fat man who can't play football

Chapter 71 The Battle of Hundreds of Millions

It was already late at night when the Leeds United team bus returned to Yorkshire, and there were still many Leeds fans waiting at the gate of the club for the hero's triumphant return.

As soon as the bus appeared in the sight of the fans, they began to shout enthusiastically and began to sing the cheering songs prepared for the team, of course, many of them were specially written for the fat man.

Fatty's vanity was greatly satisfied, he rolled down the car window with a smile and waved to the crowd. The atmosphere reached its peak, and the air was filled with fans' screams.

But Fatty still wanted to bring more joy to this group of lovely people.

Norwich defeated Ipswich Town 3:1 in the other semi-final played later, and eliminated their opponents 4:2 on aggregate in the two rounds to advance to the final.

In this case, on May 5, Leeds and Norwich will usher in the final battle of the season at Wembley Stadium. This is a game worth hundreds of millions of pounds.

为什么这么说呢？因为在刚刚公布的14／15赛季电视转播分红情况中，整个英超20家俱乐部分到了16亿英镑，即使是排名倒数第一降级的QPR也分到了6500万英镑。

Moreover, the Premier League has a unique "parachute fund" protection policy for relegated teams. Starting from the 2010/2011 season, the parachute fund has changed from two years to four years. There are 2400 million pounds in the first year, and 1920 million pounds in the third and fourth years.

This means that the winner of the promotion play-off final will receive 1.27 million pounds even if they have a "round trip" in the Premier League!
One thought of heaven and one thought of hell!
After eight days of preparation time, Fatty watched all the games that Norwich participated in this season again.In the two meetings between the two sides in the league, Leeds United was at a disadvantage with one draw and one loss.

At this time, Norwich has changed the coach. The original coach Neil Adams resigned as the head coach in January 15. Adams only led the team to win 1 game in the 10 games before resignation.

Then the Scottish Alex Neal took over the team. After the Scottish coach took office, he improved the "Canary"'s usual 4222 hanging formation to a more balanced offensive and defensive 4411.

This formation helped Norwich stabilize the situation and went from seventh to third in the league.

Fatty has been thinking about countermeasures against this change in his opponent.In the 43rd round of the league, Fatty's use of 532 against the "Canary" did not work well, and he lost 2:3 at home.

In the last game, Fatty took the risk of changing the formation in order to resolutely keep the tie. It is undoubtedly unwise to risk using a formation that the players are not familiar with in such a crucial game.

In training, Fatty has been trying to use different personnel collocations to make the 532 formation more balanced.

In training, it seems that the fat man is still ready to take down Mowat, who is weak in defense, and send Luke Murphy to increase the defensive ability of the midfield.

Soon this game worth hundreds of millions of pounds came towards people. On May 5th, various flags fluttered in the wind at Wembley Stadium, and Leeds United fans once again played a huge poster of the fat man.

Fatty was delighted to see Owen and Cindy, whom he had not seen for a long time, in the lower right corner of the poster. They seemed to have noticed Fatty's gaze, and they waved excitedly at Fatty from the stands.

The fat man nodded at them and smiled.

Turning his head, the old lady Newton was sitting impressively on the seat close to the coach's bench.Because the old lady is already 91 years old, she generally will not rush to other courses.

But, today she came.

The fat man had mixed feelings. He originally thought that the old lady would stimulate him passionately again, but he didn't expect that she would just smile at him from the stands.

The fat man still wanted to find Xia Tian's figure in the crowd, but he couldn't see it after looking around, maybe he hadn't entered yet.

The fat man shook his head, cleared his mind of thoughts, and refocused on the game.

Sky Sports still uses Carragher and Neville as the live commentary of the game.

Soon Carragher's shrill voice was ringing in the ears of the television audience.

"My dear Sky Sports viewers, good afternoon. Now we are broadcasting the final of the Championship promotion play-off at Wembley Stadium. The two sides are Leeds United and Norwich."

"Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides. Norwich starts with goalkeeper No. 1 Rudy, right back No. 2 Whittaker, center back No. 5 Martin and No. 6 Basson, and left back No. 23 Olsson. "

"The midfield is No. 22 Raymond, No. 8 Howson, No. 27 Tetai and No. 4 Johnson."

"The attacking midfielder is No. 14 Hulahan, and the single forward is No. 10 Jerome."

“利兹联这边的首发为门将1号戈利尼，右后卫2号拜拉姆，三中卫32号库珀、16号考迪、4号奥斯丁，左后卫21号泰勒。”

"Three midfielders No. 23 Cook, No. 7 Murphy and No. 20 Ali."

"The double forwards are No. 9 Belotti and No. 11 Wood."

"Now the Leeds United players are preparing to kick off in the middle circle. They will take the lead in this game."

"With the whistle of the referee, the game began."

Leeds United launched a fierce attack at the beginning of the game according to the plan made by the fat man before the game.

Norwich was obviously a little underprepared, and Ali quickly got a chance in front of the penalty area.

The British Emperor star received the ball back from the striker and directly shot it with one foot. Rudy hastily held the ball out of the baseline with his hand.

The Norwich coach saw that the players were a little distracted on the field, and whistled loudly on the sidelines to remind the players to pay attention to others.

In the subsequent corner kick defense, Rudy yelled, attacked and hugged the ball, which greatly stabilized the morale of the army.

The Norwich players who came back to their senses gradually controlled the situation on the field.

Fatty couldn't help feeling a little regretful that he missed the chance to start with three tricks.To be honest, because the strength of Leeds United is not as good as the old-fashioned "Canary", the fat man made a plan to start the game before the game, but unfortunately it didn't work.

After surviving the first 10 minutes, Norwich began to counterattack.

Raymond and Hulahan continued to fall near the center circle, and Leeds United gradually weaved an encirclement of interception.

It's a pity that this time they are facing Raymond, who has both speed and breakthrough skills!He is the man who can get the ball out of the encirclement all by himself!

Relying on extremely smooth flashes and maneuvers, Raymond broke through the encirclement of the midfield and directly faced Taylor who was retreating.

Raymond showed amazing explosive power, constantly accelerated while running, and could make feints from time to time.

Taylor's waist was almost broken.

Seeing that Taylor's center of gravity was unstable, Raymond passed the ball directly from Taylor's crotch.

This pass was concealed and penetrating, directly penetrating Leeds' defense.

Jerome accelerated to receive the pass, and at this time the Leeds defenders had been left behind by him.

Facing Gollini, a near-angle push.

What Golini judged was that the ball was going to be shot at the far corner, and it was obvious that he was not prepared enough to fight at the near corner. It was too late to save after pulling back the center of gravity.

The ball went around his fingertips and into the net!
In the 12th minute of the game, Norwich took a 1-0 lead.

(End of this chapter)