Football’s First Defender

"Come on! Yang Feng killed Manchester United!" In a community supermarket he frequented, the cashier cheered Yang Feng up.

"Young man! You must give me a hard lesson for those Manchester United brats!"

An old man with a cane who was clearly aged beside him tremblingly picked up the cane, tapped it again and again, expressing his expectations for Yang Feng.

"Zeal them! Let them go back to Manchester with duck eggs!"

More and more cheering and cheering sounds gathered in Yang Feng's ears.

This is the charm of the Shuanghonghui.

This is the hostility Liverpool fans have towards Manchester United.

Normally, as the brightest star in Liverpool's defense, although Yang Feng's daily trips will also be favored by many Liverpool fans, everyone is actually not as excited as they are now.

For Liverpool fans, life is life, football is football, everyone should do what they do normally, except for some small fans who will interfere with Yang Feng's normal activities and take pictures, everyone else just cares Yang Feng greeted with a smile, usually without too much interference.

But these two days have been unusual.

The double red meeting is coming soon. With the end of the League Cup match with Manchester City, in the two days before the double red meeting, the whole city of Liverpool was filled with the smell of "gunpowder".

At this moment, Bill Shankly's famous saying "Football has nothing to do with life and death, but football is higher than life and death" was truly reflected in these Liverpool fans.

Some people say that Liverpool's two most important games in a season are to meet Manchester United's challenge at Anfield, and to go to Old Trafford to smash Manchester United's field.

This season, Liverpool fans can watch one more game at home, the most important third game of the season.

The derby between Liverpool and Manchester United is destined to be the most popular event in English football no matter what kind of competition it is in the UK.

The double red meeting between the two teams is also known as the "Northwest Derby", the English national derby.

The grievances between the two teams may date back to a century ago. Anyway, when Liverpool and Manchester United meet, it is destined to set off a bloodbath.

The grievances of the "Double Reds" have a long history. Of course, among the Chinese fan base, there are more embarrassing and insults for the home team's support. But for Liverpool people and Manchester people, this is not just a war on the field. The mutual hatred between the two camps has its historical, geographical and cultural roots, and can even rise to a conflict of interests. In the 1980s, football, on the contrary, became a battlefield for fighting in the arena.

Historically, the two cities of Liverpool and Manchester have been in a state of opposition.

After the opening of the European Age of Discovery, Britain, as an island country, mainly relied on maritime trade for its development. In 1715, Liverpool built Britain's first dock, and the profits from the slave trade helped the small town prosper. Although the city of Manchester was established early, its development has been slower than that of the port city of Liverpool. Later, with the gradual decline of the maritime trade dominated by the slave trade, the development of Liverpool fell into a bottleneck. At this time, the first industrial revolution that changed the course of the world began in Manchester. Manchester developed rapidly and gradually replaced Liverpool as the United Kingdom. driving force for development. The ups and downs of the two have caused the confrontation between the two cities, and in the field of football, the confrontation between the fans is just the epitome of the confrontation between the cities.

One of the details has also become a topic that people repeatedly talked about later. As an industrial city in Manchester, all imported raw materials must come from Liverpool. Regarding tax issues, Liverpool will increase import taxes, which will cause dissatisfaction in Manchester. The Manchesters then dug the canal themselves, fueling the feud between the two sides.

The economic and cultural background between the cities planted the seeds of hatred between the "Double Reds", while Manchester United and Liverpool fans' less "benevolent" approach to each other completely made the two teams the mortal enemies of the mortal enemies.

After Manchester United's Munich air disaster in the 1950s, some radical Liverpool fans actually laughed at it. They made up many songs and sang them during games to mock each other. In the 1980s, the Hillsborough tragedy also occurred in Liverpool. Some Manchester United fans fought back against Liverpool in the same way.

The hatred between the fans of the two teams is getting deeper and deeper, which also makes the smell of gunpowder on and off the field extremely strong.

As for the team, the head coaches of the two teams are also in conflict.

What is interesting is that two English clubs gave birth to two hostile Scots: Ferguson and Dalglish.

The two Scots have strong personalities and a strong desire to win. Ferguson won the first league title after 7 years of coaching Manchester United, and Dalglish beat Ferguson when he was coaching Liverpool for the first time. Later Dalglish went to Manchester United. Blackburn took the championship from Ferguson again, and the two existed like natural enemies.

When Dalglish became a TV commentator and encouraged the media to besiege Ferguson, Ferguson once said: "When you die and go to funeral, you only need four friends to carry your coffin." Ferguson also has a famous saying: " My greatest achievement in life is to knock Liverpool off their fucking throne."

Now with Dalglish back in charge, this game, the battle between the two rivals is also eye-catching.

Not only the coaches, but also the players of the two teams are gnashing their teeth when talking about each other. Rooney once said that he hated Liverpool since he was a child. "When I was at Everton, Liverpool was my worst enemy. After coming to Manchester United, the idea of ​​​​taking down Liverpool became stronger." Giggs: "Beating Liverpool has always been That's what Manchester United want to do most."

Of course, as a Liverpool fan since he was a child, Liverpool captain Gerrard once said: "In Liverpool, we were told to hate everything about Manchester United. His players, his coach, his fans, even his mascot. "

The contradiction between Liverpool and Manchester United is more like the opposition between two classes, and the opposition of religion, social group, industry, custom, music and culture constitutes the intricate relationship between Manchester and Liverpool.

Will this kind of conflict between fans and cities be passed on to many foreign players on the field?

The answer is "Of course it will."

Imagine, when the tens of thousands of fans in the audience shouted "Fuck Manchester United (Liverpool)" in unison, when the fans shouted over and over again, shouting hoarsely without stopping, how could the players on the field not Inspired by the blood, trying to perform to the best, in this kind of cheering, the players don't work hard, that's fucking hell!

You may not remember how many times Manchester United and Liverpool have played against each other, but you will definitely remember the fierce fighting between the two sides, the scene of yellow cards and red cards flying together; you may not remember the recent record of Manchester United and Liverpool, but you will definitely remember Gary Ne Weir provoked Liverpool fans crazily, even if he was fined; you may not remember how beautiful Manchester United's world-class defense was at the beginning, but you must remember that Torres overtook Vidic and played the unforgettable prelude at the double red meeting.

This is the Double Red Club, the most exciting duel between the giants in England, the most exciting and explosive game, the direct confrontation between the two most successful teams in the history of English football!

In the history of England's top league, the two teams have a glorious history, but they are in different periods, and the collision between the two is also a match for the opponent, and will meet a good talent.

Liverpool won 18 league championships, while Manchester United won 19 league championships (in 2012); the miracle of Istanbul created by Liverpool is like a thick book, every time it is opened, it is so fresh and bright, just as Manchester United scored two goals in stoppage time in the Champions League final to reverse Bayern and win the trophy, which will always be a brand new memory. The Red Devils and the Red Army together hold up half the sky of English football, whether it is now or in the past.

The confrontation between the double reds has long been higher than the meaning of football itself. It is precisely because of the love and hatred bestowed by history that the double reds appear so wonderful and different in world football.

And the latest double red meeting will be staged in Anfield!