Chapter 107: The South Locker Room Spell

Lao Lei's remarks in front of the entrance of the stadium quickly became widely known to the media and reporters, and even after 20 minutes, there was a heated debate on the Internet forum. As one of England's two giants, Liverpool naturally has great popularity and fans in England. So for a while, there was a scene of Liverpool fans surrounding Chelsea fans on the Internet. Although the game has not yet begun, the war of words between fans of both sides has reached a fever pitch.

However, Lao Lei, who was the initiator, didn't know these things. Now, he's changing his gear and jersey for a pre-match warm-up. In this process, Lao Lei kept a cold face without the slightest smile. It's normal for him to be like this, after all, what happened just now is a very unpleasant and unhappy thing. But the strange thing is that not only him, but the whole Chelsea team seems to be a little weird in the dressing room, and a strange atmosphere pervades here.

Lei didn't notice the strangeness of his teammates, and his teammates thought that Lei thought the same as them, which caused the strange harmony of the atmosphere in the Chelsea dressing room at this time. Aside from the old Ray, there is a rather comical and superstitious reason why the whole Chelsea team is like this. The reason for this is that the locker room they are using now is the south dressing room of the famous Millennium Stadium.

The South Locker Room at the Millennium Stadium has a famous "South Dressing Room" spell, whereby the vast majority of teams that use the South Dressing Room lose, with only a handful of wins. Speaking of which, Chelsea themselves have been victims of the South dressing room curse, and that was when Ranieri was in charge of Chelsea in '02. It was an FA Cup final and Chelsea were against Arsenal.

As Arsenal is located in North London. Chelsea were based in south London, so according to the then 'South teams use the South dressing room. The North team used the North Dressing Room' and the League Committee placed Chelsea in the South Dressing Room. Arsenal were placed in the North dressing room. Before that, in the 18 months before the Millennium Stadium replaced the rebuilt Wembley Stadium to host the finals of all competitions in England (including the FA Cup, Community Shield, League Cup, and play-offs and knockout rounds in League Two), all the teams that used the South Dressing Room lost in the finals without exception. Since then, the South Locker Room Spell has become famous.

At that time, Chelsea also protested to the FA about the matter, forcing the FA to finally have to make a dressing room selection by flipping a coin. Of course. The result remained the same, and Chelsea were drawn to the south dressing room. However, Chelsea did not compromise on the South dressing room curse and deliberately wore the "lucky white socks" in order to compete with it. But as a result, they still lost 2-0 to Arsenal and could not escape the shadow of the curse of the South dressing room.

Although knowing such a thing as a spell is unreliable and untrue, but this kind of evil thing. It's still a lot of talk to the fans. In particular, in football, there are many superstitious people even if they are not religious. Before the game. Wearing lucky objects, women are not allowed to ride in the same car with the team, and must step into the field with their left foot before going on the field. The manager wears his lucky tie and the like, all of which are like this. So. In football, there is a lot of market for such a cult thing as a curse. Especially when it has a lot of examples to back it up.

For example, in the case of the South Locker Room Spell, there are three examples of spell failures. But this still can't eliminate the effect of the magic spell in the south locker room, because the appearance of these three examples is also very evil in itself. Of those three, Arsenal accounted for two, with the remaining one going to Stoke City. But in the eyes of many, there is a reason for these three exceptions.

Moreover, this reason is quite evil. That is, before Stoke City and Arsenal, the Millennium Stadium had specially invited a Chinese feng shui master to advise them and change some of the furnishings in the south dressing room. In addition, local Welsh artist Vika was invited to paint a seven-foot-long mural of a phoenix, galloping horses and the sun for the south dressing room to shield the curse. After that, Arsenal and Stoke City did win.

But just when people thought the curse of the south dressing room was gone, Arsenal, who had won twice in the south dressing room here, lost again. In the Community Shield, they were beaten by the Red Devils Manchester United. And in this game, the locker room they used was still the south dressing room. As a result, the curse of the south locker room of the Millennium Stadium continued in this way, and it spread even more evilly. There are many people who believe that the three exceptions of Arsenal and Stoke City were only because the feng shui masters and the murals temporarily suppressed the spell. Then, because the spell was too strong, after these three times, it manifested again.

At first glance, this sounds like some kind of god and demon novel, whimsical and unrealistic. But this is very marketable in the circle of fans and football people. So, when the results of the dressing room draw came out this time, the atmosphere of the whole Chelsea team suddenly became a little weird, although it was more of a psychological effect, but it was indeed a problem. Even the reason why Liverpool's victory declaration was so loud a few days ago is partly partly due to this. There are many Liverpool fans who feel that God is helping their team, and God is destined to win this game.

It sounds a little funny, but it's true. Just like many Chinese do not believe in religion, but when doing big things or asking for children, they will always be very superstitious to ask God, or pray in their hearts, and Chelsea players who know this curse are always inexplicably a little weak and a little panicked, especially local players like Lampard and Terry.

Of course, there are also outsiders like Lao Lei and Mourinho who don't know and don't know much. Among them, Mourinho heard a little from the mouth of the assistant coach, but did not pay attention to it at all. So he was busy preparing for the game, so he didn't observe the players as before. Lao Lei, on the other hand, didn't know it at all, or heard it occasionally, but didn't care about it at all. After all, it is the soul of the Chinese, and the first reaction to this kind of thing is to disdain. Unlike most of the Europeans who are religious.

However, his teammates are not clear. So when he was preparing with a cold expression on his face, Terry thought that Old Ray was also affected by the spell of the South Locker Room. Although his own psyche was also slightly affected. But as the captain of Chelsea, he still came out to appease the old Ray. But Lao Lei was confused, he didn't know what Terry was talking about, and in a trance he almost thought that Terry was a member of a certain Fa, Lun, and Gong.

Under Terry's careful explanation, Lao Lei learned the reason why the atmosphere in the locker room was so silent. His first reaction was to be stunned, or rather a little speechless. However, he soon came to his senses, which was not uncommon in the years he had lived in Europe. Because of religious beliefs, Europe, which has a higher level of social civilization, is superstitious. On the contrary, it is more widespread than in China.

It's just that this is the first time that Lao Lei has heard such a superstitious statement about football. For a while, the remaining anger in his heart subsided a lot, and he couldn't help but laugh a little when he thought about it, which made Terry on the side confused. Facing the questioning of his captain, Lao Lei finally straightened his shoelaces, stood up and walked to the door, and said: "South locker room spell? Isn't that just right. John, do you think I'm a believer in God or a believer in demons? ”

After speaking, Lao Lei stood at the door. He turned his head to look at Terry, and then walked out. In interviews with Terry years later after his retirement, he told the story. "At the time. With a slight sneer, Reima stood at the door of the locker room and looked back at me. I'm now. I can't forget the disdainful and sarcastic smile on the corner of his mouth. I've known since then. After he retires, he will definitely get the support and reluctance of a lot of fans, and he will also get a lot of curses and curses from fans. There is no particular reason for this, because Reimaa is like that. ”

"Enchantments? I'm the devil of Liverpool! I'm their biggest curse!! When Lao Lei said this in his heart, he walked out of the player's tunnel. At this time, he saw the Millennium Stadium almost full, where the blue of Chelsea and the red of Liverpool were clearly distinguished. Therefore, when the camera at the scene caught Lao Lei who had just come out, he got half of the cheers and applause, and half of the boos and abuse.

"We can see that Reima has come out to warm up, and looking at his cold expression, I wonder if he is also worried about the magic of the South Locker Room?" Martin, the commentator of today's live broadcast, said with interest.

"No, I don't think so. In terms of his character, he probably doesn't care about the so-called magic spell at all. Judging from his previous remarks outside the court, Reima has already taken the victory into his own pockets and is very confident in it. What do you think about this, old man? Martin's partner, Greg, said from the side.

'To be honest, I'm not very optimistic about Chelsea's prospects in this game. The body will be their biggest problem in this game. But in a situation like this, it's time for a superstar to perform. Against Liverpool, no one knows what energy Reema can burst out. ”

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Just when the two commentators were bored, Lao Lei began to warm up on the court. Since Liverpool's players had not yet entered the pitch at this time, there were only Chelsea players on the pitch for the time being. So when Lao Lei began to warm up, as the hottest focus of world football in recent days, he naturally gained more attention from the camera.

However, this is not a good thing, and whenever Ray appears on the big screen, the stands where the Liverpool fans are immediately burst into shrill boos and abuse.

At such a time, Lao Lei naturally will not be silent, because the other party is a Liverpool fan, and because this is not his style.

So, he took the ball and came to the Liverpool stands. This immediately attracted everyone's attention, and Martin said loudly without worrying about the excitement: "What does Reima want to do?!" Do?! Roar, listen to this boo, Rayma must do something, or he will live up to our wait. ”

Soon, Lao Lei satisfied this unscrupulous explanation's wish.

Listening to the obvious decibel increase in boos and abuse, the corners of Lao Lei's mouth habitually hung a trace of disdainful sneer.

Looking at the angry faces of the Liverpool fans, his smile added to the coldness and disdain.

He stepped on the ball, stopped under the stands, and suddenly stretched out his right index finger and pointed to the huge Liverpool shirt that had been opened.

Then, he retracted and pointed to his feet.

Immediately after, his right foot began to crush back and forth, like stepping on something disgusting him, like a Liverpool shirt.

Finally, he spouted and spat hard.

This series of actions made Liverpool fans stunned, but then they came back to their senses and let out a burst of boos at the figure of Chelsea's No. 13 player.

Listening to this piercing boo, Lao Lei suddenly felt numb and numb all over his body.

"What a delicious appetizer!"

"It's cool to kill!!" (To be continued......)