The term FA is basically a concept in England and the Football Association in China, and it is also a curse. When people think of the Premier League, they always think that the schedule is too dense; There is no winter break; The Miraculous Four Blinds; Tickets are too expensive and a series of bad things such as "the Champions League final on Wednesday, you TM arrange a life-and-death battle in the Lao Tzu League on Thursday". In fact, to be fair, they did what Benzema should have done.

They are only responsible for drawing lots, managing the referees, managing the discipline of the players and coaches, and fining Mourinho's money.

Really in charge of the schedule; Responsible for the division of money; Responsible for the retransmission agreement; The magical department that is responsible for day-to-day operations is called the Premier League.

After the draw ceremony, the current president of the Premier League, David Brown. Richards left Hydward alone, and it was the first time Ward had seen a League-level official.

"Young man, I've heard the lord mention you, and I think we can get to know each other."

Calm and soothing, the current Premier League boss said in a magnetic voice. He likes to wear dark sunglasses, and his suit is casually exposed by the two buttons on the cuffs. Prior to working in football, Richards was a director of a Fortune 500 company in the construction and communications sectors, and later served as chairman of Sheffield Wednesday FC for several years. After serving as the president of the Premier League, he has the titles of director of the English Football Association, chairman of the International Committee of the English FA, and president of the European Professional Football League. In 2006, Richards was knighted by the royal family for his long service to English football and for his outstanding contribution to the promotion of the Premier League.

"Sir!" Hydward bowed slightly, there is more than one Lord Fervent in England, and the daily life of the league is indispensable to deal with this gentleman in the future.

Of course, don't think that this smiling old man is a kind old man at this moment. In front of all the senior officials present, Richards accused FIFA and UEFA of ignoring the UK's place in football: "England brought football to the world, and 50 years later, someone said you were a liar and stole football, they called it FIFA, and another group of people came and stole more, they called UEFA." This remark had the momentum of the Empress Dowager Cixi declaring war on the European powers.

Thinking about South Africa's World Cup bid, he sarcastically ridiculed Blatter for why he didn't bring his hope directly to the Gulf region, and would only engage in some "mosaic behavior".

Chinese often like to sing one red face and one white face, and the same is true in England, David. Richards' partner of ten years, Richard. Skudmore often wiped his ass for the grumpy old man. Originally from Nottingham Forest, Skudmore worked as a salesman for 9 years as a young man, and then went to work as a planner for a famous advertising agency in the United States, and after returning to the UK, he worked hard for two years to become the CEO of the professional league leagues (Championship, League One, League B), and was the top boss of Hydward.

In the Premier League, David is the number one, and Skudmore is the second in command, one is in charge of business development.

The two chatted about some football topics, there are many factions in the English coaching world, the Scottish local coaching faction led by Ferguson, etc., and the help of the lord has also allowed Hydward to enter the circle of this faction to some extent. Of course, the faction has never been limited to the profession of coaching, which includes all football practitioners, and the two lords because of their personal friendship, David belongs to the same camp, taking care of the newcomers in the circle, and he is happy to do such a job.

The circle of football is small, and so it is all over the world.

A few minutes later, Ward watched as many people came to the conference room at the other end of the aisle, including FA President David Brown. Burns walked in with a briefcase and asked, "Is there a meeting coming soon?" ”

Richards glanced at it and nodded, "Next year's broadcast contract with Sky Sports and Telecoms is about to expire, and it is an ordinary supplementary meeting, and there are two bills to be discussed, one of which may have something to do with you." Then he took a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it for himself, and put the box on the windowsill instead of giving Hydward one. This is determined by the cultural differences between the East and the West, it is polite to smoke in China, but in foreign countries, few people will take the initiative to give things to others, this box of cigarettes is the same, if you need it, you can take one yourself from it It doesn't matter.

"Parachute program?" Hydward suddenly remembered a plan he had proposed to Sensibilet.

As the name suggests, the Parachute Scheme is a subsidy scheme for relegated teams, and Scudmore sold £1.9 billion for the Premier League broadcasts for the 2009-2012 season, 25% of which will be distributed between lower-tier teams, grassroots football practitioners and players' unions, with the remaining 75% going to 20 Premier League clubs. 75% of the total, including overseas broadcasts, the overall title revenue of the league is equally shared, 50% is broadcast locally, 25% is broadcast on domestic television, and 25% depends on the league position. With such an account, the Premier League giants can probably get 100 million pounds, the bottom of the relegation, and the weak team with a few games can also have about 60 million pounds. The parachute scheme means that a sum of money from the market will be subsidized to the relegated teams over three years, and the promotion back to the Premier League will end immediately, adding up to about 55 million pounds, and the "Championship Solidarity Fund" of 5 million pounds a year for teams receiving parachute subsidies will be abolished.

This plan is a set of reform plans for the Premier League to be implemented in the next 2016 season, and Hydward mentioned it to Sensibile in passing, but he didn't expect the director to really care, if this subsidy plan can be launched in advance, it will be quite beneficial to the Pompey Army.

Richards was stunned, "You know? ”

It's just that Lao Tzu mentions it a lot, how can he not know?

Hydward smiled and said, "Well, Portsmouth's stadium and training base are in a state of mortgage and need a lot of money, and we're working on it. ”

The president of the league gave a thumbs up, "The top league needs the Pompey Army, and I hope you can revive this team in the shortest possible time" Of course, this is a polite statement.

At the far end, a middle-aged man with a slender body and thinning hair was beckoning the lord to come in for a meeting. President of the Burns FA. There was no such thing as a fight between the two presidents, as rumored by the outside world, and there was a wave of football reform in the British sports community in early 2012, and the reason was actually the appointment of the new sports minister Robson by the British prime minister. As soon as the new minister took office, he said: "The worst sport regulated by the UK government is football", and Parliament also questioned the direction of the FA's direction. In the face of pressure from all sides, the FA has "again" chosen to speak out with the coalition and submit an informal report to the government on behalf of both parties, with the two companies wearing the same pants in the final analysis.

"Why don't you go in and listen to it, Blackpool, Birmingham and Allardyce are all in there, and it's all about you." Mr. Chairman sent out the invitation, and after thinking about it, Edward shook his head and declined.

He said, "My director is in charge of this, I'm just here to draw lots, sir." ”

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On the way back to the team, Edward received a call from Chen Xi, whose mother-in-law seemed to be coming to England recently to watch the fifth round of the FA Cup as a shareholder of the team.

Hydward's originally calm mood was suddenly raised, you must know that at the beginning of this year, because it was still profitable, Qian Li was not willing to take out the last shares of Portsmouth, after all, it would be a lot of money in a few months. However, just last week, the old Nepalese brother went to meet Marx.

Ms. Zhang Jingru successfully won the last 7% from Qian Li's son, surpassing Hydward to become the team's largest individual shareholder with 19.7%, and he can't help but wonder if every mother-in-law is so reckless?