Chapter 119 Bruce's Surprise

In the 32 rounds of the FA Cup, Derby County's opponent is Birmingham. Wansheng has been preparing for the game since returning from West Bromwich Albion.

The game is just two days later, and there is no time to find any targeted countermeasures. Fortunately, the game is played at Pride Stadium, and Birmingham is only a Premier League relegation team. Even if the game is played head-on, Derby County's winning rate is also Not small.

Wansheng has a lot of confidence in the fans.

Many players have already had a round of rest. They are well-prepared for this game against Birmingham, especially for the home game. In order to avoid relegation, Birmingham devotes almost all of their energy to the league, and they may even give up the FA Cup.

Wansheng will not make a careless mistake. No matter whether Birmingham will try their best to play, the team will definitely try their best to play the game. Only in this way can we try our best to ensure victory.

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Birmingham's attitude towards the FA Cup is uncertain, but the team still has some 'connections' to Derby County.

When it comes to Birmingham, you have to mention their female chief executive Brady, who is nicknamed the "first-lady" in English football.

Brady was born in London, his father was a wealthy Irish father, and his mother was an authentic Italian housewife.

In 1993, at the age of 23, she was elected executive director of the Birmingham club (then in League One), and can be described as the grandfather of British football's pink beauty.

For a young girl to take up this important task, it is conceivable that the outside world is critical and ironic to her, and even the players only care about her dirty jokes. When she took office for the first time with the team, a player deliberately molested her, "Hey, your shirt is transparent, I'm watching your MM."

Brady responded with his face unchanged, "No problem. You don't have to worry about it anymore, you won't be able to see it when I sell you to the D-level team Crewe."

It didn't take long for the player to be sold.

The second act of her struggle with a man is on a TV show where Brady is a British TV personality. Judge on a show called The Apprentice. Knowing whether young talents are qualified to hold a position of life and death power, the audience likes her very much.

Sky TV host Richard Kens and Andy Gray, a guest who commented on the Wolves game against Liverpool, were angrily criticizing the injustice of the linesman. As they talked, Kens opened the topic and said Brady, "Have you read today's paper? Brady is blaming sexism, oh my god. Look at her fat..."

the next day. Sky TV fired both men at the same time.

There is no official reason, as everyone knows, that's what happened to offenders who called them the "first woman" in English football.

The origins of "first-lady" aren't limited to football. Brady has an autobiography, two novels, and a canon guide for women in business. Columnist for The Sun and consultant to various companies.

To describe her as a football woman is obviously a bit narrow.

Her original job was to sell advertisements, and she was photographed by David Sullivan, one of the later owners of West Ham United, and was hired by the construction company.

media disclosure. It was Brady who advised the company to acquire Birmingham, after the acquisition was successful. Brady served as the executive director of the club. When she became the executive director, almost no one was optimistic about her. The media was full of doubts about her remarks, but Brady took the team into the Premier League in a few years.

Brady is only 33 years old now, but her experience is enough to write a legendary novel - a woman who started from scratch to become the chief executive of a League One club, to lead the team from League Two to the Premier League, and Be the first in Birmingham management.

During this period, Brady only spent more than ten years.

Wan Sheng had to give a thumbs up after knowing the experience of this female chairman. In reality, such a successful person is really a phoenix, but Brady did it, but Wan Sheng understands this, not because of appreciation or worship. Brady, on the contrary, is completely listening to gossip.

In fact, the entire Derby County team knew Brady.

Before the game against Birmingham, they also used Brady to make fun of PesquiSolido, because PeskiSolido was Brady's husband.

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Before the game, there was a lot of gossip about the match between the two teams in the media.

Birmingham Women's chief executive Brady spoke to the competition in an interview and she seemed to have a plan in mind. She joked that her job was to get Paolo Peschisolido, "I'm going to keep him up all night before the game."

Brady said: "I'm sure Peschisolido is also eager to meet us. He has played for Birmingham before and has a good relationship with manager Bruce. This is not the first time he has encountered Birmingham. Bromwich Albion, Fulham and Sheffield United have played against Birmingham, but this is the first time in the Cup."

Asked which one of the parents the kids supported, Brady said, "I think they'll want their dad to win because they can see him play football, which is more of a job than I do in a club like this. There are more people in administrative work.”

In this regard, Peschisoliduo was very troubled, because his teammates talked about this matter, so in the pre-match interview, he sighed and said, "I really hope the coach will not let me play, so that I will not be too embarrassed , the game will not be about me."

But in fact, Wansheng has his name on the starting list.

Wansheng didn't consider PeschiSolido's relationship with Birmingham before letting him start. Bolton Reiter has not yet returned from injury. The team's real main striker is only Cahill. Ian Taylor's body is after all. Not so good, Wan Sheng prefers to use him as a bench who is in danger, rather than a starter who goes out and fights hard.

So when arranging the lineup of two strikers, Peschisolido is the best choice.

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Birmingham manager Bruce is also considering the game before the game.

Bruce is also a legend in English football. He was rejected by Newcastle, Bolton and other clubs because he was too short when he was young. He once had to work in a shipyard. Fortunately, he was appreciated by Gunningham at the age of 17 to continue his career. A player's dream, he then moved to Norwich and performed well.

In the winter of 1989, Bruce came to Manchester United from Norwich for a record £875,000 for a British defender at the time. Together with Paleister, who joined later, they formed the Great Wall of Steel for Manchester United's defense. They cooperated tacitly and technically complemented each other well, becoming the cornerstone of the Ferguson dynasty.

Bruce played tough and fought with SAF. Make a mortal battle. In addition to excellent defense. Bruce is very capable of assists and often uses corner kicks to help the team score. He is also a penalty taker and scored 19 goals in the 90/91 season. For a central defender, this is a miracle, his goals The rate is not worse than the striker.

Bruce's innate leadership qualities kept him after Brian Robson retired. Honorably and wearing the Red Devils captain's armband. at the same time. He is also the first Manchester United captain after Settle not to be selected for the England national team.

But the years are not forgiving. As the age increases, Bruce has to make way for the newcomers. In 1996, Bruce joined Birmingham and retired from the historical stage of the Dream Theater.

Since then, Bruce has played for different clubs as a player and coach, continuing his green career, and then returned to Birmingham to take over the team coach.

For such a head coach who once had the experience of a legendary player. Coaching the team was like an inside job, and he worked with Brady to lead Birmingham. The team progressed very quickly, and they were promoted to the Premier League in a few years.

Although Birmingham's record in the Premier League is mediocre, considering that they were a third-division team a few years ago, you know Bruce's ability.

In fact, Bruce is a very 'realistic' coach.

His coaching philosophy is to try to make the team get the best results, and in the two seasons after being promoted to the Premier League, the most basic guarantee is to be able to avoid relegation.

So as Wansheng thought, Birmingham's focus is indeed on the league.

But this does not mean that Bruce will give up the FA Cup, he just won't be too concerned about the outcome and let the team play normally. As for which step he can take in the FA Cup, he doesn't care too much.

But this game Bruce still wants to fight for.

Derby County, top of the League One, just beat Tottenham Hotspur away from home. Although it sounds strong, it is still only a League One team. Maybe League One teams can sometimes play well and beat Tottenham. Premier League teams, but they can't be like this all the time, even a strong team can't guarantee victory all the time, let alone a League One team.

Anyway, Bruce still wants to win.

Before the game, he got Derby County's roster, and he saw that several famous players were on the roster, so he knew that Derby County also cared about the game, and they would definitely play with the full main lineup.

Even so, Bruce felt Birmingham had a good chance.

Even if it is an away game, even if all the opponent's main players start, but Birmingham's strength is no worse than Derby County. It is difficult to say who wins and who loses. Bruce is more willing to believe that his team is stronger.

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The media also reported the game before the game.

In addition to the gossip news, the media that pay attention to Derby County, after knowing Derby County's squad, also thinks the same as Bruce - Derby County must send all the main players to play.

Compared with the West Bromwich Albion game, Derby County only played a semi-substitute lineup, which made the media very puzzled - is Derby County's focus shifted to the FA Cup?

Are they not afraid of affecting the results of the league? ?

The media were puzzled by this, but they did not continue to discuss anything. They have been slapped too many times, and they will also learn from it. They plan to continue to look at it.

In the observation of many media, the game between the two teams began.

Birmingham coach Bruce thinks that his team is stronger. The reason he thinks so is very simple, that is, Derby County is a League One team. League One and the Premier League are one level apart. Birmingham is relatively easy to avoid relegation in the Premier League. Natural strength is stronger than the League One team.

But the game scene did not reflect this.

From the beginning of the game, Derby County had a repressive advantage over Birmingham. Bruce was a little puzzled when he saw this situation. Before that, he hadn't studied Derby County too deeply, but he shouldn't have it if he wants to come to the League One team. Suppress Birmingham's strength.

But the situation is like this...

Birmingham was completely suppressed in the first ten minutes of the game. Their offense was passive, and the defense seemed to have frequent loopholes. Derby County was threatening to attack again and again.

That's what Bruce saw, and what everyone in the room saw.

Bruce couldn't believe it, what did he see? It is the team's exquisite cooperation, smooth full attack and full defense football. He has only seen such football in the games of Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.

Now a League One team is playing the same fluid attack, and for a while overwhelmed his Birmingham.

Soon he won't have time to think about it.

In the 17th minute of the game, Derby County scored a goal. It was a pass from Peschisolido on the right side of the penalty area. Run over and head to the Birmingham goal.

1:0.

Seeing this goal, Bruce felt even more surprised, and he somewhat understood why Derby County could beat Tottenham Hotspur away. (To be continued ~^~)