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From the mid-60s to the mid-70s, it should be regarded as Chelsea's first glorious period. The Blues won the club's first league championship, the first FA Cup championship, and the European Cup Winners' Cup championship in this decade. Completed the evolution from an average London team - to one of the great teams in Greater London.

However, these honors still cannot be compared with Arsenal and Tottenham. The "London Derby" in the 80s is actually not as strong as the future, and the top three in London have never been stronger.

Chelsea fell into a trough in the late 70s. It was not until they were sold to Bates for a pound a few years ago that they began to recover, but they were still playing in the second division last year.

Relying on a large number of cost-effective young players unearthed by head coach John Neal this year, Chelsea finally returned to League One and rushed into the European Championship in one fell swoop. Now they hope to obtain a qualification for the European Championship next season.

This achievement is already something to be proud of, but compared to Arsenal, which took off directly this year, Chelsea has almost no star players, and the team is all young players with high cost performance. There is really no wind and no waves. To put it bluntly, it means "if you can't raise the sails, you can't lift the waves".

The final of the League Cup was also held at "Wembley Stadium". On the day of the game, a total of [-] fans were crowded in by the two sides, but almost only the Gunners fans wearing the new red jerseys were seen triumphantly throughout the game. , flaunting one's power, one's face is ridiculed!

Of course the Blues fans are very angry, but the gap in strength between the two sides is too obvious!

Today, Wu Jie didn't even exert much effort. Laudrup and Lineker, who are both young players, eclipsed Chelsea's entire youth team.

Laudrup's performance in this game was very dazzling. The Danish genius was under the light of Wu Jie for the first time, and still made people focus on him. This is already a very remarkable performance.

He assisted 5 of the 3 goals scored by Arsenal today. With a hat-trick of assists, Laudrup is only one less than Wu Jie in the assist list.

After the start of the game, just in the 7th minute, Laudrup sent a precise direct pass after breaking through the middle. Lineker succeeded in counter-offside, entered the penalty area and shot from a small angle to the far corner to score!

Conceding the ball so quickly made a group of young Chelsea players impatient. Coupled with the already nervous emotions, the superposition of the two phases caused only 5 minutes later. Chelsea's central defender Fielder was alerted because of a pass error. Wu Jie intercepted, then accelerated the ball and rushed into the penalty area to face the goalkeeper with a single-handed shot.

The Chelsea fans at the scene, including the Chelsea players on the field, both exploded at this moment.

Since then, Arsenal has been beating Chelsea on the ground until the end of the game. In the end, Wu Jie, Laudrup, and Covans each scored a goal. Lineker scored twice. Arsenal easily stepped on the same city 5-0. The derby opponents in different regions won the first League Cup championship in the club's history.

You read that right, this is the first time Arsenal have won the League Cup.

Although Arsenal in the 80s had a much stronger background than Chelsea, they were just a down-and-out old rich man in England, and the glorious period is very far away, so far that most of the original witnesses have already been buried.

At the same time, Manchester United is half a step ahead of Arsenal in terms of background. At least they won the Champions League once 20 years ago. After World War II, their European results are far better than Arsenal. In the glorious period, strictly speaking, it was half a grade higher than the upcoming Barcelona.

That's what United fans think, and they scoff at the Catalan media reporting Barcelona as Europe's top team.

The English media also believe that Barcelona has almost no achievements in the European war. They have neither the Champions League nor the UEFA Cup, nor even the Cup Winners' Cup. It is nothing more than some domestic league and cup champions. In terms of quantity, it is far inferior to Real Madrid.

How can such a team with almost no European results be considered a top European team?

On the other hand, no matter how you look at it, Manchester United is a top European team that is higher than Barcelona in all aspects. This includes many European media, and even the Spanish media have the same opinion.

The only strong team in Spain recognized by Europe is Real Madrid, so two days ago Liverpool was defeated by Real Madrid 1-0 at home. The English media also knew that Real Madrid did have this strength while criticizing Liverpool.

But you mere Barcelona also want to retreat in England, do you really think there is no one in England?

However, before the slogan was shouted for a long time, Lin Yaodong shot a ground-breaking "elevator ball" before the end of the first half, which directly plunged Old Trafford into an extremely familiar dead silence again.

This kick is also too familiar to Manchester United fans - the ultra-long shooting distance, the ultra-violent sudden drop, and the ultra-outrageous sharp line change. Isn't this Wu Jie's representative "elevator ball"?

Lin Yaodong also showed an incredible expression for a moment after scoring the goal. This was the first time in his career that he kicked an "elevator ball" with a change of line!

His "Elevator Ball" skill is only four and a half stars, including "Banana Ball" and "Falling Leaf Ball" are also four and a half stars, all of which are slightly worse than Wu Jie.

But don't look at the skill gap of just half a star, putting it on these free kick stunts is equivalent to hiding the trump card of every set of peerless martial arts.

This is similar to how masters who pass on martial arts will hide a hand. This hand is often a killer move, but it is the essence of the whole set of martial arts. It is also a killer that can kill an apprentice at a critical moment.

Lin Yaodong doesn't know how to change the line, and he has never kicked an "elevator ball" with a change of line.

But the four-and-a-half-star skill is stronger than the four-star skill here. If you play more times, you can still get it out once in a very rare way.

However, this ratio is much worse than that of Wu Jie. If Wu Jie can kick this perfect elevator ball at least a few times every season, then it will take Lin Yaodong several seasons to catch it once.

Lin Yaodong's "Perfect Elevator Ball" can be regarded as a masterpiece of his career. What happened is that the victim was the unlucky Manchester United, and the even more unlucky Gary Bailey.

Gary Bailey is really depressed now, once can be regarded as an honor, but being kicked twice in a month is really not an honor, this is pure bad luck!

The final score was not too big, a very utilitarian 1:0, it can be seen that the game process was not very exciting.

Barcelona won today because of Lin Yaodong. With his first-half elevator ball possessed by an alien, and his brave performance in front of the goal, he was almost alone in attacking and defending. Both ends destroyed Manchester United and helped the team advance smoothly with a total score of 2:0 in the two rounds.

Naturally, the English media were all dumbfounded after the game, but it wasn't because of the earth-shattering free kick, but because it was the first time they saw the game and they could still play like this, and the goalkeeper could still play like this? ?

They have seen a lot of things that defense depends on the goalkeeper, but goals depend on the goalkeeper, and even offense depends on the goalkeeper. Is that really unheard of, something new that has never been seen? !

However, this is how Barcelona plays today, and Lin Yaodong's style of play is even more outrageous!

His high block in front of the goal is still a reasonable performance of a top goalkeeper, but that free kick is the operation of the day.

But this is still not the most excessive. What really subverts the British worldview is that this guy almost never stays in the penalty area honestly throughout the game. They were all active outside the penalty area. Not only did they run to the midfield several times to watch the excitement, but they even passed their center Mark Hughes once with the ball in the midfield. This made the English really have to doubt that he was naked provocation!

However, with such a jump, such a wave, such a defiant style of play and positioning, Lin Yaodong did not miss a single position in the whole game. As long as Manchester United really dribbles up the ball, he will appear in a position that makes Manchester United extremely disgusting. All the players' various shots were blocked outside the goal.

In particular, the high-altitude balls passed by Manchester United into the penalty area almost never posed a threat today, and they were all confiscated from the air by the tall and long-armed Chinese goalkeeper.

This is tantamount to Tianke England's high-altitude punching style. Manchester United failed to score a goal in the two rounds, almost all because of this incomprehensible Chinese goalkeeper.

Manchester United also admitted after the league that they were defeated by this angry and helpless goalkeeper.

And such an outrageous and bizarre, but even more miraculous goalkeeper also left a deep impression on fans all over England. I really don't know what it will be like for Arsenal to meet Barcelona?

But then the British fans felt a burst of sadness, because Liverpool had lost to Real Madrid at home the day before, and the away game at the end of the month is likely to be bad luck.

Manchester United was directly eliminated by Barcelona today, the Spaniard is really hateful!

But soon everyone found out that the Spaniards are not the most hateful, the leaders of these two teams are all Chinese!

At this time, the various media under Isabella's control resolutely opened fire first. First of all, Chen Haonan and Lin Yaodong led the rhythm, and put the main point of conflict on Lin Yaodong, who was the most hated.

This guy didn't look low-key after the game, and he was angry with the English media throughout the whole process, which can be regarded as a lot of hatred for Wu Jie.

"Boss, have you watched my game?"

Lin Yaodong proudly called Wu Jie after the game, but Wu Jie knew that this kind of hatred was deliberately done, because this was his idea, otherwise what would be the use of tool people!

The media under Isabella cooperated very well and staged a scene of thieves shouting "stop the thief", deliberately directing their anger on Lin Yaodong, in order to let him attract the hatred of the British for themselves.

Lin Yaodong's phone call was not to show off to Wu Jie that he won the game, but to show off that he had cut Nintendo again.

Now Lin Yaodong is the real richest man in China who is even richer than Wu Jie. His Yaodong Group has three major companies. Among them, Lenovo focuses on domestic software and hardware research and development. At present, it has developed a Chinese character input method and supporting Lenovo Chinese character expansion. Cards, as well as the domestic Chinese character DOS system used to form suits.

This Chinese suit can be said to be the basic framework of domestic computers. With it, Lenovo can use it as a Chinese platform to develop more Chinese office software, and then establish a Chinese IT ecosystem in the 80s.

Of course, Lenovo is not satisfied with only developing the Chinese system. They have developed a multilingual spreadsheet software Lotus1-2-3 ready to be installed on Compaq's latest commercial machines. After CAD software, they went abroad for another battle.

At this time, I have to mention another subsidiary of "Yaodong Group". They acquired 1982% of the shares of Compaq Computer at the end of 60.

This American computer company founded by Jimmy Harris and Bill Merton in early 1982 with only US$2000 will become the PC manufacturing company with the largest market share in the world at its peak in the future, and it will be IBM for a long time The biggest rival in the PC field.

Lin Yaodong took this company two years ago and used it as a bridge for Lenovo to grow rapidly in China and connect to the world.

At this time, Lenovo was already selling Compaq computers in China as an agent. This alone made Lenovo a monopoly giant in the domestic PC field, and created a large number of orders for Compaq.

Now Lenovo has won all computer procurement contracts from universities across the country, various government agencies, including the military field, and it is almost a monopoly.

But they not only sell computers, but also sell "Lenovo Chinese Character Set" bundled with each computer, as well as sell "Lenovo CAD" and various Chinese versions of office software, especially some software that needs to be developed and customized separately. It is charged separately, and the price is so expensive that even Wu Jie secretly clicked his tongue.

But even if the price is too expensive in the eyes of Wu Jie, it is still [-]-[-]% cheaper than buying from abroad for the government, and the things developed by Lenovo are all in English and Chinese characters, and the learning cost will become lower. The price is very low, and the after-sales service is much better. The key is that after Lenovo’s expansion, it has largely solved the problem of employing talents in this industry in China. These are things that cannot be bought from abroad no matter how expensive they are.

In the next few years, Lenovo's strategy in China is to continue to do monopoly business, while abroad it will cooperate with Compaq Computer in the development of office software and industrial software. State-of-the-art peripherals such as keyboard, mouse, and earphone speakers, as well as the necessary PC power supply.A few years later, it will enter the manufacture of motherboards, 2D graphics expansion cards, and hard disks.The last is the manufacture of memory and CPU.

Now Lenovo's most popular abroad is CAD software. Even Texas Instruments, Intel, Infineon, Philips, Sanyo, Toshiba and other companies have begun to increase the procurement of Lenovo's CAD software, and have proposed many customized contracts. Started Lenovo's reputation abroad, and also brought a lot of foreign exchange income that made the upper echelon stunned.

But this Lotus 1-2-3 has a lot of background in its original position. It is the originator of spreadsheet software. Later, it also integrated functions such as table calculation, drawing, and database analysis. Therefore, in the late 80s and early 90s, It has been a great success, and during this time it is almost a must-have software for any business company, school, and office staff.

IBM's computer quickly opened up the situation with this office software, and successfully occupied a large market share in the nascent PC field.

Now Compaq Computer is one step ahead, and its goal is to quickly encroach on the global office field through the strategy of bundling high-quality office software in the early stage of PC computer development, and achieve a win-win situation in the field of PC computers and software.

But what Lin Yaodong showed off to Wu Jie this time was not the achievements of these two companies, but the squeeze of Aperture Technology on Nintendo.

In the past two years, Nintendo has been really bullied by Aperture Technology to the point of buying a murderer. The reason is not only the phenomenal arcade games developed by Aperture Technology, but also the necessary patents for the game consoles they developed.

Lin Yaodong founded "Aperture Technology" the first time, and this company is currently the company with the highest profit in "Yaodong Group", even far surpassing Lenovo, which has a domestic monopoly, and its revenue in the United States reached 1.35 million US dollars last year, setting a business record in the United States Compaq Corporation.

Take last year as an example, even if the two companies add up their respective profits, it is still less than one-tenth of the annual profit of the Aperture Division.

This sounds unbelievable, but as long as you know that the annual income of the American arcade industry is actually more than Hollywood + Grammy + all sports leagues combined, you will know how profitable this industry is currently.

"Aperture Technology" is already the absolute overlord of this industry. Since its birth, it has released nearly 1 works in order - "Chinese Cube", "Road Racing", "Fancy Pool", "Kung Fu", "Xiao Xiao Le", "Duck Fighting", "Luo Wen Kicking Pavilion", "F[-] Racing", "Bomberman", "Bingfeng", "Adventure Island", "Cosmic Cruiser", "Legend of Fairy Shadows", "Super Panda", "Galaxy Warrior", "King of Boxing", "Salamander".

These arcade games occupy almost half of the arcade halls in Europe and America, or most players basically go to arcade halls to play these games. some share now.

In addition, "Aperture Technology" has unknowingly acquired many subsidiaries, including "Enix" and "SQUARE".

Lin Yaodong dances like this every day, including the Barcelona players who have always been xenophobic, who are also exceptionally friendly to him. It may be that this guy's net worth has reached the level of buying Barcelona.

Of course, Barcelona will definitely not sell to someone.

But for such a wealthy and capable genius, of course Barcelona will not let him feel uncomfortable from top to bottom.

Nintendo’s first embarrassment was in these games. After their FC game consoles were released, if they want to gain a foothold and sell well, then these arcade games that are popular all over the world, especially those that have become Japanese national games "Super Panda" must give Aperture Technology enough benefits to allow them to choose to transplant it on the FC game console, and there must be an exclusive period.

But this is easier said than done. Although affected by the collapse of Atari in recent years, the home console market has shrunk greatly, but there are still more than a dozen game consoles on sale in the world.

The key point is that Aperture Technology's games don't have to worry about the quality at all. As long as they are transplanted to home machines, they will definitely sell well. Even Americans who have been heartbroken by Atari will not refuse to buy them, because they have already played these games in arcade halls. ah.

This kind of business that is sure to make money, naturally everyone wants to get a piece of this big cake.

Nintendo's FC has always put forward almost unreasonably harsh requirements in opening up to third-party manufacturers, such as reviewing each FC game.Each third-party manufacturer can only release a maximum of 5 games per year.And third-party manufacturers need to predict the sales volume of their own products, and then Nintendo will make game cartridges. The third-party manufacturers not only have to pay the production fee, but also bear different amounts of royalties.

What angered third-party manufacturers the most was that Nintendo demanded a 50% share, that is, Nintendo would take half of the revenue if they didn't pay anything.

But when it was the turn of Aperture Technology, Nintendo did not dare to put these requirements on the table at all, but they never expected that Aperture Technology had prepared the "21 rules" in the game field for them.

The first rule here is that the share ratio must reach 70%, but don’t get me wrong, of course, Aperture Technology gets [-]% and Nintendo gets [-]%. It all depends on Aperture Technology’s face.

Nintendo was pissed off by this request in the first place, so wouldn't they be begging on their knees?

But soon Nintendo knew that they really had to kneel and beg for food, because just like this, how many people want to kneel but there is no such thing.

Aperture Technology has not only the game resources that Nintendo must win, but the key is that they also hold a large number of key patents on game consoles.

This is very painful. If there is no patent authorization of Aperture Technology, then the FC host will probably cease to exist.

Aperture Technology just has a large number of patents on the "handle" and "cassette", which makes it impossible for Nintendo to get around those patent barriers unless it reworks the FC console.

But do you think that's all there is to it?

Aperture Technology also holds a large number of key patents for making horizontal games. It can be said that any game manufacturer must obtain the patent of Aperture Technology to make a game, otherwise it will directly return to the era of "Space Invaders".

Fortunately, their licensing fees in this regard are very low, basically just a symbolic fee, otherwise those game companies will also be scolded.

But this also makes game production companies all over the world dare not offend Aperture Technology, for fear that they will embarrass themselves in terms of patent licensing.

There are also many first-party production companies under Nintendo, and they also have to pay Aperture Technology licensing fees to produce next-generation games of this era.

Aperture Technology has so much capital in its hands that can kill Nintendo, and in the end it naturally forced the other party to submit. Although the share of third-party games barely talked about 60%, it was forced to give up the Chinese region to Lenovo. agency.

This is actually a gift. Nintendo had never thought of selling FC to mainland China.

However, handing over the agency qualifications of the European region to Aperture Technology at a low price was a compromise that caused Nintendo to bleed a lot.

However, no compromise is possible, because Aperture Technology also has Sega's SMS, Microsoft's MSX2 can cooperate, and even Lenovo and Compaq have the idea of ​​making a learning machine that refers to MSX.

In fact, Compaq is indeed in the process of research and development, so after the exclusive period of cooperation between the two parties in 87 is over, the FC era should be ended by their bully.

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On January 1, Wu Jie watched the third round of the FA Cup play-off match against Arsenal and Hereford United from the sidelines.

In this battle, Arsenal sent exactly the same lineup as they did on the field. This is a chance for redemption for the players who underestimated the enemy before.

But if they still can't produce satisfactory performance, it is estimated that a series of new transactions will be born.

Speaking of transactions, Arsenal finally finalized a deal that Gunners fans have been waiting for in the second half of the winter transfer window.

On the morning of the play-off match, Arsenal and Athletic Bilbao in Spain announced at the same time that they would complete a deal of up to one million pounds, and the protagonist of the deal was naturally the most outstanding among the young Spanish goalkeepers Anthony Zubizarreta.

In fact, Wu Jie had his eye on Zubizarreta early in the morning. This original plane is one of the greatest goalkeepers in the history of Barcelona, ​​and also one of the greatest goalkeepers in the history of Spanish football. Of course, he is better than Gary Bailey, the third goalkeeper in England. Much stronger.

Now Lin Yaodong has snatched Zubizarreta's position in Barcelona in advance, and the latter can no longer look at any goalkeeper. Now the whole of Catalonia does not think that anyone in the world can replace Lin Yaodong, even if they are given one Yashin or Zoff, the Catalans are not willing to lose this goalkeeper of the same level who can win the golden boot.

Yassin or Zoff may not be worse than Lin Yaodong in front of goal, but can they be the top scorers?Can they press into the midfield to participate in the attack?Can they make the fans of the home team worry about this for a whole game so exciting?

But Wu Jie knows that Subisareta's defensive ability in front of the goal will not be much worse than that of Lin Yaodong. Such a 21-year-old talented goalkeeper is enough to make Gunners fans no longer need to worry about the goalkeeper position in the next 15 years.

As for the transfer fee, the two parties only disclosed that it was a deal of more than one million pounds.

Of course Wu Jie knows the exact figure, Arsenal spent 120 million pounds to buy Zubizarreta.

This price is of course too high for a young goalkeeper who has not yet entered the national team, and it does not seem very worthwhile.

But Wu Jie knew that Zubizarreta was about to join the Spanish national team in the summer, and after joining, he represented the Spanish national team in four World Cups and two European Championships as the main goalkeeper.

£120 million may seem expensive now, but in a year it will be a reasonable price, and in three years it will be a great deal.

In the match that day, Arsenal beat Hereford United 8-1 at home and successfully entered the fourth round of the FA Cup.