In late April, Jiang Feng reappeared in Manchester. His team has reached the most crucial moment to win the championship.

In the Champions League, Manchester United have eliminated Ligue 1 champions Lyon to reach the semi-finals, and in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals on April 22, Manchester United beat La Liga giants Deportivo La Coruna 2-0 away to reach this year's Champions League final at the Ovschalke Stadium in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Because in the second leg of the semi-final on May 5, their chances of winning are almost zero, even though more than two weeks ago, they had the miracle of losing 4-1 in the first leg and knocking out AC Milan 4-0 in the second leg.

Old Trafford is now known all over the world as the home of the Devils. In a total of 28 games in all competitions played at Old Trafford this season (including 17 in the league, five in the Champions League, three in the FA Cup and three in the League Cup), the Reds have yet to lose a single game, with a horrific record of 27 wins and one draw, scoring 82 goals and conceding just six.

The games played here, in the shouts of the 120,000 home fans at Old Trafford, no matter how good the psychological quality, are inevitably affected. Therefore, Deportivo La Coruna is lucky not to have his head shaved at Old Trafford, let alone to reverse the two-goal gap.

In the FA Cup, Manchester United knocked out Arsenal on the 5th of this month to reach the FA Cup final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, on May 22.

Now Manchester United will face a title race.

Today is April 25th local time in the UK, and the league has passed 34 rounds, and the 35th round of matches is about to be ushered in.

In the 34 rounds that have been completed, Manchester United has achieved an unbeaten record of 28 wins and 6 draws, and with a score of 90 points, it has firmly suppressed Arsenal, which has completed 35 rounds, also achieved an unbeaten record of 24 wins and 11 draws, and has accumulated 83 points.

And, as long as Manchester United win their next matches, they will win the league title three games ahead of schedule. It will be their ninth league title in the 12 years since the Premier League began.

Their opponents in the round of 35 will also be very interesting as they are Manchester United's number one rivals in England - Liverpool.

Manchester United and Liverpool have a long-standing feud, and the match between them is also known as the English derby.

More than 100 years ago, in the 19th century, before modern football and basketball took shape, horse racing was the number one sport in Europe. In 1870, when the word "derby" was born in the world of sports, it was used in horse racing. At that time, at the Epsom Horse Race, the oldest horse race in Sherryshire, the 12th Earl of Derby, Edward Frank. Staley refers to the term "derby" for horse racing, which refers to a race between two racehorses of the same age and weight, over a distance of 1.5 miles.

Chinese translation of derby as "derby" is also expected to be a mistake in pronunciation, in fact, the British pronunciation of this word, all the sounds are "darby". Chinese transliteration, similar mistakes are actually many, many because of conventions, mistakes have been left for a long time, in the scope of football, such as leicester, British English pronunciation as "Leicester", there is a Leicester Square in central London, 130 years later, in the twenty-first century, the Epson horse racing race is still going on, but when they hear the "derby" again, it is already on the football field, and the "derby" at this time is also extended to the confrontation between the same city or neighboring teams in the football geography.

The Premier League has London derby, Manchester derby, Birmingham derby, northern derby, south coast derby, etc., Serie A has Rome derby, Milan derby, La Liga has Madrid derby, Barcelona derby, and the Munich derby of the Bundesliga can also be counted as one.

If you don't understand the deep meaning of the derby, you will lose the most primitive understanding of English football. English football has its origins in the Industrial Revolution, when clubs from different regions were formed or rivalled by regional divisions, such as derbies between Manchester United and Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal.

Manchester and Liverpool are just over 40 miles apart, and while I was working in the UK, I lived in Liverpool for the second year, often going to Manchester for covering matches, and within 40 minutes of Old Trafford and Maine Road. After Manchester City moved in the summer of 2003, the new Manchester stadium was also just a 50-minute drive from Liverpool. A motorway, the M62, connects the two cities together.

However, such close neighbors are two completely different cities, and they are two absolutely opposite cities. Rivalry builds up year after year, and the best peaceful solution is on the football field.

Liverpool is famous for its harbour, and in our White Spoon history books, there are many inglorious histories of the city, such as Liverpool's early beginnings, including the cheap labour of African slaves and Chinese piglets. From the perspective of population structure, Liverpool is a city of Irish immigrants, because it is convenient to take a boat to Dublin, the first city in Ireland, and Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, so religiously, Liverpool is more of a bishop city, rather than the Protestant Anglican like most cities in the United Kingdom. The difference in religion, but also because of the fierce historical conflict between the bishop and the state religion in British history, always makes other British people look at Liverpool differently, and Liverpool also cherishes their own cultural background very much, and even the accent of speaking is very different from other British people, which is mixed with many Irish and Scottish accents, which makes Liverpool into the British into the United Kingdom seems quite alternative, British English to "Liverpool in" and the proper noun scouse.

With a rare cultural tradition and a unique geographical location, Liverpool had a very special position during the Industrial Revolution: as the most important port in the north of England, it was the only way for the industrial products of the British Empire and the raw materials of the colonies to enter and exit, and an extremely busy harbour that carried goods and labor from all over the world, and then the Mersey River and the canals that began to be built in the 18th century led to Manchester, Birmingham and the northern part of Scotland.

Manchester, on the other hand, is a traditional international city, with absolute allegiance to the Queen and pride in being a citizen of the British Empire. During the Industrial Revolution, Manchester earned a reputation as the "Factory of the World" for its great textile industry.

Compared with Liverpool's social form, which is dominated by business income and transportation owners, Manchester is a purely industrial city with a large number of working classes constituting its main body of society. Simple, low-key and down-to-earth, is the characteristic of this labor city, for the traditional Manchester enters, all prosperity is created by the hard work of the hands, their white spoon life habits are similar to the Puritans, so for the Liverpool businessmen who do not work on the surface, the habits of life flashy, Manchester into has no good feelings.

In terms of climate, Manchester is one of the most changeable cities in the United Kingdom, and it is very common to have three or four rains in the same night, and at the same time to enjoy three or four sunshines, so much so that Scott used the term Manchester to describe the mentality of women. Liverpool is close to the ocean and has a more stable climate than Manchester.

Liverpool is famous for its pubs, just around the city centre, there are nearly 300 pubs, and many British and European pubs come here for a weekend because of the chic music and humor. Regardless of whether it is cold or hot, Liverpool girls will wear a happy evening dress to go clubbing on the weekend, which also forms a grand scene in Liverpool. There used to be a saying that the girls in Liverpool are so godlike that even at Christmas, they would go clubbing in bikinis. It may be an exaggeration, but Liverpool's pub culture does make the imagination come true.

There are plenty of pubs in Manchester, but when you walk down Oxford Road in the heart of the city on the weekend, you don't feel the fun and relaxation of Liverpool's weekend pubs, but you have to worry about the crumbs of wine bottles on the side of the street, or the drunks who feel sorry for themselves in some dark corner. The bars here have always been a place for the working class to relax and vent after work, unpretentious and dull. In Manchester's bars, there is always a kind of mourning for the glorious days that have passed, a kind of sadness of helplessness.

Even music, both cities have an antagonistic side. Liverpool is considered the birthplace of rock music because of the great 'Beatles', Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr who started a revolutionary era from the basement of the 'Cavern Bar' in the heart of Liverpool, who were also avid football fans.

Manchester's modern music scene started a little late, but from the 70s onwards, it gradually became another major city of rock music, with a global influence. But Manchester's rock 'n' roll heavy metal is more colourful and cynical, and even in today's highly commercialised world, you can still hear some of the inner desperation in the screams of the oasis. The band of Oasis includes both die-hard Manchester City fans and avid Manchester United fans.

The antagonism of religion, the antagonism of social ethnicity, the antagonism of industry, the antagonism of customs, the antagonism of music and culture, constitute the intricate relationship between Manchester and Liverpool. In the Middle Ages, political derbies such as those between Lancasshire and Yorkshire could be resolved by war, and in modern times, derbies between cities take place on football pitches.

Every Liverpool fan, whether Liverpool or Everton, hates Manchester United. They themselves can't say why, but they have hated it since they were children, maybe because Manchester United is too big and too successful, or maybe because of the grudge against each other for a hundred years. What disgusts Liverpool the most is that the United players and coaches have a unique temperament: they are the best, and they are not humble at all, they always want to let Liverpool know that they are the best.

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