910 Cancer and Contradiction
After Millwall's defeat to Old Trafford, Fleet Street not only announced Millwall's withdrawal from the title race, the failure to defend the league title, but also used the word "disaster" to describe Millwall's performance this season!
The media is like this, fanning the flames and alarmist, lest the world be chaotic!
Excluding the opinions of the majority of Millwall fans, after all, there are a large number of fans who do think that Millwall's season table is extremely bad, and those fans who like this team because of Millwall's invincibility certainly cannot accept Millwall's fall from the altar.
In the eyes of many neutral and objective fans, and excluding the schadenfreude, in fact, Millwall's performance this season has nothing to do with disaster.
Looking at the world, all the big clubs have basically had such a season in the past ten years, or even five years.
Real Madrid, Barcelona, the top three in Serie A, and even the Bundesliga, who hasn't been?
As a result, many Millwall fans, especially those who supported the team before Millwall's rise, did not react much.
For them, it's not about how strong Millwall is to love the team, or because of whether or not Millwall wins the title, it's more like a flesh-and-blood instinct.
Good and bad, we're in the same boat through thick and thin.
The day after tomorrow, Millwall will host Newcastle United in the penultimate round of the league.
The players came to the club for training as usual, changed into their clothes and walked into the training ground, where they did their own relaxation activities before the arrival of the coaching staff.
In the past, they used to be in groups of threes and fives, chatting and farting, or playing group soccer. It's not uncommon to hear people bragging. You can often see teammates competing with each other.
Even at the beginning of the season. The dazzling Ronaldo also showed all kinds of skills in front of Xiao Luo, quite a class axe posture, Xiao Luo did not dump him at all, scissors stepped on the bicycle and juggled the ball or something is pediatric, Xiao Luo directly kicked the ball to the goal with a long shot, half the time, the ball hit the crossbar and bounced back, looking stupid Ronaldo. His teammates laughed in unison, and Ronaldo shrugged his shoulders with his hands outstretched, a foul smile on his face, only he knew that he was just trying to kick the ball into the goal, who knew that he hit the crossbar?
Cristiano Ronaldo tried almost 20 shots but couldn't hit the crossbar, and since then, Ronaldo has hung a car tire on the tree next to the training ground, and he will practice more after training. It is to start working from close range and aim to hit the center of the tire.
On the club's training ground, there are always a lot of small things that happen that the outside world doesn't know. And these small things will change direction to reflect the atmosphere within the team, team cohesion and other intangible information.
Like now, everyone is just waiting for the arrival of the coaching staff as usual, with less enthusiastic communication, no laughter, no conflict, like a plate of loose sand.
Xiao Luo put his hands in his pockets, expressionless on the spot, the ball bounced up and down, always controlled by his feet, more than 5 minutes did not land, and Xiao Luo was like a puppet, mechanically repeating the action of juggling the ball, exuding a "no one bother me" indifferent atmosphere.
"The Elven King of the Wild Lion has lost his smile!"
This was already the news of the outside world a few months ago, and now, Ronaldo is infamous as a cancer in Millwall's dressing room.
When did a qiē start?
At least Fleet Street thinks it started after the Golden Globe results came out last year.
Last year was the World Cup year, England counterattacked the throne to win the world, but England relied on the whole, and no one was absolutely eye-catching, or rather, England did not rely on who to step on the top by themselves, like England's Xiaobei and Owen ranked third and fourth in the Golden Ball Awards respectively, which is already a great honor and affirmation, if there is no World Cup, they may not even be able to enter the top five.
Thierry Henry was expected to defend his title, but France were humiliated by the defending champions of the World Cup, and Henry became one of the sinners, being sent off for the second game, making it impossible for him to defend the Ballon d'Or with any accolades he received at the club.
Even though the Brazilian team only won the third place in the World Cup, the aliens broke the long-standing scorer record in the World Cup, and the transfer to Real Madrid in the new season made it eye-catching in the nearly half season before the Golden Ball Awards, and reached the top in one fell swoop!
And Ronaldo, who won the club's seven-time championship and the first assist in the World Cup, lost to Ronaldo, a big reason is that Millwall's new season, especially before the Ballon d'Or selection, his performance was not outstanding and he failed to brush up on the recent impression score.
Losing to Henry the year before and the Aliens last year, and finishing second at the Golden Globe for two years in a row, Fleet Street thought that Rowe was starting to be unhappy and began to indulge, and directly affected Millwall.
How did it evolve into a cancer?
Because when Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole, Joe Cole, Robben, Johnson and others were exposed for frequent nightclub, Fleet Street put this qiē responsibility on Ronaldo!
They say it's Ronaldo who has brought down a talent like Joe Cole, and it's Ronaldo who has influenced a World Cup winner like Frank Lampard!
Especially when Xiao Luo seemed to lose his magic on the field and fell silent, all kinds of criticism swept in.
Xiao Luo was silent all the time, without a word of response, more like gradually closing himself.
Because he remembers that his boss said to him: don't argue with the media, it's a waste of time, the more you talk, the happier the media will be, and their plot will succeed!
Ronaldo has always loved to play, and has been that way since he played professionally for Millwall at the age of 17.
He doesn't know how other people live, anyway, can't he be entertained in addition to playing football?
He did change women more diligently, but he took it for granted, it was normal, 22-year-old men, can't they have sex-life?
The difference is that you may sleep with the same woman all year round, or 2 or 10 different women, and I may sleep 30 or more a year, but I haven't broken the law!
As for bringing bad Joe Cole or something, Xiao Luo only has contempt in his heart.
He plays his, others play someone else's. Except for occasionally playing pool with teammates. Sing and sing. There was a team-wide gathering in the team, and the rest of the time, everyone didn't cross paths off the field.
said that he took someone badly, and who took pictures of them together in a nightclub?
It seems that British heroes like Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole should be honest gentlemen and British gentlemen, and if they make a slight mistake, the responsibility must be someone else's.
The reason why Xiao Luo closed himself off and didn't want to communicate more with his teammates. It also comes from this.
The accusations and criticisms of the outside world, those parties, no one stood up and said a fair word, as if borrowing a donkey from the slope, the media said this, which can reduce their pressure, so they turned a blind eye and simply let Xiao Luo pull down the black pot.
It's chilling!
I feel like these English people are too not men!
You're merry and playboys. It's all broken by Lao Tzu?
Think about what kind of party you had a year ago. Please Lao Tzu, your friends are so excited that they are like seeing the gods, isn't Lao Tzu giving you face?
If it weren't for the boss who led you to win the World Cup, even if you went out to play, there would be hordes of paparazzi following you?
Don't think too highly of yourself!
Xiao Luo is a simple person, and his thoughts are also very simple, and this simplicity does not mean absolute integrity.
He had no father at the age of 8 and had been living in a slum without a good education before coming to England.
His world is therefore simple, playing football to earn money, enjoying himself in time, not thinking about complicated things, and living this life simply and happily.
So what a ball king, he is not rare at all!
So what Golden Globe Award for two years in a row, he will be unhappy and indulge? Fart!
If he indulges, he has a lot of money and is willful!
Who is good to him, he understands in his heart, so he has always kept the bottom line, playing, always restrained, always with a warning from the leader in his heart, and the hard work that the leader has paid on him makes it difficult for him to ignore.
But he also knew that he had an unpleasant time at Millwall this season, especially after the World Cup, England won the championship, and the English players in the team suddenly seemed to be terrible, and they spoke loudly, and they began to make people arouse, and the disgusting sense of superiority in the British Yankees could not help but show.
This qiē made Xiao Luo extremely disgusted.
Klinsmann is a good person, always passionate, but in the eyes of Xiao Luo, Klinsmann can't control this team, just like he doesn't like to partner with Lampard in the midfield, he likes to cut inside, Lampard likes to cut forward, when there is a zone conflict on the field, Lampard will signal Xiao Luo to go forward into the penalty area, Xiao Luo feels inexplicable in his heart: I am in the Brazilian team, Rivaldo, Ronaldo will not come to tell me how to play, which onion are you?
And when Alonso replaced Lampard in the midfield, Ronaldo's space for movement was free as before, but Lampard would be dissatisfied with the field, so Klinsmann sacrificed the defensive midfield, withdrew Nedved, and let Lampard continue to play in the front, so that Ronaldo was completely fixed on the wing, and when he should cut inside the middle, he would tell Frank Lampard: You go forward into the penalty area, like Pavel did before! Or pull the side, switch positions with me, and disrupt the opponent's marking!
But it didn't work, Lampadra was not a threat on the side, he was the most threatening outside the box, and when he entered the box, his efficiency was far less than that of Nedved, and his ball control skills at his feet were not as good as Nedved's most intuitive.
Xiao Luo smiled, and then said no more.
I just hid a sentence in my heart and didn't ask.
"You can't be as comfortable as Alonso in the back to do a good job of organizing the transition between attack and defense, and you can't be as good as Nedved in the front midfield, you can not play with me in the side of the side, and you can't finish the opponent efficiently in the penalty area, and I can't compare to my last pass in front of the penalty area.
On the court, it is natural that strength speaks.
Compared with culture, Xiao Luo must be willing to bow down, but than playing, he also has his own arrogance above the top, Millwall has always been a strong man before, the main force is the capable, and now the atmosphere in the team is a little weird, obviously the strongest person, but not in the strongest position, the person who should sink down to compete is more confident than anyone else, as if there is some backer behind him.
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The ball finally landed, Xiao Luo's legs were already hot, he stepped on the ball, his eyes swept the training ground, and his teammates were all there.
But what about the coaches?
"Henrik, what time is it?"
shouted a word to Larsen, who was also alone not far away, Xiao Luo waited for the other party's answer, although it was a self-enclosed state, but for a character like Larson, he still respected it from the bottom of his heart.
When he arrived at Millwall, he was listening to the fans cheering on Larsson.
Now, Larson has written a legendary chapter here, but if he is abandoned or even finally expelled, and cannot end up in the mad lion, it will make Xiao Luo even more chilled, because Larson's ending may be his own fate in ten years, or, it won't take ten years, after all, he is already Millwall's cancer.
Larsson naturally didn't bring a watch to train, he shook his head and said, "I don't know, but it's definitely time to train, and it's unusual today." ”
Xiao Luo grinned and sneered.
Is the team not training?
Well, let's go, save yourself a lot of time.
Just as he was about to leave the training ground, he suddenly stopped walking in his footsteps as he saw two men leading the Millwall coaching staff towards the training ground with the exception of Klinsmann.
In the astonished eyes of all the players, Jenson Bernard and Stramaccioni walked between them.
Jensen looked around the scene, coughed lightly, and then said with a solemn expression: "The club official has just announced that head coach Jurgen Klinsmann has been dismissed, and Sir Hall has returned to the club to preside over the work, and I will be in charge of today's training, and now I will start warming up." ”
The players scattered around the training ground looked different after being surprised, and Xiao Luo smiled for the first time in a long time and kicked the ball away from his feet. (To be continued......)