Volume 1: When Men Come and Go, People Pay Attention. Chapter 40: Manchester Man and Scousers (Second Update Guaranteed)

Chapter 40 Manchester Man and Scousers (Second update guaranteed)

If there is a so-called "national derby" in England, then the confrontation between Liverpool and Manchester United should be a national derby. As the two most successful teams in England, the hatred between these two teams has been forged a long time ago.

But the hatred between them is not because they are both the most successful teams and they cannot tolerate each other being better and better than themselves. At least it is not just that...

The hatred between the two teams must also mention the hatred between the two cities - in the world of football, hatred is always related to hell. Even if it is not in the football world, various regional discriminations are always common, but they are not just a patent of China. In China, Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Shenhua, Beijing Guoan and Tianjin TEDA, Sichuan Quanxing and Chongqing Lifan, the fans of these teams are hostile to each other, which is related to their hellish hatred.

In Italy, people from the north look down on people from the south, so teams from the south and teams from the north always have fierce fights to the death. This is also the case in England.

The hatred between Liverpool and Manchester United must start with the hatred between the two cities. This hatred began to appear more than two hundred years ago, sprouted and finally took root and grew into a towering tree. Before the Industrial Revolution, Liverpool was the most famous port city in the UK, and much of the maritime trade passed through Liverpool. At that time, Manchester still had a bad reputation.

Later, after the Industrial Revolution, Manchester rapidly emerged as an industrial center, but the raw materials they needed still had to be transshipped through the Port of Liverpool. Although the two cities are only thirty-five miles apart, Liverpool is a hurdle that Manchester cannot get around.

One day, Liverpool unilaterally imposed a large import tariff on Manchester importers, causing dissatisfaction throughout Manchester. In order to deal with Liverpool, the solution Manchester came up with was to dig an artificial canal ourselves. When the canal was built, fleets transporting raw materials could bypass Liverpool and reach Manchester directly through the canal.

To this day, this characteristic of Manchester City - the canal and the boats on the canal - can be found on the crests of the rivals Manchester United and Manchester City.

Manchester no longer has to look at Liverpool's face to live its life, but the hatred between the two cities does not end there.

Liverpool people have always looked down on Manchester people. Liverpudlians mocked Manchesterites as blue-collar workers in manufacturing, while they themselves were white-collar workers in transportation and finance. There is a saying that goes like this: "There's_the_liverpool_gentleman_and_the_manchester_man (the gentlemen of Liverpool and the Manchester people)." The Manchester people call the Liverpool people "scousers", which is the name of a kind of fried beef, because Liverpool used to eat this. Making a living by cooking fried beef called "scousers" has now become a synonym for Liverpudlians. Except for Manchester people, everyone else uses a gender-neutral pronoun when speaking it. The dialect of Liverpool is also called "scousers dialect". The dialect is difficult to understand. But when people from Manchester say it, it's an outright scorn.

Now the two cities are fighting to become the "Second City in Britain" and are starting a new war...

As we all know, Liverpool and Everton are rivals in the same city. They just played a derby. The atmosphere of that game left a deep impression on Chen Yingxiong.

But whether they are Liverpool fans or Everton fans, they hate Manchester United the most. If you meet a Liverpudlian and you're not sure whether he's a Liverpool fan or an Everton fan, there's one thing you can do right: scold Manchester United.

This is because of the hatred between Liverpool City and Manchester City. Rooney's move from Everton to Manchester United made many Everton fans very angry.

There is a saying - without Manchester United, Liverpool and Everton should be two parallel lines.

The first confrontation between Liverpool and Manchester United was in October 1895. At that time, Liverpool beat Manchester United 7:1, but in the second leg a month later, Manchester United responded with a 5:2. From then on, the two rival city teams competed for each other. The good show I won was officially staged.

The glory of the two teams can be divided by era. The 1950s and 1960s were Manchester United's glorious moments. Then in the 1970s and 1980s, it belonged to Liverpool. From the 1990s to the present, it has basically been dominated by Manchester United.

In terms of honors, Liverpool has won more Champions League titles. They have always claimed to be the most successful team in England, while Manchester United said they are an icon of England. After winning the Premier League title last season, they have surpassed Liverpool's 18-time top-flight championship with 19 times. , becoming the team that has won the most top-flight titles in England.

When Liverpool fans saw Manchester United fans, they always raised four fingers and shouted: "We have four!" After the night in Istanbul, they changed to simply raising their hands and shouting: "We have four!" Five!" This is all about Champions League honors. Liverpool has five Champions League titles and is the team in England that has won the most titles. Manchester United has only three times, two less than Liverpool.

Manchester United fans responded by pointing out ten fingers when they saw Liverpool - a reference to their ten Premier League titles. But now ten fingers are no longer enough, Manchester United has won 12 Premier League titles. Liverpool, on the other hand, has yet to win a Premier League title...

When facing Manchester United at Anfield, the stands were filled with flags provoking Manchester United. It is a pity that Old Trafford banned all flags several years ago. If the flags were not banned, all kinds of flags provoking Liverpool would be inevitable.

What really makes the two families become mortal enemies is the tragedy of both sides. After Manchester United's Munich air crash, some radical Liverpool fans ridiculed the tragedy and made up many songs mocking the tragedy to sing during the matches between the two sides! In the 1980s, the Hillsborough tragedy also occurred in Liverpool. In retaliation, some radical Manchester United fans retaliated in kind...

This has made the relationship between the two parties increasingly tense and worse.

There's another incident that illustrates just how far the animosity between the two teams has gone.

Even if they are mortal enemies like Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​AC Milan and Inter Milan, they often trade players with each other. But there has been no direct player trade between Manchester United and Liverpool for forty-seven years. When Heinze had a falling out with Sir Alex and wanted to transfer, the Argentine, who did not fully understand the hatred between Liverpool and Manchester United, directly stated that he wanted to go to Liverpool. As a result, he was scolded by Manchester United fans.

At that time, Liverpool's head coach, the Spaniard Benitez, didn't know whether he really didn't know that the two teams had not transferred players for more than 40 years, or he was deliberately trying to disgust Manchester United. He actually made an offer to Manchester United... Of course, this offer was rejected by Manchester United without hesitation. Ferguson said the best way to deal with an offer like this was to throw it under the bed, and that's exactly what he did.

In the end, Heinze was sold to Real Madrid by Manchester United, and the Argentine failed to become Liverpool in the end. His relationship with Manchester United also completely collapsed. The tradition of inseparability between Liverpool and Manchester United continues...

This may be the most obvious and exaggerated hostile relationship among the teams that Chen Yingxiong joined.

St. Petersburg and Moscow also have animosity within Russia, with each looking down on the other. But the hatred between the two teams is not so deep, it is more of a sports competition. Even if the hatred between Naples and the top three in northern Italy is so deep and mixed with political and economic factors, it hasn't stopped the transfer transactions between the two parties, right?

Manchester United and Liverpool have really done it and persisted for so long. I have to say that England, as the birthplace of modern football, does have many things. They do it deeper than other places - they love it more deeply and they hate it more deeply...

Chen Yingxiong knows that Liverpool and Manchester United are hostile, but he doesn’t know the extent of the hostility, and he doesn’t know much about the story behind the hostility - he is a player, he only plays football, and he doesn’t know many things. caring.

In fact, even if he knew, it probably wouldn't happen. The ball would still be played and the game would still be won. No matter who the opponent is, he will pursue victory.

In China, however, some Manchester United fans expressed great anger over Chen Yingxiong's transfer to Liverpool. Some even burned Chen Yingxiong's jersey and posters in Naples, and made a video and posted it online to vent their dissatisfaction. .

However, their actions received ridicule and criticism from many people. Because there is such a deep hatred between Liverpool and Manchester United, which is related to their local history, politics, economy, and culture. For the Chinese, they just watch the fun. If Manchester United fans are unhappy with Liverpool, or Liverpool fans are unhappy with Manchester United, it should be more because of the competitive relationship between the two teams. It is far from being hateful to that point... venting their anger on Chen Yingxiong, or even Burning Chen Yingxiong's jersey is too much.

Could it be that their compatriots, the players who have brought them countless joy and passion, are not as important in their minds as a team in a foreign country that actually has nothing to do with them and has no intersection with them?

The home game between Liverpool and Manchester United has not yet started. On the Chinese Internet, Manchester United fans and Liverpool fans have already started a war. Both sides attack each other, curse each other in different ways, and even insult each other’s family members, and even go back to Before the eighteenth generation...for a time, bricks and slurs flew everywhere. Greetings such as "Fuck your mother" and "I fucked your mother to give birth to you" are heard endlessly. The war has spread from fan forums to QQ groups, to sports news message boards, as well as various Weibo and blogs... The scene was spectacular.

But for Chinese fans, this is nothing new. It’s not just Manchester United and Liverpool that have such great hatred. Real Madrid fans and Barcelona fans, Inter Milan fans and AC Milan fans, Brazilian fans and Argentine fans, German fans Football fans and English fans, Italian fans and English fans, Spanish fans and German fans... As long as there is a sectarian dispute, any two sides can quarrel with each other, both sides scold each other, multi-party scuffles, mixed male and female scolds... all kinds of swearing. This method fully refutes the rumors that we Chinese lack imagination and innovative spirit!

Football match commentators, football reporters and editors, and football novel authors are the groups most likely to be shot while lying down. If you praise a team in games, in the news, or in novels, your rival fans will definitely be classified as fans of the team you praise. If you dare to criticize a team, you are doomed. You will definitely be scolded as something worse than a pig or a dog by the fans of this team... It is said that there is a football novel writer who, just because he was scolding people on the forum, In the end, the other party came out with a pornographic photo scandal with his wife. Although it was fake and they were faked with screenshots from those self-portrait videos in Caoliu, it really deceived many people...

Look, just because the two sides support different teams, some people can actually do things that violate the law and morality by creating false impressions, slandering and insulting other people's wives and families, and they are still complacent and feel proud instead of being ashamed.

I have to say that the fanaticism of our wealthy fans in China is probably as high as those of real fans from abroad. The level of Chinese football is still far from being in line with the world, but the level of Chinese fans Fanaticism, I'm afraid it has become integrated with the world...

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Chen Yingxiong doesn't know much about the century-old grudge between Liverpool and Manchester United. These are two rival fans. Isn't it true that he has never experienced similar games?

What made him feel the hatred between Liverpool and Manchester United was different from the first two teams he played for was that the atmosphere in the team suddenly changed since the players began to return to the club and began preparing for the game against Manchester United.

The injured Gerrard began to seize the time to resume training, hoping to catch up with the game.

Vice-captain Carragher scolded the Manchester United players and this team more than once in the locker room as sons of bitches - they were once teammates of the national team, but in the national team they can laugh away their grudges, that's Because everyone has to fight for England. Now that they are in their respective clubs, they are naturally their own masters. This hatred is completely directed at Manchester United, not a specific person. Many professional players are very skilled in this kind of switching of hatred postures - although the hatred between Real Madrid and Barcelona has escalated many times over the past year, the players of the two teams still have to fight side by side when they reach the Spanish national team. When Barcelona players are bullied by their opponents in national team matches, Real Madrid players will also step forward to fight for them.

In addition to the tense atmosphere in the locker room, the air on the training ground is also filled with the atmosphere of "a storm is coming and the wind is filling the building".

Head coach Dalglish had a solemn look on his face, and the amount of training had obviously increased. The coaches on the coaching staff were yelling and yelling more and more during training. If a player was distracted or made a mistake during training, greet him. It must be Dalglish's angry questioning and extremely exaggerated body language - people who don't understand may think that the "King" is going to whip the player...

There are also more fans and reporters gathered around Melwood to watch training and interviews. Fans chanted various anti-Manchester United slogans. The reporters are most concerned about whether Gerrard, the soul of the Liverpool team, can play in such an important game. Whether Chen Yingxiong can continue his goals? The league has been interrupted for two weeks. Will it affect Chen Yingxiong's scoring feeling? The last time he failed to score in two consecutive rounds after the national team match day, leading to Liverpool's losing streak After two games, Dalglish's voice suddenly became louder...

These feelings were not felt by Chen Yingxiong when he was at Zenit St. Petersburg and Naples, or in other words, they were not as profound as they are now.

A reporter interviewed him and asked him what he thought of playing against Manchester United.

His answer was very characteristic of his own style: "I don't care who my opponent is, I have to beat them anyway."

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