Chinese fans believe that the match on November 17, 2004 was a great shame for Chinese football.

Hong Kong fans and media also believe that this is a great shame for Hong Kong football.

Why?

They felt that the match was clearly unsportsmanlike and that the Hong Kong team must have come under pressure from above.

It is impossible for anyone who loves football to accept this arrangement to cooperate with others to play match-fixing.

Not to mention that he was still the one who was slaughtered.

In the eyes of Hong Kong fans, it is clear that your Chinese team is not angry, and only won one goal away against us and Malaysia, and lost away against Kuwait, which led to the final round of the group stage becoming a battle of life and death.

Instead, we have to pay the price, and we are the target of your clean sheet.

How innocent is Hong Kong football?!

Why do you want us to suffer the consequences of your mistakes?

That game is a painful memory for every Hong Kong fan, and every Hong Kong fan who watched the game in the stands and in front of the TV felt only the word "shame".

In fact, the players of the Hong Kong team also tried to resist in the game.

Although the striker of the Hong Kong team used offside positions again and again to help the Chinese team, the goalkeeper of the Hong Kong team did not do it, and he desperately intercepted the attack of the Chinese team, and he was in great shape. As a result, the Chinese team did not score until the last moment of the second half, and scored another goal in stoppage time to bring the score to the 7:0 mark.

This inconsistent performance speaks volumes about the inner anguish of the Hong Kong players at that time.

If the Chinese team can step on the corpse of the Hong Kong team and reach the top 10, I am afraid it will be fine.

But the Chinese team pulled the Hong Kong team as a backing, so that Hong Kong suffered such a great humiliation, but they themselves have not yet entered the top 10.

This really made Hong Kong fans look down on the Chinese team from the bottom of their hearts.

The Chinese sports community has always had a very good mass base and a good reputation in Hong Kong. Every time the Olympic champions go to Hong Kong after the Olympic Games, they are warmly welcomed by all walks of life in Hong Kong, and the popularity of the Olympic champions in Hong Kong is quite high.

But only Chinese football in Hong Kong is the object of ridicule and ridicule, and there is no respect - such a performance really does not deserve the respect of others.

Therefore, Hong Kong fans want to take revenge, that is, to avenge the seven-goal revenge eleven years ago.

Hong Kong's captain, their goalkeeper Yip Hung Fai, announced in a pre-match interview that he would do everything possible to stop the Chinese team, and he vowed never to let the Chinese team score in his hands.

His remarks naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of Chinese fans in the mainland.

But each is its own master, and it's not wrong for people to say so, you can't still ask people to open the door and let the Chinese team score goals like their predecessors eleven years ago, right?

In fact, if it's just a grievance in football, it's just a grievance in football, and a grievance in football is to be solved with football.

But eleven years later, Hong Kong and Hong Kong society at that time have undergone tremendous changes.

Some emotions that originally did not belong to football have also been mixed into football, and some people with ulterior motives have vented their negative emotions under the banner of football.

Before the home match against the Chinese team, some groups declared that they were going to cause trouble at the game site.

Suddenly cast a shadow on this World Cup qualifier and stained it with a burden that did not belong to itself.

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As the number one star of the Chinese team and even the number one star of Asian football, Gao Zheng naturally received the attention of the Hong Kong media after arriving in Hong Kong with the team.

The Hong Kong media is also known for its paparazzi nature, and the questions they ask are often tricky, with all kinds of pitfalls, so that no matter how they answer, the interviewee will fall into their rhythm.

In addition, in view of the tense atmosphere between the two places, before arriving in Hong Kong, the Chinese national team issued an internal order that no international player should be interviewed by the media without authorization, even if it was a casual question.

So although countless reporters crowded around Gao Zheng and stretched out the microphone to him, wanting to hear his opinion on this game, Gao Zheng could only remain silent and just smile at the camera.

Gao Zheng himself knows it in his heart.

What can be said and what cannot be said.

For example, after playing an away game against Qatar before, he complained euphemistically to the media about the Football Association's preparations.

That's no problem, he can stand up to the truth.

Even if the Football Association is unhappy, it can't really do anything to him.

But there are some things that can really not be said about Hong Kong.

said that, he was taken advantage of, and no one could protect him.

It's not a football problem.

But in the face of Hong Kong's paparazzi, does the national team think that this will reduce criticism and disputes?

Naive!

That night, a Hong Kong TV station broadcast a picture of Gao Zheng and other international players being silent and hurried in the face of reporters' questions.

The accompanying commentary reads: "The Chinese internationals are under pressure and they are not allowed to speak......"

This brings us to the path of "speech XX...... Do you think the Hong Kong media should be shameless?

There are also media that are slightly better, at least only from the perspective of football, but their explanation is also very problematic: "Gao Zheng was silent in the interview with us, obviously worried that he would boast about Haikou before the game and slap himself in the face after the game. Although the Chinese team defeated Bhutan 13-0 in the last game, it was not so easy to break through the gate of the Hong Kong team guarded by Ye Honghui! ”

When Gao Zheng saw the Hong Kong media's high-minded comments in the hotel room, they all laughed.

I can really add drama to myself.

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Before the game, there was a ceremony to play the national anthems of the two contestants, but because the Chinese team and the Hong Kong, China team both belong to China, they only need to play the Chinese national anthem once.

But when the players from both sides lined up and the stadium radio asked the fans to stand up and prepare to play the national anthem, there was a wave of boos from the audience.

How this boo came about, everyone knows.

Wu Lei, who was standing next to Gao Zheng, was a little wrong when he heard this boo, but Gao Zheng still kept smiling, as if he hadn't heard the boos at all.

When the national anthem was officially played, the boos subsided, but in the stands where some groups gathered, they held up bills with "BOO" on them, which is an onomatopoeia for boos, and they were expressing their contempt and insult for the national anthem.

There are also fans who turn their backs to the court and cross their hands above their heads.

There were even some extreme fans who carried banners with the slogan X to promote their ideas.

So much so that the TV broadcasters did not dare to give the home fans a shot in the stands.

Those watching the live TV may not have noticed much of the difference, but the other fans and players on both sides were able to see it clearly.

This is no ordinary World Cup qualifier......