Chapter 237: Song Shixiong's Dream

It's finally time for the FA Cup final.

The venue for the FA Cup final has always been Wembley Stadium.

Underdog Coventry vs giants Chelsea!

Although the FA Cup is a hotbed of upsets for underdogs, there has only been one second-tier team winning the trophy once in its 100-year history. None of the third tier and below the professional league have ever played in the FA Cup!

Although Coventry City have qualified for next season's League One, they are still in the fourth tier this season.

In other words, if Coventry beat Chelsea, they could create a myth that has never been seen before – a team in the fourth tier lift the FA Cup!

Wembley Stadium, the venue for the final, was built in 1923 and rebuilt in 2007 and is recognised as one of the greatest stadiums in the world. It is the home of the England national team, and the 1966 World Cup and the 1996 European Championship saw England and Germany win the championship respectively.

Wembley Stadium's 90,000 seats were now full. Coventry is a small English city of 300,000 people. There were 35,000 Coventry fans in sky-blue jerseys in the stands. In other words, one out of every 10 Coventry people is there to cheer on the team.

Another 35,000 seats were occupied by Chelsea fans. Chelsea are firmly at the top of the Premier League this season. Winning the title this season is almost a foregone conclusion. Comparatively speaking, the FA Cup is not that important for Chelsea.

But the final against League Two side Coventry City made this game a game that Chelsea could not afford to lose. If we do lose to a team in the fourth tier, it will be the biggest humiliating battle in the history of the Chelsea team!

That's why the match attracted 35,000 Chelsea fans.

On the remaining 20,000 seats, all of them are Chinese faces. Some of them are in the British and overseas Chinese, and the other part is fans who came to Wembley Stadium from China to watch the game.

I have to say that the scalpers in Huaguo are really powerful. Even tickets to the FA Cup final have become a tool for their profit. They got more than 10,000 tickets through various means. In the domestic fan forum, a general ticket to the FA Cup final was fried to 20,000 yuan! You must know that the normal selling price of FA Cup tickets is 200 pounds, which is equivalent to only about 1,700 yuan. The price has been ten times higher in China.

Several boxes at Wembley Stadium are full of super-rich people who love to watch football.

Ma Huyun, the boss of Ali Beep, Xu Jiaren, the boss of Yuedong Houda Group, Li Yanxue, the boss of Goudu Search, and Zhang Chaori, the boss of Fuhu Group, 。。。。。 The wealth of Huaguo gathered at Wembley Stadium. They are looking forward to the performance of Huaguo's inspirational idol Liu Yun! Looking forward to a miracle in Coventry!

It is a miracle that these people have created huge wealth from scratch. So they believe in miracles!

Countless Chinese media even used their connections to send their own reporters to Wembley Stadium.

The FA seems to be very good at making money from the media. The rights to broadcast the FA Cup final, they held a public auction directly in Yenching. Fa Lang Sports Live paid 40 million pounds for the exclusive broadcast rights of Huaguo for the FA Cup final. You must know that the price of the exclusive broadcast rights of all the World Cup matches in China is only 150 million US dollars.

The FA Cup match day has almost become a holiday for Chinese fans and pseudo-fans. They are expecting two Chinese people, Qu Bai, the son of the wind, and Liu Yun, the old lieutenant, to score goals. They are looking forward to these two people telling the world that Chinese people also play good football!

In addition to Huang Jianxiang and Liu Jianhong, the on-site commentary of Falang Sports also invited Song Shixiong, the first sports commentator in the history of China who has been retired for many years and is nearly 80 years old!

People of a certain age in Huaguo, almost everyone knows Song Shixiong. Yang Lan once commented that Song Shixiong is "the sports voice of a country". Since his retirement, Song has rarely appeared in the media. I don't know how many media spent a lot of money to ask Song Shixiong, who was in his old age, to explain some important sports games, but Song Shixiong refused them one by one.

Song Shixiong is over 80 years old, full of honor, and has long been downspised about money.

However, this time, after watching several Coventry City FA Cup games through the Internet, he took the initiative to propose to Falang Sports to be the on-site commentator of the FA Cup final!

Song Shixiong has commented on countless sports competitions and witnessed important moments in the history of Chinese sports, such as the fifth consecutive championship of the women's volleyball team and China's first Olympic gold medal. But he has never commented on a football game that can excite all the Chinese people! In his football game commentary memory, the most impressive thing is the shame of the black three minutes, the 519 tragedy, and the careless loss of Jinzhou!

Today, however, a 45-year-old Chinese led a League Two team to create miracles again and again, and finally reached the FA Cup final. This reminded Song Shixiong of the dream he had when he was young。。。。。 This dream of his lives on to this day. That is, let the whole world know that Chinese people play good football!

Song Shixiong, an old man over 80 years old, sat silently on the commentary seat. Huang Jianxiang and Liu Jianhong, two "children" who grew up listening to Song Shixiong's sports game commentary, stared at their childhood idols. Idols have grown old, and they have slowly grown old. The two of them had a sour nose at the same time.

The game is about to start, in the dressing room of the Coventry team.

The entire team staff and all the players are shoulder to shoulder, in a circle, with their heads bowed.

Head coach George Sr. led everyone to pray:

"Lord, don't stay away from me. You are my strength, help me, I believe in you, and do not put me to shame. Don't let the enemy play a triumphant song on me. The Lord is my shield and my trust. Thank the Lord for giving me an unconquerable soul. I am the master of my destiny, I am the commander of my soul. I pray to you for a miracle for me! Amen! ”

After praying, Old George said to the disciples, "You have reached the finals, and I can't ask you for more. I just hope that many years from now, when you talk about it with your sons and grandchildren, you can proudly say: Oh, I did my best against Chelsea in that FA Cup final! Alright, let's play! ”

The old lieutenant Liu Yun led the team members to the players' tunnel.

Next to them, stood Eden Hazard, Diego Costa, Thibaut Courtois, Gary Cahill, David Luiz, Cesar Azpilicueta, Nemanja Matic, Maronso, Moses, Pedro。。。。。。

The Coventry players didn't give a single glance at the big names.

You have your worth, we have our dreams.

Who said that the weak can't aspire to victory?!