Chapter 358: Bolton, the sworn enemy

As mentioned earlier, Manchester United has four sworn enemies in England, namely city rivals Manchester City, biggest rivals Liverpool, Leeds United and Bolton.

The reasons for hatred are difficult to articulate. Manchester City fans hate Manchester United, which can be explained by the derby complex, because Manchester City is the sole owner of Manchester, and Manchester United, a team that struggled in Newtonsith and finally bought Manchester City stars, and then came to Manchester to compete with Manchester City for turf, how can it be accepted by its city rivals? Just as Tottenham could not accept Arsenal moving from the south bank of Thames to north London and fighting them for turf and fans.

Leeds United's hatred of Manchester United is similar to that of several other big clubs around Manchester: a grudge against the underdog in a long competition. This is true for both Blackburn Rovers and Everton. They are jealous of United's over-strength and success, and at the same time, the United players have a domineering temperament that can be felt at the beginning of every Manchester United game, and in any domestic game in England, Manchester United have a sense of superiority, which is particularly annoying to opponents. In the past 40 years, Manchester United has been under the management of Edwards and his sons, and has tried to develop the club's brand effect in the market through modern commercialization, and this new era of club corporatization has also made many hostile fans unacceptable, who believe that Manchester United has lost some of the traditional virtues of football and has become a business machine that takes money as the highest interest and alienates fans.

Among the surrounding enemies, Bolton Wanderers and Manchester United have a different hatred than others. This is one of United's most hated enemies, and Bolton don't have a good reputation in English football as a whole. The cause occurred in 1958. The regrouping of Sir Busby after the Munich air disaster, and the arduous struggle that followed the misfortune and disaster of Manchester United aroused sympathy and appreciation from the entire football world. However, three months after the crash, Manchester United and Bolton reached the FA Cup final, a game in which Manchester United not only lost to Bolton, but were also extremely humiliated by Bolton fans.

Bolton fans made an unbelievable gesture on the spot: nearly 1,000 Bolton fans danced their hands and made a plane crash motion to humiliate Manchester United. This lack of basic compassion has left Bolton isolated. And there is even more sympathy for Manchester United. Lingxi Ring 358

In the same year, West Ham fans in London made similar humiliating gestures towards Manchester United, but because London was far away, West Ham fans did not provoke the same outrage as Bolton fans.

Since then, Bolton and Manchester United have become mortal enemies, Bolton has been between the Premier League and League One for nearly ten years, it is said that one reason is that the team in the northwest has always tried their best to play Bolton, and Bolton is difficult to buy excellent players in England, which has formed the situation that Bolton now relies on Djokaeff and Okocha to be relegated every year.

In the north-west derby relationship between Liverpool and Manchester United, in addition to the rivalry between the cities and the rivalry between the teams for a hundred years. There is also a layer of jealousy from Liverpool fans.

In the seventies, Liverpool was already the king of Europe. The results clearly overwhelmed Manchester United, who were once relegated to the second division, but the Liverpool team and fans alike believe that they have never been able to replace Manchester United's legendary status in front of the public and the media, and Manchester United is still the "biggest club", which makes every Liverpool-Manchester United derby full of drama.

Bolton Wanderers have become a force to behold, having gone from being a relegation underdog to a tough nut for the big side, finishing 8th in the league and reaching the final of the Carabao Cup. Coach Sam Allardyce's ability has also been widely recognized.

However, in this final, they faced a formidable opponent from Manchester United, and the venue for the final was not in Bolton's favor. Because this is Cardiff City, the capital of Wales, and Ryan Giggs, the absolute main member of the Manchester United team, is from Cardiff City. For the tournament held here, there will be a lot of Cardiff fans who will buy tickets for this match. They will definitely support Manchester United.

When the time comes, Bolton will have to play against not only Manchester United fans, but also local fans in Cardiff.

They are playing the final away from home. Manchester United, on the other hand, will have unconditional support, which will improve the form of the Manchester United players......

This final, for Bolton. It's very tough from every point of view.

For Manchester United, however, the environment is much warmer than Wembley Stadium.

Because of Manchester United's strength this season, they have become a public enemy of the Premier League and even the United Kingdom. In the 26 rounds that have been played, they are unbeaten with 22 wins and four draws, six points ahead of second-placed Arsenal at the top of the table.

Manchester United are unbeaten not only in the league, but also in the English domestic competition. Because they have won all five League Cup games and three FA Cup games that have been played.

Of course, there are two other reasons why Manchester United has become a public enemy of the media, one of which is that Ferguson has always been a big mouth, and he has no good impression of the media, and there are many media who have offended, especially the "Daily Mirror", "Evening Banner" and other media that have been banned by him, and they have been committed to smearing Ferguson and Manchester United.

Ferguson's relationship with the media has been strained.

While Alex Ferguson has led United to impressive results on the pitch, he has often treated the media with extreme roughness off the pitch. For example, in May 2003, a radio station asked him about Beckham's transfer, and he was met with bad words from the old man.

Other media outlets that witnessed the situation immediately reported truthfully about Ferguson's swear words at the time.

Ferguson was so furious by these reports that he ordered United to refuse to be interviewed by a number of media outlets, including the Daily Mirror and the Evening Banner. This kind of restriction of freedom of speech caused quite a stir in British society at the time.

At the beginning of the year, Ferguson had another battle with the media, this time against the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). At that time, the BBC reported on the scandal of Ferguson and his son suspected of receiving "black money" in the transfer process of players, and this topic obviously touched the most sensitive nerve of the old man, so Ferguson immediately announced that Manchester United refused all interviews from the BBC.

With such a background, it is only natural that the media is unhappy with Manchester United. Lingxi Ring 358

However, they can't do anything about Manchester United, because Manchester United's results on all fronts are so good, and it is impossible for these media not to report the news of Manchester United. If that is the case, it is the media that will be the real losers.

Since we can't afford not to report on Manchester United, we have no choice but to smear Manchester United and Ferguson.

Bolton this season, when facing the semi-finals, has a good record and can be said to be a giant killer. Except for being beaten by Manchester United, they can always win or draw, but they rarely lose. In their last-three games against Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool, they have won one and lost one of their two games against Liverpool, while they have also drawn two against Arsenal and Chelsea.

Now that Bolton are taking on Manchester United in the Carabao Cup final, the English media are hopefully awaiting that Bolton can end United's unbeaten streak and preferably beat them in a major game such as the Carabao Cup final.

The Daily Mirror and the Evening Banner are already making suggestions for Bolton, and as long as Bolton can beat Manchester United, then one can imagine what kind of vicious words these two media outlets will use to slash Manchester United. In terms of strength, Bolton, who has 34 points after 27 rounds, and Manchester United, who have 22 wins and 4 draws in one round less, and 70 points, are not at all on the same level.

It's just that football matches don't count winners and losers like this. Or, Bolton won't be a giant killer, and Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal won't be drawn or lost against Bolton.

And, as it turned out, United are not truly invincible, as they ended their unbeaten run of the season just three days earlier when they lost to Porto.

It's only been four days and United may not have recovered from that blow. In such a situation, Bolton have a good chance of beating Manchester United and ending Manchester United's unbeaten record in Europe and ending Manchester United's unbeaten record in domestic competition.

Coupled with the fact that Manchester United's main centre-forward Didier Drogba has recently fallen into a seven-game goal drought, this is not good news for Manchester United.

All of this is good news for Bolton.

Bolton's players saw that the media was cheering them on, and they were already Manchester United's sworn enemies, so it was natural that they were gearing up to put on a good show.

Then the final between Manchester United and Bolton came up.

From the hotel to the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff fans were everywhere holding signs attacking Bolton Wanderers, and fans wearing Cardiff City shirts holding Manchester United scarves.

When they saw Bolton's bus, many people would give their middle fingers to Bolton's bus and boo.

The treatment didn't end there, as Bolton's players were greeted with huge boos as they stepped onto Cardiff's Millennium Stadium for their pre-match warm-up.

On the contrary, when the United players came out a little later to warm up, there were cheers and applause in the stands.

The inclination of this course is already evident.

It was a neutral stadium, but now it has almost become the home of Manchester United.

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