Since it was an away game, Qin Shou did not go with the team.

In fact, even if Qin Shou went to Birmingham City with the team, he could only act as a spectator in the stands.

Because nominally Qin Shou is on loan to the Arsenal club, but in fact, the trial component is probably a little more. And even if Qin Shou finally won the favor of the Arsenal club and finally stayed in London, the chance to play is still very small. It is more likely that Qin Shou got a professional contract with Arsenal, but he will definitely be loaned to other teams for two or three seasons.

This is because there is a big difference between the leagues in England and other European countries, and to put it bluntly, it is the issue of "labor certification".

The FA stipulates that players from non-EU countries must play in the English professional league in two conditions: firstly, the player's country must be ranked in the top 75 in the FIFA world rankings, and secondly, the player must have played 75% of the international A-level matches for the national team within two years.

These two rules are like a hurdle, and many talented and powerful young players are rejected from the Premier League because of these two seemingly inhumane rules. Like the former Mr. World Kaka, now Barcelona's superstar Leo. Messi, their first stop in Europe was the English professional league, but because of labor certification problems, they had to go to other European leagues.

For Qin Shou, he is also facing such a problem now. At a young age, he is considered a halfway monk, and he is not well-known in the United States, let alone in China, and he doesn't know if he wants to play for the country, let alone the appearance rate of the national team has reached 75%.

And then again, even if Qin Shou joins the national team, it is impossible to get a labor certificate right away - because in the new world rankings, the Chinese national team ranks 97th. So even if Qin Shou is a member of the national team and has reached a 75% appearance rate, it is useless. The Chinese national football team is not competitive, and the ranking does not meet the requirements of the FA, so it is useless to say anything.

Of course, nothing is absolute. If the national team ranking and attendance rate are really not up to the requirements, then the club can submit the player's information and appeal, and apply to the FA to pass the "special talent clause" bill - this is an adaptation made by England after losing a lot of good young players, and they also realize that although the labor certification effectively eliminates the problem of too many overseas players in various clubs, it does turn away some excellent and outstanding players, causing huge losses in the league, under the protests and pressure of many clubs. The FA had to make a compromise.

The special talent clause can be used once per club per season, and whether or not it can be passed is left to fate. After all, the FA and the Chinese Football Association are similar to each other to a certain extent, the same corruption, the same bureaucracy, and if you want to pass this clause, many times it is not to see whether the young players who are complaining are really good, but to see whether the "things" prepared by the club can impress people.

Therefore, Qin Shou did not have much hope for this clause that could keep him in the Premier League, not to mention whether the club would use this once-a-year opportunity for him, even if he did, it was more likely that he would not pass - he had no backstage, no background, and no reputation, and it was difficult to pass the special genius clause.

All Qin Shou can do now is to impress the manager and get a professional contract from Arsenal. Then go out to other leagues, go through a season or two, play well, and then return to the Premier League.

This is the path that many young players will experience, and Qin Shou seems to have only one choice.

can't play, and can't even enter the team's squad, Qin Shou naturally doesn't have to go away with the team. So he watched the whole game at home. He thinks the result of the game is not bad, no matter how difficult the process is, it is always three points.

Qin Shou felt regretful that he couldn't go to the scene to feel the atmosphere of the stadium, and he wanted to see the difference between fans in the United States and the United Kingdom.

However, the disappointment was soon better remedied when a week later, on 4 December, Arsenal hosted their opponents in the round of 16 of the Premier League, Fulham from a satellite town outside London.

This can be regarded as a city derby, but compared with a century-old giant like Arsenal, although Fulham has been established for more than 100 years, whether it is the team's heritage or the honors it has won, it can only be regarded as insignificant compared to the former.

In the past, it would not have been difficult for Arsenal with a full lineup to win this city derby, but now Arsenal is missing many main players, and there is a shortage of major generals in the midfield, which also gives Fulham a chance to fight back against Big Brother.

In this game, because the team's main goalkeeper Almunia was absent due to injury, the German veteran goalkeeper Lehmann, who had entered the palace for the second time, was put on the field, and the four defenders were Sagna, Squeerage, Koschel, and Klich, and in the midfield, the veteran Rosicky built the backbone of the team with three young players who were promoted from the academy, and the three youngsters were Ramsey, Wilshire and Gibbs. None of the four midfielders who started the game were the main players of the team, which shows that the Arsenal midfield has indeed reached the point of being overstretched.

The only consolation is that Arsenal's two main strikers are still alive, with Robin van Persie and Chamark forming the team's attacking edge.

In this game, the Emirates Stadium, which can accommodate more than 60,000 people, was full. Arsenal's main stadium, the Emirates Stadium, has been one of the most attended stadiums in the Premier League, but it is not full every weekend, and a large part of the reason why the stands were full today was due to the news released from the club's stadium.

In the eighteen-man squad announced before the game, Thierry, the former king of the Gunners. Henry's name is prominently listed. According to the club's staff, Henry is likely to re-don the Gunners' jersey and play in the Premier League again.

As soon as this news came out, the whole of London was in an uproar. Huge crowds of gun fans rushed for tickets, and there were even fanatical fans who paid several times as many pounds for a ticket. The fans are very excited, and they all want to see the man who once brought countless honors to Arsenal, and once again scored the opponent's goal for Arsenal.

Qin Shou appeared at the Emirates Stadium for the first time, and although he was only in the stands, he could still feel the madness and heat here.

And he finally felt the difference between the atmosphere of the Premier League and the major leagues in the United States.

Someone once described fans around the world as follows: French fans are like a group of noble roosters, and after watching a normal game, they will not do much behavior except applause, and always maintain their noble appearance; The Germans, on the other hand, are calm and stubborn, and their performance in the stands is hardly much different from their work, silent, dull, and everything is in a fixed format; For American fans, it's even simpler, and it's likely that a game is over and the fans in the stands have just woken up from their dreams.

And the Englishman, who has always regarded himself as a gentleman, has no match for a gentleman on the football field. They will be like a group of bulls in heat, **** upper body, the whole game does not stop beating wildly, shouting, all kinds of praise or abuse voices are endless. Even radical fans often do unbelievable behaviors, such as climbing fences and jumping into the stadium, setting fire to flammable materials in the stands, or even smuggling their own pets into the stadium and then throwing them into the stadium when they are unhappy......

English fans are jealous, crazy and fanatical, and in this country, football is more like a faith, a belief that represents blood and spirit.

That's why the UK is the country with the most hooligans in the world. In their eyes, football is war. Either you die, or I live!

Before the game started, Qin Shou fully understood the madness of British fans in the stands. The singing and roaring never stopped, and there were fans holding banners and portraits and shouting at the stadium, and even fans who did not sit in their seats at all, but kept standing on their chairs and jumping up and down.

For a moment, Qin Shou even felt that he was not in a sports arena, but more like he was on a volcano that was about to erupt, and the surging and violent heat made people feel like they couldn't feel themselves if they didn't roar out.

And this feeling has been even stronger since the official start of the game. Every touch of the ball by the Arsenal players, every pass, every attack and defence, the roars and shouts from the stands are one after another, and the fans are like wild horses on the loose, and they are all like fanatical religious elements, throwing punches, jumping, roaring, yelling, and swearing.

And every time the away team players get the ball, the boos are like a wild dragon surging into the stadium. The fans seemed to be distracting each other with all their might.

"In such an atmosphere, you can really fight like a man!"

In such a stormy atmosphere, Qin Shou's emotions were quickly aroused. Feeling that the blood in his whole body was boiling, he sat down with the fans who were completely strangers around him, and then jumped up, raised his arms, cheered, roared, and scolded.

This feeling made Qin Shou feel refreshed all over. Although it was the first time he felt the frenzy of British fans, Qin Shou found himself uncontrollably in love with it.