Soccer Card System

Chapter 99 Go Forward, Wembley!

Chapter 96 Onwards, Wembley!
On the morning of April [-]th, Luton players gathered at the training base as usual.

But there is no need to train today, because today is the day of the FA Cup semi-finals, and they are going to London!On to Wembley!And waiting for them in London is their opponent, the North London giants Arsenal!
"Hurry up, pack your things and get ready to get in the car!!"

John Aston was busy greeting the players into the car. As an assistant coach, his work was still very complicated.

Gao Bo always looks at the sky habitually before every away game, he hopes to know the weather on the day of the game.

The clouds in the sky are not too thick, the morning sun is warm and warm, and the sun shines through the clouds.

I hope that when we return tomorrow, we can also see such a gorgeous sunrise.

Gao Bo suddenly thought a little literary.

"It shouldn't rain today, right?" John came over and said after finishing his work.

"I would rather have a rainstorm during the game," Gao Bo said.

Arsenal is a team with a more gorgeous style of play among the Premier League teams. Their teamwork at the front of the penalty area and their overall ground-propelled short-passing style of play are very distinctive.

Although the heavy rain also has an impact on Luton, the impact on Arsenal will definitely be greater.

"It's useless, Gao, we are going to Wembley!" John Aston looked very proud, he held out a finger: "This is Wembley!"

The rainy and windy weather had no effect on Wembley at all.Of course, the current Wembley Stadium is the newly completed New Wembley two years ago. It is completely different from the previous stadium where England lifted the World Cup championship. Its facilities are more modern and can hold football matches in any weather conditions.

In such a modern stadium, the weather factor has become irrelevant.

Wembley Stadium is the home of England and the holy land of English football.England once won the World Cup trophy in this stadium.However, since the old Wembley Stadium was built in the 20s of the last century, after entering the 21st century, it has become increasingly difficult to hide the needs of modern football.

The FA finally chose to demolish the old Wembley Stadium. Most fans hoped that the Wembley Twin Towers could be kept when the stadium was rebuilt, but in the end they failed to do so. On May 2000, 5, Old Wembley hosted her last FA Cup final against Chelsea and Aston Villa. Chelsea's Roberto Di Matteo scored the only goal of the game. On October 20, 2000, the last game at Old Wembley was between Germany and England. Hamann of the German team scored the winning goal and became the last player to score at Wembley. The loss of this game also directly led to the dismissal of England coach Kevin Keegan.After the game, many fans removed the stadium seats as a souvenir, and Wembley was officially closed after that.

The English Football Association then began construction of the new Wembley Stadium.

Wembley Stadium is regarded by the British as a symbol of British sports.Due to the involvement of various interest groups, the debate surrounding the reconstruction of Wembley Stadium has never been interrupted, and construction costs have continued to increase.

After several twists and turns, the new Wembley Stadium was finally built and put into use in 2007. The FA Cup final that year was held at the New Wembley Service Ground.

The new Wembley, which cost 7.8 million pounds, is a modern high-tech stadium with 90000 seats and a roof that can be floated and closed. It is the largest roofable stadium in the world.

Just as the members of the team were about to set off, the urban area of ​​Luton was almost boiling.

When the team's bus drove out of the gate of the training base, it was found that the entire street was densely packed with fans wearing Luton's orange home jerseys.

In this game, Arsenal drew the home team's locker room, so they were wearing Arsenal's red home jerseys.However, since the color of Luton's home jersey does not contrast with Arsenal's at all, the Luton players drawn to the visiting team's dressing room also wore home jerseys during the game.

The streets were filled with banners and the fans cheered.

When seeing the team's bus come out, the atmosphere reached its peak.

"Wembley!! Wembley!!! Wembley!!!"

The players were a little shocked by the atmosphere created by the fans. Not to mention these young players, even John, who has served in the team for more than 20 years, has never seen Luton fans so fanatical.

"This is... everyone in Luton has come out!" Lin Sen smacked his mouth. After coming to England, he realized exactly what football means to England fans.

Take Luton as an example, most of the people living in Luton are also fans of the Luton team.That's really a team loyalty from the ancestors.

Gao Bo stood in front of the car, and the entrance of the training base was connected to a straight road.

This road is one of Luton's main roads, and even the team's home stadium is named after this road-this is Worth Road, which runs through the entire Luton urban area.

From the entrance of the training base, you can see the end of Worth Road. On the main road that is two to three kilometers long, it is densely packed with people.

"This is too exaggerated."

Gao Bo and John looked at each other, and both saw shock in their own eyes.Soon after, he saw Alexander, who was very active in the crowd. The owner of the tavern seemed to be the head of a fan club. He was now directing the crowd and maintaining order.

"Alexander, how did you make such a big fight?!" Gao Bo got out of the car and walked in front of Pressure Alexander.

The arrival of the head coach aroused the cheers of the fans, and Alexander had to shout: "We are going to Wembley with the team!!"

"The game time is five o'clock in the afternoon, and how can so many of you get there?" Gao Bo pointed helplessly at the densely packed crowd on the street. He was a little worried about so many people, what would he do if there were any safety accidents!
"Railway!! Let's go there by train!! We hired the railway company to charter two trains!!" Alexander laughed, "It's a big deal for the team to reach the semi-finals, and of course we must all participate in it."

This Gao Bo understands that the Football Association gave Luton 10,000 tickets. As a result, on the day of buying the tickets, the server was overwhelmed by Luton fans through the ticket sales channel on the official website. You know, Luton is just a city with only [-]+ people.
After that, Luton only needs to sell all the tickets on offline ticket sales channels, and the fans line up almost all night just to grab a Wembley ticket.

"You have more than 3 people, right?" Gao Bo pointed to the crowd on the street and said, "Even if you take the train, you probably won't be able to transport so many people."

Gao Bo doesn't know much about the capacity of trains, but even in China, a 2000-car train can only carry about [-] people
"That's a problem, we can sit a few more times haha" Alexander said with a smile.

"This is only the semi-final, what if the team enters the final?!"

"Uh, let's do it again after reaching the final..." Alexander said in his mouth, but he was muttering in his heart.

I'm afraid I don't have a chance to make it to the finals.
Gao Bo didn't know what the fans thought, but seeing the sensational crowd at least showed that at Wembley, Luton's fans would not lose much to Arsenal.

Gao Bo is still very happy about this.

When the team's bus drove out of the urban area, the players found that there was actually a long queue of cars behind the bus!

Some vehicles also had Luton's team flag sticking out of the windows, and the flag was waving in the wind.

These are Luton fans too! ! !
The players were overwhelmed by the battle the fans had put up.

When the bus drove onto the M1 highway, the traffic queue behind the vehicle merged into a long queue and rushed towards Wembley Stadium.

　Thanks to the three brothers Beibei Junoo, Amitxi, and 541mk for their support! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)