Football giants

Chapter 34 Saint Harry
"Snapped!"

In a bar called St. Harry not far from St. Mary's Stadium, the bar owner Harry with a scarlet wine nose slammed the beer bottle in his hand to the ground, and the noisy bar suddenly fell silent.

"You guys are talking bullshit!"

Harry is very fat, typical of excessive alcohol, and he drank a lot this evening. He walked shakyly, but he climbed up to the bar of the bar with great difficulty, and pointed at all the people in the bar. They were basically regular customers of the bar.

"What is excessive? What is arrogance? What is arrogance?"

When Harry yelled, his mouth was full of spittle, spraying everywhere.

"We've endured long enough, I'm fucking done!"

All the Saints fans present were silent.

Just now, they were still expressing their opinions on a series of remarks made by the new boss. Most people felt that the new boss said that it was a bit arrogant. After all, it was a League One team, but it threatened to challenge all the giants, which would offend many people.

"I was a football fan in [-]. In that year, the team was promoted from the second tier to the first tier. Since then, we have never been relegated for decades. Until [-], when we were relegated from the Premier League, what was our slogan?"

"Returned to the Premier League in the second year, but since then, every year we have repeatedly shouted to attack the Premier League, but in [-], we were relegated from the second level of the British Championship. Why?"

Facing Harry's spittle-filled questioning, everyone present fell silent.

"Humility, restraint, introversion... What can these bring us? What can our compromise, our groveling, what can it bring us? Walcott, Gareth Bale, we watched our outstanding players leave our team one by one, do we have a way?"

When he said this, two lines of cloudy tears fell from Harry's red eyes.

With more than [-] years of relationship and faith from childhood to adulthood, Southampton seems to be his whole life. He hopes that he can be a saint all his life, and he also hopes that his children and grandchildren can continue to be devout saints.

But today's young people like Manchester United, Chelsea, and Manchester City. Who knows you Southampton?

"In [-], the team encountered a financial crisis. Our club management was incompetent. The team went bankrupt and was managed by a government agency. Matthew Le Tissier, our God, ran around the city, appealing to more Southampton fans to donate to help the team tide over the difficulties, but what happened?"

"50 pounds, all of us added up to only 50 pounds!"

"What does this mean? This means that Southampton is only worth 50 in the hearts of all of us!"

"But man, the Chinese you are accusing and criticizing, he invested 500 million without hesitation, and he wants to use 3000 million to invest in the team's training base. He has spent more than 1000 million on signings for the team. What qualifications do you have to criticize and criticize others?"

"Is he wrong? Isn't he right? Why should we be afraid of those Premier League teams? Are we one less than them? Or are we weaker than them? We are inherently worse than them?"

The whole bar was dead silent, no one spoke, and everyone was speechless.

"You will never forget how those damned Portsmouth people humiliated us. When we were relegated from the Premier League and they were promoted from the Championship, they humiliated and taunted us unscrupulously, but we were powerless to allow them to humiliate and mock us. That is a disgrace to all Southamptonians!"

Portsmouth is also on the south coast of the United Kingdom, a small city that has developed rapidly in recent years, and Brighton to the east. These two emerging cities aim to replace Southampton and become the flag city of the south coast.

This has also led to a very strong atmosphere of rivalry between the three cities, especially Southampton and Portsmouth, which are almost a replica of Manchester and Liverpool on the south coast.

It is said that when Southampton opened the train to London, the nearby Portsmouth people would rather take a longer detour than come to Southampton to take the train. This tradition has not changed even now.

However, in the past few years, Southampton has been included in the London economic circle and has become a livable city. More and more Londoners choose to work in London during the day and live in Southampton at night, which makes the area around Southampton develop rapidly and become a seaport metropolis, while Portsmouth has not changed much and is still like a small port.

In the eyes of Portsmouth people, the only thing they can compete with Southampton is that their team's performance has been much better than Southampton's in recent years, even if they have been relegated from the Premier League to the English Championship in the new season.

Still one level above Southampton, isn't it?

"Peter, what do you think?" Harry suddenly pointed at a middle-aged man in his fifties in the bar.

His name is Peter, nicknamed Saint Peter, and he is the doorman of the Stapletwood team, but he is a person whom all Saints fans respect very much, because 20 years ago, he gave up his job as an engineer in London and chose to return to Southampton to be an ordinary doorman, and he worked for 20 years.

The position of doorman is very low and insignificant, but he can understand many inside stories that outside fans cannot understand. Moreover, Peter is highly educated and has his own independent thinking and judgment ability, so he is very important among Saints fans.

"The new boss is very young, only 20 years old, and he is a bit of a nonsense, but I can see that he is very determined to run Southampton. I heard that he made a decision at Stapletwood yesterday afternoon. He raised the budget of the new training base from 3000 million pounds to 5000 million pounds, and asked to build it within two years."

"Wow!" Everyone present was in an uproar.

The previous 3000 million pounds was already a big deal, and now an additional 2000 million pounds has been invested?

"Not only that, the team has been reporting new players in the past two days. I have also watched them play. They are all capable and young. I heard from Martin Hunt that Bielsa is very satisfied with these new players. The price is not high, but the strength is outstanding."

"According to Martin Hunter's assessment, there is no accident, and there is no problem with upgrading in the new season."

Upgrade, this word is too tempting for Southampton fans!
"And Martin Hunter also said that the team is still continuing to sign in. I heard that at least two top stars will be introduced."

"Two big-name players? Is it real?"

"Really want to introduce two big-name players?"

"Who? Peter, have you heard who it is?"

As soon as Peter finished speaking, the bar suddenly became noisy again, and everyone rushed to ask questions.

"I don't know who it is. This is the operation of the club. It's a confidential matter. I'm sure I don't know, but I heard that the progress is okay, but it hasn't been finalized yet. After all, we are a League One team."

Everyone agrees with Peter's words, League One teams are indeed not very attractive to top stars.

However, it is not difficult to see the team's ambitions from the fact that the club dares to operate top stars.

"Damn, I've had enough!" Who knows, smashed the beer bottle in his hand to the ground again.

"Even the new boss, who wasn't a Saints fan, has such ambitions. Could it be that we die-hard Saints fans are not as good as him? Then what qualifications do we have to say that we are die-hard Saints?"

"Yes, damn it, the new boss has done this, we fans didn't say anything, in one word, support to the end!"

"Yes, support to the end!"

"Maybe we don't have money, but we must support the team!"

"Support Southampton, support the new boss!"

Saint Harry was standing on the bar, and when he heard the turbulent crowd below, he shouted loudly, "Everyone be quiet, everyone be quiet, listen to me!"

Everyone fell silent and looked at the fat man with a bad nose.

"In the past, Southampton never had a rigorous fan organization. Now we have a new owner. We want to form a brand new team and create a brand new club. Then we must have a decent fan organization. So, I will apply to the team tomorrow to create an official fan organization. The name is Saint Harry!"

"Well, Saint Harry!"

"That's a good name, count me in!"

"Count me in too!"

"My whole family is joining!"

"And us, the whole family is joining!"

The following group of people immediately enthusiastically and frantically supported.

"Harry, we'd better start a website to attract more fans, as well as those young fans. Now many of Southampton's diehard fans are old fans. We should actively attract more young fans to join. They are the future of this city and this team." Peter suggested below.

Harry nodded vigorously, "Okay, let's do this, we will start preparations tomorrow!"

"it is good!"

"Great!"

"We need to organize more activities and watch every game, so that those guys who look down on us at Southampton can see the majesty of our saints!"

"Yes, scare them to death!"

Amidst the din of people, Southampton's former legendary star, Matthew Le Tissier, was always sitting in an inconspicuous corner, watching all this silently, and he felt that the passion for football that Southampton fans had lost for many years was rapidly emerging.

The city has not felt the passion of football for too long!

Over the past few years, the city's economy has grown, but it's always a shame.

That's because there is no football.

In England, cities without football are always a bit of a shame.

Suddenly, Matthew Le Tissier understood the intention of the new owner of the team. He was encouraging more and more people to regain their passion for football. He was trying to make football a belief in this harbor city again.

His seemingly arrogant remarks actually spoke out the aspirations of the Saints fans and aroused the enthusiasm in their hearts.

Who doesn't think their team is the strongest?

Who wants to admit that their team is not as good as others?
"Perhaps, he can really lead Southampton to a revival!"

Matthew Le Tissier still underestimated Yang Huan's ambition, because the most peak moment in Southampton's more than 100-year history was an FA Cup champion in [-].

That is also the only championship trophy in the history of Southampton in a top domestic competition.

For Yang Huan, the goal of winning the FA Cup is too small.

Just as Matthew Le Tissier walked out of Saint Harry's Bar and was walking home, the cell phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

A strange caller ID.

After connecting, the person on the other side of the phone spoke directly.

"Hello, Mr. Matthew Le Tissier, I'm Yang Huan!"

　After twelve o'clock tonight, I will update another chapter, and I will continue to hit the list next week. Please leave all the recommendation tickets in your hands to Lao Chen, thank you everyone!

　　


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