Luke Hurst is a communications student at the University of Manchester who has just started an internship at the Manchester Evening News.

But unlike the vast majority of Manchester locals, the family doesn't like Manchester City, they like Manchester United, which is a minority in Manchester, but he has been a staunch of Manchester since he was a child.

A veteran football fan and a recent graduate, he has ambitions to make a name for himself in the media industry, as he targets his senior, David Mick.

Presumably, few people who are not the most senior Manchester United and Ferguson fans will have heard of the name, but Luke Hurst not only knows it, but is also familiar with it, as David Mick was once the most famous correspondent for the Manchester Evening News.

The Manchester Evening News reporter has been following Manchester United news for 40 years, and has been close friends with Alex Ferguson, who was later poached by Ferguson to work at Manchester United, where he is known as the club's authority, arranging a conversation with Ferguson before every game and writing Ferguson's matchday column.

It is said that Ferguson once revealed that if one day, he decided to write an autobiography, the author would be David Mick, "because no journalist knows me better than him!" ”

David Mick became known in 2003 when he was diagnosed with cancer, and David Mick was deeply touched by the fact that Ferguson visited him at his home several times and encouraged him to overcome his illness.

Lukehurst hopes to one day join Manchester United from the Manchester Evening News and work for a team he loves for the rest of his life, just like David Mick.

But the premise is that he must start as an intern and work hard to achieve results.

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Some people like to take shortcuts and run the news through various relationships, but some people like to rely on their ability to slowly stand out with their own abilities, while Luke Hurst wants to rely on his own sense of smell.

Years of fan experience told him that December is here, and awards season is about to begin.

This year, the FIFA Awards Ceremony was postponed to mid-January, again in Zurich, Switzerland, and no one in the world could know who the new World Footballer of the Year would be until that night.

But the European Ballon d'Or is different, in order to get the magazine out in advance, the French football magazine always goes to the winner's home and team a week in advance to shoot and interview, which inevitably reveals the whereabouts.

This year's winner will undoubtedly appear between Yang Yang and Cristiano Ronaldo, and who it is is still a matter of opinion, some people say it will be Yang Yang, but some people think that Xiao Xiao Luo is better.

Yang Yang is certainly the favourite, but the Portuguese also has a Champions League in hand and has plenty of chips.

It's hard to say who it is.

But one thing is for sure, and that is that everyone is staring at these two superstars, two teams.

Unlike the others who were staring at Carrington and Melwood, Lukehurst chose to keep an eye on the airport, and he hired a fellow intern, who took turns staring at each other twenty-four hours a day.

Every year, media reporters will follow and want to grab the news, so French football magazines are also targeted to hide, and their whereabouts are deliberately arranged to be very secretive.

For example, last year, Gérard Ernaux and his entourage suddenly appeared at the London airport, and after being photographed by the media, they suddenly disappeared without a trace, and no one even knew when he went to interview Liverpool and Yang Yang.

And this year, they will certainly do the same.

It's like a cat-and-mouse spy game.

Luke Hurst chose to take the dumbest approach, which was to wait for the rabbit.

And he chose to stay at Manchester Airport because he is a die-hard Manchester United fan.

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After dark, the temperature in Manchester drops a lot.

Luke Hurst sat in the waiting area of the airport concourse, rubbing his hands together in the cold, cursing the damn weather.

If it weren't for the thought in his heart, he wouldn't want to come here to suffer from the cold in this cold winter season anyway, he would rather sit by the warm fireplace at home and watch TV and surf the Internet, which is simply a heavenly life.

According to the schedule given by the French football magazine, the award was supposed to be on December 7, but this year is different from previous years.

The resignation of the former editor-in-chief, Gérard, and the resignation of the former deputy editor-in-chief, Denis Chaumir, who has worked for the French football magazine for many years and is familiar with European football, began to carry out reforms, saying that the final results of the ballot will be announced in advance, which is tantamount to revealing the suspense early.

It's already December 1st, and it's estimated that the announcement will be made in these days.

"Hold on for two more days, and if you can't do it, you will give up." Lukehurst said to himself.

Another wave of passengers who came off the flight from Paris was sent off, but still did not find their target.

But just when Luke Hurst wanted to give up, he suddenly saw two figures sneaking through the gate and walking all the way out of the gate.

Although the distance was a bit far away and the light was a little dim, Lukehurst could see the difference between the two at first, one of them was carrying a suitcase of considerable size, while the other was empty-handed, and no matter how he looked at it, he felt that something was wrong.

What's more, Luke Hurst vaguely heard their conversation in French.

He immediately opened his pocket and pulled out a blurry photograph he had printed from the Internet, a photo of Denis Chaumill, the new editor-in-chief and former deputy editor-in-chief of the French football magazine.

The French are too low-key, even the Manchester Evening News does not have a photo of him, Lukehurst can only be identified in this way, and now at a glance, it really looks like it!

The English guy secretly took many photos diagonally opposite and sideways to the two, as well as the back, and when the two went out, he immediately chased them out, and vaguely heard them mention a name, Cristiano Ronaldo.

A wave of ecstasy surged over Lukehurst.

Oh my God, it was Cristiano Ronaldo who won the award?

This is really surprising!

Most people thought that Yang Yang was safe to win the award, but they didn't expect it to be Xiao Xiaoluo who won the award.

But after thinking about it, I think it's logical, because Yang Yang has won one session before, although it is not without precedent for winning for a second time, but in the end, he really has no important championship trophy except for a Premier League championship.

As for him, he has become the only player in the past 60 years to score more than 50 goals in a single season except for Gerd Muller, which is certainly an honor, but it should also be known that Cristiano Ronaldo has also scored a lot of goals.

08 is the year of the European Cup, which is a big year, and according to convention, it should be given to the players who have performed well in the big game, but the Spanish team coached by Aragonés does not have a star who is too prominent, compared with Yang Yang and Xiao Xiaoluo, this Spanish national team plays too overall and lacks individual brilliance that stands out from the crowd.

In addition to the European Cup, it is the Champions League.

Thinking of this, Luke Hurst's whole body became excited.

When he finally chased out of the gate and saw that Dennis Shomir and the photographer had already left in a taxi, he immediately ran to the parking lot, got into his car, and chased out.

But out of the airport fork, he has lost the other party's trace.

Dennis Chaumill's arrival in Manchester is already the clearest signal.

Thinking of this, Lukehurst immediately drove to the newspaper office.

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Ferguson hadn't fallen asleep yet.

He's thinking about a Blackburn Rovers fight in two days' time.

This is the Carabao Cup quarter-final knockout matchup.

In addition to Chelsea, the Premier League's top three have all reached the quarter-finals, with Arsenal taking on Burnley, Liverpool taking on Watford, Manchester United playing Blackburn Rovers and Stoke City playing Derby County, with both the Reds and the Gunners away.

The league was quite backward and Ferguson was not very sure, so he began to take the Carabao Cup seriously.

This is his style in charge of Manchester United, which is to try to avoid being empty-handed.

Staying up late before the game is the norm for him.

In the silence, the study suddenly heard the vibrating sound of a Nokia mobile phone on the desktop.

Ferguson took a look, caller ID, David Mick.

Something must be going on at this late hour.

Ferguson immediately answered the phone, "Hey, David, what's wrong?" ”

"Boss, just got a call from Paul Horlocks, the editor-in-chief of the Manchester Evening News, and one of their reporters just met Dennis Shawmill at the airport."

"What?" Ferguson heard this, and the whole person stood up from his seat, "Is this true?" ”

"It's true, there's a picture, they're going to be on the front page early tomorrow morning, give me a breath in advance, Dennis Shomill is in Manchester." David Mick is an old man of the Manchester Evening News, and he still has close ties with the people in the newspaper, and has always been the intermediary between Ferguson and the media people, and his information is absolutely reliable.

"So, Cristiano?" Ferguson was full of surprises.

"Otherwise it wouldn't be in Manchester." David Mick laughed on the phone.

Ferguson laughed at first, but quickly shook his head, "No, they didn't call us in advance. ”

"Maybe it's the new style of the newcomer, Shomir has just taken office and has done a lot of bold reforms." David Mick said.

It is said to be a bold reform, but why is it not forced by FIFA to change one after another?

"But Manchester Airport is also close to Liverpool." Ferguson thought of another possibility.

"There are direct flights from Paris to John Lennon airport." David Mick said.

Liverpool and Manchester are indeed very close, and Manchester Airport is larger than Liverpool's John Lennon Airport, but in the end, it is dozens of kilometers apart, more than an hour's drive, according to common sense, Shaw Mill and others have no reason to turn Manchester and then go to Liverpool.

Unless, his destination is Manchester.

If this is the case, then the final winner will be revealed.

Ferguson was ecstatic because this would be the first European Ballon d'Or in Manchester United's history, and it would make history.

However, the Scottish coach quickly regained his senses and calmed down.

"Nothing has come to a conclusion yet, let it go for a while, don't be too happy." Ferguson said solemnly.