Heroes of the Restricted Zone

Chapter 1305 The Boot Room

Winning the League Cup made it easy for many Liverpool players, so next, they paid the price in the league.They were away and lost to an opponent that no one expected-Wigan Athletic.

The unbeaten streak so far this season was ended.

In the away game, Liverpool lost 1:2. Although Chen Yingxiong had a goal, he couldn't save the defeat.

The Liverpool team was too relaxed. After being scored by Wigan Athletic, they couldn't find their form and couldn't get up.That's it in the end...

As I said before, there are two things that can no longer arouse the interest of the media and fans. One is that Chen Yingxiong scored again, and the other is that Liverpool won again.

从上赛季联赛No.20八轮1：2输给阿斯顿维拉之后，到现在利物浦已经有整整38轮联赛没有输过球了，一个赛季也就是38轮联赛而已。

If Liverpool's performance is put into a full season, they can already rely on their unbeaten record throughout the season to win the championship.

Unfortunately, this is the sum of the records of the two seasons.

Even so, it is a very remarkable achievement.

Unbeaten in 28 rounds of the league this season.

Too bad it's all over now.

Both Wigan Athletic and Liverpool were in the headlines after the match.

Wigan Athletic is naturally a positive image, while Liverpool is a negative example.

"Liverpool got carried away after winning a Carling Cup!"

"Brave and tenacious Wigan Athletic have made the pompous Liverpool suffer!"

"When the whole of England, and even the whole of Europe, was asking 'who can beat Liverpool', the little-known Wigan Athletic stood up!"

"Hats off to Wigan Athletic! Liverpool should have lost a game too!"

Martin O'Neill's remarks and performance in the post-match press conference have been used as a topic for criticism.

"Martin O'Neill said that it's okay to lose one game. Given Liverpool's current situation, even if he loses two more games, he won't have any major problems...I want to say, these words are really hypocritical!"

"O'Neill said it was just an accident that the team lost the game. The reality is that they had the advantage, but they couldn't win the opponent, so he thought it was just an accident... This is really nonsense! Losing is losing, and The scene has nothing to do with it. If it was just the scene, I think Arsenal would have monopolized the league titles for the past few seasons..."

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"Hmph! The media!" Of course O'Neill knew how the media evaluated him and Liverpool, and the performance of the media would only make him hate these people even more. "It's like a carnival..."

The assistant coach Sami Li who was sitting next to him smiled: "What are you afraid of? Let them spend the holidays. If you want to find something to criticize from us, it's really hard for them..."

At first glance, Sami Li was speaking for the reporters, but everyone could hear the strong confidence in his tone.

"We must win the next game, even a tie is not allowed! Only in this way can we fight back against those damn media." The second assistant coach Clark also said.

"There is nothing wrong with the hero's form. He had seven shots in the last game, five of which were on target. He was just unlucky. So I'm not worried about the team losing at all."

"Hmm." Martin O'Neill listened to his colleagues report all the data in the game, and then focused on the analysis, and finally came to a conclusion.

The outside media regarded this game as Liverpool's bad luck and gloated.

Only they know that in the "boot room" this is nothing at all.

Yes, this is Liverpool's "Boot Room". Although it is different from before, the sign hanging at the door does say "Boot_Room".

Every week, Liverpool's coaching staff meet here to informally discuss the team's past week and look forward to the team's future.

In this room, there is no so-called distinction between seniority and inferiority. Anyone can express their opinions. Even if you are just an ordinary coach, as long as what you say makes sense, the head coach will agree.

Here, everything about the team and football can be discussed, but other topics are not welcome here.

The "boot room" was originally just a small room under the main stand at Anfield.But don't underestimate this humble little room.It was in this square inch that a group of people from the working class worked hard and dedicated themselves to push the Red Army from the British Isles to the top of Europe.

It can be said that the most glorious period of Liverpool is also the morale of the "boot room".For 40 years, the boot room has trained several head coaches for Liverpool. At the same time, during this period of time, Liverpool won [-] league championships (the top league in England at the time), one league championship, Four UEFA Champions Cups, two UEFA Cups, one UEFA Super Cup, five League Cups and five FA Cups.

This was the most successful period in Liverpool's history. It was the period when Liverpool went from an ordinary team in Merseyside to the world's top giants.

The boot room was formed during Shankly's time at Liverpool.

Shankly moved into the head coach's office at the time, while assistant coaches Paisley and Bennett used an old room on the other side of the dressing room corridor.This is a small square room where the players' boots are stored and hung on the court, hence the name "boot room".At first there were no chairs in the boot room at all, and the only beer crate that could sit was another assistant coach Fagan got from Orna.Orr was the coach of a local amateur team. With the help of Fagan, the club agreed to allow Orr's players to receive treatment at Anfield.In return, Orr sent a large quantity of beer to store in the boot room.Since then, the coach of the visiting team has often been invited to have a drink in the Adobo Boot Room, and a large group of Scots from the club also like to come here to review the game in the afternoon.But Shankly seldom cared about the boot room. Perhaps considering his own status, Shankly left the boot room to his assistants.The boot room gradually became an office for the study of strategy and tactics, and its importance increased day by day.If someone passed by and heard a "pop" inside, someone must have opened another can of beer.Unknowingly, the boot room became the nerve center for the work of the assistants.Documentation and accurate intelligence of the team's daily training and game situations are gathered here.Feigen was the first person to record the main points of daily training. Everyone gradually got used to this nightmare.For a time, the Red Army's attention to detail reached a frenzy in Chengdu.Any factors that have the potential to affect a player's performance are recorded, such as weather, injuries, etc.If a certain player has trouble qualifying in training and it is difficult to judge, you can check the database to search for similar cases.If it is a symptom of some kind of injury, how to solve the problem, or change the training method, perhaps the easiest thing is to change a pair of sneakers... These things are all decided in the boot room.

So it's really not a problem at all to say that the boot room is the brains of Liverpool.

It was in this boot room that the two head coaches who led Liverpool to the top of Europe were trained.

Paisley and Fagan.

These two managers who have come out of the boot room have always been Liverpool people. They know everything about the club, they are good at listening to one thing, they will not mess up the team, and they are experienced and know what the real tradition of Liverpool is.Such a person is almost the most perfect Liverpool manager.

Under their leadership, Liverpool has completely reached the pinnacle of the entire Europe. They achieved incomparable glory and glory in the 80s.

It was the most glorious period in Liverpool's history.

No one can surpass it so far.

That's what the Boot Room does and is great for.

However, with the advent of the Premier League era, tradition has finally dwarfed by money, and the boot room can no longer train a suitable head coach for the team.

Later, after Souness succeeded Moran as Liverpool's head coach, he also sounded the alarm for the "boot room" tradition.He not only razed the boot room to the ground and turned it into a new media reception room, but also drove away the old Liverpool people who used to haunt the boot room, installed his cronies recently, completely ruined the tradition of the boot room, and also Make Souness and many of Liverpool's old men enemies.

Later, Souness dismissed get out of class due to a poor record, and Evans, the old man in the boot room, came to power, but it was the wrong time and the wrong person. Evans could no longer lead the hard-won Liverpool back to the top.

Finally, when the Liverpool board of directors made a decision to let the Frenchman Houllier and Evans co-coach, then Evans took the initiative to let Houllier take over the power alone.Since then, there has been no "boot room" at Anfield.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the so-called "boot room" tradition is the assistant coach succession system-Liverpool's coaching team must be Liverpool's own people. They have worked in Liverpool for a long time, and even played for Liverpool since they were players.Such talents are the ones who know Liverpool best and are the ones who can best understand what Liverpool needs. At the same time, they will abide by Liverpool's traditions and will not completely subvert everything like Souness.

In this way, when the previous head coach leaves the team, the assistant coach trained by the boot room can take over and become the new head coach of the team.Because he knows everything about Liverpool, this coaching change is very smooth and smooth, it will not bring any impact to the team, and the team's performance can naturally be guaranteed.

Paisley exemplifies the "boot room" tradition.

Paisley played for Liverpool as a player. After retiring, he became the team's team doctor and treated the players. Then when Shankly came on stage, he became Liverpool's assistant coach, serving Shankly and accepting Shankly. In the end, he succeeded Shankly and became the head coach of Liverpool, and then brought Liverpool to a height that even Shankly had never achieved.

It's just that with the arrival of Houllier and the full-scale invasion of English football by the continental football team, clinging to tradition has become ridiculous.So the glorious "boot room" tradition naturally disappeared.

However, with Dalglish's second coaching, he began to rebuild the boot room. He even found a house in Anfield again and packed it out to make a new boot room.

But he was fired first because of his poor record.

Martin. O'Neill became the team's new head coach.Just when everyone thought that Liverpool's "boot room" tradition would die again.

Martin. O'Neill has chosen to adhere to the "boot room" tradition.

Now at his insistence, one day a week, all the coaches will gather in this new boot room to discuss and brainstorm.Many people think that Liverpool's revival is because Niang brought a Chen hero to the team.But in fact, the contributions made by these unknown coaches are not trivial.

Today's boot room is no longer a run-down eight-foot-by-eight-foot box, but a modern one that's bigger, brighter, with rows of seats and a multimedia facility where game and practice footage can be shown. , There is also a computer used to store all the data in training and games, forming a database, in which all the game data of Liverpool in the past few years are included.

Under the transformation of Martin O'Neill, the "boot room" tradition is no longer a simple form of assistant coach succeeding the head coach, but has become a brainstorming of brainstorming.Perhaps the assistant coach will not become the next head coach, but this good atmosphere will become Liverpool's new wealth.

Liverpool is being reborn, and the "boot room", which has created countless brilliance and was eliminated because it lags behind the times, is also moving towards a new life...

(End of this chapter)