Chapter 690 It's Too Surprising!

Luke Hirst is a media student at the University of Manchester and has just entered the Manchester Evening News as an intern.

But unlike the vast majority of Manchester natives, their family does not like Manchester City, but Manchester United. This is a minority in Manchester, but he has been a hardcore of Manchester United since he was a child.

As a long-time fan and a fresh graduate, he is ambitious to make a name for himself in the media industry, because his goal is his predecessor David Meeker.

It is estimated that not the most senior Manchester United and Ferguson fans, very few people will have heard of this name, but Luke Hurst not only knows, but also familiar, because David Meek was once the most famous reporter of the Manchester Evening News .

The Manchester Evening News reporter used to follow Manchester United news for 40 years. He had a good relationship with Ferguson. Later, he was poached by Ferguson to work at Manchester United. He was known as the authority of the club within Manchester United. Arranged his talk with Ferguson and was responsible for writing Ferguson's matchday column.

It is said that Ferguson once revealed that if one day he decides to write an autobiography, the author will be David Meek, "because no reporter can know me better than him!"

David Meek began to be known in 2003, when he was diagnosed with cancer, and Ferguson visited him at his home several times in person to encourage him to overcome the disease, which made David Meek very touched.

Luke Hurst hopes that one day he will be able to join Manchester United from the Manchester Evening News like his predecessor David Meek, and take a position in the team he is willing to love for a lifetime.

But the premise is that he must start as an intern and get results.

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Some people like to take shortcuts and run the news through various relationships, but some people like to rely on their abilities and stand out slowly by their own abilities, while Luke Hirst wants to rely on his own sense of smell. .

Years of fan experience told him that in December, the awards season is about to usher in.

This year, the FIFA awards conference was postponed to mid-January, and it was still in Zurich, Switzerland. Before this night, no one in the world could know who the new year's World Footballer was.

But the European Ballon d'Or is different. In order for the magazine to be listed ahead of time, the French Football Magazine always goes to the winner's home and the team one week in advance to shoot and interview, which will inevitably reveal whereabouts.

This year's winner will undoubtedly appear between Yang Yang and Cristiano Ronaldo, and there are still different opinions about who it is. Some people say it will be Yang Yang, but some people think that Ronaldo is better.

Yang Yang is definitely the favorite, but the Portuguese also have a Champions League in hand, and they have a lot of chips.

It's hard to say who it is.

But one thing is for sure, and that is all eyes on these two superstars, two teams.

Luke Hurst was different from the others who stared at Carrington and Melwood. He chose to stare at the airport, and he found an intern colleague, and the two stared at each other 24 hours a day.

Every year, media reporters follow and want to grab news, so the French football magazine also hides it in a targeted manner, and deliberately arranges the whereabouts very secretly.

For example, last year, Gérard Ernault and his party suddenly appeared at the London airport. After being photographed by the media, they suddenly disappeared without a trace. They didn't even know when he went to interview Liverpool and Yang Yang. people know.

And this year, they will surely do the same.

It's like a cat-and-mouse spy game.

Luke Hirst chose to take the dumbest way, and that was to sit back and wait.

And he chose to stay at Manchester Airport because he is a die-hard Manchester United fan.

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After dark, the temperature in Manchester dropped a lot.

Luke Hirst was sitting in the waiting area of ​​the airport lobby, rubbing his hands in the cold, cursing the damn weather.

If it wasn't for a thought in his heart, he would not be willing to come here and suffer in the cold in this winter. He would rather sit by the warm fireplace at home and watch TV and surf the Internet. It's a heavenly life.

According to the schedule given by the French football magazine, the awards should be on December 7, but this year is different from previous years.

The former editor-in-chief Gérard Ernault resigned, and the former deputy editor-in-chief Denis Chaumir was brought to his post. The famous media person who has worked in French football magazine for many years and is familiar with European football began to carry out reforms. Announcing the final ballot results is tantamount to revealing the suspense early.

It is already December 1st, and it is estimated that the announcement will be in these days.

"Wait for two more days, and I'll give up if I can't." Luke Hirst said to himself.

Another wave of passengers who came off the Paris flight was sent off, but still no target was found.

But just when Luke Hirst wanted to give up, he suddenly saw two figures sneaking past the gate and walking all the way to the gate.

Although the distance was a bit far and the light was a bit dim, Luke Hirst saw the difference between the two for the first time. One of them was carrying a large suitcase, while the other was empty-handed. It doesn't feel right.

What's more, Luke Hirst vaguely overheard their conversation in French.

He immediately opened his pocket and took out a blurry photo, which he had printed from the Internet, a photo of Denis Chaumir, the new editor-in-chief and former deputy editor-in-chief of French football magazine.

The French are too low-key, even the Manchester Evening News does not have his photo, Luke Hirst can only be identified in this way, and now it looks like it!

The English guy secretly took a lot of photos of the two of them diagonally opposite and sideways, as well as their backs. After the two went out, he immediately chased them out, and vaguely heard them mention a name, Cristiano Ronaldo.

A surge of ecstasy suddenly flooded Luke Hirst's heart.

My God, it was Cristiano Ronaldo who won the award?

This is really surprising!

Most people thought that it was safe for Yang Yang to win the award, but they did not expect that it was Xiao Luo who won the award.

But after thinking about it, I think it is logical, because Yang Yang has won it once before. Although it is not without precedent for winning the championship, in the end, he does not have any weighty championship trophy except for a Premier League championship.

As for the fact that he has become the only player other than Gerd Muller in the past 60 years to score more than 50 goals in a single season, this is certainly an honor, but it should also be known that Cristiano Ronaldo does not score goals either. less.

2008 is the year of the European Cup, which is a big year. According to the usual practice, it should be given to the players who performed well in the competition, but the Spanish team coached by Aragones did not have a star that was too prominent. Compared with Ronaldinho, this Spanish national team is too integrated and lacks the individual shining points that stand out from the crowd.

In addition to the European Cup, it is the Champions League.

Thinking of this, Luke Hirst was all excited.

When he finally chased out the gate, seeing that Dennis Schomill and the photographer had already left in a taxi, he immediately ran to the parking lot, got into his car, and chased out.

But out of the airport fork in the road, he has lost the other side.

The arrival of Dennis Schomill in Manchester is already the clearest signal.

Thinking of this, Luke Hirst immediately drove to the newspaper office.

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Ferguson hasn't slept yet.

He is considering playing Blackburn in two days.

This is the matchup of the League Cup quarter-finals.

Except for Chelsea, the top three of the Premier League have all entered the quarter-finals, Arsenal against Burnley, Liverpool against Watford, Manchester United against Blackburn, and Stoke City against Derby County, of which the Reds and the Gunners are away .

The league lags behind a lot, and Ferguson doesn't have much confidence in his heart, so he began to pay attention to the League Cup.

It's his usual style of coaching at Manchester United, which is to try to avoid being empty-handed.

Staying up late before games is the norm for him.

In the silence, the vibration of the Nokia mobile phone on the desktop suddenly came from the study.

Ferguson took a look, the caller ID, David Mick.

So late, something must have happened.

Ferguson answered the phone immediately, "Hi, David, what's the matter?"

"Boss, just got a call from Paul Horrocks, editor-in-chief of the Manchester Evening News, and one of their reporters just met Dennis Shawmill at the airport."

"What?" Ferguson heard, and stood up from his seat. "Is this true?"

"It's true, there are pictures, they'll be on the front page early tomorrow morning, let me know in advance that Dennis Shawmill is in Manchester." David Meek is an old man in the Manchester Evening News, with The people at the newspaper still have close ties, and they have always been the middlemen between Ferguson and the media, and his information is absolutely reliable.

"So, it's Cristiano?" Ferguson was full of surprises.

"Otherwise it wouldn't be in Manchester." David Meek laughed over the phone.

Ferguson laughed at first, but quickly shook his head, "That's not right, they didn't call us in advance."

"Maybe it's a new style of work. Shawmill has just taken office and has made many bold reforms." David Meek said.

It is said to be a bold reform, but is it not forced to change by FIFA?

"But Manchester Airport is also very close to Liverpool." Ferguson thought of another possibility.

"Paris has direct flights to John Lennon Airport," says David Meeker.

Liverpool and Manchester are indeed very close, and Manchester Airport is larger than Liverpool's John Lennon Airport, but it is dozens of kilometers apart and more than an hour's drive away. According to common sense, there is no reason for Shawmill and others. Turn to Manchester and go to Liverpool.

Unless, his destination is Manchester.

If this is the case, then the final winner will be revealed.

Ferguson is ecstatic, because this will be the first European Ballon d'Or in Manchester United's history, which will make history.

However, the Scottish coach quickly regained his sanity and calmed down.

"Everything has not yet come to fruition, let's put it aside for a while, don't be too happy." Ferguson said solemnly.