Chapter 12: Chicken Feathers

Manchester's overseas derby is cancelled!!

As soon as this news came out, it caused a shock!

As soon as the news came out, many fans questioned it, and they couldn't understand the reason for the cancellation of the game. Because as of noon today, the sky in Beijing is still clear. When the news of Ledem was announced, many fans had gathered outside the Bird's Nest, many of whom rushed to Beijing from other places or even abroad.

In response to the reason for the cancellation of the event, Leji Sports replied to the reporter of "Daily Economic News" that under the recent extremely bad weather conditions in Beijing, the turf condition of the venue is not suitable for the game, and in order to protect the safety of the players, all parties have made a decision to cancel the game.

The International Champions Cup is a commercial tournament that regularly invites influential teams from the five major leagues to various places every year for pre-season warm-up matches. As the Chinese operator behind the event, Leji Sports successfully operated the first International Champions Cup China last year. However, the match between Manchester United and Manchester City was suddenly cancelled, and the reason for its claim of "weather and venue" was questioned by fans.

Although it rained heavily in Beijing a few days ago, the weather in Beijing was sunny for four consecutive days, and it did not rain again.

Is it that in four days, the drainage facilities of the International Stadium are so bad?

“..... Since 2010, the Bird's Nest has begun to arrange the replacement of the original "modular mobile lawn" structure (referred to as ITM system) and the planting of cool-season grass, in order to better meet the needs of special weather and major events in summer, and to take into account the needs of early spring and early winter events, the mobile lawn box has been comprehensively trimmed and partially replaced to ensure that the site is level. Moreover, as a national stadium, the annual maintenance fund of the Bird's Nest is as high as 190 million yuan - the operator of the "Bird's Nest", Li Aiqing, chairman of Beijing State-owned Assets Management Co., Ltd., mentioned in an interview: "Do nothing a year, as long as the door opens, it will be 100 million yuan smaller, water, electricity, heat, maintenance, plus depreciation of fixed assets, etc., the annual expenditure will be more than 190 million yuan." So, why is it difficult to satisfy even a football game with so much money to maintain turf? "Sports Weekly" questioned in the report.

"Those who come to Beijing from other places must take into account the transportation, accommodation and catering should also be compensated to a certain extent, there are fans who come from Kunming, and they can understand their pain very well, this is not the weekend, this is Monday and leave to come to Beijing. Everyone has a common interest in football and sports, and we should compensate you for it and reassure you. Not only can you get a refund, but you should defend your rights and interests, and you should make your own real demands. "Some media people advised fans to defend their interests.

In fact, when Ledeath Sports released the news, a lot of fans had already gathered outside the Bird's Nest. Among them, many fans rushed to Beijing from other places or even abroad.

Ah Fa from Nanning, Guangxi Province, is one of them.

At this point, he was one of the United fans who were overwhelmed outside the Bird's Nest Stadium.

As a college student, he doesn't have much money himself, just a ticket of more than 500 yuan almost cost him half a month's living expenses.

Then there was the train fare from Nanning to Beijing – a regular train that required him to take a train from Nanning to Guangzhou, then transfer to Guangzhou, and travel for 32 hours before the start of the race to Beijing.

In order to save money on accommodation, he and his friends even leaned against the Golden Arches, which is open 24 hours a day, for a night.

After hard work and frugality, just to see their home team's game on the spot.

However, when they arrived at the Bird's Nest early in the morning and waited near the Bird's Nest Stadium for almost a day, Le Death Sports suddenly announced that the game was canceled!

How receptive this is to them.

Now they haven't thought of the refund compensation, and at this time, some of his friends who accompanied Ah Fa began to sobble quietly.

If what supported them before was the excitement of seeing the home team, then now, after more than 30 hours of travel, the sudden announcement of the cancellation of the game made them quickly feel physically and mentally exhausted.

Ah Fa sat on the steps in front of the stadium's main gate, where many fans like them wore Manchester United shirts, as well as many Manchester City fans. It's just that everyone's expressions were the same before, confused and frustrated.

Ah Fa didn't cry, he was very unwilling.

He had been planning for this trip for several months, and since a few months ago, he had begun to save some of his little living expenses, and he had also found a part-time job outside the school, and finally saved enough money for travel expenses and tickets.

But now, months of hard work have come to naught, and he hasn't even seen a Manchester United player.

It's like a giant April Fool's joke........

At this time, it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was shining obliquely from the southwest side of the Bird's Nest Stadium, and the dazzling sunlight reminded Ah Fa of the announcement of Eudeath Sports.

"........ because of the weather"

Ah Fa struggled to open his eyes and look at the dazzling sunlight. It's like watching an absurd drama, but the protagonist is him....

Everyone is the protagonist of their own life.

The protagonist Ah Fa slammed the stainless steel hollow railing next to the steps!

"You can't just leave it at that!!"

The Manchester United fans who came to Beijing with him looked up at him, and Ah Fa was the organizer of this Manchester United fan team.

"We went to the team's hotel!! The game can't be seen, we have to see the team!! ”

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When Ah Fa brought his friends and a group of Manchester United fans who came with them spontaneously, he found that hundreds of Manchester United fans thought the same way as them.

Fans gathered in front of the hotel, holding signs, most of them were in a stable mood despite their depressed expressions, while some fans were very emotional, and asked to see the team and questioned the organization and operation of the event on LeTV.

Li Qingshan stood on the window of the room and watched as more and more fans gathered at the door of the hotel.

His expression was very serious, and his grip on the curtain tightened and tightened, and finally, he jerked it open, turned and walked towards the door.

"What are you going to do.... Plum?! ”

Lingard asked.

"Do what I have to do..."Li Qingshan did not look back.

Lingard soon knew what the "do" was.

He looked out of the window and saw Li Qingshan appear in front of the fans, he seemed to say something, and those emotional fans quickly calmed down.

Then he signed autographs for the fans in turn and met the fans' request for group photos.

It seems that a protest of questioning, with the intervention of Li Qingshan, has turned into an open fan meeting.

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This was the end of a farce for Manchester United, who returned to Manchester on the plane that night.

And this farce is left to the Chinese football world, just a piece of chicken feathers.........