[Football] The Light of Abandoned Sons

For the Blues Chelsea, although the Charity Shield is not an important cup, it is of great significance because of the opponent.

But Manchester United fans may not think so. For Chelsea, perhaps another derogatory name is more in line with their psychology-Seafood.Seafood is what Chelsea is best known for, but the name means more than that.

Listen to the singing of the Red Devils in the stands:

Summer is coming,

season is beginning,

Chelsea is dancing and singing.

winter is coming,

Christmasapproaching, Chelseastiring,

champion is leaving, again, again and again.

I have to say that this gloating song really tells the current situation of Chelsea.Summer is here, the season has begun, and Chelsea is excited to start the new season. The fans have high hopes for the big wins. The fans cheered, sang and danced; winter is here, and Christmas is coming. Hibernation, then, bleary-eyed watching the league title slip by.

Of course, this is also the reason for Chelsea itself.Unlike Manchester United and Liverpool, many Chelsea players, known as the "Multinational Legion", come from other leagues and cannot adapt to life without a winter break.

However, just like the Blues' counterattack-the Blues at the beginning of the season are sometimes unsolvable. They are enthusiastically creating massacres and beheading powerful enemies one by one.Perhaps this extremely hateful approach also reveals why Chelsea has many enemies.

The opponents of this Charity Shield Cup are last season's league champion Manchester United and the Blues at the beginning of the season.

The game officially begins.

Andy Gray adjusted his headphones, cleared his throat, and made sure he was in top shape.

"The game is about to start, we can see that Roy Keane's jersey number is still 16, and Beckham has become Manchester United's number 7, just like Brian Robson who is now coaching in Middlesbrough, Like Eric Cantona, who has retired and caused a sensation in French football, perhaps Ferguson hopes that the young Beckham will become Manchester United's new legendary No. 7."

"But it seems that Chelsea captain Wise doesn't want Keane to lead Manchester United so easily as the captain in the true sense. Although Keane has already faced Cantona as the captain on the field when Cantona failed to start last season. The Premier League team, but his opponents do not include Wise. We may be expecting sparks, Ferguson commented before the game that Keane is already one of the best midfielders, he said Keane would not let others Blocking his own way. And Gullit also praised Wise emphatically."

"Aha, they shook hands. I can't see the overly hidden smiles and harmonious atmosphere on their faces. They look like they want to pull each other's hands off." Martin Taylor spit out, looking at the two The team's starting list and substitute lineup, ahh, shouted, "Aha Andy, the one who took David's jersey number 19 is actually Manchester United's substitute goalkeeper."

At this time, the photographer's lens also cut to Manchester United's bench in coordination, and the two people sitting together were bet on the screen like this.Beckham and Lou van der Ley were discussing something, and Beckham, who was used to being watched by the camera, noticed something first. He raised his head and smiled at the camera as usual.The blond hair, which is almost the template of a handsome British guy, is combed into hair smoothly. His olive green eyes are sharp and cold that only appear on the field at this moment, but they are extremely fascinating.

And the boy next to him is so strange in the eyes of most people. Perhaps only the diehard Manchester United fans will see the boy training with the team during the training of the Manchester United team.But even when few people knew him, even when he sat next to England's favorite, he was not dimmed.His face was indescribably immature, and his half-long hair, which seemed to be light brown, was somewhat messy at the moment, but he couldn't resist those eyes.

Those are a pair of eyes that can ignore his real age just by looking at them, not referring to the vicissitudes of life, but the profoundness that should not belong to a youth under 17 years old.His face was somewhat tense. Seeing this, Beckham stretched out his hands to ruffle the already messy hair without styling it, but it might be the waywardness that belongs only to handsome guys. Even so, it is difficult to feel bad for this boy, especially In the next second, he stopped being serious and slapped Beckham's troublesome hand away, but showed an even shy smile.

Many people in the stands put their hands on their hearts and leaned back.

Seeing this, Beckham imitated and made the same movement towards the boy beside him.

Then seeing that face that was still tense one second, it turned red the next second.

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It was Sunday, August 1997, 8.

"Hi everyone, the 1997-1998 Premier League Charity Shield is about to start."

Manchester United won the right to serve. Keane looked at his teammates running in place. With the referee's whistle, the game officially started. He drove the ball to Scholes, who was in charge of organizing the attack.

"The home team's red jersey is the last Premier League champion Manchester United, and the blue jersey is last season's FA Cup champion Chelsea. It can be said that Manchester United has a great advantage in the history of the Charity Shield Cup. The team that has won the Charity Shield the most times, and the biggest score in the history of the cup occurred in 1911, also created by Manchester United, they defeated Swindon 8-4 to win the championship.” Seeing that everyone on the field seems to have not Entering the state, Martin Taylor first introduced the background of the game with his partner.

Perhaps it was because of the fact that none of Chelsea's players were in the right shape. Scholes passed the ball to the left after a few times with Keane and Ronnie Johnson, two defensive midfielders. Way Giggs.The moment Giggs received the ball, Di Matteo noticed it was not good, but he is good at organizing offenses. When Giggs, who has an amazing speed, suddenly picked up his speed, he only had time to look at the The back view of the number 11 jersey.

"Oh Giggs, he got the ball and flew towards the Chelsea penalty area. Although we often say, he is so fast." Andy Gray, who was speaking calmly, suddenly exclaimed, the Manchester United No. 11 took the ball very fast, " Look, Di Matteo doesn't seem to react at all..."

Before he finished speaking, Giggs' attack was terminated, and he was stopped by the catching up Chelsea captain Wise with a fierce tackle behind him. He even staggered a little after conceding the ball and almost fell down.

"Wise's tackle! He succeeded. He stopped Giggs' attack this time. The move was a bit big, but the referee didn't say anything at the beginning." There is no warning, let alone draw a card.Giggs pursed his lips, spat into the grass, saw Wise's tackle go out of bounds, and turned for the kick-in.

"Chelsea's players are a bit relaxed, but that's normal, the game has just begun."

But this is a bit ironic for Di Matteo.Not only because Giggs didn't react at all when he passed him with the ball, but also because in the FA Cup final of the 96-97 season, Di Matteo took the ball in the midfield and took a long shot according to the relaxation of the opposing player. , scored a valuable goal in just 43 seconds of the opening, creating the fastest goal at Wembley Stadium.

I can only be thankful that Wise defended simply.

In the 13th minute of the opening, Dan Piedrescu, who is good at assisting the full-back, passed Di Matteo directly. Di Matteo took the ball to face Keane's defense and transferred the ball to "Chelsea rookie" Vialli.The 32-year-old Italian veteran has just joined Chelsea this season. He is full of confidence and intends to seize the opportunity to create his first goal at Chelsea.

"Look at the ball... Vialli dodged Bart who was defending. Although his speed is no longer fast, his rhythm with the ball is very stable. This kind of veteran experience is also important for football. Vialli, Vialli Yali... Vialli passed the ball... oh, it was intercepted by Manchester United defender Dennis Irvine." As a result, the commentator did not need to narrate, and the Blues fans who were shouting in the stands a second ago made annoyed and covered their heads actions, the results are self-evident.

"Gullit can be said to have trained with the Charity Shield. Vialli and his team did not cooperate very well, so this conceded the goal. Of course, Irwin's defense cannot be denied. The Irish The defender is silent on the pitch, but he cannot be ignored by anyone trying to score against Manchester United. At the same time, when Beckham is not on the pitch, Irvine is a good free-kick in the United team. "

……

The game progressed to the 43rd minute, plus the stoppage time of the first half, there are still about 5 minutes before the end of the first half.

"Sheringham, Sheringham, he dodged the tackle from the defender and went straight to the Chelsea box! He lobbed... oh no, no, it was a pass, Sheringham passed the ball to Johansen in the back row! He cheated Chelsea keeper, Dutchman De Goyer, Johansen stops the ball, shoots—”

"goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal! Manchester United scored! Johansen scored! He was assisted by the newly joined Sheringham! I think this ball can help him integrate into the new team! Manchester United's first goal in the 97-98 season, by Bring their defender Ro Johansen!"

United fans cheered from the stands while the players began celebrating inside.Johansen opened his arms and started running, pointing to Sheringham halfway to signal that it was his assist.

Ferguson was calm on the sidelines, and he simply waved his fist when he saw the goal, as expected.Gullit, on the other hand, was a little angry at the fragility of his defense. The commentators said that they were also new signings. Why is there such a big gap?Completely forgot the praise just now for the Italian veteran.

Beckham and Lou van der Rey came from the bench to applaud the goal.

Then this good-looking combination was once again locked by the court camera, it seems that they are the heroes of the goal.

"How does it feel?" Beckham lightly bumped Alao's shoulder with his shoulder. Seeing the boy nodding, he smiled slightly, "It feels good."

But that look—

Beckham looked up at Boss, and found that his attention was not here, so he opened his mouth, "Come on, the sense of substitution is not strong, is it?"

He once imagined that if he was at the Bernabeu Stadium, he would be cheered when he saw Real Madrid score a goal, even if it was just a substitute.And now, on the bench, in team goals, in England's greatest stadium, it doesn't make waves for him.

Even the cheers and boos of the audience were rarely seen in Spain.But with this boy—

It was at this moment that he finally believed that he had finally come to Manchester.

He looked up at Beckham whose expression had returned to calm, but the blond man didn't look at him this time.

The author has something to say:

Said Chelsea's song was made up by myself, just for fun

And...Chelsea fans, don't scold me, after all, Abramovich's father and Mourinho's mother are not here at this time, and the title of Chelsea Seafood disappeared after 03.My friend is a diehard car fan~ It is said that there is a Chelsea joke:

Abu: buy buy buy

Uncle Bird: Guiguigui

The cloth bird is really a god CP