On 3 October 2008, Manchester United announced on their official website that strikers Yang Fan and Wayne Rooney had both been fined £5,000 for breaching team discipline. [I love to read]

This inconspicuous announcement on the official website immediately attracted the attention of the English media.

Violation of team discipline?!

This term is very general, what the hell did these two people do?!

You know, outside the Carrington training base that afternoon, many reporters saw the two men driving away before the end of the training.

Although Manchester United's official website is just a simple announcement, it makes these media reporters seem to smell the smell of blood, and quickly pounce on them.

They don't think it's as simple as Manchester United's official website announcement. There's going to be big news behind this.

England is definitely the country with the most developed media. The elites of Fleet Street are busy like dogs every day, and they are very capable, and if they need to, they can even tell if the Queen's pet dog pooped hard or soft last night.

The development of the Premier League has also made the English media extremely active, prosperous and lively.

In Vialli and Marcotti's book Comparative Studies of England and Italy, there is a chapter devoted to media. In the early years, the relationship between the media and the club was simple, the former wanted to increase the circulation of the latter's starlight, and the latter was happy to do free advertising for the former. In the information age, the relationship between the media and the clubs began to tilt. Giants like Manchester United and Arsenal, as well as Chelsea and Liverpool, no longer need to look at the face of the media, the top four of the Premier League have each opened a TV channel, they can do without Fleet Street, but Fleet Street must not be without them, Manchester United as the largest club in England, Rooney smokes a cigarette, Cristiano Ronaldo pees, can keep the media busy for a few days.

If you want to dig up the inside story and grab the headlines, you must not offend the club, and it is impossible to mix with the players and coaches. Many of the top reporters in the British media are inextricably linked to the big clubs, otherwise they would not be able to grab the news in the first place. From their articles, you can roughly guess which big names they have a leg up with, and which big players are willing to let the pen support.

If it is unfortunate that a journalist who works for the Manchester City Evening News offends Manchester United, congratulations, Ferguson will make you have nightmares and cold sweats. In the early years, the reporter of this newspaper did not believe in evil, and wanted to ask Ferguson about Beckham's departure, but the old man was furious, and after greeting the parents of the old reporters present, he brushed his sleeves away, and still refused to communicate with the print media after the game. The BBC also doesn't believe in evil, and made a documentary on exposing the black, digging the inside story of Ferguson's son as an agent, and even the BBC was blacklisted and banned by the old Scottish man, and the BBC picture was so fast for a while that over the years, in the BBC's lens, when interviewing Manchester United, only assistant coach Queiroz and now Ferran can be seen. Alex Ferguson blocked the BBC.

Generally speaking, Ferguson can also understand the pain of the media and will not go too far. If the local media in Manchester was actually banned by Manchester United, it shows that the old Scottish man is really angry. You know, it's too difficult to get close to Manchester United, not only the local media, but also the national newspapers who want to ask Manchester United for an exclusive interview, and they have to have the perseverance to become a hopeful stone. Manchester United doesn't give face to any newspaper, but no newspaper dares to snub Old Trafford. Having the opportunity to cover at Carrington's training base is a blessing for sports journalists, so be careful. Ferguson did not allow his disciples to be interviewed, counted several newspapers with a large circulation, and the columns of Manchester United players were very few, and only if they had a certain status and could control their mouths, they would have a chance. For example, the veteran Ryan Giggs, and the eloquent Ferdinand, Ferguson is unlikely to stop him.

A few years ago, Rio Ferdinand missed a drug test and was banned from the game, and the Sun defended him very hard, much to Ferguson's satisfaction, and at the time only the newspaper's Sean Costis was able to do an interview with Ferdinand. The newspaper had two Kostis, brothers, the eldest being Neil and Sean being the fat man, both Newcastle natives and the 'Magpies' mixed up and down. One day, I saw Shearer say a lot, and ninety percent of them did it by one of the two brothers. Who doesn't want to interview Rooney? This is not even Manchester United, the way to approach Rooney is to find his agent Strefford, the fat man Strefford and the Lu family have a very strong relationship, first, he found a lot of huge sponsorship contracts for Rooney, and secondly, he has a wide network, and later this fat man got into a lawsuit, Rooney did not hesitate to expose his income, but also to protect the fat man from the lawsuit.

Many reporters have star friends who have a good relationship, "Post" reporter Samuel is Lampard's good buddy, Lampard has something to do, Samuel must be the first to know, Frank Lampard is also very hard for Lampard, Lampard in the national team during the bad time, Samuel did not hesitate to write and ink, put gold for him, and even did not hesitate to fight with his peers. After the World Cup in Germany, fans ridiculed Lampard for his ability to refract, and Samuel deliberately wrote a full page to shout for the king of refraction. Love House and Wu, Samuel and Terry are also very familiar with each other, and often wave the flag for Terry.

On Fleet Street, there's a proverb about who Samuel is fighting with? In the England national team, only Gerrard is competing with Lampard, so it is the opponent of the fat man who supports Gerrard. This man was Henry Winter, the head of The Telegraph. Winter claims that neither is a fan of any team, but according to his peers, he has an excellent relationship with Liverpool, especially with Dalglish. Who are the commentators for The Telegraph? Hansen: That was Dalglish's iron buddy, and in order to support Hansen, Dalglish turned down Ferguson's invitation to participate in the 1986 World Cup.

Winter is just shouting for Gerrard, and the Times' Evans is a Reds fan through and through, and his staff is also a Liverpool fan, and the Independent's sporting department is a world of Arsenal fans.

Having said all this, it can be seen that the energy and chaos of the media circle in England is clear. This is a place with rivers and lakes.

※※※※※※※

Although Manchester United tried to downplay Yang Fan and Rooney's 'violation of team discipline' this time, they have been vague, and even the punishment is only a fine of 5,000 pounds.

However, the media that did not deal with Manchester United did not do it.

Who are Manchester United's rivals? Arsenal, Chelsea, and their real enemies for a hundred years are only one: Liverpool!

As a loyal pen for Liverpool, Evans, a reporter for The Times, jumped out at this time.

This media has always been relatively objective and fair when reporting on Yang Fan, and has also praised Yang Fan a lot, but after Yang Fan joined Manchester United, the newspaper's chief reporter Evans began to change his 'style' and began to pick thorns.

This time, Evans obviously smelled something, and he firmly believed that there must be a very exciting story behind Yang Fan and Rooney's disciplinary punishment this time!

On October 4, 2008, Evans, the chief reporter of The Times, broke the news in his column: Manchester United's Chinese star Yang Fan and the team's England international Wayne Rooney had a stern clash at the training base.

“…… Obviously, this brawl incident is the real reason why these two people were punished, and it is also obvious that Manchester United is obviously covering up these two players when dealing with this matter, and they are trying to cover up the real reason why the two people were punished, just a painless fine and punishment. Ferguson, who has always been strict in governing the army, obviously violated his principles at this time, and Manchester United finally won a streak, at this time, if it is really severely punished, Yang Fan and Rooney will be suspended for a long time, which is obviously unacceptable to Manchester United...... Hehe, Sir Alex Ferguson had to give up his principles when he was under pressure to do so?"

"Look at what the Chinese players have done since joining Manchester United? In the Charity Shield game, they clashed with their opponents, beat up opposing players, were banned and punished, they just came back from the ban, and in the Champions League, they were suspected of attacking the referee, and now they beat their teammates again...... Sir Alex Ferguson has always been known for his ability to subdue stabbing players, but this time, he seems to be in big trouble...... Also, we need to remind Manchester United that Wayne Rooney is not a good person, and this time the two of them have combined fists and kicks, can they really coexist peacefully? ”

Evans's article mentions that Yang Fan and Rooney have fought, in fact, it was the reporter himself who guessed it, which is common in the media circle. That's how a lot of news is generated. But don't you say it, Evans really guessed half right, why did he say half of it? He only guessed that there was a conflict between two people, but he didn't know the true nature of this 'conflict'. He asserted that Yang Fan and Wayne Rooney had become enemies, and that the two would not be able to get along peacefully at Manchester United in the future, and this conclusion was too far from the truth.

However, Evans didn't know, he thought he had guessed the truth of the matter, and he was very proud, and he fired all the power in his column.

Other English media outlets followed suit, and even a reporter from the Manchester City Evening News followed suit, demanding that Manchester United reveal the truth about the two men's 'disciplinary violations'.

However, soon the "Manchester City Evening News" was stable and did not dare to follow suit. They are the mouthpiece of Manchester United, they are Manchester United's cooperative media, are you going to rebel?!

The rest of the media didn't have too many scruples, and they were smart, and many of them were direct reprints of Evans' columns, which were not too heckling without offending Manchester United too much.

All of a sudden, English football was very lively, Yang Fan and Wayne Rooney may have clashed at the Carrington training base, and the news of the two Manchester United stars adding fists and kicks has become the focus of attention of many media throughout English football and even in Europe......