Chapter 164: A Hundred Years of Feud!

In the quarterfinals of this season's Champions League, the Premier League occupies four places, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, and the traditional semi-finals of the Premier League have reached the quarterfinals, accounting for half of the quarterfinals. Since the Premier League is the world's first league and the world's best-looking league, England's football 'fans' and the media will associate and diverge, so the England team with the main force of the Premier League's major giants is naturally the world's top team. Thinking of the fact that England, the 'world's best' giant, did not make it to the 2008 Euro 2008 finals, the English media naturally sighed and regretted that they had missed the best chance of winning the championship in history. Anyway, in every tournament, they take it for granted that the England team is the favorite to win the championship, and they feel very good.

In international football, the 'yin' conspiracy is prevalent, and of course, some behaviors of UEFA and FIFA have also given these 'yin' conspiracy the soil to exist. The Premier League occupies half of the quarterfinals, and then the English media began to worry that UEFA will make a 'yin' move when it is 'drawn' in the quarterfinals.

The results of the draw came out the next day, Arsenal 'draw' Villarreal, Chelsea 'draw' Liverpool for the Premier League derby, Bayern Munich 'draw' Barcelona and Manchester United's opponent was 'Portu' Ertu of the Portuguese Super League.

Manchester United and Arsenal are the weakest teams in the quarter-finals, and not only that, but they have also fallen into the same half, compared to the other half of the division, the defending champions Manchester United are undoubtedly in a much easier area. Although 'Portu' had eliminated Manchester United in the 2004 season and eventually won the title, in the eyes of the media, it was more like an accident, on the one hand, European football was extremely cold that season, and on the other hand, 'Portu' was led by Jose Mourinho, Manchester United's nemesis. Now, five years later, the two teams still dominate the domestic league, but in Europe, Manchester United have achieved far better results than their opponents, so the media generally believes that the matchup between Manchester United and 'Porto' is the least suspenseful of the four quarter-final matches.

Arsenal and Villarreal are closer in strength, and both teams have failed to compete for the title in their respective leagues, so they can have more 'fine' strength to try to go further in the Champions League. Coincidentally, both teams are now striving for the top four in their respective leagues, the only difference is that Villarreal is fifth in La Liga, but they need to be careful not to be overtaken by the teams behind them to avoid losing the Champions League qualification next season, while Arsenal is fifth, and they will have to step up to catch up with Aston Villa in front, so it is inevitable that the two teams will be distracted by the league. This may affect their performance.

If Manchester United and Arsenal meet in the semi-finals as they wish, such a top half of the table basically guarantees a Premier League team to reach the final.

At least one team in the last four, whether Liverpool or Chelsea, has the ability to win the title, and the real mystery lies in the only pair that does not have a Premier League team - Barcelona and Bayern Munich. While one of these two teams will miss out on the semi-finals, they ensure that the stronger team can take on one of the red and blue giants. This increases the chances of non-Premier League teams reaching the final, and if Bayern and Barcelona are allowed to split up, they are likely to be wiped out before the semi-finals. While Bayern Munich and Barcelona are also strong right now, UEFA will certainly be desperate to avoid the Champions League final turning into a Premier League civil war. Last season's Champions League final was a civil war between Manchester United and Chelsea, and if the Champions League final turns into a Premier League civil war for two consecutive seasons, it is certainly not something UEFA wants to see.

Therefore, after the results of the 'draw' came out, the media analyzed it and still thought that there was a certain 'yin' scheme, but this kind of 'draw' result was not unacceptable for the Premier League, so the media did not hype it much.

The Champions League quarter-finals will not be back in action until early April, and until then, the league will be crucial.

And just this weekend, the Premier League has a big game to play.

In the 29th round of the league, Manchester United will welcome their rivals Liverpool at home.

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Manchester United vs Liverpool, this is the real war between the sworn enemies of the century!

Who is Manchester United's real rival? Some people may say that Manchester City is the rival of Manchester City, and the football 'fans' who have grown up watching the situation of the Premier League in the past 20 years after the start of the Premier League may be said to be Arsenal, after all, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Premier League was a competition between Arsenal and Manchester United.

However, really looking back on the long years, Manchester United has only one mortal enemy, and that is Liverpool!

This is not even a feud between Manchester United and Liverpool, it can be further understood as a feud between the two cities. Manchester and Liverpool, the hatred between these two cities was planted long before the British Industrial Revolution before the establishment of the club, at the beginning of the 19th century, Manchester has rapidly developed into the industrial center of the United Kingdom, there are many manufacturing factories in the city, and the raw materials needed by these factories have to be shipped from the south of the United States to the United Kingdom, and the port to reach the United Kingdom is precisely Liverpool, that is to say, to reach Manchester, the raw materials must pass through Liverpool, which is only 35 miles apart, which was fine, but one day, the port of Liverpool unilaterally increased the import tariff to Manchester importers, causing the dissatisfaction of the whole ManchesterIn order to retaliate against Liverpool, and also to prevent the entry of their raw materials from being restricted by Liverpool, Manchester dug a man-made canal by itself, so that raw materials could reach Manchester directly without passing through the port of Liverpool. It is said that conflicts of interest produce mortal enemies, which is not false at all. Liverpudlians have always looked down on Manchesters, laughing at the blue-collar workers who make a living from manufacturing, while Liverpudlians are white-collar workers who make a living in finance and shipping, and there is a saying that "there'stheliverpoolgentlemanandthemanchesterman". The people of Manchester derided Liverpudlians as "scousers" because Liverpudlians used to make a living by eating a fried beef 'meat' called 'scouse'. Scousers is derogatory to the mouth of Manchester, but Scouse has become synonymous with neutral 'sex' in Liverpool, and there is a difficult dialect in the UK called Scouse, which is also known as the Liverpool dialect. Manchester United and Liverpool first 'met' in October 1895, when Liverpool swept Manchester United 7-1, but in the second leg of the month, United responded with a 5-2 victory, and from then on the two rival teams of the two rival cities were in a battle for each other. The glory years of the two clubs can be divided by chronology, the 50s and 60s of the 20th century were Manchester United, and the subsequent 70s and 80s were all Liverpool's, the 90s of the last century to the present, and Manchester United's, the strong Liverpool in the 70s and 80s have made them lead Manchester United in terms of honors, leading 1 in the league title, 2 in the Champions League, and winning five Champions League titles. Fans', they stretched out five fingers and shouted, we'vegotfive!, Manchester United ball 'fans' claimed that they were the symbol of England, in the face of Liverpool ball 'fans', only need to stretch out 10 fingers! This is the number of Premier League titles Manchester United has won after the League One was restructured into the Premier League, and let Liverpool ball' The embarrassing thing is that the Premier League has been in the hands of twenty years ago, Liverpool has never won the Premier League title, and after winning the trophy in the final season of the League One, Liverpool has not lifted the league trophy for nearly 20 years.

After Manchester United's Munich air disaster, some 'fans' who 'excited' Liverpool scored a goal ridiculed the tragedy, and made up a lot of songs to laugh at the tragedy and sing them during the game between the two sides......

Manchester United and Liverpool's hatred relationship is different from Real Madrid-Barcelona, Inter-AC Milan, Manchester United and Liverpool's hatred is deep in the bones, deep into the soul, the two teams will never even directly 'trade' players, the most recent direct 'exchange' dates back to 1964, previously, Heinze insisted on transferring from Manchester United to Liverpool, Manchester United did not agree, and even threatened to put Heinze on the bench all the time to allow him to take his salary for nothing, and would not agree to his transfer to Liverpool.

In fact, both sides of the ball 'fans' are both hate and fear of each other's clubs, when Liverpool dominated, Manchester United has always been the chaser's horn 'color', at that time Manchester United 'fans' were depressed, and Manchester United in the past 20 years to comprehensively press Liverpool, now Liverpool's main ball 'fans' group are growing up watching Liverpool being pressed by Manchester United...... Between Manchester United and Liverpool, there can only be one emotional 'exchange': hate is just one word!

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So, Liverpool, this is Manchester United's real mortal enemy!

Although this is only Yang Fan's first season after coming to Manchester United, after the experience of the first leg of the two sides at Anfield, Yang Fan has already felt the difference between the game and Liverpool.

This is real saber rattling, this is real bayonet red,

There was no need for any pre-battle mobilization, and both players would scream and want to kill each other.

In the first leg of the Anfield stadium, Ferguson once viciously left a sentence before the game: If you lose to Liverpool, you will climb back to Manchester one by one!

Alex Ferguson once had a saying that was famous all over the world.

Alan Hansen: "Beating Arsenal this season is your greatest achievement, do you agree?"

Alex Ferguson: "No, Allan, kicking Liverpool off the fucking throne is my greatest achievement. ”

"My greatest challenge is not what is happening now, my greatest challenge is to kick Liverpool off the fucking throne. You can print this sentence out. In a 2003 interview with The Guardian, Ferguson said in response to Liverpool legend Alan Hansen's view that the 2002/2003 comeback was his greatest achievement.

Manchester United vs Liverpool: This is a war between real sworn enemies, feuds. A hundred years of feud, a hundred years of war!