[football] walk side by side

December 2003, 12, Manchester Airport.

Ebert hugged his baby video camera, casually looking at the crowded Manchester Airport.Every year when Christmas approaches, there are always a lot of people at the airport. People who were born in this land rush back from all over the world just to spend a beautiful and warm night with their relatives in their hometown.

But at the moment Manchester Airport is more crowded than previous festivals.

Among them, in addition to the locals who picked up the plane, there were more young girls in gorgeous clothes. The cold wind in Manchester in winter was like a knife, and it hurt the neck.Girls in fashionable but not warm clothes stamped their feet while bouncing up and down holding a poster with a picture of a young man in their hands.

As a reporter for the entertainment section of the "Daily Mirror", Ebert is actually not very familiar with this young man. He only vaguely heard his colleagues mention that he is a popular male singer nowadays.

For a long time, Ebert has been responsible for football-related news. England is a football-loving and even fanatical country, and its own enthusiasm lies there. As a football reporter, Ebert’s job The treatment is also quite good. Therefore, Ebert really has no interest in these rookie male singers who fascinate the girls with just a single face.

At this time, he would rather go to the entrance of the Manchester United club to block that difficult Ferguson Ferguson.

If it wasn't for the fact that the reporter who was in charge of following up the incident was temporarily busy and had a good relationship with him, Ebert would never have come to this airport, just to take a photo of a third-rate star in the entertainment industry returning home without any hot spots.

Damn it, it's so cold!

Ebert rubbed his hands together, looking boredly at the airport where people were coming and going.I don't know when the singer will arrive. If I wait like this, people will freeze to death.

However, when Ebert's gaze swept across the corner of the hall inadvertently, a strange man attracted his attention.

There was nothing wrong with the clothes, but a pair of sunglasses hung on the bridge of Dudu's nose as if trying to hide it, and the scarf around his neck covered most of his face under the sunglasses.The strangest thing was that even though it was a very cold winter at the airport, this man's head was covered with hairspray, making him look shiny.

Out of the sensitivity of an entertainment reporter, a name jumped right out of his heart.

This height and body shape, and the habit of using hairspray as water... Isn't this the Red Devil No. [-] that just arrived this year?What is he doing at the airport?pick up?

Ebert's eyes suddenly lit up!

Speaking of which, isn't C-Ronaldo having a hot fight with Aurora Davis recently?However, the reporter in charge of Aurora in the newspaper seems to have said that Aurora is going back to London for Christmas this year?So who is C-Ronaldo waiting for now?Or is it that he has given up on Aurora and has a new love?

Ebert, who was still feeling bored at first, immediately became excited. He checked his camera and made sure that it could save all the images he wanted to keep. When the tourists came, even if the third-line singer arrived, he didn't pay any attention, and stared at Cristiano in the corner wholeheartedly.

What are third-tier starlets?When he finds out some heavyweight news from C-Ronaldo, tomorrow's headlines will be his, who cares about that singer!

Fortunately, Cristiano didn't keep him waiting for long.

As the young singer and his fans left, Cristiano, who Ebert had been following, quickly stood up and walked in a certain direction.

When Cristiano stopped, Ebert showed a disappointed expression—the person who made C-Ronaldo not enjoy his rare vacation and ran to the airport to pick him up, in terms of body shape, no matter what a male.

What does masculine mean?What he wanted to shoot was the new love of the Red Devil No. [-], not the news that no one would put in the newspaper like having dinner with friends.

Ebert put away the camera boredly, and just a few steps outside the airport, he suddenly reacted.

Speaking of which, this strange young man seems quite familiar?

Ebert believed in his intuition. If he was familiar with a certain person, then he probably noticed that person in the newspaper. It was tightly wrapped, but the hood of the hoodie vaguely covered half of the face.

correct!

He remembered!No wonder he always finds it familiar. Isn't this Cyril Slade who was praised by various football media for his halftime lob at the Bernabéu not long ago?Why did he suddenly come to Manchester at this time?

Could it be that Ferguson has decided to bring Cyril Slade to Old Trafford?So invite him to come to Manchester in advance to have a look and negotiate a contract initially?

The more Ebert thought about it, the more excited he became. In fact, for a tabloid like the Daily Mirror, authenticity is not important at all. As long as he takes some ambiguous photos, who cares about Cyril Slade? Is it true that I want to transfer to Manchester United, and it will be the Champions League final between Porto and Manchester United in the near future. I can be regarded as helping Manchester United to disturb the enemy's heart, right?

It's just that this photo can be accompanied by news like "c-Ronaldo urges his friends to join Manchester United" at most. It is not enough to see the hot spots. If there is any more favorable "evidence" to prove that Cyril Slade is about to Just move to Manchester United.

Thinking of this, Ebert put the camera in his backpack and followed him secretly.

……

When Cyril came out of the passage, he saw Cristiano walking towards him at a glance.

It's not that you can be seen at a glance among the ten thousand people... but Mr. Ronaldo's gleaming black hair is really eye-catching among the crowd, so Cyril can't help but not see it.

"Have you been waiting for a long time?" He didn't want to make a big fuss, but Cyril still couldn't help but fix his eyes on his friend's distinctive hair, and said with hesitation, "You...won't you put the whole bottle of hairspray on it?" Did it fall on your hair?"

"I didn't!" Unexpectedly, the friend who hadn't seen him for half a year opened his mouth and laughed.Thinking that Jorge had said very similar things before, Cristiano retorted angrily: "I just used a little bit! Just a little bit!" As he spoke, he gestured with his hands about the concept of "a little bit".

Cyril, who had just got off the plane, was still a little dizzy at the moment, so he responded according to his intention: "Okay, okay, you only used a little...Ah Choo."

"Why do you wear so little?" Cristiano whispered, "I don't think those girls wear as little as you." He was referring to the female fans who had just crowded in the lobby waiting for their idol.

But Cyril didn't know.

He just shrank the back of his hand unconsciously, and said lightly: "It's just that I'm not used to the weather here...you know, the winter in Porto is not so..."

Before he finished speaking, Cristiano held his shoulders. The latter looked sideways at his slightly flushed face and slender pale neck from the cold, and couldn't help frowning.Regardless of Cyril's reaction, Cristiano directly took off the scarf he used to cover his face and wrapped it around the young man's neck.

Cristiano lowered his head, he tied it very seriously, only when his fingertips inadvertently touched the white and delicate skin under his palm, he felt an inexplicable palpitation like an electric shock. Fortunately, it was only for a moment. He walked around carefully, and that feeling disappeared.

Cyril turned his head and looked at him blankly.

"Manchester is colder than Porto. There is not much sunshine during the day, and it is not as warm as Porto... Do you have enough clothes?" Cristiano was still concentrating on telling his friend "Manchester Temporary Residence Guide", When I looked up, I suddenly met the gentle and pure blue.

That's actually quite rare, Cristiano thought.

Cristiano has seen Cyril's expression many times: when he is calm and cold, when his eyebrows are gentle, and when the corners of his lips are slightly drawn, he looks gentle and amiable but is actually thinking bad thoughts.

Most of the time, you can only see the cold blue eyes in his eyes, which seem to be close in front of your eyes, and you can only feel the distance as if you are in the sky when you stretch out your hands.

And at this moment, the young man is actually a little dazed because he hasn't reacted yet, and his bottomless eyes have become as clear and visible as clear water.But it's this feeling of bewilderment and bewilderment that actually makes people feel...

Inexplicably... a little cute.

however--

Cyril lowered his head and touched the furry scarf like a tail.He obviously just added a scarf, but he felt like his whole body was getting hotter... He turned his head to look at the passers-by who were hurrying to and fro.

"It's so ugly."

"..." Cristiano took a deep breath, and repeatedly warned himself to "be patient", "A visitor is a guest and you can't lose your temper with a guest", "That's right, this guy is just so bad, it's not the first day you know." , finally held back.He looked up and looked straight ahead, pretending that he didn't hear what Cyril said just now, as if he was concentrating on looking for a car.

But because of this, he missed the reddish glow on the young man's ears.

"Well, the relationship between these two people is really good..." Ebert muttered in a low voice. He had always heard that Cyril Slade and C-Ronaldo were very good friends before, but he didn't expect it to be true. of.

During the period of following the two of them, Ebert also took a photo, which was the scene when Cristiano bowed his head and tied the scarf for Cyril.In fact, Ebert didn't think too much about it, but out of the habit of media workers, he just took the picture.After all, Ebert couldn't think of where the name of Little Prince in Manchester United's new No. 7 nightclub was placed.

However, no one expected that this photo, which was actually non-existent at the time, would become the beginning of the relationship between the two that the media thought they had successfully dug out after they both retired and came out of the closet. The issue of the "Daily Mirror" that featured this photo was also sold out of stock for a while, setting a historical single sales record.

But these are for later.