Surprisingly, the sales of major newspapers such as The Times were not as high as some lacy tabloids the next day.

Although the newspapers focused on the Millwall triumph celebrations and Liverpool's misplacement at the feet of fourth-placed Bradford, Leeds United finished fourth in the league and qualified for next season's Champions League qualifying after a draw away.

However, their contented commentary, including comments on the Premier League season, and so on, are no match for a photo of a lace tabloid.

Aldridge had never taken a photo, and the photo of him naked in the Lion's Den was published after special effects, and it didn't matter what the text was about, in short, the tabloid's sales increased dramatically.

Aldrich is also helpless, this is not an invasion of privacy, especially since most of the tabloids write articles seriously, that is, they cite his photos to earn sales, and the effect is surprisingly good, of course, the vast majority of those who pay must be female readers.

Millwall began to prepare for the FA Cup final.

Aldridge reminded his players in training to forget about the Champions League final in order to play well in the FA Cup final.

If the whole team is thinking about the Champions League final, it is likely to be a loss of one or the other, and since the FA Cup is played first, a defeat in the FA Cup final will have the repercussions to the Champions League final four days later.

Chelsea, opponents in the FA Cup final, are starting to disrupt Millwall, and Vialli believes Aldridge's managerial quality is admirable, but it has not been fair to the players this season.

"I don't know what team Millwall will send to play, even if Hall himself can't be trusted, that's what everyone knows. He will lie to confuse his opponents. But if he sends the main squad against the FA Cup. I don't think it's fair to the other Millwall players, Klose, Glen Char, Ramole, Frank Lampard, they were the ones who played the big role in Millwall's FA Cup final, Larsson? Nedved? That's right, they're stronger. But they didn't play a minute before the FA Cup, they didn't play a minute, but they came on in the final, they were heroes when they won and people don't remember the real heroes, I'm talking about Frank Lampard, Glen Shire, them. ”

If Vialli's remarks had been made by neutrals, they would have sounded plausible.

It can be said from his mouth, and everyone understands what it means.

Harassing the enemy, maybe. And a little timid.

Five years since Millwall set foot in the Premier League. They are unbeaten against Chelsea in five years and have an overwhelming head-to-head win rate.

Vialli's remarks caused a stir on Fleet Street, and there were many voices of support.

This is a common thing, and Fleet Street is not absolutely inclined to Millwall's position, and once the time is right, they will not hesitate to stand on the opposite side of Millwall.

This tide of public opinion inevitably affected Millwall, but Aldridge chose to remain silent.

He's not the team's babysitter, he's the owner, he's the manager.

Thinking is what the players themselves should do.

In essence, Aldridge is defending the collective interest, not a certain player, and he is not insisting on giving honor to Pirlo and Larsson, playing in the final, playing the strongest team, is it wrong?

If the substitute players are unbalanced, then they are not in the right mind.

The League Cup is out of their group, and it is also them who qualify for the FA Cup final, but it is undeniable that on the road to the FA Cup, Millwall did not encounter much challenge, and the biggest opponent they encountered was Arsenal, Arsenal made them out of the League Cup, and the substitutes played on the bench, and Millwall passed the FA Cup.

Only the semi-final against Aston Villa was a particularly good performance, and the rest, there are still problems, and the result is a win, but they should pay more attention to their own improved training value.

Besides, if you only have your eyes on one trophy, hehe, what can you expect from such a player.

Being so lucky to be on the road to defending the FA Cup this year is inseparable from Manchester United's exit, Manchester United are stronger in the league this year than in previous years, the league points are not deceiving, and if they play in the FA Cup, they will likely meet Millwall, either in the final or on the road before.

Unfortunately, in January, Manchester United was pointed to the head by the FA with a "gun", forcing Manchester United to abandon the FA Cup and fly to Brazil to participate in the first FIFA Club World Cup.

Manchester United have already played in the Toyota Cup, but are still forced to play in the Club World Cup, so they must withdraw from the FA Cup.

At that time, FIFA also invited Millwall, but Aldridge directly declined.

The teacher is unknown!

The Champions League winner is Manchester United, and Millwall only won domestic competitions last season, so why join in the fun?

The reason why the FA secretly threatened Manchester United to go to Brazil to participate in the Club World Cup is that the FA believes that England must have a team to appear in this kind of FIFA-sponsored competition, and then curry favor with FIFA and increase the bargaining chips for England's bid to host the 06 World Cup.

According to Andrew later informed Aldridge, the reason why the FA did not put pressure on Millwall was that there was no manager of the England national team at that time, and the FA was afraid that it would not be able to find a manager before the start of the European Championship.

As a player at Millwall, you have to be both sensible and ambitious.

Aldridge didn't talk to the players, some things are better than words, and being open and honest will only make tacit things embarrassing and change the atmosphere in the dressing room.

This is a competitive environment, and it is important to recognize and measure yourself.

The point is not whether you can play in the final, the focus is whether you are qualified to be better than your teammates in the same position and get the start based on your strength.

Perhaps Fleet Street wanted to see Millwall's substitutes "rise up", but the rebellion did not happen, and perhaps there were factors such as the shortness of the Van der Meyde incident, and Millwall was calm.

May 20th.

The FA Cup final was played at Wembley.

Coincidentally, today. It was Aldrich's 24th birthday.

Two years ago today. They claimed the first Champions League trophy in the club's history. Today, Millwall's players are united in the hope of rewarding themselves with trophies and giving them as gifts to the leaders who have made them famous.

At Wembley, Chelsea wore the traditional navy blue kit, while Millwall wore the away white kit.

Aldridge has been standing on the sidelines to supervise the game, playing Chelsea, and he doesn't need to adjust his tactics too much, because he knows the opponent well. Vialli also struggled to create problems for Aldridge on a tactical level, with headaches like Bosque's change of formation not materializing.

Millwall dominates the situation on the field by controlling the midfield, the player's passing ability advantage, and the main high-pressure pressing when defending, which is almost to the point of perfection.

The only downside is the centre-forward, Klose still can't replace Henry, and he seems to struggle to keep up with the dazzling rhythm of the main lineup's attacking and passing combinations. He had a lot of chances after the opening, or he ran slowly. Either that, or the timing is inappropriate.

Henry sat on the bench, he won the Premier League Golden Boot and the European Golden Boot steadily, if there is no accident today, Aldridge is not ready to let him play, the last two rounds of the league, the main players have rest, only he insists on playing in order to fight for the number of goals.

Vialli watched his team play further and further back, and the counter-attack became more and more weak, a scene he was familiar with, and against Millwall in the past two years, his team could not take advantage of anything in midfield.

Like Chelsea often snipe Manchester United, but always on Arsenal and Millwall, because Manchester United's midfield is sometimes empty, and Arsenal and Millwall, the midfielder will not give the opponent any chance to play the pass and penetrate successfully, at this point, Chelsea does not have an advantage, fight for individual ability, their players can make a difference in addition to striker Zola, other points, one-on-one winning probability is not high.

In the 34th minute of the first half, Schneider set the edge and crossed the ball half-high from the bottom line, creating chaos in the Chelsea penalty area, Desailly cleared the ball on his own player, and Larsson picked up the leak and sent the ball into the net.

"Millwall unsurprisingly scored first! Chelsea's overall strength is far from Millwall, and it is a little pale to talk about tactics at this time, after all, comparing the players of the two teams in the same position, it will naturally tell everyone who is the stronger side, and the Premier League champion, the record holder of 48 league games unbeaten, their skills and tactics, mentality, game experience, etc., are stronger than Chelsea, although this goal seems unconvincing, but the overwhelming side is ahead, which seems to be taken for granted. ”

The fans of the Lions in the Wembley stands shouted loudly, waving Millwall's flag and shouting wildly.

Chelsea fans are on the verge of collapse.

Suppressed by a mortal enemy, suppressed to the death!

This has been going on for five years!

It's been five years!

Who will save them?

Especially in the last five years, this is the third time they have met Millwall in the trophy-winning final, and it looks set to be their third runners-up against Millwall today.

This really broke down the Blues fans.

Lions fans don't want to think so much, just like they've been suppressed by West Ham United for most of the last hundred years, and who thought about what the Lions fans thought when the great captain of West Ham United became an England legend?

The weak, who cares?

Aldridge turned his head to glance at Vialli after the goal appeared, and the opponent closed his eyes with his hands in what seemed to be a long sigh.

In the 44th minute of the game, Ronaldo dribbled horizontally in front of the penalty area, and just past a Chelsea defender, he was suddenly tackled to the ground from the side behind.

Aldridge saw this scene on the sidelines, especially after seeing the shirt number of the Chelsea tackle player, and immediately shouted to Schneider, who was closest to him on the field: "Go! Separate Ronaldinho from each other! Don't let him get into trouble with the other party! ”

Schneider received the order and immediately rushed to the scene of the incident.

Aldridge's face was expressionless, he saw that the player who put the shovel was the bad boy Wise, Xiao Luo stood up after falling, but I don't know what Lu Dao Wise said when he got up at the same time, Xiao Luo really scolded the other party, but Xiao Luo did not touch the other party in terms of body movements.

Xiao Luo thought that Lao Tzu was going to play in the Champions League final, but fortunately he was not injured by the shovel, so he naturally paid more attention to protecting himself.

Diving is to win a foul under the opponent's non-foul behavior, Xiao Luo's action is to avoid his own injury, is he just waiting for the opponent to really kick his leg?

But Wise was sarcastic that he was acting just now.

Xiao Luo exploded at this time, and he also knew that the other party was not a good bird, theory? Reasoning is useful!

So, the two simply swore at each other, face to face, the tip of their noses was less than 5 cm away from each other, and the scene became tense. (To be continued......)