When Riley blew the whistle for the end of the game, all the players on the Liverpool bench rushed onto the pitch.

With a furious attack in the final 20 minutes, Liverpool beat Arsenal 1-0 and won the Carabao Cup in the 03/04 season thanks to a late 79th-minute effort from Ronaldo.

In the stands of the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Liverpool fans were singing excitedly.

When the referee blew the whistle, Liverpool's players were rushing into the field, and Arsenal's players were leaving the field quickly, and even in the stands, there were already many vacancies in the area belonging to Arsenal fans.

Anyone who watched the game after Xiao Xiaoluo came on the field, anyone can notice that it is a matter of time before Liverpool scores a goal, and even they will think that Liverpool only scored 1, and Arsenal is too lucky.

"If it weren't for Riley's failure to read the new offside rules and blow for Gerrard's shot from behind, if Lehmann hadn't saved Drogba's close-range header like a god, maybe Arsenal would have lost this game even more embarrassingly than they are now!"

"The whole game seemed to be going according to the process of deduction and speculation by the media before the game, Liverpool defended first, exhausting Arsenal's physical strength, while Arsenal never found an effective way to conquer Liverpool, and could only work again and again in vain, and finally watched the physical strength in the body be exhausted bit by bit."

"This situation became more obvious in the last 20 minutes, when Ronaldo was inserted in the back row, Ashley Cole should have followed, but the England left wing-back lost in physical weakness, unable to keep up with Ronaldo's speed, so he could only watch him rush into the area where Toure was stationed and score past the Gunners' goal!"

"After such a depressing defeat, should Wenger reflect on his strategy and be more flexible in the use of the main lineup, at least the quality stars like Parlour and Wiltord should get more opportunities, so that the team can rotate more easily."

"Yes, Arsene Wenger trusts Bergkamp, but let's not forget that the Dutchman is 34 years old, and as for players such as Patrick Vieira, Pire, Thierry Henry, Ljungberg, etc., there is a need for some trustworthy, consistent substitutes, at least so far, none of which have been found."

"When we see that Henry drags his tired body, when Vieira fights so hard that he can barely run, but is still gritting his teeth and preparing to fill the holes in the backline, we can only sigh, what about the substitutes? Where are the substitutions? ”

"Of course, maybe it has a lot to do with Arsenal going hand in hand on the league and the Champions Cup, but we all want to see Wenger change, at least a squad that is not spacious, it is really difficult to ensure that Arsenal can maintain results on two or even more fronts, this has been raised by many people before the league, and now it has been fulfilled!"

"On the other hand, Liverpool, after the reorganization, the players have become much younger, but the squad has remained around 23-25 to ensure the team's combat effectiveness, obviously Yang Cheng himself is very clear that only in this way can Liverpool's multi-line battles, although he is facing a relatively less competitive pressure in the League Cup, but his approach should be alerted by Wenger?"

Arsene Wenger may not have heard the words of the commentator at the scene, and neither could the Gunners fans at the scene, as they were busy leaving the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Losing this final, this is no longer their stage, this belongs to Liverpool!

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Although the whole of England is calling for the importance of the cup and the tradition of English football, in reality, unfortunately, it cannot be done, because compared to the league and the European Champions Cup, which have huge interests, the cup is often just a fig leaf for the giants, or something for the weak teams to talk about and masturbate.

Coupled with the League Cup, everyone has to compete in other competitions as soon as the game is over.

Even Liverpool don't have much interest in the Carabao Cup, and when the team arrives at the airport, there is a group of die-hard fans who come to greet them, but don't expect any city tours and the like, it's better to think more about the upcoming League Cup and FA Cup. ,

On the contrary, on the bus back to Liverpool City, Rick Parry talked to Yang Cheng about the youth training, and he said that the club decided to hand over the Kirkby Academy to Yang Cheng after negotiation, hoping that he could help Liverpool reorganize the youth academy.

"We all know that youth is the future of the team, but we all want you to respect our team and our traditions!" Rick Parry doesn't look like he's backing Yang Cheng at all, but rather like a defeated rooster.

This gave Yang Cheng the illusion that he was worried and afraid of something.

But what the hell was going on, he didn't say.

"Ian, what is the Liverpool tradition?" Sending Rick Parry away, Yang Cheng thought about it for a long time and didn't figure it out.

After Ian Rush heard this, he smiled slightly, and was about to say those slogans of Kirk's Ghost Comparison Academy, but Yang Cheng spoke first.

"Don't talk to me about those slogans, come to something practical!"

This made Ian Rush a little serious, and nodded, "Let's go to Sutton's Pub!" ”

"Sutton's Bar?!" Yang Cheng has heard this name countless times, and heard that it is the favorite place for Liverpool to go, but he has always been busy and has never had a chance to visit it.

"It's right at the Paisley Gate in Anfield, it's close, just a few steps away!" Ian Rush said.

Yang Cheng nodded, "Where do you often go to drink?" ”

"I used to go when I was a player, and now I ...... Less! ”

"Then let's go have a drink after training tomorrow!" Yang Cheng said.

He was suddenly interested in learning about it all. Ian Rush was stunned for a moment, but quickly nodded in agreement, "It's okay, I haven't been there for a long time, I don't know if Oriel is still there?" ”

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"Cheers, for the championship!"

Everyone in Sutton's bar raised their glasses in unison and shouted excitedly.

Although the Carabao Cup final had passed yesterday, there were still plenty of people celebrating excitedly, especially in Sutton's pub.

When Yang Cheng opened the door of the bar, he was greeted not by the heavy metal music that many fan bars prevalent, but by a soothing and melodious music, and when he heard it, he could hear that it was the Beatles' [HeyJude], which can often be heard on the streets of Liverpool.

The city is proud of football and the Beatles!

"Wow, oh my God, guys, look who's coming!" The first Liverpool fan, who had obviously drunk a lot of alcohol, was so excited that he seemed to see Audrey Hepburn when he saw Yang Cheng, and he whistled a big whistle in his mouth and shouted excitedly.

"Caesar?"

"Oh my God, Caesar is here!"

"It's really Mr. Yang Cheng!"

The entire Sutton Bar suddenly became a mess, and everyone stopped their celebrations, and they all looked over one by one, just to see Yang Cheng's true face, because it was this man who brought them a championship trophy yesterday.

Although they would be more hungry for the league and the Champions League, who would be disgusted with the trophy?

"What a rare guest, Mr. Yang Cheng!" A middle-aged man with thinning hair walked out of the bar and smiled at Yang Cheng.

"Hey, Oriel!" Ian Rush immediately greeted him with a smile.

Only then did everyone realize that Ian Rush had also arrived, and they were amazed again.

"Okay, okay, everyone, they're all gone, what should you do, it's not that you haven't seen it, don't scare our Caesar into not daring to come in the future!" Auriel said with a smile.

It can be seen that he has a lot of status in the hearts of the fans, and everyone laughed at him for a while, but they all dispersed.

"I thought you weren't there!" Ian Rush said with his hands on the bar, laughing.

Auriel looked around, sighed, and said with a smile, "I've thought about retirement, but I can't calm down." ”

Ian Rush smiled and didn't say anything.

"Hey, Ian, where's your beard?" It was only then that Auriel discovered that Ian Rush, who had always had a thick beard when he was a player, was now clean and slippery.

"Shaved!" He said, but did not explain why.

"What a pity!" Oriel just smiled and didn't say anything he was sorry for.

The guy knocked on the bar, looked around at Sutton's bar with interest, and asked, "Okay, Mr. Yang Cheng, what do you want to drink?" Carlsberg? Whiskey? "Carlsberg! Yang Cheng said with a smile.

"Same!" Ian Rush said.

"Good!" Oriel smiled and poured the wine, and it wasn't long before two full glasses of Carlsberg were placed in front of them.

Yang Cheng didn't have the idea of moving his wine glass, he was scanning around this Sutton bar, as if he wanted to find something different from this bar, but unfortunately, he didn't find anything.

"Don't you think it's ordinary?" Ian Rush asked.

Yang Cheng nodded, there are two floors, there is a staircase in the middle to go up, the upstairs is a special seat, and the downstairs is some standing seats, all of which are used for fans to watch football, and it looks like most of the bars on the street are the same.

"Everton and Liverpool were born here!" Ian Rush said.

Yang Cheng was stunned, but he was a little surprised, after all, the two teams were mortal enemies of each other.

"First there was Everton, but then they didn't want to pay Anfield's salary, so they moved to Goodson Park, and then Holding, the owner of Sutton Bar at the time, founded Liverpool, who was also one of the founders of Everton and the owner of Anfield."

"At its peak, Sutton's pubs were all over Liverpool, everywhere, in the docks, in the alleys, everywhere, but now, that's the only one left in the world."

As he spoke, Ian Rush was also looking around Sutton's Bar, as if looking for something.

"This pub has witnessed everything about Liverpool from its inception to the present!" Auriel walked over and said with a smile, "So a lot of people say that if you haven't been to Sutton's Pub, you're not a Liverpool fan. ”

Oriel knocked on the bar, which looked old, but sturdy, "Most of everything here is still the way it was, and in the past, the fans came here with a sense of reverence, because the greatest team in the world was born here, but now, it's more with nostalgia." ”

The two mentalities are very different and a good reflection of the current situation at Liverpool. The glory of the past and the sinking of today are all gathered in this Sutton bar.

"Is Steve Highey leaving?" After a brief moment of silence, Auriel suddenly asked.

Yang Chengzheng raised his wine glass and took a sip, and after listening to it, he put it down and smiled slightly, "Is there any problem?" ”

"No, of course not, you're the only decision-maker on the team!" Oriel was afraid that he would misunderstand, so he explained, "I just asked casually, he ...... Actually a very poor guy! ”

Yang Cheng nodded, although he didn't know why Oriel said this, but he would not deny the judgment of Oriel and others, because he didn't know Haiwei at all, he just knew that he was a hot Englishman, who was once a famous man of Liverpool and was respected by Liverpool fans.

"If you stand in other positions, I can understand it, but I don't think his current football knowledge will help Liverpool's youth training, and football today is different from ten or twenty years ago!" Yang Cheng said.

He didn't understand why the Liverpudlians were so attached to the past.

Oriel smiled and nodded, "...... You're right......"

He obviously had something to say, but in the end he held back.

Liverpool has been up for more than ten years, and finally waited for a manager who has the potential to lead the team to glory, and he doesn't want to be bad because of his words.

I believe this is also the decision made by Rick Parry and David Morse.

When the tradition of all people clashes with the fight for glory, the club's management chooses the latter, perhaps because they feel they want to win glory as soon as possible, get out of the shadow of the past, and then revive the tradition.

Of course, if the tradition has been lost for too long, it is impossible to get it back!

Ian Rush patted Oriel on the shoulder and said to Yang Cheng, "Let's go upstairs and sit down!" ”

Yang Cheng nodded to Oriel and followed Ian Rush up the wooden staircase on the side of the bar to the second floor.

Oriel looked at Yang Cheng's back and smiled bitterly in his heart.

When an old team is so depressed that it needs outsiders to save itself, what qualifications and face do they have to ask an outsider to understand the persistence and contradiction in their hearts? No one can be blamed for this kind of thing, including David Morse and Rick Parry, because they are simply doing their best to keep Liverpool and ensure that the Reds do not fall completely, just like Nottingham Forest and Leeds United this season.

If it really gets to the point where Leeds United, will Liverpool still have glory to speak of?

It's a very realistic world, everyone is staring at the top league, everyone is staring at the giants, and in order to ensure Liverpool's status as a giant, David Morse and others have done enough.

Yang Cheng sat on the seat on the second floor, looking at Oriel below, he always felt that the person in charge of the bar was a little strange.

"Why do the people here seem to me to be conflicted?" Yang Cheng asked.

Ian Rush smiled wryly and looked at the glass of beer on the table, yellow, like the Beatles song.

"When you've tried the pinnacle of omnipotence, you'll find that the sinking of inaction is like hell."

Yang Cheng didn't expect Ian Rush to say such a philosophical sentence, a little stunned, but after a closer look, I really think so, as if he reached the peak of Inter Milan, and after coming to Liverpool, he sometimes has an unbalanced psychology, so he often has to connect with Natalie across the ocean on the Internet to seek the help of this psychologist.

The two sat on the second floor, drinking and listening to Ian Rush talk about the feud between Liverpool and Everton, and he understood why Everton's Goodson Park stadium was built next door to Anfield, and why there was so much grudge between the two clubs.

The fans downstairs also came and went, especially after nightfall, when the workers were off work and the bar began to be lively, starting to get crowded and the atmosphere became more lively.

The only constant is that the bar still plays those Beatles songs, which is very nostalgic.

At this moment, they heard a bang downstairs, and Yang Cheng and they all felt a little trembling upstairs, and they saw Steve Haiwei rushing in menacingly, swearing something in his mouth.

"Oriel, give me a whiskey!" He slammed his right fist against the bar and shouted.

Aurell walked out and saw that it was Steve Highway, and couldn't help but look up at Yang Cheng on the second floor, and it happened that Yang Cheng also looked down, obviously noticing Haiwei's arrival.

"Drink less and be sober!" Oriel persuaded him, but he knew Haiwe's temper, and he was unscrupulous when he drank.

"Be nosy!" Haiwei looked arrogant, obviously mad.

The bartender quickly brought a glass of whiskey, and Haiwei directly picked it up and poured it, then slammed it on the bar, "Another drink, damn it, it's not fun!" ”

The TV in the bar lobby was broadcasting a recording of last night's Carabao Cup final, and the fans were thrilled to see it, especially when Ronaldo scored the goal.

"This Portuguese is fantastic, really good, after being trained by Caesar, he is getting better and better!" A young fan shouted excitedly.

"Yes, his foot skills, it's really enjoyable, and Robben, the two of them are definitely the sharpest two-sided strikers in the Premier League this season, I just don't know why Caesar refuses to let them at the same time!" Another young player shouted.

"I think it's the same young players, they're much better than those academy players in Kirkby, I always feel like they play football, you look at Ronaldo and Robben, the skills are so good, even Andy Gray said, watching them play, you can understand how big the gap between our England youth and others is!"

As soon as the fan's voice fell, he heard a bang, and Haiwei slammed the beer glass in his hand to the ground, shattered, and his eyes were red and bloodshot, "Fart, fuck the fucking stinky fart!" ”

Undoubtedly, these words unveiled his reverse! (To be continued) [This text is provided by the Ghost of Sailing]