Chapter 833: Prejudice and Questioning
No one could have imagined that Manchester United's winning streak since the start of the game would be so long, breaking Arsenal's record of 14 consecutive wins in the Premier League.
Before the start of the season, Chelsea were considered favourites to win the title, with Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal being the favourites, but once the game started, everything turned upside down, with Manchester United becoming frontrunners and Chelsea being the chasers.
In the beginning, Chelsea were able to keep up, but after six wins in a row, Chelsea fell behind, first with a draw, then with a loss, and by the time United had completed their feat of 15 consecutive wins, Chelsea had lost three games and drawn one, and were already 11 points behind.
Defending champions Chelsea are 11 points behind in less than halfway through the league, much to the fury of Chelsea owner Abou, who has been rumoured in the media that Ancelotti is likely to be sacked if he slips up in the Champions League, Abou's most important fixture.
In the history of the Premier League, there are two times with a lead of more than 10 points, one is Mourinho's Chelsea, leading by 15 points, and the other is Manchester United, with a maximum lead of 13 points, Chelsea and Manchester United have won the final title, and the only big lead is Newcastle in the 9596 season, they are up to 9 points ahead of the second place, and it is Manchester United who reversed them, with a 11-point lead, and no team has been reversed to lose the title so far.
With the aggressiveness of Manchester United's three fronts, the expectations of the media and Manchester United fans for Manchester United have also risen, and there are more and more calls for a triple crown and a return to the glory of 99 years.
Even within Manchester United, the owners and management hope to take advantage of this great opportunity to strive for more titles, Manchester United Club CEO David. Gil said that a huge advantage in the league would have a positive impact on the Champions League, and it is not impossible for United to make the most of this advantage and try to repeat the glory of the treble of '99.
Manchester United's brilliant record also helped Gao Xiaodong in the evaluation of the Ballon d'Or, when the 23-man squad was introduced, Gao Xiaodong's ranking was only after Sneijder, before Messi, ranked fourth, but in the list of the last three candidates for the Ballon d'Or just announced by FIFA and "French Football", Gao Xiaodong squeezed out Sneijder, and competed for the Ballon d'Or with Iniesta and Xavi, and on January 10, 2011, the final winner of the Ballon d'Or will be announced.
Among the three candidates retained this time, Iniesta, nicknamed "Xiaobai", has the highest demand for the award. In this year's World Cup final in South Africa, the 26-year-old Andres Iniesta scored the winning goal for Spain with four minutes left in extra time to help the "Matador" beat the "Orange Army" He won the World Cup for the first time in history, and his compatriot Xavi was the playmaker and metronome of the Spanish midfield, and contributed to the Spanish team's victory, while Andres Iniesta and Xavi also represented Barcelona in the Champions League semi-finals at the club, and the two of them deservedly made the final three shortlist for the Ballon d'Or.
Gao Xiaodong's selection of the final three-person list has been questioned by many European media and fans.
The main reason why Gao Xiaodong was questioned was that he had no national team results, only club results.
Spain's Le Monde Sport The reporter believes that the merger of the Golden Ball Award and the World Footballer means that the performance of the players in the national team and the club should be considered when awarding, although Gao Xiaodong led Inter Milan to win the treble, but the results of the national team are blank, if the club and the national team are 100 points, on average, Gao Xiaodong can only get 50 points, and Messi although the Champions League only played to the top 4, the World Cup only played to the quarterfinals, but on average, Messi's results should be able to get 70 points, and Messi plays better than Gao Xiaodong, in comparison, Messi should be selected for the final list of three people than Gao Xiaodong。
Germany's "Bild" also believes that although Gao Xiaodong has a reason to be selected, there is nothing wrong with Messi and Sneijder being selected, after all, Gao Xiaodong's performance in the national team is a hard injury, even if Gao Xiaodong enters the World Cup, there is no problem with his selection, the key is that Gao Xiaodong does not even have a national team game.
The Argentine media is very dissatisfied with Messi's failure to be selected for the last three lists, the Argentine media believes that although Messi did not win an important championship last season, Messi's performance is the most shocking of all players, the alien Ronaldo was able to get the World Footballer without any important championship, and now Messi's performance is no worse than Ronaldo, why can't Messi even be selected for the top three?
The Dutch media is also indignant about Sneijder's defeat, Dutch reporters believe that although Sneijder only won the World Cup runner-up, but Sneijder has the club treble than Iniesta and Xavi, although compared with Gao Xiaodong, Sneijder is not the core, but Sneijder won the runner-up in the World Cup, on the whole, Sneijder is no worse than any of the selected Xavi, Iniesta and Gao Xiaodong, Sneijder can't even be selected for the top three, which is simply discrimination against Sneijder.
Sneijder's fans on the Internet, Messi's fans, and Gao Xiaodong's opponent's fans have all attacked Gao Xiaodong, believing that Gao Xiaodong is the most unconvincing of the three candidates.
Some fans have fabricated an insider theory, believing that this is FIFA's deliberate bias in favor of Asia, hoping to get the support of Asian member states when running for the presidency.
Some fans made up a packaging theory, thinking that Nike took a fancy to the Chinese market behind Gao Xiaodong, wanted to package Gao Xiaodong as the top brand, and used the relationship to open the way for Gao Xiaodong, so that Gao Xiaodong was pushed to the list of the last three candidates.
There are also people who make up the theory of human feelings, thinking that Mendes is behind the effort, Mendes has many stars and coaches, they all have the right to vote, in the case of Ronaldo's obvious inability to compete for the Golden Ball, Mendes is deliberately cultivating Gao Xiaodong.
In short, because Gao Xiaodong was born in the football desert of Asia and China, the European media and fans who occupy the mainstream of football public opinion are prejudiced against him, always doubting his level and quality, in fact, he just doesn't want to see an Asian player, a Chinese player standing on the highest podium in world football.
How much doubt and slander, there is also how much praise and support, the Chinese media highly praised Gao Xiaodong for entering the top three of the Golden Ball Award, "Football" newspaper said that this is the first time that Asian players have entered the top three, whether Gao Xiaodong can win the Golden Ball Award or not, he is enough to go down in history.
"Sports Weekly" said that this is a reward for Gao Xiaodong's outstanding performance last season, Gao Xiaodong entered the top 10 in the last Ballon d'Or last time, and this time he entered the top three, his performance will inspire the whole of China and even the whole of Asia Football love children, his success will promote the rapid improvement of Asian football.
Even the "People's Daily" also published a comment praising Gao Xiaodong, refuting the foreign media's doubts about Gao Xiaodong, the reporter believes that Gao Xiaodong's performance last season was perfect, such a result can be placed in any year other than the World Cup can win the Golden Ball Award, entering the top three is undoubted, questioning Gao Xiaodong is actually a prejudice, this prejudice is not good for yellow football, now Europeans should abandon this prejudice, otherwise Gao Xiaodong will continue to slap them in the face with the championship.
In the face of doubts, Gao Xiaodong posted a message on his Twitter in response, saying: "If you care too much about other people's opinions, then you will be like a pair of pants, and you have to follow whatever other people fart." ”