In a small hotel on the north side of Krum Avenue in London, most of the windows in the rooms on the third floor were lit, and only one was dark.

The room was not lit and the curtains were half-drawn.

A computer screen shone brightly on a young face with glasses, with a standard flat head, a somewhat thin square face, and thick eyebrows on his cheeks, giving him a kind and generous feeling.

His name is Li Jiandong, Chinese, 31 years old, a media company called Century Network Football, a reporter who worked in England.

"Century Network Football" is a comprehensive network media, magazines in one of the sports media in China, the influence covers the whole of China, but because it only focuses on the reporting of football content, the report is relatively targeted, the content limitations are too great, established for more than ten years, but also only a small media company with assets of tens of millions.

In the field of sports football, "Century Online Football" is doing very well, and many domestic fans will subscribe to the magazine of "Century Online Football" or subscribe to become a member of the website to watch the latest football reports.

Li Jiandong has been working at "Century Network Football" for five years.

"Century Network Football" is only a medium-sized media, and there will definitely not be too many interviewers, and Li Jiandong is also the only reporter stationed in the UK by the company, so he is a comprehensive reporter, who has to work part-time as a cameraman, interview reporter, text reporter, etc.

Li Jiandong's work is very important.

"Century Network Football" can only learn about the latest English football news through him, so Li Jiandong's work is naturally very busy.

In recent years, there is no TV station in China to buy the broadcast rights of the Premier League, such as those big media TV stations are mostly broadcasting the Serie A league, and domestic fans also know the Serie A league very well, whether it is AC Milan, Inter Milan, or Juventus, Roma, Lazio, an Italian team, there are many supporters in China, on the other hand, the Premier League is much worse, and the clubs that fans are familiar with are only Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and a limited number of top teams.

Ordinary teams in the Premier League rarely have the support of domestic fans.

One of the teams is special, that is, Manchester United's sworn enemy - Manchester City, Manchester City is known, not because they are Manchester United's sworn enemies, not because of how good their performance is, but because they have a player from China in their team - Sun Jihai.

Sun Jihai is a very good defender.

So far, Sun Jihai is the most successful of all the Chinese overseas players, and he has become a main player for Manchester City.

The Chinese players are a big attraction.

The Chinese media will definitely focus on interviewing Sun Jihai, and Li Jiandong is the same, his job is to focus on English football, but the scope of this statement is too large, in fact, he has stayed in Manchester for a long time, interviewing Manchester United, the most popular among fans, and will also cover important games, Sun Jihai is also the target of his key interview.

Today is different.

Li Jiandong arrived in London early because there was a crucial game - Chelsea hosted Arsenal.

Chelsea and Arsenal are both teams in the spotlight.

Together, the two teams can fully represent London football, and this one is also a London derby.

Li Jiandong's work during the day is to go to Stamford Bridge to do an interview, and in the evening to summarize the content, he is ready to write a manuscript to send back to China, but it is a pity that the interview has no substantive content, he is just a small media reporter, he does not even have the opportunity to ask questions, and the content is only to record some games.

What is there to report on this?

Li Jiandong was distressed.

This is the case with writing work, as long as there is content to write, it is very simple, but without content it is like 'a clever woman facing a rice cook', how can you not write a decent thing.

So he simply stopped and switched to the content of the web to find out the latest news about English football, which might bring some inspiration.

A piece of news immediately caught the eye --

"Under the leadership of the young new coach Zhang Yang, Millwall have won three in a row after five consecutive victories and moved up to seventh place in the league table!"

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Young coach Yang-Zhang?

Li Jiandong stared at the name 'yang-zhang' for a long time, and finally became very sure that it was a standard Chinese name.

"That's right, it's a Chinese name! It's still a rotten street name! ”

Li Jiandong complained silently.

China has a population of 1.3 billion, and 'Wang' is the largest surname among the 100 family names, and the number of people with the surname Wang can reach the level of 100 million.

Tens of thousands!

But...... Is this a Chinese?

Li Jiandong has a definite answer - no.

North Korea, South Korea, or Southeast Asian countries, there are many people with the surname Wang, and there are also many Chinese immigrants abroad, and it is normal for people called 'yang-zhang' to be non-Chinese nationals all over the world.

But Li Jiandong soon found the real answer - yes.

The first line that appeared after clicking on the headline was 'Before Christmas, Dennis Wise was injured and the young man from China replaced Wise as Millwall manager'.

"I've got a wipe!"

Li Jiandong was suddenly excited!

Just now he was still calmly watching the news, but immediately he became not calm, this is really a Chinese coach!

Chinese coach!

"How is that possible? Impossible? ”

Li Jiandong continued to read very patiently, "...... The young manager is only twenty-two years old, an age when most players are just starting to play in the professional league, but he has already become a second-tier manager......

"Millwall FC don't know what they thought about trusting him......"

'Regardless, he's been a great team and he has won five of the six games Millwall since Christmas, helping them to a seventh-place finish in the league and a little further up they have a chance to get into the 'promotion zone' ......

'This is probably the most high-profile thing in the Championship this season, a young manager at 22 years old, it's hard to imagine!'

“…… So far, he's done well, but whether he can continue it depends on Millwall's next performance! ”

"After the match between Millwall and Queens Park Rangers, Zhang Yang said in an interview with reporters that he is very confident that he will lead the team to continue to achieve good results......

“……”

At the end of the report, it was all some ordinary analysis, and there was nothing to watch, but Li Jiandong still patiently read the whole content, and his emotions became very complicated--

Surprised, shocked, excited, excited, and incredulous!

Li Jiandong didn't know what he was thinking, but his normal brain reminded him that the next thing to do was to make sure the truth of the report.

Reports in the UK are not necessarily true.

In the UK, many of the reports about football stars and clubs are 'hearsay', and perhaps the truth of the news obtained from hidden sources will cause a lot of doubt.

Li Jiandong knows the British sports media very well, and after reading the report, he began to search the web.

Keywords: Millwall change of coach, publicity.

The webpage immediately displayed a large amount of news, including introductory reports, that is, disclosed news, some praise reports, most of which praised Millwall's recent achievements, and many critical reports, which were questioning Zhang Yang's coaching ability and not optimistic about Millwall's achievements.

Li Jiandong found more than 20 reports, and each of them was classified and screenshotted, put it in the document, and analyzed and studied each by one.

Eventually, he concluded: the news was true.

At the same time, it is also understood what happened: before Christmas, Millwall's player and manager, former Chelsea captain and England international Dennis Wise was injured on the pitch, and the injury was so severe that he needed to recuperate in bed for several months, after which Millwall FC appointed Zhang Yang, a 22-year-old Chinese, as Millwall's interim head coach.

The head coach position is temporary, and the real position is still 'game coach', but the interim head coach is also the head coach, and when the outside world mentions the head coach of Millwall, it must be said that it is flamboyant, because he has the power of the head coach.

Li Jiandong exhaled a long breath.

From the perspective of a media reporter, he knew he had discovered big news.

It is not easy to work in the UK to find big news, many of which have long been disclosed by the big domestic media, and the biggest news he has gotten so far is a five-minute interview with Manchester United star Paul Scholes, which also has a comment on former teammate David Beckham, which is such a scoop, which has increased the sales of "Century Online Football" magazine a lot for a while.

Not the rest.

When there is no exclusive news, Li Jiandong just runs around, collects all kinds of latest news, sorts it out and sends it back to China, and when he encounters slightly attractive news, he will also write a report, and his job is just that.

Now is a great opportunity!

A young Chinese who has become the head coach of a Championship team!

How big of a news is that?

Since there is no domestic TV station with the right to broadcast the Premier League, domestic fans' understanding of the Premier League is limited to the top teams, not to mention the Championship, the Championship is a blank area for domestic reporting, almost no media will send reporters to interview, and there are almost no relevant reports in China.

In a season, domestic fans can only see the news about the Championship at the end of the season, which is still the information of the Championship promotion team.

So this could be a scoop too!

Although the temptation of the news was very great, Li Jiandong still resisted it, and he still needed to be sure of one thing: did he not know that there was a young Chinese coach coaching in the UK, or did the whole of China not know?

This is a big problem.

He hasn't been back to China for more than three months, and it's not clear what the situation is in the country.

So Li Jiandong immediately called back to the company to determine whether China knew the news.