The Young Lion

The penultimate round of the final stage of the Premier League will be played on May 8.

It was a sunny day in Yorkshire.

A group of people who came together from London were depressed.

On the outskirts of a stadium, there were still two hours before the game. At this time, there was already a huge crowd of people, and almost all the fans who were going to watch the game were dressed in white.

A group of people standing far away on the street corner were wearing dark blue jerseys.

Brady, Saul, and Fred, these three personal friends of Aldridge's, are now married and start businesses. The football portal website jointly established by Brady and Fred has made them multi-millionaires. Er is an ordinary wage earner, and his income is quite considerable.

There were three of them, two of them were with their wives, one was with his girlfriend, and some relatives and friends.

Brady was smoking a cigarette, leaning against the telephone pole full of helplessness. They have left the fan organization, similar to honorary members, but no longer participate in the management of the fan organization. season ticket.

However, in this away game, less and less people came to watch the game.

The main reason is that time is tight, career, family, and there are always many constraints that prevent them from arranging their time freely.

At the end of the season, the old friends made an agreement to support Millwall together. Since April, every game has not fallen.

I was stunned, but I didn't expect to end up with a hard-to-get ticket today.

Today's ticket was sold by scalpers for a price equivalent to 1/3 of Sol's monthly salary.

One can imagine why they were depressed.

Why don't you give Aldrich a call? See if he can help you get some tickets?

Sol just went to ask about the ticket price of scalpers, and now he frowned and said softly.

Fred patted him on the head very rudely. Dayi Lingran said: Damn. Don't make trouble for him at this time. Besides, we usually invite friends to the Lion King Stadium to watch the game. We have troubled Aldridge several times for the tickets. Today is an away game, and the game will start soon. Where did he get tickets for you?

Sol was wronged, and he didn't even reply when he was slapped. He lowered his head and smoked a stuffy cigarette.

He is more real.

Never slap a swollen face to pretend to be fat.

Today, not only he and his girlfriend, but also a younger brother brought by his girlfriend, if he buys scalper tickets out of his own pocket, his mother's monthly salary will be squandered here.

Brady is the big brother in this circle of friends, he is righteous, and his opinions are usually the most important. At this time, his depressed expression was swept away, and he said with a smile: You are wrong, the more you Trouble Aldridge. He is happier on the contrary. How should I put it? Although he is not stupid, he has some superfluous thoughts. I am afraid that we will deliberately distance ourselves from him. After all, his family is so rich that it makes people vomit blood. Oh, forget it, today If you are slaughtered, you will be slaughtered. I am wondering. We are not Chelsea and Manchester United fans. These scalpers have a good position. Tickets for the away team are twice as much as the tickets for the home team. I treat his family today. Wait, I'll swipe the card.

After Brady finished speaking, he walked to a nearby ATM to withdraw money.

After getting the money, he asked Fred and Saul to buy tickets according to the number of people, and he also specially asked.

Check it out before you pay. Don't be fooled by these scalpers. If you sit among the fans of the home team, it's stupid. If you can't go back to London today, you will be sent to the hospital directly!

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The attendance rate of the entire Premier League is very high, which is due to the maturity of the fan market, but a high attendance rate does not mean that the stadium is full, and only some wealthy teams, plus the attendance rate of the focus game can reach the standard of being full and hard to find.

Tickets were hard to come by for today's game in Yorkshire.

Fans of both teams were hard-pressed to find a ticket.

Tickets for the home team are in short supply, and tickets for the away team are really scarce. The tickets for the public sale of the home team stadium have long been snapped up, and most of them fall into the hands of scalpers, waiting for fans to come and be slaughtered.

The home team fans were slaughtered willingly.

The fans of the visiting team are many who can't afford to be slaughtered. Many Lions fans didn't come because they couldn't buy tickets before. What about the beloved wild lion, what is the bloodletting support?

For Millwall, today is not a battle of life and death.

On the contrary, for the fans of the home team, supporting their team today is really a matter of life and death for the club!

The penultimate round of the Premier League.

Millwall to Leeds, Yorkshire!

Before the penultimate round of the Premier League, Leeds United ranked 18th in the standings with 33 points, and Manchester City ranked 17th with 38 points.

The possibility of Leeds United's theoretical relegation success still exists. If they win two games in a row and Manchester City loses two games in a row, then Leeds United will have 39 points to leave Manchester City behind.

However, this theoretical possibility is almost zero!

First of all, they will defeat Millwall, who is second in the standings, today!

Ever since, this game can be seen as Leeds United fans pouring into Elland Road Stadium to cheer for the home team, expecting the team to perform a miracle!

It can also be seen as Leeds United fans coming to see off the white roses!

Miracles, miracles, if miracles are so easy to happen, wouldn't the miracles be as cheap as high street goods?

Leeds United performed poorly throughout the season, and suddenly they overturned the unparalleled Lions at home?

Who the hell believed it? !

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The game is about to start. In the channel of the Elland Road Stadium, the players of the two teams stand in formation and prepare to play.

Millwall is dismissive of Leeds United.

There are 38 league rounds in a season, and only 8 of the first 36 games have been won. What is it to put on a posture of swearing to the death at this moment? Why did you go early?

As a player, the Millwall generals have no sympathy for Leeds United.

Who made you so messed up?

Who told you not to play football well?

As for how tragic and bleak the rapid fall of Leeds United was portrayed by the outside media, the Millwall generals only found it funny.

Thinking about it the other way around, Leeds United is really different, and even the failure seems to have become a magnificent epic in the outside world.

Aldridge shook hands with Leeds United manager Gray after entering the pitch. Then calmly walked to the coach of the visiting team and stood still. Couldn't hear the home fans booing him. The fans of the home team were busy building momentum for the home court. The military anthem of the White Rose echoed in the Elland Road Stadium. I don't know, but I thought the atmosphere of Leeds United's home court was magnificent and amazing.

Looking up at the sky, Aldrich muttered to himself, Today is a good day to say goodbye.

This scene, can not help but make people's thoughts fly.

In less than two years, Leeds United has almost changed beyond recognition.

O'Reilly is gone. Ridsdale was also expelled this season. Now Leeds United is in charge of a local consortium, but Leeds United's bankruptcy is inevitable. The latest news is that they are now even selling their home court, and the price is very, very low.

Most of the youth guards in white clothes who competed in the Champions League back then have already left the team. Either in the summer of 2002, or last summer, or even when the winter window opened, they still had to sell people to subsidize the family.

Now staying in the formation can still make people call their names. Except for the unsalable veteran, there is only Alan Smith. Viduka, Mills, Robinson... Fortunately, there is no exclamation.

No one believed that Leeds United could succeed in relegation, but when they needed victory the most and hoped for life-saving straws, Leeds United met Millwall again.

This made the Legend of the White Rose unable to escape the shadow of the wild lion in the mouths of countless fans!

At that time, Ridsdale and O'Reilly made big signings and spent a huge sum of 60 million pounds to introduce a strong support team to Millwall. It cannot be said that they supported the backbone of the White Roses, but they were also half of the country that should not be underestimated.

And when they performed the Legend of the White Rose to its peak, they happened to encounter the Wild Lion in the semi-finals of the Champions League. The bloodbath and massacre, and then missed the Champions League, last season lingering, this season, only 90 minutes away from relegation, and it will be Millwall who dominates all this!

Millwall doesn't even need to beat the opponent, as long as they get a draw, Leeds United will undoubtedly be relegated! Because Manchester City, which started the game first, lost to Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium, Leeds United seems to be one step closer to a miracle. After defeating the Wild Lions, they will narrow the gap with Manchester City to 2 points. If they fail to win, Leeds United It doesn't matter whether the gap with Manchester City is 5 points or 4 points.

As for Millwall, in the case of being 1 point behind Arsenal but with more goal difference than the opponent, scoring 3 points in this game is no different from 1 point, unless Arsenal loses the chain and cannot win the game, even if Millwall Millwall drew, Arsenal won, and the gap returned to 3 points. Millwall still had to score 3 points in the last round to Highbury to reverse and reach the top.

Thinking of this, Aldridge couldn't help but sigh.

Looking around the Elland Road Stadium, looking at the faces that firmly support the favorite team, watching Leeds United fans take off their shirts and write big characters supporting the team on their bodies, watching the dazzling flags fluttering and slogans everywhere... ....

This he-mother, who made the crime!

If it is a team that itself is surviving on the relegation line, no one will pay special attention to Leeds United fans.

However, Leeds United is the last League One champion, a team that has survived in England's top arena for 14 consecutive years, and a team that was still in the semi-finals of the Champions League three years ago!

At this time, the atmosphere at Elland Road Stadium was closer to tragic.

It is natural to be touched.

However, deep down, Aldridge has no sympathy for Leeds United.

Just like last summer, the then Leeds United coach Peter Reed visited Aldridge, hoping to loan Millwall players to enrich the lineup, but Aldridge did not think of his good personal relationship with Reed and nodded, and refused the other party. The reason for rejecting Mourinho was the same.

You can't protect yourself, Leeds United is in turmoil, I will not loan my players there, there are too many hidden dangers!

Leeds United are paying the price for their chicken-blooded team building model, and the natural cycle is normal.

If you think it's unfair, then blame Ridsdale for not Abramovich. What Abramovich threw at Chelsea was private wealth. Ridsdale can only overdraw the future of Leeds United as a bet. (to be continued..) ()