970 Farewell
The penultimate round of fixtures in the final stage of the Premier League is played on 8 May.
The weather in Yorkshire was sunny and sunny that day.
A group of people who had come from London were depressed.
On the outskirts of a stadium, two hours before the game, it was already crowded, and the fans who were ready to watch the game were almost all dressed in white.
The group standing on the corner in the distance was wearing dark blue jerseys.
Brady, Saul, Fred, these three Aldridge's personal friends, are now also married, like the football portal established by Brady and Fred, which has made them multimillionaires, and Saul is an ordinary wage earner with a considerable income.
There are three of them, two with their wives, one with their girlfriends, plus some relatives and friends.
Brady smoked a cigarette and leaned on a telephone pole with a helpless face, they have left the fan organization, similar to honorary members, but no longer participate in the management of the fan organization, if they go to the Lion King Stadium to watch the game, they naturally do not worry about tickets, they themselves have season tickets.
However, in this away game, it is less and less to watch the game.
The main reason is that time is tight, career, family, there are always many, many constraints that make them unable to arrange their time freely.
At the end of the season, old friends agreed to support Millwall, and from April onwards, they continued to play a lot.
I didn't expect to end up with a hard-to-find vote today.
Today's tickets were fired by scalpers equivalent to 1/3 of Saul's monthly salary.
One can imagine why they are depressed.
"Why don't you give Aldrich a call? See if he can help get some tickets? ”
Thor had just asked about scalpers fares, and said softly with a frown.
Fred slapped him on the head unceremoniously. Dayi Ling Ran said: "Damn." Don't mess with him at this time. Besides, usually we invite friends to the Lion King Stadium to watch the game, and Aldridge has troubled Aldridge several times in terms of tickets, today is an away game, and the game will start soon, where will he get you a ticket? ”
Saul took care of the loss, didn't return the slap, lowered his head and smoked.
He's a more down-to-earth man. Never slap a swollen face and become fat.
Not only him and his girlfriend today, but his girlfriend also brought a younger brother over there, and if he paid for a scalper's ticket, his mother's monthly salary would be smashed here.
Brady is the "leading brother" in this circle of friends, he is righteous, usually his opinion is the most important, at this time, his depressed expression was swept away, and he smiled: "You are wrong about this, the more trouble you have Aldrich." The happier he is, how can I say it? He's not stupid though. But there are some superfluous thoughts, for fear that we will deliberately distance ourselves from him, after all, his family is so rich that people vomit blood. Alas, forget it, if you are slaughtered today, you will be slaughtered, I wonder, we are not Chelsea Manchester United fans, these scalpers have a position to scalp, the away team's tickets are double as the home team's tickets, grass his whole family, today I have a treat, wait, I'll swipe the card. ”
After Brady finished speaking, he walked to the nearby ATM to withdraw money.
After taking the money, he asked Fred and Saul to go together to buy tickets by the number of people, and specially instructed.
"Look clearly and then give money, don't be yin by these scalpers, in case you sit among the fans of the home team, grass, it is estimated that you will not be able to go back to London today and will be sent directly to the hospital!"
The attendance rate of the Premier League is very high, which comes from the maturity of the fan market, but high attendance does not mean that the stadium is full, and only some big teams, plus the attendance rate of the focus game, can reach the standard of a full ticket.
Today's game in Yorkshire was a hard to come by.
Fans of both teams are hard to get a ticket.
Tickets for the home team are in short supply, and tickets for the away team are really scarce, and the tickets for the public sale at the home stadium have long been sold out, and then most of them fall into the hands of scalpers, waiting for the fans to come to the door and be slaughtered.
The home fans were slaughtered willingly.
Many fans of the away team can't afford to be slaughtered, and many crazy lion fans can't buy tickets before they don't come, and when they come to want to pay more money to buy tickets for scalpers, they are so scared that they immediately go home, and mentally support their beloved wild lions.
For Millwall, today is not a do-or-die battle.
On the contrary, for the home fans, the team supporting them today is really a matter of life and death for the club!
The penultimate round of the Premier League.
Millwall is on its way to Leeds, Yorkshire!
Before the penultimate round of the Premier League, Leeds United were 18th in the table with 33 points, while Manchester City was 17th with 38 points.
Leeds United's theoretical possibility of relegation success still exists, two wins in a row, Manchester City two losses in a row, then Leeds United will have 39 points to leave Manchester City behind.
However, the theoretical probability of this is almost zero!
First of all, they have to beat Millwall, who are second in the table, today!
So, this game can be seen as Leeds United fans pouring into the Elland Road stadium to cheer for the home team, hoping that the team will perform a miracle!
It can also be seen as Leeds United fans coming to see off the White Roses!
Miracle miracle, if miracle is so good, isn't this miracle as cheap as a street commodity?
Leeds United's all-season schedule is terrible, and suddenly they overturned the unrivaled Lions at home?
Who the believes?!
The game is about to start, and in the passage of the Elland Road stadium, the players of both teams are standing in formation and ready to play, and Leeds United side is holding their heads high, showing a good fighting spirit.
Millwall, for their part, were dismissive of Leeds United.
With 38 league games in a season and only 8 of the first 36 games, what's the point of putting on a posture of swearing to the death? Why did you go earlier?
As players, Millwall will not sympathize with Leeds in the slightest.
Who made you so messy?
Who told you not to play well?
As for how tragic and bleak Leeds United's meteoric fall has been portrayed in the media, Millwall will only find it comical.
On the other hand, Leeds United is really different, and even the failure seems to have become a "magnificent epic" in the mouth of the outside world.
Aldridge walked onto the pitch and shook hands with Leeds United boss Grey. Then calmly walked to the away team's dugout and stood still. He couldn't be heard booed by the home fans. The home fans were busy building momentum for the home team, and the military song of the White Rose echoed in the Elland Road stadium, and I didn't know how magnificent and amazing the atmosphere at Leeds United's home stadium was.
Looking up at the sky, Aldrich muttered, "It's a good day to say goodbye." ”
This situation and this scene can't help but make people think.
In less than two years, Leeds United have been virtually unrecognizable.
O'Reilly is gone. Ritzdale has also been ousted this season, and now Leeds United are now run by a homegrown consortium, but the bankruptcy of Leeds United is inevitable, and the latest news is that they are now selling even their home stadium for a very, very low price.
Most of the young guards who were in white to compete in the Champions League have already left, or in the summer of 02, or last summer, or even when the winter window opens, they still have to sell people to "supplement their families".
Now those who stay in the formation can still be named. In addition to the veteran who can't be sold, there is only Alan Smith. Fortunately, Verduka, Mills, and Robinson did not make people sigh that things look like people, but they don't see people.
No one believed that Leeds United could succeed in relegation, but when they needed victory and the hope of a life-saving straw the most, Leeds United ran into Millwall again.
This makes the "Legend of the White Rose" in the mouths of countless fans, unable to escape the shadow of the wild lion!
At that time, Rietzdale and O'Reilly introduced a large number of reinforcements, spending a huge amount of 60 million pounds to introduce a strong reinforcement team to Millwall, which cannot be said to support the backbone of the White Rose, but it is also half of the country that cannot be underestimated.
And when they interpreted the "Legend of the White Rose" to the peak, they happened to encounter the Wild Lions in the Champions League semifinals, and no one expected that it was from that point on, the peak, but also the turning point of decline, was slaughtered by the Wild Lions in a record bloodbath, and then missed the Champions League, last season survived, this season, only 90 minutes away from relegation, and the dominant Qiē, will be Millwall!
Millwall don't even need to win against each other, as long as they get a draw, Leeds United will be relegated! Because Manchester City, who started the game, lost to Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium, Leeds United seemed to be one step closer to a miracle, and a victory over the Lions would reduce the gap between them and Manchester City to two points, and if they don't win, it doesn't matter if the gap between Leeds United and Manchester City is five or four points.
As for Millwall, in the case of 1 point behind Arsenal but with more goal difference than the opponent, 3 points in this game is no different from 1 point, unless Arsenal can't win the game by dropping the chain, even if Millwall draws and Arsenal wins, the gap is back to 3 points, and Millwall still has to score 3 points to get 3 points to reverse to the top when they go to Highbury in the last round.
Thinking of this, Aldrich couldn't help but sigh.
Looking around the Elland Road stadium, looking at the faces of those who are staunch supporters of their favorite team, watching Leeds United fans take off their shirts and write big words in support of the team, watching the dazzling flags fluttering and slogans lined up
Who the hell did this iniquity?
If it's a team that is already on the relegation line, no one cares about Leeds United fans in particular.
However, Leeds United are the last League One champions, the team that has survived the top stage of England for 14 consecutive years, and the team that was in the last four of the Champions League three years ago!
At this time, the atmosphere at Elland Road Stadium is closer to tragic.
Naturally, people will be touched.
However, deep down, Aldridge does not sympathize with Leeds United.
Just like last summer, then Leeds United boss Peter Reid visited Aldridge to fill out the squad with a loan of Millwall's players, but Aldridge nodded yes instead of his good personal relationship with Reid, and rejected the other party for the same reasons as Mourinho in the first place.
You can't protect yourself, Leeds United are in turmoil, I won't take my players out there on loan, there are too many potential dangers!
Leeds United are paying the price for their bloody team-building model, and the natural cycle is normal.
If it feels unfair, then blame Ritzdale for not Abu, who smashed his private fortune at Chelsea, and Ritzdale can only overdraw Leeds United's future as a bet. (To be continued......)