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Chapter 692 The Arrogance of the FA
Chapter 46 The Arrogance of the FA
I hate international match days!

After seeing the injury report submitted by the assistant, Ancelotti groaned in pain and rubbed his forehead that was still aching with his thumb.

After the last international break, Manchester United's injury list is full of red.

Mata suffered a sprained ankle and is expected to be out for at least a week.
Di Maria's left thigh adductor strain did not recover in a month
Fellaini. Knee injury expected to take two weeks
Hummels is out for at least four weeks with a strained calf muscle!

All of a sudden, four absolute main players were injured, which made Ancelotti want to scold his mother.

Fortunately, Ancelotti did not see Li Qingshan's name on the injury list, otherwise, Ancelotti would even raise the white flag to surrender in the upcoming Manchester derby
In addition to the wounded soldiers, Ancelotti also has a schedule issue before him.

On September [-], Manchester United will face their rivals Manchester City at Old Trafford!
Before that, most of Manchester United's main players needed to participate in the national team's games.

After Li Qingshan played the South Korean team on September [-]th, due to the time difference, it was already September [-]th when he returned to Manchester, and there were only two days left before the Derby.

Also, Valencia and Sandro, who played in South America, also took a long-distance flight and returned to Manchester on the evening of September [-]th.

Of course, most of Manchester City's main players are also members of the national team, so no one has taken advantage of it.

What is making Ancelotti want to scold his mother is that after the Manchester Derby on September [-]th, the Champions League game will be on September [-]th-Manchester United needs to go to Belgium and challenge Bruges away!

Even if Manchester United did not encounter this wave of injuries, this kind of schedule made Ancelotti very crazy.

First play a very exhausting derby game, and then go to the away game immediately, without even having time to prepare, it will immediately be a tough away game in the Champions League-Ancelotti does not think that the Belgian giants are easy to deal with. It is not easy to eat the opponent in one bite when Manchester United is tired of traveling and playing away games.

In fact, as early as before the start of the season, Manchester United applied to the FA to change the game schedule. After all, such a schedule is too difficult for Manchester United to cope with.

Normally, after playing a game, players need at least three days to rest. Modern football has more and more stringent physical requirements, which also makes players more and more powerless when coping with the intensive schedule.To give a simple example, just 15 years ago, in the five major European leagues at that time, the average running distance of a player in a football game was about six kilometers, but in today's game, a player runs more than [-] kilometers in a game. Ten kilometers is already a very common thing. In a football match, the average running distance exceeds eight kilometers!
In addition to the development of football tactics, there is also the catching up with sports science and nutrition science, which has greatly improved the physique of athletes compared with the average ten years ago.

But even if you improve even more, players are still human. When you run ten kilometers, the accumulation of lactic acid in your body has reached a certain amount. If you don’t rest and adjust, you will immediately invest in another game. The requirements are simply too high.

However, the FA has ignored Manchester United's application.

Compared with the football associations of other European countries, the Football Association can be described as a representative of conservative, stubborn, and arrogant.Especially for the support of teams playing in the Champions League, the FA often even plays a role of holding back, such as arranging a contest between rivals before a Champions League battle
Adjusting the league schedule for teams participating in the Champions League and Europa League is nothing new in other European leagues.Other top leagues in Europe will make adjustments to their Champions League teams' schedules to help their teams perform well in the Champions League.

However, the FA seems to dislike the Champions League teams. During the interval between the Champions League games, they especially like to add tough battles to the participating teams, and the civil war consumes too much energy, which often leads to the dismal results of the Premier League teams in Europe.

Speaking of which, the history of the FA's dislike of the Champions League has gone a long way.

At the beginning of 1955, when the UEFA Champions League was in its infancy, the French professional sports media "L'Equipe" selected 18 clubs from all over Europe to participate, and the only representative of the United Kingdom was Chelsea.Because of the 1954-1955 season, they won the English Football League (predecessor of the Premier League) for the first time.

Of course Chelsea was happy in every possible way and quickly accepted the invitation.However, the FA did not release it.

In the 1950s, English teams generally chose to rest on their laurels.Few clubs in that era looked beyond the league table.Many teams, including the FA, think that the league is everything, and the league championship is everything.Therefore, they are dismissive of external exchanges and foreign expeditions.

Instead of being "tsundere", Chelsea chose to be a good boy, honestly listened to the "suggestion" of the FA, and gave up their qualifications.Subsequently, the Polish team "Defenders of Warsaw" replaced this place.

A year later, the league title changed hands and Manchester United qualified for the Champions League.A year can change a lot of things, but it can't change the bad face of the FA.

Fortunately, Manchester United's then coach Busby was "naturally proud".He ignored the FA's ban, and even if he lost his qualification for the FA Cup, he would still lead the Red Devils into Europe.

At that time, the FA even threatened to impose more severe penalties on Manchester United and deduct their league points.But in the end, under the joint protest of the club and the competition committee, he survived.The result of Manchester United's tit-for-tat confrontation with the FA was that the FA made a fuss about Manchester United's league schedule in the following season, making it difficult for them to take care of both.

Manchester United's first Champions League opponent in history was the Belgian giant Anderlecht. At that time, Manchester United's home game was borrowed from Manchester City's Maine Road Stadium. In this stadium, Manchester United won the first Champions League game [-]-[-]. Opponents, then in the away game, Manchester United even used a score of [-] to [-] to beat the Belgian giants a total of twelve times in two rounds!
Later, Manchester United defeated Dortmund and Athletic Bilbao, advanced to the top four, and lost to the current champion Real Madrid in the semi-finals.The first show in the European war was amazing, and it can be regarded as a face to English football.

But this is of no use. The FA's attitude towards the Champions League has not changed. The arrogance of the English is extremely dazzling in dealing with the Champions League.

Manchester United once again entered the Champions League in the 1957-1958 season.

This time Busby's team once again showed a strong dominance, broke into the top 4 again without bloodshed, but what followed was a test of fate.

On the way back after the quarter-final draw with Belgrade in the second leg, the Elizabeth Class GALZUAS57 flight of Manchester United general manager, some club staff and team reporters stopped in Munich to refuel.The wind and snow were very heavy that day. After refueling, the pilot failed to take off twice. It was not until the third attempt that disaster struck. The plane crashed at the end of the runway and crashed into a private house. The time was fixed on February 1958, 2, 6 15 hours.

23 people were killed on the spot, including 7 main players, please allow me to list their names one by one: Jeff Bent, Roger Byrne, Eddie Coleman, Mark Jones, David Pey Greg, Tommy Taylor, Liam Whelan, Frank Swift (the first England captain after the war).Two weeks later, talented rookie Duncan Edwards died after treatment failed.

In the Munich air crash, Manchester United lost 8 main players forever. Fortunately, Busby escaped the clutches of fate.He was seriously injured and critically ill many times. He even finished his dying prayer twice, and he was only a hair away from death.But he miraculously recovered with incredible faith and insisted on returning to the club to coach.

Fights don't end with tragedy.In the first round of the semi-finals, Manchester United, which lost almost the entire first team, insisted on using the reserve team to put together a lineup to face the visiting Rossoneri. They passed the test 2:1, but defeated San Siro 0:4 in the second round, but the Champions League journey stopped there. .

Despite losing the semi-final on the pitch, Busby and United have not lost their love of football.

In fact, the moment they made the decision to continue fighting, they had already won a complete victory!
(End of this chapter)