Football’s First Defender

The European Cup final of the 07/08 season will be held on the 15th of May at the Manchester City Stadium, home of the English team Manchester City!

Although the Manchester City Club at this time was not the rich and powerful team that followed, its home stadium was built ahead of schedule because it wanted to host the 2000 Olympics. Although it failed to bid for the Olympics, it also took advantage of the opportunity to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games. , so it is definitely a modern playing field! It can accommodate up to 50,000 spectators to watch live!

Among ordinary clubs in England with an average seating capacity of only 20,000 to 30,000, this is definitely a luxurious stadium!

The field turf is also extremely well maintained due to the progress of the Premier League, even higher than the quality of the home turf of Zenit and Glasgow Rangers!

This is also where the Premier League is becoming more and more attractive. Except for the giants, other teams are at least as good as the giants in terms of stadium maintenance and maintenance! Compared with the other five major league teams, the middle and lower reaches of the downcast can be called vegetable fields, the British are definitely willing to spend money and maintain the venues of the Premier League, and even most of the English Championship teams!

Manchester City Stadium, which can accommodate more than 50,000 people, the two teams each share 20,000 tickets for public sale, and the remaining tickets belong to other so-called neutral fans locally and around the world!

These fans who come to Manchester to watch the game from all over the world will greatly promote the development of Manchester's tourism industry, and even make the tourism industry of the whole UK temporarily popular!

Not to mention football, it is the hottest sport and the craziest sport in the whole of Britain! Being able to see a high-level European final at home is also the greatest benefit and encouragement for fans!

In terms of economic returns, perhaps hosting the finals of a competition like the European Cup has little income in previous years, and it is more for promoting the host city!

But this year's Manchester government is definitely making a lot of money. The reason is that there are Scottish giants who belong to the British team participating in the final, which makes a large number of fans flock to Manchester!

According to statistics from the Manchester government and the media before the game, about 150,000 Rangers fans will come to Manchester before the game to fight with their home team in Manchester! Of course, only a small number of people are the lucky ones who have tickets, and most of them can only gather in bars and squares outside the stadium to watch the game and cheer for their home team inside the stadium!

But think about it, the cheers of nearly 150,000 people on and off the field merged together. The Glasgow Rangers are actually not at home and winning at home!

The hotels in Manchester were all full, and many people even rented out their houses at high prices, earning a lot of extra money!

On the other hand, Zenit fans, although there are not as many expeditionary troops as the Rangers, there are about 30,000 fans with or without tickets. These 30,000 people make the Manchester police really feel like they are here. enemy. After all, Russia has always been known as a fighting nation. In the eyes of the people of the rotten country, it is the deepest impression they have of Russians!

In addition, England's local football hooligans may come to make fun of it! English football hooligans alone are enough to cause headaches for the police, but now there are Russian rough men, coupled with a large number of Scots who are also not very tempered, Manchester police will also suffer a major test near the match day.

A few days before the match day, the Manchester Police had sought help from other counties and mobilized a large number of police officers. He even communicated with the military in advance to forcibly suppress the crazy fans if necessary!

Anyway, there must be no bloodshed, no casualties, and the three parties, especially the Russians, must be in their hands, and they must not be allowed to cause trouble, let alone suffer! The ghost knows what kind of international disputes will be caused if a Russian actually has an accident in the UK!

On the day of the game, there were patrolling police all over the streets, and there was an emergency police team of dozens of people every few streets, which could be dispatched at any time, which can be said to have achieved the ultimate in security!

Especially around the stadium, it is simply a combination of military and police, sending a large number of armed personnel, plus a large number of translators who are familiar with Russian, to ensure that there will be no problems!

Fans from both sides, plus the local fans who were purely watching the fun, let alone finding faults and conflicts before the game, under the watchful eyes of a group of British violent agency personnel, left quickly, or entered the field, or occupied the square to help watch the game Location!

At this time, fools will start disputes. If a large number of police officers are really involved, in case they delay watching the game, or point their backs, so many guns of law enforcement officers, whose guns go off, there is no place to reason at that time!

It's the final anyway! Fans from both sides entered the stadium early this time, ready to enter the fighting state! It's still early to leave the game, but the fans on both sides have already started the song competition!

From the team songs of both sides to their respective countries, the classic songs of the nation come and go one after another!

In the neutral zone! There are also more and more fans showing their camps. Most of these people are die-hard fans who buy high-priced tickets. Under the deliberate guidance of the staff in the venue, under the exchange of seats, the fans of both sides in the neutral zone They also gathered in a group, each close to their home team's fan area!

A large number of police are on standby in the neutral area. After all, there have been too many accidents caused by riots in the neutral fan area in football in the past. With the development of the times, this kind of pain should not appear in the football field again!

And in the neutral area, there is actually a unique red scenery! The five-star red flag fluttered in the wind. There were local British students, fans who traveled thousands of miles from China, and even die-hard fans in Russia who had been following Yang Feng. About a hundred people gathered together. They were not crazy team fans. There is no racial inclination, it is purely for the pride of one's own nation, cheering on!

After knowing clearly from the Zenit Club that Yang Feng has entered the starting list and has a high chance of starting the game! The media in mainland China, whether it is a TV platform, a print media, or a new type of online media, has sent a luxurious reporting team this time!

CCTV even took advantage of its overseas relations to forcibly obtain the live broadcast and commentary seat of the game!

You must know that this kind of tasteless competition, even the Champions League, has never been broadcast live on a large scale by Chinese official media! But this time with the participation of Chinese players, it is of course different! For a Chinese to stand in the final venue of a European club and top competition, it is absolutely no less shocking to the public than the national football team entering the World Cup!