What Uncle Hanks meant was that if you want to buy an Oxford United club, you must also be a fan of Oxford United. It's not the owners who love their team with all their hearts, and they don't want to support it yet.

This, though, they don't know yet. You have to know that in the future, in the Premier League, it will be the rich people who buy football clubs. There are very few who bought this football club just because he was a fan of the team he bought. Profit is the first step in deciding on a businessman.

So the second was amused on the one hand, but by no means mocking. From the perspective of a fan like the old man, the club should not be a commodity, even if it is bought and sold, it should be owned by people who love the club. This principle is the same as the transaction situation in the antique circle, before the two parties trade, there must be an investigation of the owner. But there are also some who trade antiques for money. Therefore, the second felt sorry for Uncle Hanks.

In fact, in England, the football industry is really a special industry. At the moment, the mentality of England fans is still similar to that of the old Hanks man, believing that the football club belongs to everyone in their area. Club owners are merely privately contracted, just as collective enterprises are contracted to individuals.

Fans who think this way are not fans of any club, most of them are. Especially the older the club, the more their fans are like that.

II knew a lot about the state of football in England during this time, so he knew this. The reason for such a fan mentality is that during the enlightenment period of English football, football was played by the grassroots at the beginning, and the main body of football was those industrial workers.

Because during the Industrial Revolution in England, there was an incomparably large working class in society. Among these large and leisurely workers, those who are physically strong and full of enthusiasm have turned playing football into a healthy and interesting hobby. And those workers who can't play football, or don't play football, have also found their spiritual sustenance through guò football.

That's how football clubs in England were originally formed one by one based on factories and neighborhoods. The fans, the players and the club are all family. At this time, the FA was not yet formed!

However, with the passage of time, the transformation of society has advanced. At that time, many industrial workers, after several generations of hard work, gradually, have entered the middle class of society.

At this time, the third or fourth generation of these rich workers, because they miss the kindness of their ancestors, and because they have been fans of this club since they were children, and this club has always grown up with them, so these third and fourth generations still have a lot of affection for the club. Now these people have their own money, out of love for the club, in order to develop the club better, they start to pay money into the club. Buying land, building stadiums, and buying football stars gradually appeared as the owner and name of the club.

However, the roots of this club are still in that community, and the early owners of the club were industrial workers or their descendants who made a fortune at that time, and they gave it out of love for the club. This also creates the illusion that the club is still everyone's for those workers or the descendants of workers who have not made a fortune. Moreover, the workers or descendants of the workers who did not make a fortune already saw the club as the "church" of the community. Now, when they go to the stadium to watch the game, they are going to do "worship". So these fans really have a deep affection for the club and see the football in their community as their own children. Who doesn't love their own children?

But later, for various reasons, these people who owned the club's ownership had to transfer the club's ownership. But when he takes over as owner of the club again, he doesn't have to be that person. It's quite possible that this old version is just rich, but doesn't love this club and is not a fan of this club.

Contradictions often arise at this time. The owners of the clubs consider the club to be their own personal private property. But that's not what the fans of this club think, the club is everyone's. If the club owner wants to keep up with the times, he must change the club's tradition and reap the benefits, which causes disgust among the fans. In the eyes of the fans, the club is not your money-making tool, let alone your toy.

It's like in the old days, in the countryside, there was a big pond in the village. It turned out that the villagers of the village worked together to buy fish fry and put them in the pond for stocking. When it comes to the Chinese New Year, the fish that have grown up will be fished up, and everyone will share it equally, and it will be as many as there is, and it will be counted if there is no one.

But then a rich man appeared in the village, and he consulted with the villagers. I contracted this large pond, I bought the fry and feed the fish, and arranged for personnel to carefully raise it. By the end of the year, we'll have more fish than ever before. I will give you a portion of the fish, which is bigger, better, and more than you used to be, and then the rest will be my own fish. At first glance, the people in the village saw that this was a good idea and acceptable.

Later, because the contractor of the pond had no money or other reasons, he had no energy to raise fish. Fish ponds, you can give up, or you can pass it on to others at a high price. But in any case, the people in the village think that the fish in the pond have their own share, and if there are big fish, they will divide the big fish, and if there are no big fish, they will divide the small shrimp. But you can't break my pond or move it away, it's everyone's.

The old fans, who have always held the simple and naïve idea, have gone through the initial stage of the development of football. With the further development of society, football changed from a labor sport to a fashionable sport today. Then this pond is not just a pond for fish farming, it can be a water park or a water resort. Of course, fish farming in the pond continues.

At this time, the person who owns the club is faced with the temptation of great profit, and who does not consider the club to be his personal private property. In their eyes, the football club is like their own car. I'm happy that I can change the engine of the Alto car to an Audi, and I don't care if it matches or not! I have money, and the car is also mine, so I can do whatever I want, that's called a willfulness.

At this time, these old fans had no choice but to passively accept that the pond where the fish were raised became a water park or a water resort. But fortunately, there were still fish in the pond, and they ignored everything other than the pond and the fish, and concentrated on their own pond and fish.

Just like this old man Hanks, he still has a handful of the Hantington team. In fact, the owners of the club at the time believed that Huntington was not as famous as Oxford, and that Huntington's influence was too small and had to be renamed. As a result, Huntington United was renamed Oxford United, with the aim of expanding its influence and raising the club's awareness. On this matter, these fans have made trouble, but they have not been able to stop it. Moreover, the name change of the Oxford United club has been happening for decades. But these old fans are still the same, and they never forget Hantington United.

The old fans who have been left behind from the football tradition have really regarded football as a kind of spiritual sustenance and a kind of faith. In their eyes, football tradition is the most important thing, and the luxury of the club owner pond is only fish, and it is extremely nostalgic for the past.

But the tide of change and progress of history will only inexorably break this qiē. Church and state have been separated, not to mention the attachment and sorrow of these old fans.

The second chewed on the words of the old man of Hantington, and secretly thought: the past, the present and the future, the past can only be recalled occasionally, not nostalgic; The future thing, that is the pursuit, whether it can be realized, not only related to their own efforts, but also needs the right time, place and people, no one is missing; Now, the only way to do this is to grasp the present, overcome obstacles, work diligently, and go your own way or follow the path of others.

Huntington is really close to Oxford City. Everyone on the car didn't talk too much, and in less than twenty minutes, they arrived at the beech road stop point in Hantington Town.

This is also the point where the bus stop signs for Oxford United and their own estate stadium are up/down. When he got out of the car, Uncle Hanks cheered for the second and wished the second a successful training, and the second was still very moved.