coach legend

Chapter 293 Prosperity and decline
Eriksson made a big change in the second half, trying to regain control of the game.

But George didn't care about that at all, and still dealt with him at a fast pace.At the beginning of the second half, George even used a faster rhythm to deal with Lazio than in the first half.There is a saying in later generations that the Premier League beats Serie A, Serie A beats La Liga, and La Liga beats the Premier League.

Although this is just a joke, it is not aimless.What is involved here is the reason for the style of play.

The so-called Premier League beat Serie A is actually the fast pace of the Premier League defeating the slowness of Serie A.Just like Arsenal, every time they meet a Serie A team in the next ten years, they will be able to beat their opponents.It's just a matter of style of play.That's why George beats the slow with the fast.

At 10 minutes into the second half, when Lazio still hadn't scored, George began to recover.

George replaced Micoud with McAllister.Let Deco go up to the top, and use McAllister to increase defense and strengthen control.

Then he replaced Pires with Bellamy, letting Lazio know what counterattack and speed are.But at this time Lazio has no choice but to attack aggressively.In the end, Blackburn hit a counterattack. Bellamy ran nearly 40 meters, and finally gave it to Duff who counterattacked on the right.Duff eventually scored the third goal easily.

Three to zero, Blackburn defeated the powerful Lazio three to zero in a strong dialogue.

After the game, the reporters from Italy all came in high spirits and returned disappointed.Originally thought that after defeating Blackburn, he would give the arrogant George a good reprimand.But I didn't expect Lazio to lose [-]-[-] away.

Facing the Italian reporter, George showed a smug smile.

"I'm really sorry for disappointing everyone." George paused, and became more and more happy when he saw the Italian reporter's deflated look. "I have absolutely no prejudice against Italian football. On the contrary, I appreciate Italian football because I am a defensive coach. But things in the world are like this. Serie A flourishes and declines. It has flourished for more than ten years. It's time to fall."

"You should look for your own reasons for the decline of Serie A. If there is no reform, the decline of Serie A is just the beginning."

It is an indisputable fact that Italian football is now lagging behind other leagues in many aspects.It's just that Italian football is unwilling to admit it.

The current development of Italian football is entirely dependent on the investment of the big boss behind it, but the development of the club itself is very poor.Just because Italy does not allow clubs to own private stadiums, the development of Italian clubs does not know how far behind Premier League clubs.

Premier League clubs have their own stadiums.

Just like Manchester United, it has the best stadium in the Premier League, Old Trafford.Old Trafford, with a seating capacity of 8000, is completely owned by Manchester United.Because of Old Trafford, Manchester United's ticket revenue per season is the highest in the Premier League.

Coupled with the development and operation of places around Old Trafford, Manchester United's annual income from Old Trafford exceeds that of many clubs in the world.

Even Blackburn, when Jack Walker expanded Ewood Park, bought a large amount of land next to the stadium.Those lands were used by Jack Walker to develop some other purposes.Therefore, even Blackburn far exceeds the Serie A giants in terms of stadium revenue.

It is also because of the importance of the stadium that Arsenal will tighten their belts to build the Emirates Stadium.

But Italian football is completely behind in this regard.

Another important source of income is television broadcast fees.The Premier League is the highest TV broadcast fee in European football, far exceeding Serie A.And the Premier League is bundled, while Serie A is separate.Especially the top three in the north, Juventus and the Milan duo, their three teams have monopolized half of all Serie A TV broadcast fees.

In this way, other Serie A teams other than the top three in the north can get even less TV broadcast fees than the relegated teams in the Premier League.This distribution system has widened the gap between the rich and the poor in Serie A.The top three in the north are getting stronger and stronger, while the other teams are getting more and more in trouble.

As a result, the strength of the entire Serie A team has not been greatly developed.

Now the boss behind the Serie A club can still support the team.But when there is an economic crisis, once there is any problem with the boss behind them, the entire Italian football will collapse.

At that time, including the current Serie A strong teams Lazio, Parma, and Fiorentina will all be hit hard.

To put it bluntly, the current Italian football is far behind the development of European football in every aspect.

If the above are all policy matters, then there are still many factors restricting the development of Italian football.Needless to say, the "telephone gate" that was exposed later, black whistle is of course very harmful to the healthy development of a league.

But apart from this, there are still big problems in Italian football.

Italian football is currently the most violent fan riot among the five major European leagues.Or watching the game live, there will be a lot of fights, burning tees, throwing things on the court and so on.Anyway, it can be said that watching football live in Italy is very dangerous.

In addition to on-site violence, Italian football also has very serious racial discrimination.

Discrimination against blacks by Italian fans can be heard everywhere on the scene.

Everyone says England has the most football hooligans.But in terms of security on the scene, the Serie A league cannot be compared with the Premier League.The Premier League far surpasses Serie A in combating racism and football hooliganism.As long as there are fans making trouble at the scene and being caught by the camera, those fans will be blacklisted.

For their punishment, not only will the lawsuit be filed according to the size of the matter.And worst of all, they will never get the chance to watch the game again.For those fanatical England fans, not being able to watch the game is worse than killing them.

And there are many cameras in the stadium, as long as something happens, it will definitely be recorded by the cameras.It must not escape.

Therefore, the on-site order in the Premier League is very good.

But Serie A is different.Fans threw Molotov cocktails at players' buses, fans fought on the spot, fans burned stadium seats, abused people of color, and so on.

These factors have seriously restricted the number of Serie A fans.Let the already very poor ticket revenue is getting less and less.

Having said so much, it actually means one thing.The decline of the Italian league is definitely not due to any other factors.It is entirely because of the big problems in the management of the Italian league, and their development has not kept up with the development of European football.

This time the Italian reporter was also very frustrated.

After the third round of the Champions League group stage, all the Italian media were dumbfounded.Because except for AC Milan's [-]-[-] away victory over Barcelona, ​​it defended the face of Serie A.And Juventus was beaten [-]-[-] by Deportivo at their home court.

After the three rounds, Arsenal ranked first with two wins and one draw with seven points, while Deportivo ranked second with one win and two draws with five points, and Panathinaikos ranked second with two draws and one loss with two points. Third, Juventus has one draw and two losses with only one point.

This group is known as the group of death.After the draw, everyone believed that Juventus and Arsenal were the most likely to break through.Of course, Deportivo is not impossible. After all, it is a super Deportivo, and it still has strength.

But I didn't expect that half of the game had already been played, and the most promising Juventus seemed to be asleep, in a daze.Only one of the three games was tied.

The other team, Lazio, was beaten [-]-[-] by Blackburn in the away game.

The performance of the Italian club really made the Italian media unable to say anything.

On the contrary, the English media is very excited.

Although the Manchester United team is a bit complicated, the points situation is messy.But the British media still believe that Manchester United can easily break through.And Blackburn is very face-saving to the English football this time, defeating the Serie A champion Lazio [-]-[-].

But it is Arsenal who are most excited about English football.Arsenal's group is the group of death, but Arsenal's qualifying situation is the most optimistic.As long as Arsenal wins one more game, they will basically have locked their qualifying places.

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After the [-]-[-] victory over Lazio, the British media's praise for Blackburn has reached an extremely nasty level.

Competitive play is like that.No matter how much you hate a person, as long as his grades are good, they will praise him.There are many media that George has grudges against in British football, and he has offended even more reporters.But now that George's grades are so good, countless media are chasing George.

The media treats George like a famous England coach.

Even George would blush after reading the papers.

But Blackburn is indeed at its best now.

The media is even analyzing when Blackburn will end the winning streak.Black has not lost a game since the start of the season, and has won eleven games in a row so far.

The analysis of many media is that it is either an away game against Lazio, or it will be an away game against Manchester United in the No. 11 round.Because Blackburn's opponents in the middle are only opponents like Middlesbrough, Everton, and Manchester City.

Even after George watched it, he wondered if he wanted to create a ten-game winning streak in the league.

After defeating Lazio, the Blackburn players were a little smug.If it is said to beat Real Madrid, Real Madrid is still a little bit unsatisfactory.So the victory over Lazio this time showed Blackburn's strongest strength.

Blackburn lived up to expectations and easily defeated Middlesbrough [-]-[-] in the eighth round of the Premier League.After defeating Middlesbrough, all the media believed that this season's Premier League must belong to Blackburn.

Because in the highlight of this round, Arsenal defeated Manchester United [-]-[-] at home.As a result, Blackburn lead Arsenal by seven points and Manchester United by nine.

Blackburn is at full throttle, and everyone is wondering who can stop Blackburn?
Excited George hopes to continue this performance.Blackburn players are also confident now.

Everyone praises Blackburn, even rivals Everton are no exception.But when I got to Goodison Park, I was beaten by Everton and lost my temper.Blackburn, who was full of confidence, was awakened by someone.

The low-profile Everton defeated Blackburn [-]-[-] with a defensive counterattack.It even gave George his first defeat of the new season.

(End of this chapter)