Hero of the Penalty Area

Volume 1: When a Hero Appears, People Pay Attention. Chapter 120: A Special Funeral (Second Update, Please Vote for Me)

Chen Yingxiong and his virtual teammates can really be said to have been "long time apart". Since Cabrera arrived, he has never logged into the dungeon again.

Because he had no chance to disappear for an hour or two, he was with Cabrera every night. How can I have time to brush up the copy?

Now that Cabrera is gone, he can finally clear the dungeon!

In the copy, he told the virtual head coach Mazzarri of his intentions - his current team is Liverpool, but he did not let Dalglish be his coach because he felt that Mazzarri would be happy to work with him. , and it’s always awkward to see two Dalglishes...

After listening to Chen Yingxiong's words, Mazari understood what he meant. Then he will start to adjust and arrange the team's training plan to ensure that all training plans are based on Chen Yingxiong's requirements.

This is where the training copy is better than the real training outside. Because outside, it is impossible to let the earth revolve around you. It's impossible to say how you want to practice, the whole team has to cooperate with you to practice how you want. No matter how big a player you are, you don't have this power. But in this copy, you can let the earth revolve around you, and everyone exists for you.

This is amazing, you can do whatever you want here, and the training effect will naturally be more targeted than outside.

In addition, there are buffs that increase the training effect in the dungeon, so the improvement is naturally much greater than outside.

This is why Chen Yingxiong is in a hurry to clear the copy...

The training effect here is much better than outside!

In this way, Chen Yingxiong conducted targeted training in the dungeon, and then in real training outside the dungeon, he still practiced his free kicks for an hour every day.

He feels that he has done enough foreplay, and he should be able to take the free kick in the next game, right?

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On March 31st, Liverpool ushered in the 31st round of their league match. There are eight rounds left before the end of the league. Liverpool, ranked eighth, is currently ten points behind fourth-ranked Tottenham Hotspur, and its hope of participating in the Champions League next season is already slim.

Fortunately, they have qualified for the Europa League next season in advance.

In the thirty-first round of the league, Liverpool challenged Newcastle away from home.

Newcastle's home court is very atmospheric, and many teams find it difficult to play here.

However, this stadium has recently suffered a series of major changes, and Newcastle fans have also been severely hit. This incident may affect the morale of the fans when they go to the scene to cheer the team.

This matter is that Newcastle club owner Mike Ashley finally changed the name of the stadium. From then on, Newcastle's home stadium was no longer called "St. James Park Stadium", but was renamed "Sports Direct Stadium". This name is really ugly... Chen Yingxiong completely understands the anger of Newcastle fans.

In fact, the name change was finalized in November last year, but it was not until the middle of last month that Ashley officially asked the staff to remove the large characters "St. James Park" inside and outside the stadium and replace them with new ones. "Sports Direct Stadium" logo, the century-old "St. James Park Stadium" passed away.

Four months ago, Ashley announced on Newcastle United's official website that the stadium would be renamed the "Sports Direct Stadium". However, the effect of this statement is not ideal. Football players and many media are still using "St. James Park". Newcastle City Council called on local media not to use the new name. During this summer's Olympic Games, the stadium hosting the competition will still be called St. James' Park. garden.

Ashley could only destroy all appearances of tradition by "complete destruction": on February 16, three workers set up ladders and carried crowbars to remove the words "St. James Park" from the outer wall of the stadium one by one. . Passers-by stopped to watch and angrily called several workers "shameful".

Just after Ashley forced the name of the stadium to be changed, an angry Newcastle player named Atkinson re-wrote "St. James" with white paint on the stadium to the outer wall at night after getting drunk.

The club quickly removed the graffiti. Atkinson was also detained by the police, but he expressed no regrets, "Ashley seems to have to be a villain to be happy. I don't care about being arrested for defending justice."

His arrest angered the Newcastle fans. They expressed support for this brave golfer and said they would pool money to hire a lawyer to file a lawsuit for Atkinson. If he was unfortunately punished, the fine would also be borne by the Newcastle players. The mi organization pooled money to pay for him.

And many more have announced they will follow Atkinson's lead. Until then, Ashley will just wait to stand against the endless graffiti! Sure enough, they kept their word. Just a week later, multiple graffiti with the words "St. James Park" appeared on the exterior walls of the stadium, and the staff were busy painting them everywhere.

This scene is quite like the tug-of-war between China's small advertisement for certificate application and the urban management, who wrote, wiped, wiped, wiped and wrote again...

And now, just before the game between Liverpool and Newcastle, Newcastle's fans made another mistake.

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When the Liverpool bus arrived outside the stadium, they happened to catch up with this scene——

The bus the players were riding suddenly stopped, and no one knew what happened. Looking from the car, I can only see the crowds. This scene is very common before many Premier League games. The fans will not enter the stadium immediately. They will wait outside the stadium for their team's bus to arrive, cheer them on, and then line up to enter.

So it’s not surprising to everyone.

But the bus has never stopped because of this, because there are always police cars clearing the way and a special channel has been prepared in advance. The fans can only cheer outside the special channel for a while, and then go off to do whatever they need to do.

But today, it's different.

So everyone found it strange.

"What's wrong?" Head coach Dalglish, who was sitting in the front row, realized something was wrong. He stood up and walked to the driver's seat.

The driver of the bus turned back to Dalglish and said: "We were stopped by Newcastle fans."

"Isn't there a police car clearing the way?" Dalgliesh felt strange.

The driver pointed to him directly in front of the car.

Dalglish saw that the police car that was clearing the way also stopped. Several Newcastle players were negotiating with the police in the police car.

"What are you doing?" Dalgliesh frowned.

"I don't know either." The Liverpool bus driver shrugged.

"Open the door, I'll go down and have a look." Dalglish.

The driver opened the door, and the hissing sound of it opening attracted the attention of the other players. Everyone stood up from their seats, and then saw their head coach walking out of the car.

"What's wrong?"

"what happened?"

"Why did the boss go down?"

"Isn't this the place we haven't reached yet? Why did the car door open..."

Everyone stood up and looked around while talking. Only then did they see what was happening in front of them.

"There seem to be so many people..."

Dalglish went down and was recognized by the Newcastle players. They explained to Dalglish, and Dalglish went to ask the police officer in charge about the situation, and then returned to the car. The bus door closed again.

After coming up, Dalglish waved to the players: "Wait patiently, they are holding a funeral."

"Huh? Funeral?" The players were even more surprised. "Who's dead, boss?"

"St. James' Park." Dalglish looked a little lonely when he said this again, and seemed to be sad about the fate of this century-old stadium. Or maybe he thought of Liverpool from the fame of St. James' Park. Liverpool FC is building a new stadium to replace Anfield, which cannot be expanded. When the Anfield Stadium is demolished, will fans come to see her off?

The renaming of the St James' Park stadium is not news in England, everyone has known about it for a long time. But the fans paid tribute to this name. This was the first time they watched it. Many people immediately crowded to the front and looked through the huge front windshield of the bus.

Since they were on a higher ground in the car, they could easily see what was happening behind the crowd.

Behind the crowd is a temporary passage.

A group of people walked slowly from the left. The leader was a man dressed as a priest. He was holding a Bible in his hand and walked at the front of the group. Behind him were six big men carrying a black and white coffin, each carrying a black and white coffin. Everyone was wearing black formal clothes, and it looked like they were really attending a funeral. A group of drum corps followed closely and played a sad dirge.

The other Newcastle fans followed them, heads lowered, expressions solemn and sad.

After the bus passed through Liverpool, they lowered the coffin. Then the priest held a Bible in his hand and introduced the 120-year "life" of "St. James Park" with a sad expression and prayed for it. The "relatives and friends" who were watching prayed together...

This move resonated with a large number of fans at the scene: More than 52,000 fans watched the game against Liverpool, and countless fans spontaneously joined the "funeral" procession, as if they were bidding farewell to a common relative—— This is why the Liverpool players felt that there were so many balls outside the stadium today.

They now gather together to pray silently for the lost "St James' Park". The name of the home ground, which has continued the emotion of Newcastle fans for generations, instantly turned into a wisp of smoke.

The bus restarted, and everyone turned to look at the Newcastle fans who were praying around the coffin.

The funeral is still going on, and Newcastle's home stadium, St. James Stadium... Oh, no, it should be called Sports Direct Stadium now. It is watching these people silently from above. It has witnessed the rise and fall of Newcastle's honor and disgrace. It never speaks. As Newcastle football For those who have experienced it personally, it has stood in the wind and rain for more than a hundred years.

The Liverpool bus has left, and the "priest" is praying the last part of the prayer.

"...While he was on earth, he testified to the Lord by his faith in the Lord and his actions. We are proud of our beloved Saint James and believe that at this time, he is enjoying eternal upliftment in the kingdom of heaven. This is what the Lord has for him Prepared. May we continue to follow the faith of St. James and run firmly on the road to heaven until we meet again on that day. Father God, at this time we also pray especially for our relatives and friends around us, asking the Lord’s Spirit to comfort them and help them. At this moment, they find peace in the grief and pain of the death of their loved ones... In the name of the Lord, I pray, Amen."

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ps, today is not the fourth update, but the fifth update, the fifth update! ! .

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