Chapter 527 The Devil's Schedule

"Okay, children, let your father rest for a while." Victoria drove away the children who were pestering Beckham.

She and Beckham now have three children, the eldest son Brooklyn is 10 years old, the second son Romeo is 7 years old, and the youngest son Kruse is only 4 years old.

After the kids left, Victoria asked her husband how he felt about his first day of training today.

"Not bad." Beckham said, "There is Luther, and some young teammates from the national team."

"Deisler and others also know each other."

Victoria noticed the ease with which her husband spoke, apparently in a good mood.

"Going back to Europe to play football is finally fulfilling your wish." Victoria's tone was somewhat dissatisfied.

Although she also received a lot of resource benefits and nodded to Beckham to return to Europe, Victoria still yearns for life in the United States in her bones.

Beckham just smiled, didn't say anything, and wasn't angry. He knew that his wife was just a verbal complaint.

Victoria asked her husband what he thought of the new young head coach.

Beckham thought for a while before saying, "It's different from any head coach I've come into contact with before."

"very young."

"It also looks very lively."

"It can be seen that the players admire him."

"Luther and I talked about the coach, and he was also full of praise."

"To be able to lead a newly promoted polo team to the La Liga title is indeed very capable."

"However, we won't know until we cooperate for a while... So far, it's not bad."

"Yeah, of course it's different. The owner of the club is the first coach in football." Victoria said.

"It doesn't have much to do with him being the boss. To make the players admire, there are only victories and achievements." Beckham said.

"You seem to admire him?" Victoria asked.

"Maybe." Beckham shrugged.

Victoria gave her husband a blank look and went out.

After a while, she came back wearing a faintly visible pink gauze dress.

"What are you doing?"

"Didn't you say you were going to have a daughter?"

Beckham sighed inwardly, but pretended to appreciate it very much, and rushed forward.

As long as he is on a new team, Victoria will be very diligent, it seems that he is afraid that he will have the energy to steal...

...

The evening exercise is over.

Fang Jue kissed his wife's forehead.

Changed pajamas.

Go to the study, turn on the laptop and start working.

He is paying attention and thinking about the team's upcoming Christmas devil schedule.

There is no winter break in the Premier League.

Not only that, but the Christmas period is the most intensive event.

Even the stronger the team, the stronger the opponent during Christmas.

The FA have scheduled many of the strong talks over the Christmas period to engage and entertain fans.

Aston Villa will be away at the Stadium of Light against Sunderland in the seventeenth round of the league two days later.

Then four days after this game, in the eighteenth round of the league, Aston Villa played at home against Stoke City, the "City of the Sky".

Next, is the most severe schedule.

On December 27, in the nineteenth round of the league, he was a guest at the Emirates Stadium and faced Professor Arsene Wenger's Arsenal.

On December 29, back home, the twentieth round of the league, the opponent is the Red Army Liverpool.

Then four days later, on January 2, 2010, the first game of the new year, the third round of the FA Cup at home to Blackburn.

On January 9th, the 21st round of the league, they faced Wigan Athletic as a guest.

Four days later, the first leg of the League Cup semi-final was away to Blackburn.

Another four days later, the 22nd round of the league played against West Ham United at home.

Then, three days later, the second leg of the League Cup semi-final, at home to Blackburn.

Then, three days later, the fourth round of the FA Cup, the opponent is yet to be determined, of course, this requires them to pass the third round of the FA Cup first.

Then, four days later, the twenty-third round of the league played against Arsenal at home.

Three days later, the twenty-fourth round of the league played away against Fulham.

From December 15th, the seventeenth round of the league started with an away game against Sunderland.

In one and a half months, Aston Villa will play up to twelve games, an average of one game in less than four days.

Such a high game intensity really exhausts the players physically and mentally!

However, the FA, which arranges this schedule, also has its own wishful thinking.

As we all know, this period happens to be the Western Christmas and New Year holidays, which also allows more people to have time to pay attention to football matches. Whether it is the number of people present or ratings, the devil's schedule of the Premier League has always remained high.

The promotion of economic interests has also made the Premier League schedule the most difficult in Europe.

In fact, most of the mainstream leagues except the Premier League implement the winter break at the same time.

From the perspective of climatic factors, the British Isles, which belong to the temperate maritime climate, enjoy the "welfare" of the North Atlantic warm current all year round. This is perfect for quality football games.

From the perspective of cultural heritage, Britain, the originator of modern football, has long regarded football games as one of the ways to celebrate important festivals. Arranging games on Boxing Day (December 26) after Christmas has long been an unwritten practice in the Premier League.

In addition, in the British football league system, there are two important events, the FA Cup and the League Cup, which will inevitably affect the arrangement of the league schedule.

And if the Premier League chooses to have a winter break, then the devil's schedule can only be arranged in the sprint stage in March and April, which will test the teams even more than it does now.

All in all, the Christmas Devil schedule has been fixed in this way and has become one of the important highlights of the Premier League.

During the devil's schedule every year, there are always upsets.

Often teams in the relegation zone will suddenly make an effort to escape, because they will directly give up the FA Cup and League Cup and take advantage of this time to specialize in the league.

Even for giants whose bench depth has always been strong, the challenge of the Devil's schedule is great.

And the most painful thing is the traditional strong team like Aston Villa, who have to play in the league, and it is difficult to give up the FA Cup and League Cup directly, otherwise they will not be able to explain to the fans.

For Aston Villa and Fang Jue, this is his first devil schedule to take over the team.

It is also difficult for him to make the decision to give up the League Cup and the FA Cup.

On the one hand, the team has reached the semi-finals of the League Cup, and has already played to this point. After playing three more games, they will have a chance to win the championship.

To win a championship in the first season of taking over the team is naturally excellent.

In addition, as the club with the longest history in the Premier League, Aston Villa's fan tradition attaches great importance to the FA Cup, and it is not easy to give up.

Therefore, in this devil's schedule, Aston Villa, which has a third-line battle and a bench thickness that is much different from Manchester United, Chelsea and other giants, will be very difficult.

...

Two days later, in the seventeenth round of the league, Aston Villa visited Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, northern England, and played away against Sunderland.

Before the game, Sunderland's media was very optimistic. They believed that even if their opponent was Aston Villa, who was ranked fourth in the league, they still hoped to score points and even win.

reason?

Who in Europe doesn't know that Aston Villa is a hero of "robbing the rich and giving to the poor".

As long as they have just scored points from the giants, they will generously help the folks in the next round after all.

Therefore, in the last round of the league, Aston Villa won Manchester United 4-3 at home. Apart from Aston Villa fans, the happiest people were Sunderland fans.

Before the game, when the coaches of the two sides shook hands, Sunderland coach Bruce O'Neill held Fang Jue's hand with a warm attitude.

Fang Jue even had the illusion that veteran cadres led a team to the countryside to send warmth and were warmly welcomed by the village chief.

damn it.

Fang Jue knew that the other party really took the legend of "robbing the rich and helping the poor" seriously.

...

Inside the stadium, Aston Villa players formed a circle.

"The coach said, this game must be won." Captain Petrov said.

"Take it!" the crowd shouted in low voices.

"The coach said, if you can't win the game, go back to Birmingham."

"Go back to Birmingham!" the crowd shouted.

"Wrong, wrong." Abanglaho said.

Everyone also laughed.

"Smile!" Deisler said angrily, "The coach said that if he hears 'robbing the rich and giving to the poor' after the game, we will all be in bad luck."

...

The camera gave a close-up of the VIP seats at the Stadium of Light.

Beckham, who has already joined Aston Villa's training, and his wife and three children also came to watch the away game.

The director naturally gave this celebrity family a close-up.

The most interesting thing is that in the main stand of the Stadium of Light, some Sunderland fans even unfurled a banner.

The banner reads: Warmly welcome the Vila people who rob the rich and give to the poor!

The Aston Villa fans in front of the TV saw this, and naturally cursed angrily.

At the same time, their hearts were beating drums.

It can't really be that evil.

At the end of the first half, the score was zero to zero.

Sunderland fans cheered.

The hearts of Aston Villa fans sank.

During the intermission, Fang Jue scolded all the players bloody.

"Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor? Does it sound good?"

"We worked so hard against Manchester United, Chelsea, for the win, for our position in the table, for our chance to play in the Champions League next season."

"It's not to work hard to grab points from the giants, and then be a kid who gives points to other teams."

"Listen to the voices in the stands and see how those Sunderlanders shouted!"

"I'm telling you, I'm very angry right now."

"Bruce O'Neill smiled so happily when he shook hands with me."

"Why does he have that expression, you can understand for yourself."

"I don't want to end up with that guy saying 'thank you for your generosity' to me at the end of the game."

"If you don't want to be laughed at after the game, just win the game for me."

"Goal!"

"Keep scoring goals."

"Fuck Sunderland's ass hard!"

Ask for a monthly ticket, ask for a subscription, thank you everyone.