The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 274 Faith
On May 5, the morning was sunny.

The moment I walked out of the house, I saw the rare blue sky in the UK, and even my mood improved a lot.

Facing the east, Wenger raised his head, squinted his eyes, and looked at the rising sun in the east. His face, which seemed to be a smile but not a smile, was covered with the grooves of time.

In the past season, it can be said that he felt the pressure that he hadn't felt for a long time. The pressure that Ye Qiu and Chelsea brought to him and Arsenal even surpassed the pressure that Manchester United created when they fought back.

Before he has breakfast every morning, besides watching the news on TV, he just wants to read the newspaper of the day, pay attention to Chelsea's movements, and when he returns to the Kearney training base, the first thing he does is to ask his assistant Pat Lai Si, what did that bastard do yesterday?
Sometimes when he thinks about it, he feels that he is not like the head coach of Arsenal at all, but like a loyal fan who crazily pursues Chelsea and Ye Qiu, as long as Ye Qiu and Chelsea's every move, he will pay attention , became neurotic, and the whole life and team preparations revolved around each other.

This kind of life is too tiring, so tiring that it can almost crush a person.

"Father!" Daughter Lily ran out of the house and hugged Wenger's legs directly. Now she can only reach Wenger's waist. Eating breakfast under supervision, but looking out the window eagerly, like a sister who is like a free-flying bird, full of envy.

"My mother and I want to watch your game!" Lily said expectantly.

Wenger squatted down kindly, "What's so interesting about the game?" He felt that his chances of winning today were not great.

"However, sister Huang Chu wants to see it!" Lili pursed her lips innocently.

Wenger has met Huang Chu several times. She is a very beautiful oriental woman. Ye Qiu's wife lives next door. She has a good relationship with his wife. I heard that she is a doctor who graduated from Cambridge University. Today is the last round of the Premier League. , there is no doubt that she will go to see her husband's game.

"Lily, aren't we going to the park this afternoon?" His wife walked from the house to the door, and when Wenger felt embarrassed, she relieved him, and Wenger smiled gratefully.

To be honest, he didn't want his daughter to see him lose the entire season. It was not only cruel to children, but even more cruel to him as a father, even though he already knew all about it. Enough mental preparation.

"Hmph!" Lily wrinkled her nose, snorted at her father, and ran back home quickly.

Wenger walked to the garage and got into the car. He took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down and rationalize himself.

For him, winning this afternoon's game is a sure thing, but after defeating the opponent, the possibility of Arsenal reversing Chelsea to win the championship is very slim, because Ye Qiu can't let his team win the final game. The game suffered a mistake.

But no matter what, Wenger must do his best to play this game well, not just for himself.

Sometimes, you have to believe that when you feel irritable and not going well, all the bad things will come to you, just like Wenger now, he would never think that last night The car that was still driving home was fine, but it broke down early this morning, and it couldn't fire no matter how hard it was.

Wenger patted the steering wheel a few times in the car, got out of the car angrily, closed the car door heavily, and walked directly to the gate, because his wife still had to look after the child and couldn't send him to work. David Deng Well, if there is no accident, he should have gone to Kearney, so he has only one way now, by taxi.

Just when Wenger walked out of the house and angrily picked up his mobile phone to make a call, a car drove across the road. The red Ferrari looked very dazzling in the golden sun, but in Wenger's eyes, it was dazzling.

"What's the matter?" Ye Qiu lowered his head, looked out of the car window, and looked through the door. The car in the garage was still there, which made Ye Qiu couldn't help but smile, "Is it broken?"

I don't know how annoying that expression is, this damn guy, why is his car not broken?

"Oh, it's almost time!" Ye Qiu looked at Hamilton on his left wrist, and curled his lips. Although there is no training this morning, the team still has to concentrate. Usually, the day before the game, players either stay in a hotel or Live in the training base, but the next morning, the head coach must gather them on time.

Of course Wenger knew what Ye Qiu meant. For taxis in London, especially those who live in remote towns like them, they usually have to call the taxi company in advance, and they will arrange for a nearby car to pick them up. , but it often takes a lot of time to go back and forth.

"Shall I drop by?" Ye Qiu smiled and extended the invitation.

Wenger hesitated for a while, and finally got into Ye Qiu's Ferrari. Originally, he was still worried. With his 1 meters tall, it would be awkward to sit in this small Ferrari. After entering, it feels completely different, very comfortable, especially the set of seats specially made for Ye Qiu.

"That car of yours should be replaced too. It lost its chain at a critical moment, so it's unreliable!" Ye Qiu lightly stepped on the gas pedal, and the car jumped out. The speed increased very quickly, giving people a strong feeling of pushing back.

Wenger didn't respond to Ye Qiu's pun. He just tilted his head and stared out of the window blankly, as if the scenery that was constantly flying back attracted him even more, and gave him a feeling of being in a hurry. The illusion of going back also made him involuntarily recall a very distant event.

For a long time, neither of them spoke, and the carriage was filled with an embarrassment called silence.

"Do you know why I have been refusing to leave Arsenal?" Finally, Wenger asked softly.

Ye Qiu didn't expect Wenger to take the initiative to talk to him, so he shook his head.

"I always remember very clearly that I came to Arsenal at the end of September 1996. At that time, Arsenal was very strong and started well. After I came, the team played 9 games since October. In the Premier League, 10 wins and 4 draws, and before that, Arsenal's record was 2 wins, 2 draws and 5 loss, and then we met Manchester United in the second game in November."

Wenger spoke very slowly and in a soft tone, making it very comfortable to listen to, as if listening to the radio.

"It was raining, wet and slippery in that game, we did a good job the whole game, but there was an opening, our left-back Winterburn came back in the box once in the 63rd minute Blocked Andy Cole's shot into his own goal while defending."

Ye Qiu was driving the car, looking ahead, but he listened carefully to Wenger's words. He noticed one thing. Wenger described all the time and data very clearly and in detail. There was only one explanation, and that was this incident. He was very impressed.

So deep that it happened in 1996 and today in 2004, he still remembers it so clearly.

"My feeling at the time was that I lost!" When he said this, Wenger sneered, but it was not aimed at anyone, but at his very naive thoughts at the time, "Losing, for me On the contrary, it’s not that I haven’t lost a game, who hasn’t lost a professional coach?”

"At that time, this game gave me the feeling that I was not reconciled. I felt that I had lost wrongly, but it was okay to lose. Anyway, it was over and there was no way to recover it. But on the second day, a fan ran to my room. In front of me, crying and yelling to me that after the team lost to Manchester United, his cousin secretly hid himself and committed suicide!"

Ye Qiu couldn't help being a little surprised when he heard this, his hands shook, and he turned his head to look at Wenger, his eyes were full of disbelief, and Wenger also looked at him and smiled, "I was The expression was exactly the same as yours now, I didn't believe it at all, and I replied, stop joking, and then I left."

"But, that afternoon, David Dunn said to me, hey, leave me time tomorrow afternoon, let's go to a fan's funeral, and I asked, what fan? He said to me, last night lost to After Manchester United, there was a young fan who committed suicide, and he was a student, and he was an Arsenal fan all his life."

Taking a deep breath, Wenger squeezed out a forced smile, "I didn't know until I got there that it was true. Someone would commit suicide because we lost a game. Someone would commit suicide. I was willing to give up my life because we lost a game, I didn't understand at the time, why? Why did it happen?"

"David Dunne said to me, remember, man, anywhere else in the world football might be a game, an entertainment, a show, but in England, in England, football is a Belief!"

"Take a good look at the team badge on your chest. It is the belief that countless people have put together for 100 years. Don't let it down and waste it, because you will never know. To you, it’s just a loss, but to a person, to a family, it’s the loss of a life, the destruction of a family, and the creation of a tragedy.”

Ye Qiu listened silently, he didn't know what kind of opinion he should express on this kind of thing, he couldn't understand more.

Of course, there may be many people who think that the person who committed suicide is a fool, who committed suicide for a game for no reason, but people with this kind of thinking, do they put themselves in the place of the suicide and think about it?Perhaps, because of this game, he felt that his dreams and beliefs had completely collapsed, which made him feel desperate!
Ye Qiu didn't encourage this kind of suicide, he didn't even want the same tragedy to happen again, he just felt that maybe in this world, there are not no fans like that who would commit suicide because of a game.

Faith, after coming to England, Ye Qiu heard a lot about this word. Many people said that football is the belief of English people. If this is true, that fan is the best portrayal.

"Many people think that I am eager to succeed, and I never deny it, but I will not leave Arsenal, because I hope to use my strength to let this team, let this belief, continue to be in Arsenal. Passing it down among the fans, it's more valuable than me winning a championship."

"And in order to achieve this, I will go all out in every game without leaving any regrets or excuses for myself!"

The last sentence is what Wenger wanted to say, right?

"Then I'm better than you!" Ye Qiu said with a slight smile, "I never like to lose, and I always do my best. I never do things that I regret, including Today's match!"

Wenger didn't say anything more, and continued to look out of his window. He has never been a person who is good at words, especially when facing Ye Qiu, he feels that it would be annoying to say a few more words, but for some reason, today he just He said a lot to Ye Qiu, even many things that he would not tell others before, but now he has said them all.

Perhaps, in his heart, even he himself admitted that aside from the complex emotions of his opponent, Ye Qiu is really a good person, a good neighbor, and a good friend. Of course, he is a pretty bad opponent. Unlucky for him!

Ye Qiu also had some thoughts in his heart. He used to think that Wenger was very stubborn and rigid, but now it sounds like that is not the case. At least he can hear that Wenger intends to be loyal to Arsenal for the rest of his life. This was more or less influenced by the fan who committed suicide back then, which made Wenger feel that he owed this team and this group of fans something.

But this is a crazy world, and who can imagine that in a few years, Arsenal will cut down on food and clothing in order to build a new stadium, and Wenger's coaching performance will also go from bad to worse. With the strong rise of Tottenham and other teams, Arsenal's status as the Premier League duo has been challenged, and Wenger has also been criticized by Arsenal fans.

Whether Wenger was wrong, Ye Qiu couldn't say, because nothing in this world is definitely wrong.

It's just that he feels that a head coach who can't bring results to the team and satisfy the fans, no matter how good he does, the fans may not appreciate it, they may not understand it, because with the changes of the times, with the development of the future , Many things are rapidly depreciating, including a person's beliefs!
But after sending Wenger to the hotel, Ye Qiu kept thinking about this question on the way back to the hotel where Chelsea was stationed.

He has been busy in the past. Since he came to London, he has been busy almost every day. He has never had a good experience of the fans' feelings, and he has never had a good experience. What Wenger said Said, the belief of England fans.

In the past, for him, Chelsea was a job he liked and loved, a vast platform for him to prove his coaching ability, but after Wenger said this, Ye Qiu suddenly became very interested and wanted to go to Chelsea. Get to know the fans here and how they feel about a team.

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Wenger's day is doomed to be unlucky, but also doomed to be rough.

Before going out in the morning, the car broke down. If it wasn't for Ye Qiu, he wouldn't be able to arrive at the hotel on time.

As for the game in the afternoon, he also had a rather unsatisfactory start. Although Arsenal's state and physical fitness have rebounded after adjustments, the overall situation is still relatively poor, but they can still rely on the strong strength of the team. To suppress the opponent and create pressure on the Leicester City team.

But no one expected that Arsenal could not attack for a long time, but the visiting team Leicester City took the lead in scoring in the 26th minute. Sinclair got rid of Vieira on the right and made a cross. The opposing goalkeeper scored with a header in the small penalty area. Opened the scoring for Leicester City.

All the Gunners fans at Highbury panicked, the Arsenal players also panicked, even the coaching staff and the substitutes sitting on the sidelines panicked, Wenger even rushed to the sidelines, roaring loudly Angrily shouting at the players, he couldn't accept that the team would still concede and lose under such circumstances!

The effect of the first half was not good. During the intermission, Wenger raged very rarely in the locker room, reprimanded all the players in the team for their poor performance, and even used threatening words to make everyone feel his anger.

Don't be angry like a professor if you suppress your anger on weekdays!

As soon as Wenger got angry, the results were immediate. The situation of the team in the second half changed completely. In less than a minute after the start of the second half, Bergkamp picked a pass from the penalty area. Ashley Cole plugged in from the left and hit the goal, but the ball After being saved, Henry calmly made a follow-up shot and successfully equalized the score. This is also Henry's 1th Premier League goal this season, ranking first in the Premier League scorer list.

After scoring the goal, Henry seemed very excited, because in the Premier League, scoring 30 goals is a threshold. With this achievement, it is enough to be among the ranks of the club's legendary strikers, but if you don't, sorry, you are not qualified.

Today, Henry has exactly 30 goals, which is 4 more than the second-ranked Chelsea top scorer Frank Lampard.

After the equalizer, Arsenal still launched a fierce attack on Leicester City. Wenger also kept calling on the players to continue to strengthen the offensive from the sidelines, and he also kept making substitutions, replacing Reyes successively. Si, Pires and other players further strengthened the team's offensive.

Finally, in the 78th minute, Arsenal scored again. It was veteran Bergkamp who got the ball and turned around with a precise through ball, tearing through Leicester City's defense. Ella plugged in, and under the interference of Henry and others, he went straight into the penalty area, calmly swayed past the goalkeeper, and sent the ball into the empty goal, 2:1!

The Highbury stadium was completely boiling, and all the Gunners fans were shouting loudly. Obviously, if they defeated their opponents, Arsenal still had the hope of winning the championship, and they still had the right to continue dreaming.

But as the whistle sounded for the end of the game, and with the result of the match at Stamford Bridge Stadium not far from Highbury Stadium, all the Gunners fans in the entire Highbury Stadium fell silent.

In that blue home court, Chelsea didn't hold back the slightest bit. The 5-0 massacre of Leeds United, which was doomed to be relegated, Ye Qiu's team pulled out their bloodthirsty fangs from the very beginning. Giving Leeds United the slightest chance to resist, they directly knocked Leeds United to the ground and beat them up.

The 5-goal massacre means that the wishes of all Gunners fans have been shattered!
At this moment, the entire Highbury Stadium suddenly became silent, and then, faint cries began to be heard.

They lost!

(End of this chapter)