Unlike before, when Blackburn Rovers started the new season, Arthur would sit at home, after the start of the Premier League this year, the media in European football did not find Arthur in Blackburn, but NBA reporters on the other side of the ocean can often photograph Arthur appearing in the Warriors before the start of the season. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Knowing how successful the "future" Warriors will become, Arthur did not make too many different decisions from the previous life, and even the 15-man roster of the Warriors for the new season is almost the same as the previous one, except for one less marginal power forward Mikel Gladnes, and more Yi Jianlian.

Yi Jianlian officially signed a new contract with the Warriors this summer, at Arthur's request, this contract is a 3+1 contract, and the final year is a team option, with a total amount of 10 million for the 4-year contract, compared to only 7.1 million in the first three years.

Although Arthur's signing of Yi Jianlian is mostly based on the Chinese market and the Chinese feelings of the previous life, for Yi Jianlian, who has extraordinary potential in the first two seasons, the three-year contract of 7.1 million is not a risk at all.

The Warriors' purpose in signing the UAE is clear, that is, they hope to have a tactical big man who can be like Nowitzki, and Yi Jianlian's future is here.

The reporter of the Warriors' official website asked a very practical question in an exclusive interview with the United Arab Emirates, there is actually no shortage of big men in the Warriors team, and there are many people in the No. 4 position. But Yi Jianlian said with confidence: "Compared with them, I have my own characteristics, and I can play in both the big forward and center positions." ”

In fact, this does fit with the Warriors' positioning of him.

The Warriors, who have Ellis and Curry, have paired the league with the most powerful backcourt engine in the new season, and rookie Klay Thompson has joined to make up for the Warriors' short backcourt lineup.

Arthur has repeatedly expressed his determination to change the team's poor record, which will make the Warriors more disciplined. While they are unlikely to win many games at once, they are well on their way to winning.

Almost every year, the Warriors' defensive problems and rebounding problems are discussed, and only by addressing these two issues can the Warriors become a playoff team, not just a somewhat flashy offensive team.

The Warriors' enthusiasm for reform has given hope to the fact that they have brought in Mark Jackson as head coach this season and will be more demanding of the team. They still need to win 12 more games to make the playoffs, but after acquiring Klay Thompson, many industry pundits believe they have found a chance to win.

But for the Warriors, Coach Mark Jackson is a complete rookie, he hasn't been a head coach on an NBA team, not even an assistant coach or a college coach. And that's the kind of coach who has a crippled season, a crippled training camp and a preseason trip. His challenge is very big.

However, what is not clear to everyone is that Arthur does not have much performance requirements for this season, or even next season's Warriors, and what he is doing now is to "maintain" the development trajectory of the previous Warriors, looking forward to the Warriors team led by Ku Ritian.

After the start of the new NBA season, Arthur finally remembered to go back to China to see Blackburn after watching five Warriors home games and spending Christmas with his girlfriend Emma Watson in the United States.

The first thing that greeted Arthur after his return was good news: Manchester City had lost.

With Manchester City's 1-0 defeat at Sunderland, the 2011-12 Premier League season officially ended the first half of the season, and the Blues' defeat did not prevent them from becoming the halfway champions, but Blackburn Rovers in close pursuit made Mancini dare not slack off.

Behind Manchester City and Blackburn, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool are in 3 to 6 places. Looking at the situation in the standings, not only the top four teams are fiercely competitive, but the middle and lower teams are also in a melee.

The mid-set period of the 20th season of the Premier League presented a different and more exciting situation. Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers are competing for supremacy, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal are up and down in the mix, Liverpool and Stoke City are in the middle of the table but play the role of robbing the rich and helping the poor, and Bolton Wanderers have been pushed into the relegation quagmire on the premise of the strong performance of the promoted horses.

In recent seasons, there has been a saying of "Western Super League" in La Liga, and this season the Premier League has also given birth to a similar word Blue Super League, intuitively because Manchester City and Blackburn are currently in the top two of the standings, and it is not difficult to find that Manchester City and Blackburn have indeed performed much better than the other three giants, and the number of goals alone has surpassed their opponents by more than 10 goals.

In fact, the battle for the top spot in the first half of the Premier League this season has largely evolved into a battle between two teams in blue jerseys.

In the civil war of giants, although Liverpool has the best record, the Reds' performance in other games is not flattering, and the league has won 7 draws so far, and the number of goals is 4 less than that of Newcastle in the second-to-last place, which greatly slows down the team's progress; Although Arsenal relied on Van Persie's astonishing explosion to get rid of the predicament at the beginning of the season, it is indeed difficult to win the title this season due to the loss of the two cores of Cesc Fabregas and Nasri; Manchester United, on the other hand, seems to have been discouraged by Blackburn's last-minute league comeback last season, and although they have a good record this season, they are just a breath away from winning the title; As for Chelsea, three defeats in four major domestic battles have left Villas-Boas's side discouraged and dropped out of the top four after the halfway point.

So, barring any surprises, this season's Premier League title should be between Manchester City and Blackburn.

Although Blackburn Rovers and Manchester City were upset in the 19th round, the two clubs are still the only two teams in the standings with 40+ points, and the 45 points in the first half of the two teams are also the best record in the past four seasons.

In fact, Blackburn Rovers and Manchester City have been holding the top two positions in the Premier League table since the second round, with the top two teams finishing the first half of the battle with the same points, the most recent of which was in 1998-99, when top Chelsea and second-placed Villa both picked up 36 points after 19 rounds, but that season it was Manchester United, who were only third in the halfway game, had the last laugh.

Given that only 9 of the previous 19 seasons led the team into the New Year at the end of the season, so for the Manchester City team that suffered a blow on the first day of 2012, the second half of the season is still not careless, not to mention that Manchester City has only entered the New Year as a champion once, and the result is that Manchester City only finished 10th at the end of the season, so it can be said that the real battle between Mancini and Ancelotti will reach ** in 2012.

It is worth mentioning that Manchester City's record this season is so good, and Blackburn's contribution is definitely a lot, because in Manchester City's main lineup this season, including goalkeeper Joe Hart, defensive core Vidic, and main center Balotelli are all "produced" by Blackburn, I have to say that this time Arthur really shot himself in the foot.

However, Arthur knows that this situation will only increase in the future, because Blackburn is too strong, and many players who can't get the main position in Blackburn and switch to other teams are strong existences, which is inevitable for the team to become stronger.

Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea, the three clubs from London also impressed in the first half of the season, with Alex Ferguson's Manchester United starting the season with 10 wins and one draw in the next 11 rounds, and although the momentum slowed into mid-December, they were still second to Manchester City and Blackburn

Another veteran powerhouse, Arsenal also failed to win in the first three rounds of the season and lost 2:8 at the feet of Manchester United, returning to the top four before the arrival of the New Year, but 36 points and 9 goal difference are indeed not happy, not only behind Blackburn Rovers and Manchester City as many as 9 points, even in the same period in history is not a good result.

Of course, the most depressed New Year's should be Chelsea, three consecutive wins in the league actually became the limit of Boas, but it was a half-way sprint to create a four-round winless, resulting in the London Blue Lions for the first time in 10 years at the end of the year rankings were kicked out of the top four, December 31, 2011 when Chelsea was fixed in 6th place, of course, compared with last season, the Blues' wins, draws and losses have not changed, only goal difference and ranking have dropped slightly, but such a report card obviously does not satisfy the owner Abu.

Liverpool finished sixth at the halfway point because they had dropped too many points against the bottom 10 teams, and in fact they had grabbed 15 points from nine games against the top 10 teams and were third with 15 points, beating Arsenal away, drawing at home to Blackburn Rovers and Manchester City and beating Chelsea away, although they did not perform well against the three teams currently in the relegation zone. Similarly, Stoke City, where the Potters were able to beat Liverpool and Manchester United, draw with Chelsea and Blackburn, but also had their share of unpleasant defeats to Bolton Wanderers and Sunderland and losses to Queens Park Rangers.

Of course, it may be precisely because of the existence of teams like Liverpool and Stoke City that the Premier League is more exciting and suspenseful.

In previous years, it was not uncommon for promoted horses to take the "lift" for a season, but this season's three new teams Norwich, Queens Park Rangers and Swansea City had a strong first half, at least not in the relegation zone, although Queens Park Rangers were infinitely close to the relegation zone at the end of the first half, they had a "brilliant" record of finishing 9th in four rounds; Swansea also briefly broke into the top 10, while Norwich City had the experience of finishing fourth and grabbing seventh at the end of the ninth round.

Due to the refusal of the promoted horses to fall, Fulham and other "unlucky eggs" were pushed into the abyss of relegation. Bolton have been relegated every year since the start of the 2007-08 season, but this year it seems that the situation is not good, with only 13 points after the halfway, which is the halfway point vice-captain with the fewest points in the last four seasons, and the teams that have finished bottom in the halfway of six seasons since the 2005-06 season have finally been relegated, can the "Fast Horse" break this curse?

Of course, none of the three promoted horses, including Norwich, who are currently the highest-ranked in the table, can afford to relax, remember how Blackpool, who were relegated last season, at the end of the half? 9th place!

After Chelsea broke Manchester City's unbeaten streak in the 15th round, various media outlets made a big fuss about the Premier League's food chain, with Manchester United, Blackburn, Chelsea and Manchester City, the top four of last season, and Liverpool and Arsenal were also established, but then it was discovered that this is not the ultimate form of the Premier League food chain, in which Norwich beat Newcastle 4-2 at home and Queens Park Rangers beat Chelsea 1-0 The key to the chain is to form a chain. This food chain is a vivid illustration of the current intensity of the Premier League, and the makers summed it up in a very stellar sentence: the 2011-2012 Premier League season, anyone can beat anyone!

Manchester City were record-setters, winning their first Christmas title in 82 years, in addition to handing the Red Devils their heaviest home defeat in 81 years. In addition to the inter-team record, Van Persie scored 35 goals in 36 Premier League games in 2011, scoring in an average of 94 minutes, surpassing Shearer '95 and Thierry Henry '03.

As for the upset, this is not uncommon in the highly competitive Premier League, for example, Blackburn, Manchester City and Chelsea all lost to mid-table teams in the last three rounds, while Liverpool also lost 0-1 to Fulham and Chelsea were beaten by promoted Queens Park Rangers.

From 8th-placed Stoke to 13th-placed Sunderland can be considered mid-table teams, with a point difference of just 5 points, and their goals are all locked in the Europa League, among which the most combative is Stoke City, the team has not made a big deal this season, but the typical English style of play combined with the highest average height advantage in the league makes it more than enough to play a weak team.

The teams from 14th place onwards are under pressure to be relegated, with Wigan Athletic and Bolton Wanderers worrying, with only 14 and 13 points so far, and the bottom two of the table, with Wigan Athletic having suffered a nightmare of nine consecutive defeats. In addition, it should be pointed out that the middle and lower teams have been amazingly efficient in grabbing points in this season's Christmas schedule, with Blackburn, Manchester City and Chelsea all losing in the top three against Wigan Athletic, Sunderland and Aston Villa, which has also intensified the competition between the middle and lower teams from another level.

In addition to being overpressed by Manchester City in the league, Blackburn also missed the Golden Ball in the individual awards.

On January 9th, the FIFA 2011 Awards Ceremony was held at the Zurich Opera House. Messi won the FIFA Ballon d'Or with 44,78% of the vote, ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo (21,60%) and Bale (9,23%).

In this vote, Messi won by a landslide, with 47.88% of the vote, more than double the second place Ronaldo, who got 21.60% of the votes, and the third Bale got 9.23% of the votes. Xavi and Andres Iniesta finished fourth and fifth.

However, this year's defeat will mean nothing to Blackburn Rovers and Bale, as they are both aiming for next year's Ballon d'Or.

And the first opponent who wants to stop Bale from becoming the first opponent of next year's FIFA Ballon d'Or is Manchester City, who have risen in the blue moon this season. (To be continued.) )