The Young Lion

Late at night, at Aldrich's home.

He had just returned home to London and was sitting in the living room listening to Carter describe the riots in Newcastle.

Yiwen came down from upstairs, came to the back of the sofa, pressed his hands on Aldrich's shoulders and kneaded gently.

She knew that after Puskas entered the intensive care unit recently, Aldridge was in a bad mood, and she was also a little sad, but she still had to force a smile in front of the children. Derich's mood was even worse.

Aldrich seemed to have recovered from his daze, raised his head and asked softly, Are the children asleep?

Evan hummed softly.

Aldridge turned his head to look at Carter again, and said indifferently: The ones who took the initiative to provoke trouble are our fans?

Carter nodded helplessly, and said: Although most of the fans arrested for the incident were West Ham United fans, the ones who took the initiative to provoke the trouble were indeed our fans. Moreover, there are several well-known people, such as our Friend, Brady, oh unfortunately, among the very few Millwall fans who were arrested was also a friend of ours, Saul.

Aldridge froze.

But he was only stunned for two seconds, and then burst out laughing, stroked his forehead and chuckled, and then laughed out loud.

Hahaha, Saul, maybe he is fat and can't run fast enough. Hahaha, he is going to be unlucky now, and he can't escape the life ban. As a photojournalist, he can't collect materials at close range. It hurts him more than killing him!

Carter was stunned again, not sure if Aldridge's laugh is a kind of irony?

Not quite. He looked very happy with his smile.

Yiwen was a little worried. I am worried that Aldridge is under too much pressure recently.

How can you still laugh? What do you do now?

Carter asked puzzled.

Aldrich stopped laughing. Immediately he sighed helplessly, smiled and said, What else can I do? It's business as usual. The fans who are arrested are handled by the police. What kind of fines the FA will issue, we don't appeal, just accept them all Ha ha, if one day Millwall fans stop causing trouble, then the Millwall club must have separated from the local community and become the Millwall that truly belongs to the world. However, that seems unrealistic, after all, London is not Manchester. ,

Not Liverpool, there are too many teams in London, the fan camps are strongly opposed, and the division of fans is also full of regionalism. Millwall's local fan composition has a century-old heritage. It is estimated that in another hundred years, it will be impossible to get rid of the genes handed down from the past. There's nothing wrong with that. In his bones, the wild lion should be full of confrontation and fighting temperament, even if it is actively provocative, it is not a bad idea.

Things always need to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.

Combined with today's game, Aldrich was not surprised when he heard the news of such a commotion after the game.

If he goes back to trace the deep-seated factors of the outbreak, he is more able to accept the reality.

After the two East London derby matches this season, West Ham United fans took the initiative to provoke Millwall fans, but Millwall fans deliberately avoided, there was no big riot, and occasionally passers-by fought or confronted alone , that all belong to pediatrics and can be ignored.

Aldridge is not a spiritual beautician. Over the past ten years, he has been suppressing and regulating the behavior of fans. It is impossible to teach fans to renew their lives. The fans will naturally use this to mock the Millwall fans for becoming weak. This repression has reached the extreme and will eventually erupt. Stimulated by a catalyst, today's riots can be said to be accidental, but they are inevitable.

The next day, Millwall beat West Ham United 4-0 to advance to the FA Cup final, and it is expected to hit the Triple Crown again this season!

It's East London hooligans wreak havoc on Newcastle!

Almost all the media will report such explosive news at the first time, and absolutely no media will miss such a big news, even if they follow suit, there must be countless readers paying for it.

West Ham officially accused Millwall fans of despicable behavior for the first time!

However, most of the fans who were detained for causing the accident were fans of West Ham United, which made it impossible for them to completely clear up their suspicions and throw all the responsibility to Millwall.

After Carter left in the early morning, he communicated privately with the FA.

Millwall has done an excellent job of public relations and dealing with the bureaucracy.

In the early hours of the morning, Millwall notified the FA, and the club will fully cooperate with the FA without any complaints!

In the final analysis, the FA is also a no matter zone in British society, a non-governmental organization with real power, which lacks effective supervision, and the FA and similar organizations around the world, if the Football Association and UEFA are the same, they will all regard themselves as The organization has built an unbreakable fortress, rejecting the infiltration of outsiders, especially the government is not willing to intervene in their management!

Therefore, when the fan riots broke out, in order to prevent others from being blamed, the British government used the issue to try to find trouble with the FA.

Since Millwall is willing to cooperate, it will be easier to handle. It is better than Millwall arguing with the FA for a long time.

Compared with West Ham United's immediate evasion of responsibility, the statement issued by the Millwall official club seems to be easier to obtain the recognition of the outside world.

First of all, Millwall condemned the behavior of football hooligans, and secondly apologized to Newcastle City from the club's standpoint, and was willing to make some compensation after calculating the losses afterwards.

The outside world knows that Aldridge has always hated football hooligans very much. Millwall Club then issued a statistical list, blacklisting those fans caught by the police and prohibiting them from entering the Lion King Stadium to watch Millwall. Wall game.

From this point of view, Millwall is dare to act and act, but his position is very clear.

Fans represent a part of the image of the club, which cannot be given up. Even if the positions are opposed, in the eyes of outsiders, the black sheep are also part of the club.

So Millwall will apologize and make compensation, but just say a few words in the vernacular.

It is also in line with their usual style that Millwall does not condone the behavior of fans.

But in fact, this statement was made by Millwall with a time difference and a little trick.

Fans arrested by the police will inevitably be punished with a life ban afterwards.

Regardless of whether Millwall bans them from entering the Lion King Stadium, they will lose their eligibility to enter the stadium at least within England. As for whether they will also be banned from going abroad, it depends on whether the FA The football hooligan list is sent to other countries. If it is serious, these fans may be prevented from entering other countries during the competition, because they are labeled as football hooligans, which may bring security risks to the host country.

The FA's penalty came down quickly, and on the afternoon of the second day, the FA issued the heaviest fine in history!

For the next two Premier League matches between Millwall and West Ham United, half of the stands will be closed if they are playing at home. If they are playing away, the stands for visiting fans will not be open!

Millwall fined £500,000 for mismanagement

West Ham United paid a fine of 250,000 pounds for the same reason!

After the ticket was issued, the British society generally applauded, precisely because it was too heavy! Only then did the ordinary people who hate football hooligans feel very happy, and the FA also promised that 70% of the fines collected would be used to compensate Newcastle for the losses, and the other 30% would be used to strengthen the supervision of the development of football hooliganism. .....

Just looking at 500,000 pounds may not be particularly heavy.

However, considering that the Lion King Stadium has a capacity of more than 60,000, split half of the ticket revenue, and the operating income that comes with the game day, the direct economic loss suffered by Millwall will exceed 1.5 million pounds!

As Aldridge told Carter, Millwall took it all!

If you do something wrong, you will be punished!

Even if it was done by the fans, the impact is too bad, the club cannot stay out of it, this responsibility must be shouldered!

Millwall voluntarily paid the fine and began to take action to deal with the aftermath. On the other hand, West Ham United began to protest with the FA. It was roughly the same rhetoric, shifting all the responsibility to Millwall and defending themselves. The FA is getting impatient and won't give West Ham United the slightest chance to appeal. Either you give money to settle this matter, or let's turn around and see if the Hammers can continue to mess around in the future!

West Ham United's family is not rich, and their loss may only be around 700,000 to 800,000 pounds, but for them, it really hurts!

The outside world saw that the FA punished Millwall so severely, and Millwall obediently remained silent. It seemed that the FA also took advantage of the problem to clean up Millwall.

On this night, the FA Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Liverpool was staged as scheduled. Chelsea, who had to be distracted by the Champions League, did not prepare as well as Liverpool for the game. Liverpool defeated Chelsea with a score of 2:1.

The Blues are out of the FA Cup at the gate of the final!

Benitez will lead the Red Army Liverpool, which has already secured qualification for the Champions League next season, and Millwall, led by Aldridge, will meet in the FA Cup final!

Another day later, UEFA probably didn't know the situation in the Premier League, thinking that Millwall was being suppressed by the FA, and had learned to behave, so it jumped out to add insult to injury!

There is still half a year before the UEFA presidential election, and the internal camp has begun to become clear. As an ally of President Blatter, Platini will become a strong candidate for the next UEFA president. His camp supports The critics began to bombard Millwall, using the riots in Newcastle as an excuse to warn Millwall not to bring the unhealthy tendencies of football hooligans into the Champions League! (To be continued..)

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