Chapter 549: The Verge
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Manchester City's first Premier League game of the season touched the hearts of not only the whole team. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
As the most popular team in Manchester, local Manchester City fans will want to see Manchester City get off to a good start in their opening game, which has sold more than 50,000 tickets, which has been a relatively high attendance in recent seasons.
Chinese media reporters are also flocking to Manchester, of course, the first to come is the reporter of "Huaxia Football", Yan Xuelei and Xia Yang followed Ding Hongxing to Manchester, where a reporter station in Manchester was built, and other powerful media have also sent reporters to Manchester, Manchester City's first game, of course, they have to focus on reporting.
In this season's Premier League, only a few local stations in Chinese mainland have obtained the broadcast rights, in addition, in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, there are also TV stations that have obtained the broadcast rights, but CCTV, the most dà TV station in the mainland, has not obtained the broadcast rights of the Premier League, which has a lot to do with the fact that they did not pay attention to the Premier League before, they have been broadcasting Serie A and Bundesliga for many years, and in that era, Serie A and Bundesliga are indeed better than the Premier League in terms of fame and European record, so their choice is beyond reproach, But who knew that Ding Hongxing would suddenly transfer to Manchester City this season? It's too late for them to fight for the rights to broadcast the Premier League, and this season, they have only been given the right to broadcast the Premier League's weekly highlights, and if they want to win it back, it is estimated that they will have to wait until the end of the broadcast contracts between the local stations and the Premier League in a few years.
Although it does not have the broadcasting rights, CCTV still sent a strong lineup of reporters to Manchester to cover Manchester City's first game, and is ready to do an exclusive interview with Ding Hongxing again.
On 17 August, Yang Tianxiong, Song Shihong and Zhao Hai all flew to Manchester to watch Manchester City's first official game of the season, all of whom are small owners of Manchester City, and they certainly cannot miss such an important game.
At three o'clock in the afternoon of the 18th, it was the start time of the Manchester City team's home match against Tottenham Hotspur, more than an hour before the start of the game, Manchester City fans had already entered the stadium, before the start of the game, there were many fans who temporarily bought tickets to enter, close to the start of the game, the stands in the four directions of the Maine Road stadium with different styles have been seven or eight percent of the attendance, and Lin Yaozu, Lu Chaohui and others are sitting in the main stand with a shade roof, there is no box at the Maine Road Stadium, and they can only watch the game with ordinary fans, However, it will be more atmospheric to watch the game this way.
About half an hour before the start of the game, the Manchester City fans at the scene began to sing the Manchester City team song ", this song is different from the melodious team song style of many football teams, its melody is soft and melancholy, and many fans sing this song together, and there is a special pathos.
In fact, this song is an American classic song born in the thirties, many singers have performed it, among them, Elvis Presley's interpretation is the most famous, Ding Hongxing has also heard it, but at that time he only thought this song was good, but today he listened to this song, this team song sung by tens of thousands of fans, the inexplicable pathetic atmosphere made him involuntarily goosebumps, he looked at his teammates on the field preparing for the event, and found that they were also listening to this song with serious expressions.
In fact, Manchester City fans have not sung this song in the team for a long time, this song is usually sung when the team is doing well, and the results have not been very good in recent years, and their singing spirit is gone.
Manchester City fans regard this song as their team anthem, perhaps because the pathos of the song is very much in line with the ill-fated history of Manchester City.
Manchester is the world's oldest industrial city, the urban population is mainly workers, and the Manchester City Club was first formed by a group of workers in the eighties of the nineteenth century, so the Manchester City Club is regarded as a representative of the proletariat.
In the history of more than 100 years, Manchester City club has gone through ups and downs, but the results are always unsatisfactory, so many years to achieve decent honors, the last time Manchester City won an important honor back in 1970, the next 25 years Manchester City team has not won any decent titles, and even relegated several times, they have made the fans sad repeatedly.
After understanding this history, he can understand this pathetic team song, and Ding Hongxing feels that the chorus of these fans seems to give him and his teammates an invisible power.
Lin Yaozu in the stands didn't sing with the fans at first, but the chorus of tens of thousands of people did shock them, and gradually, they also sang along with the melody, singing and singing, and they slowly integrated into the Manchester City fan group, and seemed to have really become Manchester City fans.
The chorus of tens of thousands of people made the players of the Manchester City team full of fighting spirit, but their players of the Tottenham Hotspur team listened to it but there was some discoloration, this is the home atmosphere of the Premier League, although the level of the Premier League is not as good as Serie A, but their home atmosphere can be said to be the best in several major leagues.
After the warm-up exercise, the players all returned to the locker room for the final preparations before the game, Mu Shengli said to the players: "I won't say more, I will also arrange the tactics, now let's go to the field to fight, let's welcome this season with a victory!" ”
The players shouted together, and then Hou went out of the players' tunnel and onto the pitch, waiting for the game to start.
This game is not the number of live broadcasts in England, the live broadcast of All England is the game where Manchester United challenged Aston Villa away, but this game was broadcast by several local stations in Chinese mainland and several TV stations in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, the start time of the game is three o'clock in the afternoon in Manchester, it is eleven o'clock in the evening in Chinese mainland, this time is not too late, it is a good time to watch the game, at this time, I don't know how many Chinese fans are staying in front of the TV, Waiting to watch Manchester City, who they already see as their home team, play their first official game of the season.
The Chinese reporters in the press gallery were also ready, all kinds of long guns and short guns aimed at the stadium, waiting to capture the wonderful footage on the court.
The Great War is imminent!