Chapter 164: The Banquet (I)
"Hey, Donald, do you think we're going to have no problem doing that?" Steve Brown, dressed as a waiter and a reporter for The Sun a month earlier, asked his partner worriedly, "after all, this is not a public place like a hotel or a restaurant, but the private estate of Viscount George Nelson." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoIf we are caught, then the matter will be a big deal, and we will even be sued by the other party for trespassing on a private house!"
"Steve, if you don't want something like this, you'd better do it now!right now!right now!!Shut your damn mouth for me!" Donald Cole, who had been with The Sun for more than five years, replied angrily, seeing that his partner was so timid, "Do you know how much I gave the greedy guy at the Langham Hotel to make us both wear this waiter costume that would not arouse suspicion? a whole two thousand pounds!" So, if it's because of your relationship that I can't get any valuable news this time, then you can pack your boxes and fuck out tomorrow!"
The news that George had bought Leyden Manor and was going to hold a private banquet there was a secret enough that it could not be hidden from the pervasive British press. With the nose of a professional journalist, Donald Kerr sensed that there was going to be big news here, so he made the decisive decision to find a way to enter the party!
In order to successfully enter the manor, Donald Cole tried his best to come up with the idea of disguised as a waiter sent by the Langham Hotel to appear at the banquet in this capacity.
Although Donald does not know exactly what happened, several of his colleagues at The Sun have indeed been sent to Scotland Yard (the name of the Metropolitan Police Department) on charges of trespassing. That's why Donald Cole gave up sneaking into the manor from the outside world in favor of disguised as a waiter in order to qualify for the banquet.
While the two were whispering in the corner of the banquet hall, the guests who had come to this private banquet also walked in in twos and threes under the guidance of the butlers. However, because it is still early before the official start of the banquet, most of the owners of small and medium-sized clubs in the Premier League appear here at this time, and none of them are big fish that can really attract people's attention.
"Donald, look, is that guy who just came in Manchester United owner Martin Edwards?" After another twenty minutes or so, Steve Brown suddenly spoke, his tone full of shock, "What an accident, Chairman Edwards is actually here." It stands to reason that as the president of Manchester United, he shouldn't be at a rival's banquet at this time?"
"Tsk, that's so rare and weird. Donald Cole glanced disdainfully at his henchman and said, "Steve, didn't you do your research before you came here?" Viscount Nelson worked at Manchester United for five years before becoming the owner and manager of Tottenham Hotspur, so naturally he has a very close relationship with Manchester United. Therefore, it is really normal for Chairman Edwards to come here to make a show...... Okay, you hurry up and take a picture, and when you go back to write the manuscript after the banquet, there will be some evidence to prove that what we said is true!"
"Oh my God, even Arsenal Chairman Hillwood and CEO David Dane are here!" Just finished taking a candid photo of Edwards, and before Brown could put away the miniature camera in his hand, he heard a suppressed exclamation from Donald's side, "Arsenal executives have a private meeting with the Tottenham boss! Haha, now there is finally big news to write!"
"That's Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United CEO David Gill! They didn't come to the banquet with Edwards, is it true that Manchester United is about to change hands?" Steve Brown's eyes widened in surprise when he saw Ferguson and David Gill walking into the ballroom side by side, and without any kind of communication with Edwards, the big boss who arrived here more than ten minutes ago. He never imagined that Edwards and Ferguson, who were intimate in public, would become so strangers in private.
"Don't be fooled by appearances, in fact, Edwards and they have long been separated, and this is something that everyone in the circle knows. In the years after Manchester United won the treble, Ferguson has always wanted to increase his investment in the transfer market to strengthen the team, but Edwards refused to pay for it, which made Manchester United fail to make further progress in the results in those years, and the relationship between the two was stale. Donald triumphantly bragged to the junior what he knew, but he was soon stunned by what was to come, "Oh my God! Roman Abramovich and Peter Kenyon are here, too! and Liverpool owner David Morse!
"Oh my God, is this a big gathering of all the top executives of Premier League clubs?" Donald Cole, wiping the sweat oozing from the overshock, was 100% sure that he had dug up a big news this time!
Twenty Premier League club executives gathered at Leyton Manor in Boyd to put on such a big formation, if it was just to celebrate George Nelson's new home, Donald would not believe it!
These people gathered together under this guise and must have planned some kind of conspiracy!
"Wait, Donald. Just as Donald Cole was using his brain and imagining this image in his mind, Steve Brown suddenly interrupted his imagination, "It seems that it is not only the top executives of the Premier League clubs who are here to attend the banquet, you see that Marcus Agis, the chairman of Barclays, is also here! It seems that there are the chairmen and CEOs of Carlsberg and Heineken!"
"What?!" Donald couldn't help but be surprised when he heard Steve say this. It was only then that he discovered that in addition to the executives of the twenty Premier League clubs, the chairmen of the main sponsors of the Premier League and their CEOs, as well as the directors of the Premier League companies, had also appeared in the banquet hall one after another!
Let me go, could it be that the scene of 12 years ago is going to be repeated today?
If that's the case, then there will be another good show in English football in the future.
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