Football, although stronger in Wales than some sports, can never be compared to rugby, and even because of the Glamorgan County Cricket Union, in some rural areas, it is not even comparable to cricket, which is only popular in English-speaking countries.

After Lin Yilong bought the Masach football team, the team in the Welsh First Division survived the financial crisis safely, not only avoiding disbandment, but also after Lin Yilong's 20,000 pounds injection in the second year of the team's purchase, it has become a strong team in the first division promotion is imminent.

Many teams in the Welsh league, including the Super League, are almost semi-professional. There is also the Celtic League in North Wales and the Welsh First Division in South Wales. Some of the teams in these leagues are not even semi-professional, they are purely amateur teams. Because of this, it is not uncommon for teams to be promoted from the second and third divisions to the Super League to achieve three consecutive jumps and four consecutive jumps, and there are also unlucky eggs who have fallen from the Super League to the second division in three straight seasons. If you have a youth player from the fourth or fifth tier in Italy or Spain playing on the pitch, it is much better than a semi-professional team made up of almost completely amateur players.

Fortunately, due to the impact of the European debt crisis, there are not many professional athletes who have gone abroad to come to Britain.

Professional footballers, if they don't sign a professional contract with the team, will be in a very bad situation, and even if they have a professional contract, because they lack the necessary social and professional skills, their life after retirement will be miserable. Some go to the slaughterhouse to work as butchers, and some go directly to the factory to work in production, but most of these players go to work as security guards in nearby businesses after retiring - if the ranger is considered a security industry. According to the British employment law and the Welsh FA regulations, for non-professional players, Lin Yilong only needs to be able to pay half of the minimum wage, and can hire some substitute players who can't play in the reserve team or youth team of the top team at a low price.

The semi-professional contract with the Masach football team, plus the contract as a full-time ranger at Brecken Forest, has allowed Lin to find a couple of English-speaking youth players in Spain, plus semi-professional players who have already played in Mastach, to form a strong regional team – in a way, able to force the pros of the old powerhouse Barry Town Football United on the field.

Of course, professional teams can't beat them, such as Cardiff City in South Glamorganshire, although the team's facilities are based in Wales, they are an out-and-out English league team - this is because the Welsh Football League was established in the early years of its existence, in 1992, although invitations were also sent to these English league teams, but unfortunately these teams did not accept it, but chose to stay in the English football league. So, for the Welsh league teams that don't have much attention, that's it.

With such a league scale, it naturally can't attract fans, not to mention commercial sponsorship, and there are not even tickets. Receiving football subsidies from the Welsh FA is the main source of finance for these teams.

Most of the Welsh FA's subsidies come from donations from the World Football Association (FIFA) and UEFA, grants from the Department of Sport, national team sponsorships and modest television and radio revenues, with a budget of about £12 million in 2012, or £5 per Welsh – less than $1 per capita in a large country in the Far East that aspires to the World Cup, and several times higher even in purchasing power parity terms. In addition to organizing leagues and education, the main use of this money is mainly to semi-professional clubs, as long as these clubs do not pay tens of thousands of pounds a year, they can achieve financial balance. In the case of the Mastach football team, the subsidy is paid to each player on average, and it will probably get the player a minimum salary of £120 for a part-time 20 hours a week for 40 weeks a year. If you add in a number of amateur players and coaches who are willing to volunteer for free, the cost of such a competitive team of no more than 30 people will not exceed £100,000.

As the chairman and owner of the team, Lin Yilong went to the community football stadium in Masach and watched the final match of the promoted team from the sidelines.

Lin Yilong himself, although he was very fond of football in primary and secondary school, his contact with the hobby of football happened to occur in the months after he came to the UK - unlike in China, the British league broadcast is paid - some shy international students naturally have no way, and now participating in these sports is said to strengthen the body, but rather to increase social ties, and the people who attend the games are mostly students and teachers from nearby secondary schools and close relatives of some players, but it also creates a somewhat fanatical atmosphere.

In the end, Masach drew 0-0 with Cardiff Metropolitan University and qualified for the Welsh Premier League as runners-up in the league.

Lin Yilong, under the guidance of the team's head coach Rhodes, announced some prospects for next season to his players in the loaned dressing room:

"I would like to congratulate the club and its players on their promotion to the Premier League, and in order to better prepare for the top flight, the team council needs to make some adjustments: firstly, we will collectively increase our base salary by 50% next season As a result of the improved results, some of you will be granted professional contracts by the Council on the recommendation of the coaching staff, while the rest will continue to be semi-professional on the basis of earnings after the raise, secondly, as a reward the Council will offer a £150 promotion bonus to all members of the club, and finally, if you can in the evening, there will be a free 'beer night' tonight in addition to the celebratory dinner. That's all I want to say, everyone's had a hard season. ”

So-called "beer nights" are a form of social entertainment left over from the 80s in English football – a bad habit – and the specific way to do this is that all the participants visit a still open pub after a meal, order a pint of beer or a pint of cider in the bar, and then head on to the next one. The accumulation of such alcohol concentrations is sure to leave behind, until 10 p.m., when the bar closes, and the rest is the last "warrior" who can get some bets. England is a group of self-disciplined players who are not in the top flight, but everyone else is drunk, and the same number of participants will be left at 10 o'clock when the event starts.

Lin Yilong doesn't drink, so naturally he won't be a part of them, he just made a slight appearance at the beginning of the dinner, raised his glass and celebrated with the players.