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Chapter 45 The Deep Hatred of the Scouse People

Even though he had a small party with his family and agent last night to celebrate his birthday - which was actually just a meal together at home - Wang Lie was still woken up by his internal body clock at 7:30 this morning.

He was lying on the bed and had no time to hug his wife. As soon as he opened his eyes, he was shocked by the scene before him and lay there unable to move.

What he saw was not the familiar ceiling, nor the familiar interior furnishings… No, it was the familiar ceiling and the familiar interior furnishings, but above them there was a set of glittering golden numbers:

37
He thought he was seeing things, so he closed his eyes, squeezed hard, and then opened them again.

That’s right, it’s still “37”.

This is what the system is telling him:

Your body functions at the level of a thirty-seven-year-old.

For a moment, Wang Lie was a little panicked.

After working hard for most of the day, we end up back to where we were before liberation overnight?

But he soon calmed down:
wrong.

It’s not like we’ve returned to the time before liberation!

I just celebrated my thirty-eighth birthday, not my thirty-seventh...

If there were no cheats, he would be 38 years old now, with a 38-year-old body.

And thanks to the cheats and his goal against Hlingham FC, he now has the body of a 37-year-old at the age of 38.

So the plug-in is not ineffective, and I am indeed one year younger than my actual age.

But he forgot that time is still moving forward and he is still getting older.

The cheat only makes his body younger, but it does not stop his body from aging.

You can be young, but aging will never stop for a second.

He is literally racing against time.

Of course, he could catch up with time or even surpass it by scoring goals, but if he stood still and did nothing, time would catch up with him second by second and eventually surpass him.

Wang Lie understood the mechanism of this plug-in.

He scored the goal on January 2037, , and became younger on the same day.

Although the system told him that his body functions had returned to that of a 36-year-old, he actually had a small misunderstanding at the beginning.

Age is a very general concept. If you just celebrated your 36th birthday, you are 36 years old. The day before your 37th birthday, you are actually still 36 years old.

So when the system prompted him that he was one year younger, it only showed the age in years, but not the days. Maybe they thought that the UI would not look good that way...

In fact, the complete information should be 36 years and 349 days old.

Such a long string of golden numbers does look particularly messy...

What could be more concise and clear than a huge “36”, and have a more visual impact?
Although you can't see the number of days, the number will continue to move forward as time goes by.

On February 36, the day after the match against Hlingham FC, this number will automatically become 350 years and days.

On his birthday, the number of days returns to zero and his age increases by one.

That's why he's seeing the number "37" now.

He now doesn't know how many goals he needs to score the second time around, being one year younger.

He scored two goals against Hurlingham FC, but nothing happened after the second goal.

He definitely has to keep scoring goals to stay young.

Assuming it didn't take many goals to turn another year younger, he achieved that goal against Brighton Whitehill on February 28th.

By then, I should be able to see the number "36" again.

The numbers are the same, but they are different from the "36" he saw for the first time. The number of days hidden behind it must be different.

To be specific, he is 36 years and 011 days old.

他到时候的身体机能应该是三十六岁刚出头的状况，等于身体回到了2035年2月28日，也就是2034-2035赛季下半程刚开始的他。

By analogy, Wang Lie could imagine that at this time next year, his physical age would increase by another year as his actual age increased.

If he can restore his physical functions to that of a 33-year-old by working hard to score goals, then maybe after one birthday, his physical functions will become that of a 34-year-old.

In order to avoid being caught up by time, he has to score goals desperately this year.

However, when Wang Lie thought of the new tactics the team was practicing, he sighed in his heart - it's not that easy to score goals, to score a lot of goals...

While Wang Lie was calculating in his mind, the group of golden numbers in his field of vision also disappeared.

After his vision returned to normal, he leaned over and kissed his still sleeping wife. She was exhausted last night, so he let her sleep a little longer...

Unexpectedly, his kiss woke his wife up. When she opened her eyes, she saw her husband lying beside her. After a moment of hesitation, she realized that it was time to get up, so she supported her body with her hands and tried to sit up.

"Don't be anxious, just sleep a little longer..." Wang Lie tried to push his wife back, but failed.

"I'll go make you breakfast."

Wang Lie finally did not force his wife to stay in bed.

His wife got up to prepare breakfast for him, and he went to the basement gym to start his morning exercise.

Although my physical functions have returned to youth, it will be meaningless if I don’t keep up with the training, and all the goals I scored will be wasted.

Now that he has finally been able to return to his youth, he should work harder than before and make his body functions stronger than before. Only in this way can he be worthy of the gift from the traveler and let him see a better show than before.

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Originally, the match between Tyne and Scots at home had no special significance, it was just an ordinary Premier League game.

But it was because of Wang Lie that this 24th round of the Premier League received far more attention than the game itself.

It was a bit like the situation in the 22nd round of the league. Because Rossiter criticized Wang Lie before the game, Tyne's home game against Hlingham FC became the most important game in that round of the league.

Wang Lie is worthy of being the "traffic king" of the Premier League. Wherever he goes, attention follows him.

It is true that there is no hatred between Tyne and the Scouse people in the past and there is no hatred today.

But Tyne's top star Wang Lie has a grudge against the Scouse people!
Or a long-standing hatred.

Wang Lie’s hatred for the Scouse people has nothing to do with his identity as a former Sofia United player, or it has little to do with it.

Because he had already played against the Scouse people when he was still playing for Athletic Barcelona.

The hatred started from that time.

It started with a conflict between Wang Lie and the players of the Scouse team on the field - as a forward, he had a conflict with Joe Wesley, the main central defender of the Scouse team at the time.

Because they were facing each other on the court, the two of them had a lot of confrontations.

Moreover, Wesley plays in a very aggressive style and likes to talk trash.

So he continued to attack Wang Lie during the game, with big movements and mean words.

However, at that time, Wang Lie could not quite understand Wesley's English with a strong Liverpool accent, so Wesley's trash talk tactics did not play much of a role.

Wang Lie scored a goal in that game, helping Atletico Barcelona beat the Scouse and win the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals between the two sides.

After the game, Wang Lie posted a photo on his personal social media account. In the photo, Wesley stood behind him, with his mouth open and his chin slightly raised, looking at Wang Lie. In fact, it was the scene where Wesley was trash-talking Wang Lie. Wang Lie captioned the photo:

"We Chinese have a proverb: 'A barking dog never bites.'"

He wrote this sentence in English, fearing that others would not understand it. It can be said that he was very thoughtful.

Who is he referring to? Combined with this photo, it can be said that he is just short of putting a "dog" label on Wesley.

Wang Lie's behavior of verbally attacking his opponent after winning the game caused great controversy at the time.

His critics said that he had no sportsmanship and was not gentlemanly at all, and that although he won the game he lost his character.

Those who support him think that Wesley scolded Wang Lie for the entire game. If there is any lack of sportsmanship, it is Wesley who has no sportsmanship. Besides, who made him lose the game? No matter how Wang Lie scolded him, he could only bear it. If he was unhappy, why didn't he win? Didn't he want to?
But no matter what, Wang Lie's actions did push the conflict between the two sides to a whole new level - before, it was at most a conflict of one game, and it was over after the game. Now it is different, it is not over after the game, and it has continued into the subsequent games.

In the second round of the match between the two sides, from the first minute, Wesley implemented the most stringent defense against Wang Lie. In addition, as they were playing at home, the penalty standards were a little lenient. He successfully prevented Wang Lie from scoring a goal in the first seventy minutes.

So did Wang Lie score a goal after seventy minutes?

Of course not.

In that game, Wang Lie faced huge boos from Scouse fans and failed to score a single goal despite the special care of Scouse defenders including Wesley.

Then why not say that Wesley successfully prevented Wang Lie from scoring a goal throughout the game?
It's very simple, because Wesley was sent off with a red card in the 70th minute - at that time, Wang Lie was holding the ball with his back outside the penalty area and was about to turn around, but was knocked to the ground by Wesley with a scissors kick from behind.

Even if the penalty standards are more lenient, the referee cannot turn a blind eye to such a blatant foul.

So Joe Wesley was given a direct red card and sent off the field!

As for Wang Lie...he got up from the ground by himself not long after, as if nothing had happened.

At that time, there was a lot of booing in the Liverpool Stadium, the home of the Scots. The Scots fans thought that Wang Lie was diving!

Although the slow-motion footage and VAR images on TV clearly told them that Wesley did tackle Wang Lie.

But the Scouse fans, blinded by anger, didn't care about that.

They were convinced of one thing - Wang Lie screamed so miserably, and his movements when he fell to the ground were so exaggerated, but he didn't even ask the Barcelona Atlético team to come on the field to treat him, and he just got up from the ground by himself... If this wasn't a fake fall, what was it?!

If Wesley's red card cannot be cancelled, at least Wang Lie, that bastard, should be taken off the field as well...

This was the beginning of the fight between Wang Lie and the Scouse people, especially the Scouse fans.

From then on, the "rivals" at the competitive level turned into personal grudges.

As for Wang Lie's later transfer to Sofia United, it only further intensified the personal grudge between the two sides, making it more and more solid, and did not change the nature of the contradiction.

Joe Wesley is 45 years old now and has long retired. He is now a football commentator and commentator. It has been so many years since he and Wang Lie had a conflict, and neither side has forgotten their grudges.

Whenever Wesley mentions Wang Lie now, he basically has nothing good to say.

Of course, as a commentator, you still have to be objective and fair.

But Wesley always managed to include some personal opinions in his objective and fair commentary. For example, when Wang Lie scored twice in the game, he would emphasize that it took Wang Lie ten shots to score twice, implying that Wang Lie wasted his shots, was inefficient, and sucked the team's shooting opportunities away...

He is just reporting data, which is real, so he cannot be said to be subjective. As for how the outside world interprets the data after he reports it, that is not something he can control.

If others think that Wang Lie shoots recklessly, is inefficient, and sucks the blood of the entire team, what does it have to do with me, a ruthless data provider?

Everyone also knows about the history of grievances between him and Wang Lie, so even if he has his own agenda, it can still be understood, and no one will be too demanding of him to remain objective and neutral on Wang Lie.

The feud between Wang Lie and Joe Wesley is just one example of his history of hatred with the Scouse people. There are many more, some of which are even more serious.

This hatred even implicated Chi Zhen.

When Chi Zhen chose to accept the conditions of the Scouse people and signed a contract with them to become a Scouse player, some of Wang Lie's fans in China were dissatisfied. They felt that Chi Zhen's transfer choice was very disrespectful to Wang Ge - you know how much the Scouse people hate Wang Ge, but you still go to the Scouse people, what's the meaning? Do you hate Wang Ge too? !

From this we can see the deep hatred between the Scouse people and Wang Lie.

In the 34 games against the Scouse people, Wang Lie scored a total of 23 goals and completed three hat tricks, which really lived up to the "undying" hatred between him and the Scouse people.

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Let’s put past history aside for now, Saturday’s game has another very important meaning for the Scouse people.

That is to take revenge on Wang Lie.

Last season, the Scouse team almost won the league championship, but it was kicked away by Wang Lie's hat trick.

You have to know that this was the closest the Scouse had come to the Premier League title in the past seven seasons - their last Premier League title dates back to the 2028-2029 season, when Arthur Illoun was still on the team...

Because of the 2:3 away loss to Sofia United, the Scots had to give up their leading position, which eventually led to Clayton Athletic's three consecutive league titles.

If London giants Kensington had not won the league championship in the 2032-2033 season, Clayton Athletic could even have achieved the feat of winning the Premier League title five times in a row, and the two teams from Manchester would have won all the Premier League titles in the past seven years.

These seven years were glorious years for Manchester football, but also bleak years for Liverpool football.

Last season, he finally had a chance to regain the championship, but was stopped by Wang Lie.

Both Scouse fans and players have been holding this anger for almost a year.

In the first half of the league, the Scots were eager for revenge, but without Wang Lie playing, they were forced into a 1:1 draw by Sofia United led by new coach Heldon away from home.

Not only did they fail to get their revenge, but they were also mocked by the Manchester media: "Are you really here for revenge?"

They will naturally settle the account with Sofia United - after this game, they will host Sofia United at home in the next round of the league.

But I have to avenge Wang Lie first.

Suo Fulian is Suo Fulian, and Wang Lie is Wang Lie.

Even if they beat Sofia United in the first half of the league, if Wang Lie was not there at the time, all the Scouse people would feel that this was not a successful revenge.

Now is the best opportunity.

Wang Lie transferred to Tyne, but Tyne was not strong.

Even on the road, the entire Scouse team, whether players or fans, are confident that they can defeat Tyne and Wang Lie and get revenge successfully!

When Wang Lie terminated his contract with Sofia United, Scots fans were worried that Wang Lie would leave the Premier League, leaving them with no chance of revenge.

So Wang Lie joined Tyne and stayed in the Premier League. Not only Wang Lie's fans were happy, but also these Scots fans.

From that moment on, every Scouse fan was counting the days on the calendar, looking forward to this game.

There are only two days left until the game, and Scouse fans can’t wait!

Hashtags such as "Revenge of the Scouses", "Scooses VS the King" and so on appeared on foreign online social media platforms.

Not only the Scouse people are looking forward to it, but also Wang Lie's fans.

Scout fans started to create hashtags in advance, shouting for revenge. They began to review Wang Lie's top ten face-slapping moments against Scout, and explained to everyone why Wang Lie made Scout fans hate him so much.

However, all the warm-up activities done by fans of both sides for this game were overshadowed by an explosive news on Wednesday night. Many media outlets reprinted the report:
"Internal strife! According to an anonymous insider of Tyne, since Wang joined the team, there have been two consecutive conflicts within the team, one of which even escalated to the point of mutual brawl!

"...Unlike the unity that Tyne deliberately created in the outside world, there were actually undercurrents within the team. Both conflicts were related to Wang. The first one was allegedly a fierce argument between Wang's fan Vitini and Dean in the locker room, which even escalated to the point of physical conflict. The second one was simply a quarrel between Wang and Dean...

"According to insiders, after Wang came to the Taien dressing room, his unreasonable style of behavior aroused dissatisfaction among other players. Whether in training or in the dressing room, everyone was in a tense atmosphere..."

"Lawrence Dadomo confirmed the authenticity of the revelations in a post on social media, but for the purpose of protecting the informant, he could not disclose the details of the whistleblower. He only said that the revelations were 100% true and valid because the news came from inside the Tyne dressing room.

"On the eve of the match with the Scouse, Tain was suddenly exposed to an internal strife scandal. I believe it will have a very serious impact on their preparations!"

(End of this chapter)