I just wanted to play football, but I became a Hollywood god

In today's game, the media and betting companies are generally more optimistic about Sunderland.

After all, Sunderland is a Premier League team, and this season, Sunderland, with the blessing of the Manchester United faction, has done very well. Not only did they get through all the way to the 6th round of the FA Cup, but they are also in the Premier League. Chuya is temporarily ranked 8th, and this season can be said to be smooth sailing.

Of course, Southampton is not bad either.

Although Southampton is still a League One team this season, Southampton has already secured the League One championship in advance and also won the EFL Cup. If they win the English Championship again, then Southampton is a treble winner this season.

If they can win the FA Cup and then the Community Shield, then Southampton will have won five crowns in the third tier.

Before the start of the League Cup finals, almost everyone thought that Southampton would not be able to create a miracle against Tottenham, but Gu Ran still did it.

Therefore, winning five crowns may not be impossible.

At around 2 p.m., the referee team came in to inspect the venue.

Immediately afterwards, the Southampton team, as the away team, came on stage for the final adaptive warm-up before the game.

When Gu Ran stood at the Stadium of Light, Southampton fans and Newcastle United fans all stood up and cheered wildly.

A few minutes later, the Black Cats Sunderland team, playing at home, came on the stage to warm up.

The Stadium of Light suddenly burst into even louder cheers, and the Black Cats flag was waving desperately in the stands.

Since Sunderland's home jersey is also red and white, Southampton wore a black away jersey for this game.

At 2:45, the adaptive warm-up of players from both sides ended, and each returned to their respective locker rooms for final rest.

At 2:50, the players from both sides lined up in the tunnel, each holding the hand of the ball boy. Under the leadership of the referee, they formally entered the stadium and lined up to shake hands.

The captains of both teams came to the referee to guess coins.

Southampton's captain is Davis, and Sunderland's captain is Lee Cattermole, one of the famous "Top Ten Engineers" in the Premier League.

Davies guessed right and won priority for the pick-up, while Cattermole won priority for Sunderland.

The captains of both teams exchanged team flags and shook hands with the referee.

Immediately afterwards, the players from both teams took a group photo in their respective halves.

The FA Cup is no stranger to Southampton. In the history of the Southampton team, they have won the FA Cup once, and this was after being relegated to English League Two (the second tier at the time). The next year, 1976, they defeated Manchester United with a score of 1:0 and won the FA Cup.

This is also the best result of Southampton Club.

In addition, Southampton has never won a top-flight title, only finishing second.

Judging from this result alone, Southampton is far behind Sunderland.

Coach Adkins still sent out a full lineup of 4231 today.

The forward is still Lallana, who can retreat and act as a central midfielder.

The three forwards who are separated are Chamberlain, Lambert, and Schneiderlin.

The two defensive midfielders are Gu Ran and Mikel.

The four defenders are Hammond, Jaidi, Font, and Richardson.

The goalkeeper is still captain Davis.

This configuration has reversed Tottenham and won the EFL Cup, so Coach Adkins also believes in this offensive and defensive formation. Sunderland sent out a 422 formation with a traditional British style.

Sunderland's head coach is Steven Bruce, the "Black Cat Sheriff" who is famous in the UK and even throughout Europe.

Steven Bruce was definitely a first-rate star in his playing days.

Steven Bruce has won the English top league championship three times as a player. He has played for Norwich, Manchester United, Birmingham and other teams.

Bruce's leadership skills were demonstrated as a player. After Bryan Robson retired, he put on the captain's armband of the Red Devils Manchester United, which shows his leadership.

Due to his friendly relationship with Manchester United, he also obtained a lot of Manchester United player resources when coaching Sunderland.

Well, when Steven Bruce was coaching Sunderland, their record was also very impressive.

But in fact... Steven Bruce's coaching ability only goes so far.

Without the addition of Manchester United's resources, Steven Bruce's tactical shortcomings become very obvious.

When he left Sunderland, he accepted an invitation from Sunderland's arch-rivals Newcastle United to become their manager.

It’s not too unusual for a head coach to turn to his mortal enemy. For example, Tottenham’s Ray once left Portsmouth to coach Southampton in anger, and then left Southampton in anger. Dayton jumped back to Portsmouth repeatedly.

However, whether it is Portsmouth or Southampton, they are very grateful to Lao Lei, because Lao Lei is really capable and is really awesome when leading the team.

When "Black Cat Sheriff" Steven Bruce led Newcastle United, his results were very dismal.

So much so that Magpies fans thought this fat man was an undercover black cat.

In particular, the blood debt between Newcastle people and Sunderland people goes far beyond football, so Newcastle people cannot accept a head coach who has achieved good results in Sunderland but is so arrogant in Newcastle.

The hostility between Sunderland and Newcastle dates back to the bourgeois revolution led by Cromwell in the 17th century.

Newcastle is the largest city in northwest England, and the locals are loyal royalists. The neighboring town of Sunderland was originally an unknown township. However, due to the dividends of the Industrial Revolution, Sunderland became the largest shipbuilding industry in the entire north. Base, Sunderlanders also quickly became rich because of industry.

Therefore, during the Cromwellian bourgeois revolution, the two sides fought with blood and blood.

The conflict between Newcastle and Sunderland was rooted 200 years before the birth of football.

This is a class struggle, which is more deadly than the relationship between Portsmouth and Southampton, and more deadly than the rose relationship between Manchester United and Leeds United.

Portsmouth and Southampton call each other scabs, which is actually an internal conflict between the working class.

Manchester United and Leeds United are the internal conflicts between the old lords and aristocrats between the red rose represented by Manchester United and the white rose represented by Leeds United.

But Newcastle and Sunderland are truly irreconcilable class conflicts.

During the Industrial Revolution, Newcastle people set fire to Sunderland's shipyards several times, and used explosives to cause several Sunderland mining disasters. Sunderland also organized workers to attack and loot Newcastle towns on many occasions.

Not to mention how many people from Newcastle and Sunderland died during the Industrial Revolution, when football hooligan culture was prevalent, no fewer than hundreds of people from both sides died.

Sunderlanders are almost 100% football fans per capita, and very fanatical about it.

But in the past, Sunderland did not have its own train station, so every time the Sunderlanders went to watch an away game, they had to go to the Newcastle train station to transfer and take the train. Newcastle fans would ambush the Sunderlanders at the station. , making them unable to watch the game.

When Sunderland fans played against Newcastle United at home, they all attacked Newcastle United, so much so that the Football Association of England at that time stipulated that when the two teams met at home and away, away fans were not allowed to watch the game. This was also There was a strange scene of two away teams watching the big screen at their team's home stadium.

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