Chapter Ninety-Seven: Nineteen Years of Ups and Downs

Liverpool has been established for many, many, many years. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

From the very beginning, Liverpool have been a team with a championship tradition.

In their first season, they won the County League and were promoted to the second tier, and then, it took six years to win the team's first top-flight title.

This is the beginning of all greatness.

In the years that followed, Liverpool won a league title from time to time, proving their growth with the title.

Until, the advent of the Shankley era.

Football in the seventies and eighties can almost be said to be an era of English domination.

And in English football, Liverpool are undoubtedly the ruler of rulers.

Successive league titles, European championships, have quickly made this team one of the toughest and most honorable clubs in the history of world football.

However, the Heysel tragedy struck unexpectedly.

After many years, everything has become clear back then, whether it is Juventus fans or Liverpool fans, they are all behind it.

However, England and UEFA don't care about all this.

The whole of England was locked in a European ban, and during this time, Liverpool still won the league title and the FA Cup.

You know, in those days, England valued the FA Cup more than the Champions League.

Then, the nightmare continued, and the Heathborough tragedy occurred.

This year, Liverpool fell into all kinds of strange circles, leading the league in a long season, but lost the championship in the final round, but this year, Liverpool still won the FA Cup, proving that in the face of strength, no matter how big a storm is useless.

Subsequently, in the 8990 season, Liverpool won the league championship, which was Liverpool's last top league title.

After that, the English First Division was changed to the Premier League, and Liverpool did not win the middle eighteen titles.

In the usual way of keeping the year in the historical era, the first year, the last year, a new top-flight title, Liverpool has been waiting for 20 years.

Twenty years!

No matter how the media portrays Liverpool's tragic situation in the past two decades in the newspapers, and no matter how many people think that Liverpool may have a three-game losing streak to continue the curse, the belief of Liverpudlians has reached its peak.

Liverpool woke up exceptionally early in the morning.

All Liverpudlians have to take care of all their work, life and personal problems before noon.

Because after twelve o'clock, half of Liverpool, the Liverpudlians in the name of KOP, will no longer belong to themselves, and in this period, they will belong to the team, to this glorious team.

Thousands of fans are like a trickle, constantly converging, becoming a red river.

To West Ham's home stadium, to the fan bar, to the square, to the big screen at Anfield.

At eight o'clock, old York was smearing peanut butter on slices of bread, and suddenly, without warning, said: "Champion, like peanut butter, mellow in taste, seems greasy, in fact never gets tired of eating, just like bread slices, you can not eat meat, you can not drink milk, but you must eat bread slices, because this is our life." ”

"Daddy, you've been chattering since you got up in the morning."

York stared at his son and continued to himself: "Do you know when the last league championship happened? ”

"I don't know, who remembers those old things."

"Yes, you were only two years old at the time, and now you are twenty-one, and at that time, I carried you with the team for a whole season and won a championship, I still remember it vividly."

Little York muttered something, but didn't speak.

Right next to them, Hans touched his left and his right trouser pocket, looking nervous: "Where's my pocket watch?" ”

A middle-aged man next to him rolled his eyes: "Dad, I have a pocket watch." ”

Hans bowed his head and laughed: "Sure enough, come, come, come, call my little grandson too." ”

The middle-aged man can't do anything, he is also a Liverpool fan, but he loves this team dearly, more than twenty years later than his father.

Throughout his life, Hans has been Liverpool's most loyal fan.

Seeing his wife holding a smartphone, Hans couldn't help frowning: "How to use a mobile phone?" What about my camera? After taking a photo, I want to wash it out and hang it on the wall! ”

"Grandpa, you can also wash photos with digital mobile phones, and it is clearer." The little grandson wears a formal England-style jacket, suspenders, a small waistcoat, a coat, a plaid shirt, a cap and a red scarf in his hand.

On the scarf, the Liverpool team crest is emblazoned.

The Liverpool bird is in the middle, next to the Scottish flag and the Scottish national flower, in the middle is the Shankly Gate, two torches to commemorate the tragedy, the Liverpool team emblem, so conspicuous.

"Dad, hurry up, I won't be able to catch up for a while, and I don't know if there will be a place to park at that time."

"What's the hurry?" Hans bowed his head: "It's frizzy, just throw it somewhere and stop when the time comes." ”

The old lady held the phone in both hands: "Okay, okay?" ”

"Alright, alright."

The three grandchildren were dressed in formal clothes and lined up side by side.

The little grandson grinned, and the middle-aged man looked nervous, while Hans, who looked quite relaxed, actually clutched the sleeves of his son and grandson tightly with both hands.

The old lady took a picture: "Okay. ”

Hans looked at the old lady: "Know how to ......"

"I know, I know, a large photo washed into 18 inches, with a small note stuck on it, 'Liverpool's first Premier League championship before the game', is it so."

"That's right, let's go."

"What's the hurry, wear this? What about our team uniforms? ”

"Yes, yes, change jerseys."

The three grandparents rushed to the car in a noisy manner, and greeted the Yorke father and son who had just come out next door, this is not London, the people here are harmonious and friendly.

Small place, always like this.

The old lady sat in front of the window, holding her chin in her hand: "You Liverpool have been around for almost 20 years, and you can still win another title, what about our Everton?" Twenty-three years. ”

It turned out that the men in this family were all Liverpool fans, and the old lady may have tried to make her son and grandson become Everton fans many times in her life, but unfortunately failed.

Countless of the same stories are being played out in different locations.

Many fans who don't have tickets, also driving to London's Newham borough, are ready to be outside the stadium and listen to the team's victory.

Half of Liverpool City looked at the other half of Liverpool: "Look, they're going to win, they're going to win, they're going to win." ”

The remaining half of Liverpool, in excitement and euphoria, is a mess, this moment, has been waiting for too long, too long.

After a long time, a young and strong head of the family turned into a dying old white-haired man.

After a long time, a young fan who was frightened by the sound of the stadium became a part of these sounds.

It's been a long time coming, and the Liverpudlians have almost forgotten what the championship trophy looks like.

The Hammers' Upton Park stadium isn't too big, and the stands they offer to Liverpool fans are the most dilapidated and smallest east stands.

An hour before the start of the game, the entrance began, and a group of people wearing red jerseys and wearing red scarves in their hands walked into the stadium.

The misty drizzle added some unusual emotions to the game.

West Ham, currently ninth in the league, six points adrift of eighth and four points more than tenth, a truly desireless team.

When the pre-match warm-up began, the Liverpool stands sang the team anthem, this is an away game, there will be no chance for them to sing the team song at the opening time, so, except for that time, all the fans will not miss any opportunity to sing the team song.

A total of 58 TV broadcasts and 124 print media outlets are waiting to witness Liverpool's first Premier League title in years.

"The fans were very excited, and although the game hadn't started yet, they seemed to have seen what was going on for more than 90 minutes."

Everyone can see that the Premier League trophy, with two ribbons and a crown on its head, stands there.

This trophy seems to have an alternative magic that makes the singing voices of Liverpool fans tremble.

"Wang Zhen's actions and remarks in the last Champions League game caused an uproar, UEFA fined him 25,000 euros, banned him for five games, and Liverpool FC was also fined 50,000 euros for Wang Zhen's remarks."

"However, this does not affect Wang Zhen's continued excellent performance in the league."

"As long as Wang Zhen scores one more goal in this game, he will score in the eleventh consecutive round of league goals, thus enjoying the record of consecutive Premier League goals, which is obviously an honor not to be missed for a legendary center forward."

"The game is about to start!"

"Liverpool kick off."

"Gerrard is out due to injury, and in this game, Rieira and Babel will take on more offensive tasks, and it will be Wang Zhen and Babel who kick off."

Wang Zhen and Babel stood behind the halfway line with their backs, Wang Zhen raised his foot and kicked the ball to Babel, who quickly took the ball and ran to his own half, and then kicked the ball to Riera.

Wang Zhen, on the other hand, ran forward with Torres.

Liverpool quickly stabilized in the first wave of pressing by the Hammers, forcing the Hammers to retreat.

Babbel and Riera advanced in pairs, with Alonso and Mascherano behind to protect.

"Let's take a look at the big names on both sides...... Riera! Riera suddenly accelerated! ”

Everyone thought that Babbel would continue to advance, but unexpectedly, Babbel transferred the ball to Riera, who did not hesitate after receiving the ball and rushed forward at full speed.

After Wang Zhen noticed that Riera began to attack, he immediately turned his back to the left side on the penalty line, intending to open up space.

The defense of the Hammers is still very good, otherwise they would not be able to enter the upper half of the area, and someone immediately made up for the vacated line.

Rieira didn't think he could break into the box with the ball and kicked it out.

"Block him!"

This was just the beginning, and many players had not yet fully focused on the court, and Green soon saw Wang Zhen standing on the ball and immediately shouted.

And Wang Zhen raised his foot to stop the ball and backed the No. 2 right-back Neil.

Neil desperately resisted Wang Zhen and didn't let him slip inside, Wang Zhen quickly flipped under his feet and kept running diagonally towards the right penalty area.

"Be careful, be careful! Blocked! ”

Blocked? If all the defenders go to block Wang Zhen, who will defend the other Liverpool players? Neil followed Wang Zhen all the way.

Wang Zhen did not stop after passing the middle penalty area, and quickly went deep into the right penalty area.

"Outside instep volley?" Everyone remembers Wang Zhen's masterpiece.

Green didn't dare to be careless, standing on the goal line and leaning slightly against the right post, he didn't dare to get too close, because once Wang Zhen volleyed with the outside of his instep, the football would fly to the left post, and now it was raining, and that kind of ball was difficult to save.

At this time, Wallon Behrami also pounced and tried to form a pinch with Neil, but Bale had already been thrown away.

Behrami gritted his teeth and directly raised his leg and slid over.

Because he saw Wang Zhen raise his legs.

Wang Zhen raised his right leg and was about to shoot, when he saw Behrami sliding and immediately landed quickly, not to shoot, but to stop shooting.

Behrami slid over, and Wang Zhen raised his foot again and pushed it gently.

Goalkeeper Green was shocked and flew towards the right post, but it was too late.

The football rolls into the goal.

The scene, quiet and terrible, for a full three seconds.

Then, a flash flood erupted and roared across the course.

The narrator jumped up and shouted, "Waited too long, waited too long!" Liverpudlians don't want to wait a second! In the forty-third second of the opening game, Wang Zhen pushed the goal, Liverpool led 1-0, my God, just give them the trophy, otherwise they will make a massacre! ”

(To be continued.) )