A group of people came to a Chinese restaurant, and the owner was also an acquaintance of Christina's father, but when they were waiting for the food, the people of the food empire began to complain about the British ingredients, and the boss first said: "This Scottish lamb is ranked first." Because it is a sheep, it is not fat at all, the meat is fresh and tender, I won't talk much about the effect of angelica mutton, the old and young masters will experience it for themselves. Then there are chickens, especially chicken wings, which are really cheap (ASDA?1.2 a big box), and then there are beefs, and there are countless versions of the beefstew recipe in the UK, even when the cattle were at their most rampant, and the British saw how tempting beef was. In contrast to beef and mutton, this British pork is not flattering. Because there was no bloodletting (electrocution) when killing, the meat was sour, so Jian yì first threw water into a night to remove the peculiar smell, and added more green onions, ginger and garlic when cooking. Supermarkets in the UK also have plenty of turkey, duck, and quail meat for sale. As long as they are cooked properly, these are supreme delicacy.

Liver, kidney, and heart of cattle and sheep are sold in supermarkets, and occasionally you can see pork liver, chicken liver, fish head and oxtail. The tip of the liver, stir-fried kidney flower and stomping pepper fish are all my favorites.

Brits can also go to butcher's shops where they can buy some pork belly, which is an essential ingredient for braised pork and tamales. If you have higher requirements for the taste of meat, you can go to a butcher shop in ****** if you want to eat local chicken and local sheep. For religious reasons, they require that animals be bled before they are slaughtered, so the meat sold is delicious and has no peculiar smell.

Finally, a word about fish and seafood. The United Kingdom is famous for its Scottish salmon. In addition, cod (cod) is suitable for steaming, slippery fillet, mackerel (mackerel) is suitable for deep-frying, rainbow trout (rainbowtrout) can be braised, and canned tuna (tuna) can be used as soup underneath.

Shrimp, shellfish and seafood can be bought in supermarkets and fish shops, except for a few underground shopping malls in Manchester City, the seafood sold in supermarkets is expensive, but the quality is still good!

Anne and Joanna listened to the boss's complaints, and they were not disgusted, after all, isn't there such a sentence, French chefs go abroad to pan for gold, and British chefs go abroad to starve to death! If you mix paella and salad in Spain, you can eat sauerkraut sausage and big elbows in Germany, pizza to fill your stomach in Italy, or pasta of all colors, and beetroot soup and borscht in Eastern Europe, but in the UK, what can you eat? Fried potatoes fried potatoes mashed potatoes......

At this moment, the dishes came up, and everyone hurriedly started, including roast duck, dumplings, and all kinds of stir-fried vegetables.

After eating, everyone went to the playground, after all, a bunch of conservative girls going to the bar seemed too non-mainstream!

Two months later, the training base

"How do I feel like I'm back in school."

Christina was running and talking to Clattenberg next to her. Refereeing is a very physical profession, and there are even more runs in a game than the players.

In the current Premier League, the general running distance of Premier League players is between kilometers and 10,000 meters. Although the pace of the Premier League is fast, the players who exceed 10,000 meters are all players who are quite good in shape. The players who can run 11,000 to 12,000 kilometers in a game are all players who are good at physical fitness. This is the Premier League now.

But Premier League referees generally run 10,000 meters. The average distance a Premier League referee travels is higher than that of a Premier League player.

It is precisely because of this that the FA has high requirements for the referee's physique. So before each season, just like the players, the referees also need to have a training camp.

However, not all referees participated in the training camp. After all, if more than 20,000 referees from all over England were to participate in the training camp, the FA would not have the financial resources and the manpower. Therefore, those who can participate in the training camp are the referees of the northern league and the southern league, that is, the leagues above the first division of England.

In this way, the number of referees is very small. At present, there are only 10 referees in the Premier League, and the total number of assistant referees is only 34. In other words, in the entire Premier League, the number of referees is only 53.

And these referees, many referees still have some tasks, and there will be a certain number of low-level league enforcement tasks in a season. The most are enforced in League One and League Two. However, the real Premier League referees will not go to the lower leagues to enforce the law.

Even some Premier League assistant referees, they will be referees in League One, League Two and League C. Therefore, the number of referees in League One, League Two and League C is much smaller than expected. With the addition of the Anglo-African League, the Northern League, and the Southern League, the number of referees can only reach about 230.

These referees will not participate in the training camp, and some older referees will not participate in the training camp. Because those old referees have slowly withdrawn from the front line, some of them specialize in the fourth referee and will not be the referee. Therefore, no more than 200 referees actually participated in the training.

Of course, Premier League referees have the face of Premier League referees, they are the elite of the refereeing world. The referees in the Premier League are directly involved in some of the rules of the refereeing industry in England, so they will not train with low-level referees like Christina.

"School? Haven't you graduated yet? ”

Clattenburg also ran and talked to Christina. Both of them are very young referees in the Northern League, plus they have worked together for a lot of time, so the personal relationship is quite good.

"That's right. Our little Christina is still a student. You should be too early to graduate, right? ”

Brett Vaughn was running around and was also a kick. Of the three, only Christina is still a college student and has not yet graduated.

"It's almost there, there's only one and a half years left."

"But, Christina, I envy you. You're one step ahead of me. ”

Clattenberg looked at Christina enviously.

"yes, Christina. I'm also envious. ”

This is two months after the final of the promotion play-offs in the Anglo-African Union. A game that brings Christina more benefits than anyone could have imagined. The sensationality of that game was a reading off.

After all, it was only the final of the promotion play-offs of the Anglo-African League, and there were no waves for English football. No one in the fans cares about the game either. But this game is a big impact on the FA and the refereeing committee.

The referee committee and the technical committee all reread and paid attention to this game. It was really because of this game that the referee's table was amazing, and it directly determined the outcome of the game. Several bigwigs believe that such capable and decisive young referees should be cultivated.

Webb gets the most benefits. Webber was appointed by the FA as the head referee of the English Football League just five months after becoming an assistant referee in the English Football League with this game.

That is, from this moment on, Webb is already theoretically able to enforce all leagues in England except the Premier League. He is qualified to officiate in League One, League Two and League C.

This one is simply made of rockets. In the history of English football after the end of World War II, Webber was definitely the fastest rising English referee. At the age of twenty-five, he became the youngest referee in a football league.

Of course, Christina also received great benefits. As a young referee who has just been an assistant referee in the Northern League for ten months, Christina has been notified by the FA. Christina was appointed by the FA as an assistant referee in the English Football League.

Christina is now also eligible to work as an assistant referee in League One, League Two and League C. This is a great improvement for Christina's career, because many referees have been stuck in the Northern League, the Southern League, and the Anglo-African League for the rest of their lives, and they will not be able to enter the English professional league as a referee for the rest of their lives. But Christina has gone by less than a year.

"But I'm not qualified to officiate any of the games."

The speed of promotion is fast, but there are also problems. That is, Christina has no experience as a low-level referee, and has always been an assistant referee. This time, after becoming an assistant referee in the English Football League, he still has no referee qualifications. And it is estimated that it will be difficult to get the referee qualification in a short period of time. That's the problem.

"Yes, Christina."

Clattenburg read his head and said, "Christina, to be honest, you're a very good assistant referee. If you continue like this, I think within a year or two you will be able to get an assistant referee qualification in the Premier League, and even a FIFA assistant referee qualification will be easy to get. But it is good for you and bad for you. ”

"How?"

Brett Vaughn next to him didn't quite understand. According to Clattenburg, Christina was able to be promoted to assistant referee in the Premier League within a year or two, which is definitely an astonishing rate of promotion.

Webb's promotion rate is amazing, but Christina is faster than Webb. After all, Christina has only just been an assistant referee in the north for less than a year. It takes at least five to five years to be promoted to the assistant referee in the Premier League, which is still relatively fast. Which of those assistant referees in the Premier League today did not become an assistant referee in the Premier League after more than a decade of experience in the regional leagues.

That's a good thing. Why Clattenburg thinks it's bad for Christina.

"Christina's goal is definitely not just to be an assistant referee, he wants to be the referee. It is necessary to have experience as a referee in the lower leagues. But Christina's current promotion speed is too fast, and she doesn't have time to go through this at the bottom. If she has no experience as a referee in the lower leagues before becoming an assistant referee in the Premier League, it will affect her ability to become a referee quickly in the future. ”

Although Clattenburg is young, he has connections in the FA and knows a lot more than the average referee. Brett? Vaughn didn't understand, but Clattenberg did.

"Mark is right."

Christina agrees with Clattenberg. If nothing else, you can understand it by looking at the promotions of Chinese officials. For example, if you have been working in one department, let's say you have been promoted in one department. Once you're at a high level, if you want to keep going up, you're going to have a big problem. Because your experience at the grassroots level is too biased to compare to those who have a well-rounded experience. It's not so easy to break out of the original system. The promotion of English referees is actually no different from the promotion of officialdom in the country.

"But I can't help it. I can only continue to walk like this. ”

"But if I could, I'd do it."

Brett Vaughn shook his head. Then he smiled wryly: "I'm different from you, I just hope to be an assistant referee in the Premier League in the future, then I'll be satisfied." Being a referee, I don't expect extravagantly. ”

Brett Vaughn is ambitious, but also realistic. He was envious of Christina's promotion path, and he was very satisfied to go to the Premier League as an assistant referee all the way.

"Christina, though. What league are you playing in this season? ”

Although Christina became an assistant referee in the English Football League before Clattenburg, Clattenburg is more senior than Christina. The latecomer advantage is very obvious, because Clattenburg has already been a head coach and assistant coach in the local league, and an assistant coach in the northern league for two years, and now the head coach of the northern league. When Clattenburg becomes a referee in a football league, he is fully qualified to become a referee soon. That's the late-mover advantage.

Therefore, although Clattenberg envied Christina, he was not too jealous. Because the two people are now walking different paths. Christina is taking shortcuts, but it will be difficult to transform in the future. And Clattenburg is a good foundation, and the future development advantage is obvious.

"It's not very clear. I'm going to look at Howard's side too. I don't know anyone over there, and there are certainly a lot of people who aren't happy with me being promoted like this. Let's see if we can work with Howard. ”

"Well, that's a good idea."