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Chapter 338 Rose Derby
Leeds United, which has advanced to the Champions League final for the second time in history, has never won the championship before, and the last time it reached the final was in 1975, when Leeds United, led by Jimmy Armfield, was led by the main players of the Levi period. He reached the European Champions Cup final that year, but lost to Bayern Munich in a controversial manner.Therefore, whether it is history, background or paper strength, Leeds United is far inferior to Real Madrid, which has won eight Champions League trophies.

As the only hope of the Premier League today, it is needless to say how much attention and pressure Leeds United is carrying at this moment. Almost everyone hopes that Leeds United will keep the trophy in the Premier League, but under such circumstances, many people have appeared. Discordant voices came.

A Manchester United fan angrily said in a random interview with newspaper media that Leeds United's promotion was just a walk, and it was a fluke to get to this point. If Manchester United met the Greek club Panathinaikos in the draw, Then Manchester United may win the round with Real Madrid, but today's Leeds United has no possibility of winning at all!The reporter did not expect that the Manchester United fan would say such a thing, but the TV station truthfully released this interview.

To the surprise of this TV station, the miraculous opinion of this brain-twitching Manchester United fan was unexpectedly agreed by many people, and he also gave his own opinion with reason.Throughout the Champions League journey of Leeds United, in the two rounds of the group stage against three strong teams, Juventus won one and one loss, against Roma one win and one loss, against Barcelona one draw and one loss, and in the knockout round against Bayer Leverkusen The win was stumbling, but the Greek underdog achieved a big victory.In the eyes of fans who support this view, it is completely a walk to get points from weak teams all the way!

On the other hand, Manchester United won the Bundesliga class champion Bayern Munich in the group stage, and beat Super Deportivo in the knockout round. It was not until the match against Real Madrid that the local tyrants at this time were defeated!But they are proud!We must know that today's Real Madrid is a collection of the core of each team. Juventus won the World Cup champion, European Cup runner-up, Golden Globe Award and two-time World Footballer's midfielder Zidane; the former captain from Barcelona, And in the past December 12, Figo was elected as the 17 World Footballer of the Year by defeating Raul Gonzalez and David Beckham; there was also the European Footballer of the Year Silver Globe last year, and the World Footballer of the Year Bronze Ball Award, now Real Madrid's banner figure Raul.

Faced with such a terrifying lineup, Manchester United, which was able to play 1:1 in the second round, is indeed strong. In the eyes of many fans who don't like Leeds United, Leeds United is completely out of luck!When such views occupied a large part of public opinion, Leeds United fans quit.

They also have reasons for this. If you look at our opponents in the two rounds of the group stage, they are all not weak in strength. Except for the three well-known giants, the remaining three teams are not easy to compete with. ?The Su Chao class bully, the Portuguese super giants, and the local super class bully are still their own sworn enemies!It is not an exaggeration to say that such a group is the group of death. Although the opponent Panathinaikos in the semi-finals is indeed not strong, we also came here stepping on the bones of Leverkusen!In this way, it is not easy for Leeds United, it is completely bloody and tragic. Of course, the angry fans do not want outsiders to underestimate their team.

But what made them furious was that some people retorted that these teams were not good enough in the eyes of Manchester United. For Leeds United, they were the death group, but for Manchester United, they dared not say such things as beating the big three. , but it is not an exaggeration for the Celtics and the like to say that they can pass the level with a complete victory.So in the final analysis, you are just lucky for Leeds United. If you want to switch to Manchester United, you will not only win beautifully all the way, but also have a better chance of winning against Real Madrid in the final than you!
So just like that, before the start of the second round of the Rose Derby, the supporters of the two teams were already arguing, from the fans to the famous supporters, they all denounced their opponents for their own side. Things like old scars are more common.In the strong smell of gunpowder is the grievances that cannot be erased by both sides. You must know that all of this was doomed in the War of the Roses 500 years ago.Moreover, in the 18th century, Britain was in the period of the industrial revolution, and the direct competition between Leeds and Manchester began to reach a climax at this time. At that time, the whole country was going through an unprecedented stage of economic development, and Leeds' rapid economic growth was Depends on the industry that makes wool fiber products.

But at the same time the cotton industry in the west of Manchester began to flourish, and these cotton mills were fueled by cheap coal transported down the Bridgewater Canal.Manchester's cotton industry was very successful and at the same time disrupted the traditional Yorkshire woolen industry as it was much cheaper to produce than wool.The vast majority of Yorkshire weavers felt robbed of their jobs and resented the wealth that Manchester was beginning to have.

The tension between the people on both sides will naturally affect the thriving football game. Although the strength of the two teams was not strong at first, when the end of World War II, Manchester United became a fledgling football power. The era won three league titles and the limelight completely overshadowed the Leeds.So under such circumstances, Leeds United in the east bought the future team legend and meritorious coach Don Rivet as a player and head coach, and Rivet soon became the full-time head coach of Leeds United.United's prominent players in this era included Bobby Charlton, Dennis Law and George Best; Leeds were known for their tough and uncompromising players at the time, such as Bobby Charlton's brother Jack Charlton. Billy Bremner, known as "1950 stone barbed wire", and Norman Hunter, nicknamed "Bite Your Foot".

In the 1964/65 season, the two clubs were tied in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. In this match held at the Hillsborough Stadium, the behavior of the players on both sides could be described as jealousy when meeting enemies, and their actions were very rough. Jack · Charlton and Dennis Law punched each other and grappled on the court, completely treating the 1-4 match as a boxing match.The Yorkshire Post commented: "The two sides behaved like a pack of dogs biting and barking at each other for bones.

And when the time entered the 1960s and 1970s, the competition between the two clubs was everywhere.Domestically successful, Leeds United won the 1968/69 and 1973/74 top-flight titles and finished runners-up four times, never falling outside the top four under Don Rivet .United only won the league title in 1966/67 during this period, but their other successes included winning the Champions League in 1968, while Leeds never did.In 1978, two of the best Leeds United players at that time, Joe Jordan and Gordon McQueen, were sold to Manchester United. This was a very big blow to Leeds United fans, especially Gordon McQueen was a fan darling.When the two players donned a Manchester United shirt against their former club, they were targeted by fans who booed him and jeered and threw objects at him.

What surprised Leeds United fans even more was that in 1990, Leeds United finally returned to the First Division under the leadership of head coach Howard Wilkinson.Since the 1992/93 season was restructured into the Premier League, the 1991/92 season was the last season of the First Division. The road to the championship in that season has always been the competition between Leeds United and Manchester United, and finally has Ray Gordon Strachan, Leeds United, with the likes of Lee Chapman, David Beatty and Eric Cantona, won the title by four points.But then Leeds United sold Eric Cantona to Manchester United for £4 million in the following year, making Eric Cantona the cornerstone of Manchester United's revival in the 120s, leading the club in five seasons Won four Premier League titles!It is conceivable that after such an incident, the fans of both sides became even more grievances. The hostilities between the two clubs intensified. Leeds United's "Service Gang" and Manchester United's "Red Devils" are the two most notorious in Britain. Fights organized by football hooligans were commonplace at the time.

When the dynasty war hundreds of years ago turned into a football hatred hundreds of years later, this derby has already become the most fancy of the two clubs before.

As we all know, in the 1999/00 season, two Leeds United fans were stabbed to death before the game between Leeds United and Galatasaray. There were reports of Leeds and Manchester United fans embracing, with the headline "Fans forget past rivalry unite from grief" in The Independent.But the good times didn't last long. When the two clubs met in the league, some Manchester United fans displayed banners that read "Manchester United Football Club, Istanbul, Red Devils" and "Galatasaray, Red Army".

Obviously such a banner angered the fans of Leeds United, so they immediately retorted and sang songs about Munich. The plane carrying Manchester United players, fans and team reporters encountered an air crash in Munich in 1958 and died. 8 Manchester United players to stimulate and respond.

And this time it was still the case. The Leeds United fans at home sang loudly before the game started.

"We're going to Scotland, we're going to Scotland!"

(End of this chapter)