Chapter 82: Lin Dan Dahe FA Cup Qualifiers

When Yang Yang heard Chu Zhongtian say that he planned to skip class to participate in the rematch of the fourth round of the FA Cup qualifiers, he was not surprised at all.

"I'm so sorry, Da Chu. I can't go and cheer you on. "He was a good student and never skipped class." I wish you a victorious return, ha! ”

"Promise your good words." Chu Zhongtian expressed understanding.

"Actually, if you have the ability, playing in a professional league is obviously more promising than going to college...... Yang Yang thought for a while and said.

"Do you mean the way of money, or the future ahead?" Chu Zhongtian asked with a smile.

"It's a bit of both." Yang Yang shook his head and said.

"Then I have to play in the top league, right?"

'If you actually play in the top league and become a star. I'm just going to be happy! In the future, I will brag to others that I will live with that big star for four years, and I must envy them to death, haha! Yang Yang laughed.

"Do you want me to sign it for you now?" Chu Zhongtian asked jokingly.

He thought that Yang Yang was just joking, but he didn't expect that after asking like this, Yang Yang really took out a brand new notebook and asked Chu Zhongtian to sign it.

"Is it really signed?" Chu Zhongtian stared blankly at the notebook and pen placed in front of him.

"Of course. Keep it as a souvenir! Sign up, sign now! Yang Yang pointed to the notebook and shouted excitedly.

Chu Zhongtian had no choice but to pick up a pen and write his name on it.

"Your handwriting is so ugly, Da Chu ......" Picking up the notebook and looking at Chu Zhongtian's signature, Yang Yang sighed.

"Hehe, my dad said that I caught a lot of sparrows when I was a child, and my hands were shaking." Chu Zhongtian was also a little embarrassed. In fact, this is his own improved statement, his father's original words are: "This word is the same as a dog, today's children, they can't even write their own names, what can they do when they go out to work in the future......"

"Hmm...... Hey? Yang Yang suddenly became interested in Chu Zhongtian's signature, he tilted his head and looked at it carefully, and then he suddenly laughed: "Da Chu, in the future, you still don't have to write your name vertically!" ”

"How?" Usually Chu Zhongtian writes his name horizontally, but since it is a signature, he has to play some tricks, so he writes it vertically, thinking that it is not bad, how can he be laughed at by Lao Yang?

Yang Yang handed him the notebook: "Look at it yourself." ”

Chu Zhongtian looked at it again and again, and didn't see anything wrong, he handed the notebook back to Yang Yang. "Although the characters are ugly, it has nothing to do with writing horizontally or vertically?"

Yang Yang took the notebook, picked up a pencil and drew two lines in the middle of his name, and then handed it to Chu Zhongtian: "You take a look." Looking at his expression, he was trying to hold back a smile.

Chu Zhongtian took it and looked at it...... "Damn!" He couldn't help but curse.

Over there, Yang Yang was already laughing and lying on the table.

Yang Yang drew a line in the middle of the character "Chu" to separate "Lin" from "η–‹" (pronounced ya, three tones). The second line beheads the word "heaven", and separates the "one" and "big" corpses. In this way, "Chu Zhongtian" has become "Lin Danda...... No wonder Chu Zhongtian has to rely on it.

He had never found such a problem before, because he always wrote his name horizontally, and the place where he needed to write his name was the exam paper and the homework book, where the spaces were all horizontally...... Besides, who has nothing to do with this.

Yang Yang laughed so much that tears came out, and he pounded the table while laughing. "Aha! Lin Dan is big! Lin Dan is big! In the future, I won't call you Da Chu, I'll call you Da Dan! Wowhaha! ”

"You're too bad, Old Yang!" In Yang Yang's crazy laughter, Chu Zhongtian shouted.

β€»β€»β€»Charles. Philip and Joseph. Kenny was getting together to discuss how to go to the game in the afternoon. This time I'm going to be a lot farther away than usual, and in the past Wimbledon have been against teams from the south-west of London, around Wimbledon. This is because the Mixed County League (CCL) covers only one county, Surrey, an administrative and historic county in the south-east of England, located in the southwest of London, with Wimbledon among them. Wimbledon competes in the Surrey Senior Cup (surrey_senior_cup) which is a trophy run by the county FA and only teams from the county can participate.

Today's Thurlock is in the town of West Therlock (west_thurrock) east of London, which belongs to the county of Essex.

The two of them are researching on the transportation map how many lines of subway to take, then how to change to a few lines of light rail, where to get off, and finally take a few buses to take a few stops to get there.

London's rail map is definitely a dizzying artifact just by looking at it.

Chu Zhongtian has been in Greater London for two years, and he is only familiar with the traffic in this part of Wimbledon. Colourful routes and rings divide the cosmopolitan city of London into pieces, with countless large and small stops dotted across the map, like handfuls of soybeans thrown out by someone.

"I think we should take the train to Waterloo Station (www.xstxt.org), then take the train to Barking, then change trains and go east until we arrive at ......," Philip picked up a long list of place names and pulled his hand along the route all the way east, eventually stopping at a name marked with a train station sign. Purfleet. Then we just took a bus, and I actually thought we could get there on foot. ”

"You have such a trouble, can you remember so many routes and stations to be replaced? Maybe you'd better write down all the names you just said now, I'm afraid you'll forget them all in a minute! "Joseph. Kenny scoffed. "Why don't we take the easiest route? If I were to say take the district line to earls_court at Wimbledon, then take the east until you get to Patking, and then take the train to Perphylet. How convenient! ”

"Your line will pass through central London, where there will be traffic jams!" Philip apparently didn't want the route he had painstakingly figured out from the cobweb-like road map to be vetoed, he retorted.

"Will you get stuck in traffic when you take the subway?" Kenny exclaimed.

"There will be a lot of people and it will be very crowded! I hate crowds! "Philip really makes sense to say this, his fat body, if there are too many people, it will be very uncomfortable, not only for him, but also for others. Everyone has to sit in the position of two people on the subway...... "But your route takes too long and is expensive!" ”

"We were able to leave an hour earlier! We had lunch and then we slipped away! Do you still want to take a class before leaving? You're not a good learner, Joseph! ”

"Then you don't care! Go mine, mine good! ”

"My good, you should go mine!"

Just when the two of them were arguing over whose route to take, Chu Zhongtian walked in.

"It's great to see you guys in such spirits." Chu Zhongtian greeted the two of them.

"Chu, it's really time for you to come, you come to judge." Kenny pounced and grabbed Chu Zhongtian. "Charles had to say that it was good to follow his route, but which of his routes was detour and expensive, and it took twice as long as mine. He said he was going to take the train from Wimbledon to Waterloo station and ...... And then where do you go? He looked at Philip, "Tell me about your damn line, I can't remember the names!" ”

"From Waterloo to the Carnival route, then to West Ham, then to the train to Paking, then to the east and finally to Perphylet! What do you think? I memorized it! Philip reported all the transfer points in one go, and then looked down at Kenny with his head held up triumphantly.

"Look, Chu, you have to change so many times! I'm really worried that we'll take a stop, or change the wrong route, go in the wrong direction. My proposal is ......"

Chu Zhongtian had no idea about the place names that these two guys said except for "Wimbledon", and he didn't know what route they were discussing. He waved his hand: "I have a way to resolve your dispute. ”

"What is it?" The two looked at him expectantly.

"To each his own. Joseph you go your way, Charles you go your way. He pointed to two men.

The two of them were stunned for a moment, and then objected loudly together: "What kind of bad idea is this?" ”

"Your method is terrible, Chu! If I'm not with Charles, he'll fall asleep in the car and sit all the way to Newcastle! The last time we went to Newcastle, he fell asleep on the train......" Kenny exclaimed.

"Don't talk nonsense, Joseph, you don't have a sense of direction at all! If it weren't for me by your side every time, you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference! Do you remember? You point to the setting sun and say it's a north thing? Philip sneered.

"I could bring a compass and a map! So you won't get lost! ”

"Then I can bring an alarm clock too! I don't oversleep either! ”

Chu Zhongtian laughed on the side, these two living treasures are so interesting!

After hearing his laughter, the two stopped arguing and turned their heads to look at Chu Zhongtian together: "Aren't you worried about the team's afternoon game, Chu?" ”

"Why should I worry?" Chu Zhongtian spread out his hand.

"You can't participate, don't you want to?" Philip asked curiously.

"Who said I wasn't going to race?"

"Huh?"

"How can I not go to such an important game?" Chu Zhongtian said a little proudly, "Since I'm gone, what else is there to worry about?" ”

Joseph. Kenny and Charles. Philip looked at each other, then lunged at him.

"Did you really decide to go? Don't you have classes in the afternoon? What's going on? Emily used to ask you to go countless times and you didn't go, so why ...... today?"

The two men kept asking questions, speaking as fast as a machine gun. If Chu Zhongtian was still a kid who just came to the UK two years ago, then now he can't hear a word clearly. Now, no problem at all.

"What's the game today?" Chu Zhongtian made a gesture to shut them up, and then asked.

"A replay of the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup. We drew at home to them three days ago, so we have to go to their home stadium today to replay. Kenny said.

"yes, what if we lose?"

"Knocked out." This time it was Philip who answered.

"That's right. I wanted to play in the FA Cup and I didn't want the team to be eliminated here, so I skipped class to play. Chu Zhongtian shrugged. Isn't that amazing? ”

"Uh...... Anyway, it's good that you can go! To be honest, Chu, if this game didn't have you, I'd be really worried about our defense...... It's good now! Ha ha! ”

"Race! FA Cup Match! There's TV, there's a lot of viewers, and the media! Ha ha! I can't believe that our team in the ninth tier will be able to do that one day. ”

The two men happily discussed the future of the team, and the disagreement about the line seemed to be gone.

Chu Zhongtian didn't get involved, and he began to prepare for class. Although he has decided to skip class in the afternoon, he still has to listen well in the morning class, after all, he is still a student...... Chu Zhongtian simply didn't attend a class in the afternoon, after lunch, and after practicing in school for a while, he ran to the King's Ranch, where he met with the team, and then took the bus to Wimbledon station together, where he took the train to the away game. Since the away side was too far away, they didn't go directly by car this time. It's also a little more convenient to take the rail transit, and you don't have to worry about traffic jams.

As for Emily, she walks with the people at the Dons Bar.

As a result, the team met a lot of fans at the station who were going to watch the game away, and the train almost became a Wimbledon train...... It was also a pleasure to see so many fans going away to support the team. For such an important game, the fans are a little more at ease.

Eames didn't insist that the players in the squad must all sit together and rally closely around the coaching staff with him at their core. He was also very happy that the fans were so supportive of the team, so in this carriage, the fans simply sat with the players and chatted along the way. It didn't look like a team going on a trip at all, but like a big group of people traveling together...... And from the number of fans around a player, you can also see which players are the most popular with the fans.

"Look, I'm right!" Charles sitting on the left side of Chu Zhongtian. Philip was very proud, and he was very proud of Joseph Philip beside him. Kenny said, "If you go your way, will you be able to meet them?" ”

With the facts in front of him, Kenny couldn't refute it, so he could only keep his mouth shut.

On Chu Zhongtian's left sat his two classmates, and on the right sat a large number of people, all old acquaintances of the Dons Bar. But there was only one person who could sit next to him -- Emily. Stan, their princess of Dons.

Emily sat next to Chu Zhongtian, and in order to allow more people to sit on the chair instead of standing, she also put her body tightly against Chu Zhongtian, and almost stretched out her hands to hug Chu Zhongtian.

She also felt very surprised to be able to meet Chu Zhongtian here, and she still had a smile on her face until now.

"Chu is really an enviable boy!"

"yes, yes, why is Emily his fan?"

"Don't say it, I thought about the last time Emily wore a jersey for a photo, she seemed to be wearing Chu's No. 8 jersey......"

"You even found out? Don't you ever read the schedule book? Emily is Chu's patron! Both of their names appear on the playing list at the same time! ”

"I envy him, my patron is a name I don't even recognize......"

"My patron is my dad......"

"My patron is my boss, it's miserable. He said that if I didn't perform well, he would deduct my salary...... If he does, I'll sue him! ”

"My Patron ......"

"It's so damning! Chu, this kid! Seeing that the topic was getting farther and farther away, someone shouted again, so the off-topic discussion got back on track.

"Ahhh Why Chu! Why not me! "Joe. Shirin clutched his head in his hands and shouted in pain. "The world is so cruel! Desperate! Desperate for such a beautiful woman to choose Chu over my world!! ”

"Stop yelling, dead jeep. If I were Emily, I wouldn't have chosen your ......."

"Hey, blogger, do you want to die?"

A group of Wimbledon players who didn't have many fans gathered together and muttered and muttered about Chu Zhongtian, who was accompanied by beautiful fans.

β€»β€»β€» "It would be nice if you would take the train or subway every time you play an away game in the future." Emily grinned, her words echoed by the others.

"That's right! Then we will be able to go to the stadium together and watch the game! ”

"If you're nervous, we can tell you jokes on the way to ease your nerves......"

"I don't think there's anything wrong with the amateur league right now. At least when I was backing that rich team, we spent so much money on season tickets and commemorative merchandise, and we didn't have the opportunity to get in touch with those players like that. They seemed to think that signing us and taking a picture together would be a reward for us. ”

"Haha, that's a good point! Now we can have a drink with our favorite players after the game......"

"Oh no, not only that, but we can also get the main players on the team to pour drinks for us, haha! Can you imagine David. David Beckham stands in front of you and asks: 'Sir, honoured that I can serve you, do you need something'? Ha! Hahaha! ”

The big guy laughed.

Chu Zhongtian was teased by them, but he was not angry. He likes and enjoys the relaxed atmosphere. This group of old acquaintances is right, in a higher league, there is absolutely no such harmony in the scene.

Now it makes him feel like he's really welcome and supported, and he feels like it's worth it to play hard – because someone likes it, and he can feel it intuitively. It's a pleasure that you can't enjoy playing at home. When he plays at home, almost no one shares the joy of playing with him, except for his teammates, no fans, no one to support and care about them.

Oh, wrong, there is one more person who will surely share the joy of victory and the bitterness of defeat with himself. That's his dad.

For such a lovely group of fans and such a great environment to continue, we must not lose this game today!

The FA Cup, it's not something I'm expecting alone.

Chu Zhongtian lowered his head and clenched his fists vigorously in the midst of everyone's enthusiastic discussions.

(To be continued)