On the Millwall side of the club, Zhang Yang said a lot of things, and those are his feelings and opinions.

These are things that domestic fans don't understand.

Most domestic fans are concerned about 'world football', and domestic journalists are also following the perspective of 'world-wide', they are looking at the world's top teams, looking at which team has the hope of winning the Champions League, and which national team can compete for the Hercules Cup.

It's the same in the domestic leagues.

Very few media will report on the second league, third division, or even lower leagues in China, and most fans will only care about the top teams when they watch domestic football.

This is true at home, and even more so abroad.

When domestic media analyze English football, the first thing to see is definitely to see the top teams, such as: Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, and then Tottenham Hotspur, Everton, Newcastle United and other teams, those teams at the bottom of the Premier League list, few people will care.

When fans look at the team, they will only look at the results and the stars.

Few fans will have an in-depth analysis of the overall economic situation, fan support, and history, but it is often these important factors that affect a team's performance.

As a small 'regional' club in the London Region, Millwall are not in good shape overall, and have already surpassed most clubs in the Championship to make it to the Championship.

The football environment in England is too competitive.

A team like Millwall, although it has a history of 100 years, has been a fan organization since the early days of the team.

The team organized by ordinary fans is definitely a problem in terms of funding, it is only an amateur team at the beginning, there is no large amount of financial support, only relying on the club's own development, starting from the lowest amateur league, it can almost be described as 'self-sufficient', and it is not easy to rise to a level.

Every time you cross a level, it's a huge success.

Imagine that.

In a small town with a population of tens of thousands, a team was organized, and at the beginning the team was full of amateur players from the town, most of whom had their own jobs and only came to play football in their spare time.

Can this team develop in any way without a huge external investment?

Hardly possible.

That's how most teams in England have developed.

It's the same with Millwall.

At the beginning, it was a 'township' team, and then slowly developed step by step, with a hundred years of history to pursue glory, the real Millwall fans, the number of elderly and children are added together, and it is difficult to get together more than 100,000 people, such a team, with a hundred years, promoted to the second division, you can imagine how difficult it is.

When it comes to the development of small clubs, Zhang Yang also has a lot of feelings.

Li Jiandong also had some feelings.

The English football system is clearly divided, with a total of nine league systems, and teams that can rise to the second tier can be called successful.

The waiter brought the food and the interview was over.

The two chatted while eating.

During this period, he did not talk about Millwall, nor did he talk about Zhang Yang's work, but talked about the magazine "Century Network Football", and Zhang Yang was somewhat interested in the operation of the magazine, such as how the content of the magazine was reviewed, how the reporter wanted to interview, and so on.

Li Jiandong also talked a lot.

After dinner at the restaurant, the interview was over, and when he walked to the door, Li Jiandong asked one last question, "Do you have any thoughts about the future?" For example, next season, I read a lot of media reports that I don't think you can continue to coach Millwall because ...... Seriously, I think you're too young, too. ”

"Considerations for the future?"

Zhang Yang thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I haven't seriously thought about it, because it doesn't matter, I'm the head coach of Millwall now, and I must do this job well first." ”

"But I also think about it, it's about the team. We're seventh in the league now and hopefully finishing in the top six would be in the promotion zone, and my job is to lead Millwall to a promotion! Fulfill the dreams of all the club's players and fans - to reach the Premier League! ”

"Now, that's my dream, too!"

“……”

Li Jiandong had an interview with Zhang Yang, grasped the first-hand information, and after returning home, he sorted out the relevant materials and prepared to write a special report.

This feature story is different from ordinary reporting.

Ordinary interview reports can only occupy one page of the magazine at most, or two pages on the front and back, and the number of words is a bit too much, and readers will be tired of reading.

But this news will attract many readers, and it will also detonate the enthusiasm of domestic fans, of course, the more content, the better.

Li Jiandong's plan is to write about 20,000 words, plus a series of illustrations, and add some analysis in the middle, which is enough to write a large-scale feature report that occupies five to ten pages.

A third or more of the next issue of "Century Online Football" magazine has already been finalized.

It's also good for him.

"Century Network Football" is a comprehensive magazine mixed with domestic and foreign football, often domestic football will occupy two-thirds of the page, and foreign football news will occupy one-third, this is because they have few reporters stationed abroad.

After investigation and analysis, many readers like to watch foreign football news, and the reasonable content layout is half domestic and half foreign.

The number of reporters sent abroad by Century Network Football is not large, and there are only about ten in total, of which three are based in Italy, which is the largest number of countries.

Li Jiandong is the only one in the UK.

In the past, the "Century Network Football" magazine, each issue has only one interview report written by Li Jiandong, which occupies an average page of space, and the news content written to the "Century Network Football" magazine is equivalent to Li Jiandong's work performance, if you can write a medium-length interview report, occupy a lot of space, it is equivalent to completing a few months of work, and the leaders will also value him, the direct benefit is that you will get a lot more bonuses at the end of the year, and the indirect benefit is that there are the results of the work of interviews in the sports media industry. His superiors will also value him a lot, because he can switch jobs to a competitor company and definitely get a higher salary.

These are all Li Jiandong's personal benefits, he burst out with great enthusiasm for work, and worked hard to write the manuscript.

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Millwall had a troubled game as they faced Cardiff City. Cardiff City are not very strong, they are mainly a Welsh team and one of three Welsh teams to play in the English league system (the other two being Swansea City and Wrexham).

The city of Cardiff in Wales is a bit further away from London.

In order to give Millwall's team enough energy to cope with the game, they had to change their mode of transportation - from buses to planes.

Flying seems to be advanced, but waiting for flights, getting on and off planes, and other airport work can be tiring, and many people are not used to airplanes as a mode of transportation.

Both Zhang Yang and Aldous will affect the form of the players, because they will play on the same day, and it is not good for the team that the players' form is affected.

"This unlucky away game!"

Zhang Yang couldn't help but scold angrily, but fortunately, the players didn't seem to be abnormal, and after arriving in Cardiff at noon, everyone had lunch together, and then hurried to the temporary stadium to warm up and adjust their physical condition.

Millwall's performance was still affected during the game.

Neil Harris was clearly out of form and missed a couple of good chances, while Jody Morris also appeared to be a little out of shape, making three mistakes in the first half, one of which came close to leading to a goal.

Fortunately, Zhang Yang had 'words and words' in hand, which prevented the opponent's goal from happening.

In the 70th minute of the game, Zhang Yang opted for a substitution, he brought Kevin Keele on for Neil Harris, and replaced Joey Healy, who received a yellow card, after which Millwall and Cardiff City began to attack each other.

Both sides will be hoping for a goal.

Cardiff City are currently 20th in the league and with relegation looming, every point counts.

Millwall are also hoping for a win.

It was within the 'plan', and he wanted the first one to succeed.

In the end, Millwall was the better side, or rather the flamboyant, who anticipated the opportunity in advance, and gave Jody Morris a reminder and blessed him with luck, and the successive countermeasures worked.

Jody Morris set Millwall into the net with a head-to-head shot from the goalkeeper, the only goal of the game, to give Millwall a hard-fought away win over Cardiff City.

Millwall flew back to London after the game.

When he arrived in London, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening, Zhang Yang announced that he would disband on the spot, and he also made up for a morning of vacation for the team, "Gather for training tomorrow afternoon, you can rest for a morning." ”

It was a humane decision that made all the players smile.

Zhang Yang also wants to get a good night's sleep.

The day was so exhausting that he went straight back to the club, lay down on a cot in the manager's office, and woke up again when it was already dark and his phone was ringing.

Zhang Yang yawned, picked up his phone and glanced at it.

An unfamiliar number.

After clicking the answer button, a calm male voice came from the other party, "Is it Zhang?" ”

"It's me."

"Hello, you should remember me, I'm Gary, Gary Lineker, I heard you recently became the manager of Millwall, oh my God! It was incredible, I can't even imagine how you went from a BBC staff member to a head coach! It's the most incredible magical ...... in the world."

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