i am beckham

Chapter 61

The full name of the League Cup is the English Football League Cup, which was established in 1960.

It is said that this cup is the product of a power struggle. Before the establishment of the League Cup, the importance of all competitions, including the top league, could not be compared with the FA Cup.

As a subsidiary organization of the Football Association, the Professional Football League has 92 teams under its jurisdiction. With the growing influence of the English professional league, the Professional Football League gradually dared to challenge the Football Association.

Although the Football Association is still the boss, it has the right to cut professional football leagues at the institutional and regulatory levels.

But the professional football league is in charge of the daily work of professional football after all. Even if they dare not pat the table with the big brother, they are not ambiguous about making troubles secretly.

In the 60s of this century, the professional football league began to act as a monster, and wanted to establish a cup competition based on the knockout system.

Since the influence of the league is not comparable to that of the FA Cup, let's hold a professional knockout match, which can be regarded as an elite cup match, and the force seems to be higher.

Of course, this is just one way of saying that the cup was established. There is also a well-known saying that the professional football league considers that 24 teams compete at one level, the schedule is too close, and the players are too hard.

So they want to increase the 92 professional teams to 100 teams, and then turn the professional league into five levels, with 20 teams in each level.

In order to give more opportunities for low-level teams to appear on the scene, the League Cup was established.

But many League One clubs are afraid that they will be relegated in the end. In the end, this reform fell through, but the League Cup was established.

From the perspective of human nature, the first statement is obviously closer to the real situation. Bureaucrats always like to give themselves a beautiful veil.

In a society where everything looks at money, it is up to the beholder to see how reliable the statement is that the upper body of an organization can put people's interests first when making decisions.

In short, when the top five of the League One proposed to the FA in 1992 to get rid of the following three levels and form a super league, the FA didn't even fart, and agreed without even mentioning the terms of exchange.

League One became independent and established the Premier League. The professional league can basically be regarded as having its head cut off by the FA, and it can only use its neck to think about problems in the future.

Later, the Premier League became more and more valuable, and the second-tier league was renamed the British Championship. The promotion play-offs for third to sixth places suddenly became the most expensive knockout round in the world.

The desire to have the League Cup and the FA Cup on par has become a joke, but it cannot be said that the cup is meaningless.

Generally, the first team of a club has more than 20 players. Even if there are many games in the English league and the schedule is tight, many substitute players will be emotional if they cannot play 20 games in a season, so this kind of game can give the head coach a lot of room for adjustment.

Because the attention of the strong teams is low, this game is an important event for the middle and lower teams to compete for the championship. Later, teams like Manchester United used a mix of substitutes and young players to participate, and it became a training ground for youth training.

Later, Arsenal was more aggressive and played the child until the final, but was poked by Chelsea with Didier Drogba.

Manchester United's lineup this season is relatively confusing. Ince, Hughes and Kanchelski have been cleaned up. Cantona's suspension period will not return until October. In addition, three Zhengyin central defenders have been injured in turn. Now Manchester United has assembled a complete lineup and added a few strong substitutes. Thank goodness.

Counting from the opening of the league on August 8, Manchester United relied on 19 players to play 16 games in 29 days, including the time of international games. The intensity of this game is astounding.

If this thin lineup is allowed to attack on multiple lines, there will definitely be no good results, so Ferguson simply gave up the opportunity of the League Cup to young people.

Most academy players have yet to experience the experience of playing in a knockout round in front of 2 home fans.

The strength of the York City team is obviously more than one grade lower than that of Manchester United's first team, and even on paper it is worse than this old lineup with new ones.

Four old players and seven new players, this is the greatest respect Ferguson can give to his opponent. After all, the opponent is unknown, and the best record in history is only in the second-tier league, and he was relegated back to the lower league after a short stay.

This game is Manchester United's home game, even if the main players did not enter the squad, they also came to the stadium.

The old man is a person who likes to keep small accounts. The daily behavior of the players is in his eyes. He may be able to bear the small things. Once he makes a mistake, he may deposit and withdraw the small accounts in one go and cash them with a "hair dryer".

Manchester United have won their fifth consecutive league win, the fans at Old Trafford are in good spirits, and now is the time for the team to go all the way.

In everyone's opinion, it is not difficult to win a third-tier team.

Watching the game also confirmed everyone's guess. The defense of the three veteran players, Evans, Pallister and Parker, had almost no loopholes.

Seeing that the midfielder led by Philip Neville had already pressed their opponents to the ground and prepared to rub, Ferguson sat on the coaching bench with Brian Keane chatting and spanking with a smile on his face.

Although the schedule during this period was very difficult, he was in a good mood. The sand sculpture reporter of the "Manchester City Evening News" who was doing public opinion research personally visited the door yesterday to apologize, and wanted to ask him to give him some news.

As a result, Ferguson turned on the hair dryer in the office without saying a word. The reporter was sprayed for 10 minutes and left in a daze.

After the old man vented his anger, his mood obviously improved a lot. Even though Manchester United's youth training players made a lot of pass errors, he still seemed calm and relaxed.

Beckham was wandering while observing the situation of the York City players.

The basic skills are difficult, and the player's consciousness stretches his hips. Except for a few people who can play tricks with two feet, other players are obviously afraid to take action.

"David, look at that striker in York City, his body is too thick."

He looked in the direction of Gary Neville, and sure enough, there was a thick-looking player walking in the backcourt of Manchester United.

"This guy looks more like an unloading worker. I guess he can't run at all."

Gary Neville pointed to the opponent's striker again. He really looked like a porter, and his only advantage was probably his strength.

The Manchester United team is not in a good state today. The pass error rate of those small players is really a bit high, which made York City dare to push up the lineup.

However, York City's passing was not very good. Their long pass was easily picked off by substitute goalkeeper Pilkington.

Philip Neville retreated to the edge of the penalty area to ask for the ball. Pilkington hesitated, but passed the ball to Evans. He is the most outstanding player on the Manchester United field, and it is safest to pass the ball to him.

The football was passed three times and fell twice, at the feet of Philip Neville.

The York City center, who had been walking for more than ten minutes, began to trot towards him. Philip Neville made two fake moves back and forth, and then passed the ball to the center.

Just as he was about to kick his foot, the center forward suddenly sped up and stabbed him, giving the ball to his teammate.

The midfielder of York City did not hesitate and sent a through ball directly.

Philip Neville rushed forward, and just as he was about to catch up with the opponent, the York City center suddenly slowed down.

The younger brother was caught off guard and ran into the opponent directly, and was bounced away by the opponent.

The center forward of the York City team suddenly started to speed up, throwing Parker away from him, and the Old Trafford stadium was amazed. No one thought that this guy could run so fast!

(End of this chapter)