birmingham, and the sea breeze blows on the face like a knife.

The St. Andrews Stadium in the Little Schiff area of ​​Birmingham is in full swing. Although the weather is so cold that people want to hide every piece of skin in their down jackets, during this Christmas holiday, almost all people in England lead their own The whole family came to watch the football at the stadium of the team they support.

If the Christmas game has become a tradition of the English league, then it is the tradition of English fans to take the whole family to watch the game live during the Christmas holiday.The Premier League also needs to attract the attention of the world at this time. After all, at this time, only the Premier League has no rest among the five major leagues.

There is no Premier League game today. The last round of the Premier League ended a few days ago, and the next round of the Premier League will not start until the 26th. The schedule for this month is about the same as next month. Maybe the FA will give it another month. The "holiday" warm-up, that time is the real Christmas battle.

Birmingham is located in central England, it is the second largest city in England, between London and Liverpool.So in addition to Birmingham people, there are Londoners and Liverpool people in the city.Because there are no matches between Liverpool in the Premier League and several major teams in London, the 3-capacity stadium in Birmingham in the British Championship is almost full tonight.

Every year during the Christmas holidays, this stadium has such a high attendance rate.Because Liverpool fans living in Birmingham, Everton fans and fans of teams in the London area are excluded.Birmingham have also been living in the shadow of city rivals Aston Villa.

If it wasn't for the FA and UEFA's mandatory requirements for every game, the stadium's occupancy rate cannot reach 100%, and a certain amount of safe space must be reserved, the St. Andrews Stadium with [-] people will definitely be full. .

Before the game, Charlotte shook hands with her "ex-boyfriend" Neil Adkins, her "current girlfriend".

"Thank you very much, Mr. Adkins." Charlotte even smiled and hugged each other.

Adkins, who didn't understand what was going on, was at a loss.

Recently, Charlotte's life has been prosperous, with various "honeymoon periods" with Southampton, but Adkins, who abandoned Southampton, has not had a good life.

When you go shopping with your girlfriend, you often look at the beauties on the street. Occasionally, you will suddenly feel that several beauties on the street are better than your girlfriend, especially one of them is fair-skinned, beautiful, Long legs!

But when you broke up with your girlfriend and chased after that fair-skinned, beautiful, and long-legged girl, you suddenly discovered that this beauty can neither cook for you nor wash clothes for you. When you play games, you are always downloading American TV series.
At this time, you will miss your ex-girlfriend very much.People are so strange. Many men miss their ex-girlfriends very much, but many women want to stab their ex-boyfriends with a knife.

This is how Adkins feels now. He misses his "ex-girlfriend" Southampton very much.But now Southampton doesn't miss him at all. After comparison, Southampton realized that what they liked was Charlotte who was big and alive, not Neil Adkin who could only be strong for 1 minute. S.
As a relegated Birmingham, the goal is naturally to return to the Premier League battlefield, so after the resignation of the former head coach McLeish, he chose Southampton head coach Adkins who has rich experience in upgrading.

But this season, the results of Birmingham led by Adkins are not satisfactory. It took 23 rounds of the league to get 11 points, ranking No.11 in the British Championship.It is worth mentioning that there is only a two-point gap between Birmingham, No. 17 in the standings, and Ipswich Town, No. [-].

Hmm. It seems that the competition for the No. 11 position in the standings is fierce, Charlotte thought with a bad taste.

Obviously, eleven is definitely not what Birmingham fans and the board of directors want to see, and the hope of surpassing this season is obviously very difficult, which shows how difficult the life of Mr. Neil Adkins is.

Southampton had the upper hand at St Andrews at the start of the game and Birmingham looked to have no fighting spirit.