champion professor

Chapter 74 Give up the shot? (first update)
If you want to talk about who has won the most English top league titles until the 96-97 season, everyone will point to Liverpool without hesitation.

League One overlord Liverpool.

Eighteen League One champions are enough to stand out from the crowd, five FA Cups, five League Cups, thirteen Community Shield Cups (including the predecessor Charity Cup)... There are countless honors and legends.

In 1985, Liverpool once again broke into the European Champions Cup final, but because of the Heysel tragedy that led to the death of 39 fans, Liverpool was finally banned from participating in European competitions for 10 years, which was later changed to 6 years.

Four years later, Liverpool suffered another blow, which was the famous Hillsborough tragedy.Since then, the English government has comprehensively checked the safety of the stadium.

In the same year, they were reversed and won by Arsenal in the final round at home, watching the latter win the league title after 18 years.

However, Liverpool has not slowed down in the past few years since its establishment in the Premier League.The current Premier League hegemon has become Manchester United. If Liverpool want to compete for hegemony, they still have to win two or three league titles first.

Shao Bo naturally attaches great importance to this game, not only because these 3 points are very likely to be related to the ownership of the league championship, but also because it is related to Shao Bo's childhood.

Many people started to become football fans by watching the World Cup, and the same is true for Shao Bo.The Chinese team made history by entering the World Cup in Japan and South Korea, which created a wave of national football watching across the country at that time.As he was in primary school, he naturally did not forget to cheer for the Chinese team.

Of course, the later result was very helpless. If it weren't for the good news that a Saudi Arabia was slaughtered by Germany 7:0, and it was at the bottom of the 32 teams.The Chinese team was able to leave the worst team in the World Cup.However, he didn't score a goal in 3 games and only had one goal post. Such a result is depressing enough.

In that World Cup, Shao Bo became a fan.

Summer slips away, fall begins.Shao Bo looked at the Chinese books that had just been delivered to him. The ink was not fragrant, but had a pungent smell. It must be some chemical preparations added to bleach the pages.

However, Shao Bo still saw one of the texts: "Giving up the shot".This is an article written by a fan who was studying at the academy after watching the Premier League game on CCTV at night. It was first published in a newspaper and later included by the teaching team that compiled the latest version of the language book.

But he didn't know until Shao Bo grew up.This text does not match the content written by the original author, and the editorial board of the textbook has deleted and processed it.

It was because of this text that Shao Bo began to know what kind of clubs football is divided into besides the national team.It was also this text that let Shao Bo know that every country has a football league.

Although there is an old domestic strong team in the place where Shao Bo is located, it has also created miracles and brilliance.But Shao Bo was still young at that time, and he didn't understand these things. His family had no fans, and he never led Shao Bo to watch a game.

However, because many activities in the city will be held in that stadium, Shao Bo has been there twice.Although it cannot be compared with the British football stadium Shao Bo has seen in the past year, the shock left in his childhood will never be erased.

It's just unexpected that the text originally praised the noble sportsmanship of the Liverpool players, but Shao Bo just fell in love with the strangely named Arsenal.

The article is about a Premier League game in the 96-97 season, Liverpool played against Arsenal.

At that time, Arsenal was already under the leadership of Wenger. In the first year of his rule, Arsenal faintly wanted to catch up with Manchester United to win the championship.At that time, the two teams were clinging to the points, and at the end of the league, every game was extremely important.In that game, Liverpool did not allow Arsenal to take a point at Anfield. The final result was that Manchester United won the championship with the lowest points in the history of the Premier League.

75 points, such points may not even qualify for the Champions League in the new century.However, the arrival of Shao Bo has changed history, and Manchester United's performance this season has obviously far surpassed that of the past. Even now, Manchester United is almost scoring 75 points.

And how did Arsenal lose that game?
The text tells that Fowler dribbled the ball alone and broke through, passing several people in a row to face the goalkeeper.And Arsenal's goalkeeper David Seaman rushed out to catch the ball, but Fowler took the initiative to retract his foot in order not to hurt David Seaman, and then fell to the ground under the effect of inertia.

Seeing Fowler fall from behind, the referee awarded Liverpool a penalty and sent David Seaman off the field with a red card.Fowler hurriedly explained to the referee that the fall just now had a relationship with David Seaman in the United States and Europe, and asked the referee to take it back.However, the referee only retracted the red card, but insisted on giving Liverpool a penalty.

And Fowler thought the penalty was unfair, so he hit the ball squarely in David Seaman's chest.At that time, David was still emotionally unstable, so he let go.Liverpool's McAdill picked up the miss and scored the ball.

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However, is the real situation really the same as described in the textbook?Is it really like what the original author said?Everything needs tangible evidence to prove.Fortunately, the Internet world has become so developed, and Shao Bo found the game video from that year with a random search.

Then, Shao Bo just wanted to say "FUVK" to the editorial team of the Chinese language book!
The real situation is this.

In one interception, Liverpool grabbed the ball.The defender kicked the ball towards the front of the penalty area with a big kick, across the halfway line and past the Arsenal defender.There is no breakthrough mentioned in the text at all, and there is nothing extraordinary.

Think about Inzaghi, how many breakthroughs has he made?This "prince living on the edge of the offside line" has never been remembered for anything extraordinary.

Fowler's attack is also the same, but Liverpool's high play has achieved good results.

Robbie Fowler, who has been keeping parallel with the Arsenal defenders, goes straight to the penalty area!

David Seaman, who was standing in front of the goal, rushed to attack, hoping to keep the ball out of the goal.But Fowler flicked the ball out, ready to bypass Seaman and hit the empty goal!

Seaman has fallen to the ground, as long as Fowler bypasses him, he can hit the empty goal!Fowler, who hoped to have a higher success rate, naturally would not force the ball on Seaman. As a teammate of the national team, the relationship between the two is not bad, and he has no need to hurt Seaman.

So Fowler flicked the ball out, but when avoiding Seaman's save, Fowler lost his balance and fell to the ground.

At this time, the referee ran over, and he thought it was Seaman who pulled Robbie Fowler to the ground with his hands.So he mercilessly gave David Seaman a red card and gave Liverpool a penalty.

Fowler explained the situation to the referee and pleaded for David.The referee accepted the request to cancel the red card, but he insisted on the penalty penalty.

For the team's victory, Fowler kicked the ball to the bottom right corner of the goal.David Seaman predicted the right direction, but he was not prepared enough and did not hold the ball in his arms.Liverpool teammate McAdill saw the opportunity, ran over and scored the ball into the far corner!Later, Liverpool beat Arsenal 2-1 with this ball and won.

That season, Arsenal ranked third, while Liverpool was second.Although Manchester United won the league championship that season, their points are the lowest in the Premier League in 20 years.

This video was later used as material by the World Football program group and included in the top ten classic moments of "abandoning a shot".Shao Bo watched this paragraph alone more than ten times, because it is related to the reputation of a club after all.

Did David Seaman touch it or not?Did Fowler actually have a shot?Could it be that Fowler's penalty shot was really right, and even going straight to the dead corner of the goal is considered a soft give up?
These questions can be answered to a certain extent in the video. Shao Bo only feels that he has been deceived, and he is also secretly glad that his team's dark history is a little less.

But Fowler did intercede for David Seaman at the time, hoping to avoid a red card and a penalty.It's just that the head coach insisted on giving a penalty. Did Fowler really give up?This is a key battle for the team to fight for the championship. If they win, Liverpool will only be in the second league and have a chance to win the league championship that they have not touched for several years.If you lose, you have to wait another year.

He didn't actually give up, the text said he was hitting David Seaman in the chest, but in fact the video showed him hitting the bottom right corner of the goal.

Could this also be regarded as giving up shooting?

Shao Bo really couldn't understand it, but he expressed his admiration for Fowler's efforts to maintain the fairness of the game. At the same time, he also understood Fowler's determination to score the ball for the club's victory.

It is admirable and appreciated that Fowler pleaded with the referee for his teammates in the national team. Even Shao Bo could not force him to deliberately miss the shot for his own persistence, or simply push it lightly.

After all, he is a professional player. In order to win the game, sometimes, even if they are cast aside by the world and go against their insistence, they will involuntarily make some outrageous moves.

Maradona, Messi, Aguero's "Hand of God", Suarez's "save" in front of the goal...these are things that every fan knows, but these black spots have not affected their popularity at all and income.Fans and sponsors don't care whether players use their hands or not, they only want to win and their eyes.

Maradona is still the king of the ball, although he finally admitted in his autobiography in 02 that the goal was scored with his hands.

Although Suarez was complained by countless fans in the world after the World Cup.But he got the title of "National Hero" in his own country.

Everything stems from different positions and different interests.

　I thought about clarifying this history a long time ago. If you have any doubts, the online video does show it clearly.The first update, make up the update, wait for me to finish the third update first, and then definitely make up
　　
　
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