After the start of school, Chu Zhongtian's life was like this.

Monday to Friday, it's the day of school. In the morning, I went to school with a soccer ball, listened carefully, took notes, and experienced a completely different atmosphere from the preparatory department. Recess and Charles. Philip, Joseph. Kenny talks about football, about Wimbledon. After lunch at school, he worked with Russell and Borger on the school court for special training on ball control. Emily would sometimes come to observe and comfort Chu Zhongtian, who was training hard, or chat with Russell.

If the afternoon class ends early, and the team has training that day, the three of them will go to the court to participate in the training together, and in order to be in a hurry, Chu Zhongtian will not run.

If the afternoon class ends early, but Wimbledon has no training plan and doesn't have to go to Mack China to send orders, Chu Zhongtian will continue to review Russell's Protestant things on the school court, and then pack up and go to work at the Dons Bar when the time is almost up. Often, Emily would stay with him at this time, knowing that he was going to the bar, before going home.

If the afternoon class ends early, and Wimbledon doesn't have a training plan, but you need to go to Mack China to send orders. He went straight to McChina with the football, received his own list, and then ran to distribute the advertising sheets in the area he was responsible for, of course, with the ball at his feet, even when he met a dog...... Chu Zhongtian is actually afraid of dogs, but in order to improve his ball control skills as soon as possible, even if he is chased by the dog he is afraid of, he will let it go. But when he was chased by the two dogs a few times, he found that the dogs didn't want to bite him at all, but wanted to play with him - they thought that Chu Zhongtian, who was running wildly in front, was teasing them...... This is really a tragedy, Chu Zhongtian must have never heard of a dog squatting down and not being able to run. Although these dogs wanted to play with him, Chu Zhongtian would not stop to satisfy them, he still galloped away with the football, followed by two pit bulls dragging Halazi.

After all this, I went back to my apartment for dinner, and then rested and reviewed the lessons I had learned today. Seeing that the time was almost up, he got up and headed to the Dons Bar. Of course, I still run and still have a football under my feet.

It was eight o'clock at the bar and I started to change my clothes and work. I was busy until 11 o'clock at night, and I worked for four hours, so that five days a week was 20 hours, which was just in line with the time limit of international students' part-time work, and there was no waste.

Get out of the bar, run back to the apartment, take a shower and lie down to sleep. At that time, Yang Yang often just fell asleep, he was a person with a very regular schedule and rest time, basically did not stay up late, and went to bed before twelve o'clock. If he hadn't slept yet, Chu Zhongtian would casually talk to him.

Wake up the next day and repeat the routine. The only difference was on Saturday and Sunday, as he had more time to work and was able to attend AFC Wimbledon. At that time, he was like Superman, and as soon as he changed his clothes in the phone booth, he changed from a man named Clarke. Kent's ordinary newspaper reporter has been transformed into a Kryptonian visitor who wears his underwear over his underwear to save the world.

One is an ordinary international student, and the other is a player cheering on the pitch with thousands of people. Chu Zhongtian enjoyed this change in identity. He did his best in every game and wanted to make up for the midweek game with his performances.

His cheerleading squad in the stands is also expanding little by little, in addition to his fellow players at the Dons Bar and Emily, Yang Yang has joined later, and now Chu Zhongtian's new friend Charles has met at school. Philip and Joseph. Kenny.

Now there is a fixed phalanx in the stands, and when the game comes, they will definitely cheer for Chu Zhongtian loudly, holding a sign with Chu Zhongtian written on it, but no matter how you look at it, it looks like they are promoting themselves. Except that Emily's sign is unpretentious "Chu, come on!" In addition, everyone else's made Chu Zhongtian cry and laugh - Collin, the owner of Dons's Bar. John's banner is still the same as "Chu, you are the pride of our Dons Bar!" "The Dons Bar" is marked in red and bold, which is particularly eye-catching. After being reminded by him, Yang Yang also hurried to make a sign that read: "Da Chu, your fellow countryman, classmate and roommate Yang Yang cheers for you!" "Yang Yang" is also marked in red and bold. New addition to Charles. Philip and Joseph. Kenny quickly mingled with these people with their lively personalities, and they did the same, holding up signs like this: "Chu is our classmate!" ”

Under the banner of cheering for Chu Zhongtian, they promoted themselves. They can be regarded as a special scenery in the stands. Even the teammates in the team made fun of Chu Zhongtian with this, and they said to Chu Zhongtian: "You are their cheerleader, Chu!" ”

Russell will not let go of such an opportunity to hit Chu Zhongtian: "It seems that your popularity is not very good. ”

For this group of people, Chu Zhongtian was speechless, and could only eat Coptis chinensis dumbly - he couldn't say anything about his suffering.

※※※ When Philip and Kenny replaced "we" with their respective names on the sign, and everyone began to wear sweaters and other thick clothes, Chu Zhongtian's life had passed for more than three months.

AFC Wimbledon played eighteen games in those three months. Of the thirteen league matches, five are cup competitions, three of which are the London Superior Cup (london_senior_cup, LSC) and two are the Super Winner's Cup (premier_challenge_cup, PCC). Just half a month ago, on November 16, they were knocked out of the Super Cup and lost quite badly. Chu Zhongtian didn't go to that game, because the game day was in the middle of the week, and he had to go to class. After the game, Emily pouted and told him that the team's defeat had a lot to do with his failure to go.

Wimbledon lost 1:5 to Sosar in that match. This team is the same team that Wimbledon went to challenge away on the first day of school. At that time, Chu Zhongtian also did not go with the team because he had to attend class, and the team shook hands with the other party 0:0.

Losing the cup with such a score, Chu Zhongtian also felt a little embarrassed. Because Emily was not the only one who told him that if he was there, he didn't know if he would win or not, but he would never lose so badly. He himself firmly believes that if he was there, he would never allow Sosar's boys to ravage the goal so rampantly, five goals...... Since losing 0:5 to Walton and Black Sham in a friendly match, no team has scored so many goals against Wimbledon in one game, and if Chu Zhongtian is there, it will be a shame for him, and he will never allow his opponent to be so presumptuous.

The defeat also marked the end of AFC's thirteen-game winning streak at Wimbledon.

Although this defeat was very disappointing, the previous game still made the fans of Wimbledon and Chu Zhongtian himself excited.

After a draw with Sosar on 3 September, Wimbledon lost away to Wisddeen 2000 (withdean_2000). The score was 0:2. This team is now top of the league, so losing to them is really the result of Wimbledon being slightly lacking in strength.

After this race, Wimbledon was like a bullet train that suddenly entered the high-speed track, and it kept winning, winning, and winning. From the 2-0 home win over Reading Town (reading_towww.xstxt.orgerstham) on 14 September, all 13 games have been won! Ten of those games were league games, which also saw them jump to third place in the mixed county league from mid-to-bottom of the league.

This result has excited the fans and the management of Wimbledon, who did not expect everything to go so smoothly when they first established the team, and finished in the top three before the season was barely halfway through. Although their ideals are ambitious...... After the thirteenth game, the president of the club, Chris Brown. Stewart also made an appearance to praise the team's performance, claiming that the board was very happy with their performance and hoped they would continue to improve.

As a result, the chairman really felt like a broom star, he rarely praised players in person before, but this time he suddenly praised once, and the next game, Wimbledon lost 1-5 to Sosar in the Super Winner's Cup.

Actually, it's not that the chairman is a broom star, but because the team is a little carried away after winning thirteen games in a row. Everyone, including Chu Zhongtian, thinks that the level of this league is no more than that, and when the season is over, they will be promoted directly to the eighth division with the first place. So everyone's mind is not on the opponents of this level, and some people are even looking forward to the second season.

Eames couldn't reverse the players' thinking because after winning thirteen games in a row, he said nothing that no one would take to heart. People are like this, if you don't suffer a little, you won't have a long memory.

Luckily, their rivals helped Eames teach the boys a lesson that didn't know how high the sky was.

After a humiliating 5-1 defeat at home to Sosar, they could still think that it was just a cup game and that they would give up the cup to better impact the league. However, in the next two league games away and at home, they lost 0-1 and 0-3 to Feltham and AFC Warringford (afc_wallingford).

After losing these three games, head coach Eames scolded the team in the car of the Returning King Ranch. If there is a TV broadcast, it is estimated that everyone can only hear a "beep-", "beep-", "beep-beep-beep-" blocked swear words. It was the first time that Chu Zhongtian heard that someone could really be full of swear words and not a single normal word, which opened his eyes.

It was rude and direct, but it worked, and Wimbledon beat Bedfont 2-1 on their home turf to move up to the London Senior Cup. However, because this game is still held in the middle of the week, Chu Zhongtian is in class at school and cannot participate. However, Russell and Borger skipped class to stop the team's downward spiral. It seems that coach Eames' stinking scolding played a role...... Russell and Borger had invited Chu Zhongtian before leaving, but Chu Zhongtian was unwilling to skip class and refused, which made the two of them a little disappointed. Fortunately, they won the game in the end, if they lost again, I don't know if they would not give Chu Zhongtian a good look after coming back...... The following December 1, Wimbledon take on the Glenford Vikings (viking_greenford) in the league. Since this was a match held on Sunday, Chu Zhongtian started the game. His presence ensures solidity at the back, and the strength of the opponent is too weak...... When the league first started five rounds, this team was ranked first from the bottom, and now that the league is almost halfway through, they are still ranked first from the bottom, and the deputy squad leader does not want to change. If nothing else, they will be relegated to the 10th tier at the end of the season.

Wimbledon were unceremonious against such a weak opponent and needed a hearty win to re-boost morale and prove to manager Eames that they are not a herd of castrated pigs.

Eventually Andy. Sullivan scored a hat-trick and scored three goals of his own. Captain Kevin. Cooper added the icing on the cake, Wimbledon defeated the league vice-leader Glenford Vikings 4-0, and it was also a small crisis of three consecutive defeats. The only regret is that this game is away from home, only more than 800 people came to the scene, and the atmosphere is not warm enough. If there was such a result at home, the Kings Ranch would have been cheering long ago, and many fans would rush down to chat with the players after the game, pat them on the shoulders to congratulate them on the victory, and maybe someone would have paid for a drink in the evening - this is not a pipe dream for the players. When they won thirteen in a row, it didn't happen less after the game.

It's also the difference between an amateur game and a professional game, where when the game is over, the pros are busy dealing with the media or just getting into the dressing room and not coming out. Fans could only watch from afar as they boarded the bus and waved at them through the windows of the bus. That's all that makes the fans excited.

In amateur matches, fans can walk down the stands and go straight to the pitch to talk to the players, there will be no security guards or police to stop them, and the players will not put up a fight to refuse such exchanges, they will usually chat with familiar fans and friends for a while, and then meet up for dinner, or go to the bar they often go to have a drink and have a good chat about the game that has just ended.

Even the president of the club and other senior leaders sometimes meet up with Eames and Ingrid for a drink after the game, and there is no board member at all.

This kind of competition makes Chu Zhongtian like it deeply, because it is simple enough. There is no erosion of those commercial elements, and there is not so much messy shady. Whether you are playing football or watching football, you are enjoying football in its purest form, without a little impurity.

※※※ The team came out of the crisis and re-embarked on the road of winning streak.

This is of course a gratifying thing, but it makes Chu Zhongtian feel regretful, no matter how hard he tries in the game, he has never passed the ball to Boljie in the game that day, not only technically, but even that intuition has never played a role. He has become a blue-collar worker who can only defend, can only do dirty work, and wants to take on the responsibility of organizing the attack? There's no hope anymore.

Although he has not relaxed the practice of his ball control skills every day, he has improved in ball control. Russell also kept his promise and continued to teach him. However, the state of the game that day did not appear again, and it still made him feel a little regretful when he remembered it occasionally.

Is it true that he has no chance to attack? Was it just luck? Chu Zhongtian was a little unwilling...... The moment of a pass penetrating Hartley Winterney's entire defence is still vivid, and the shouts from the stands and the excited smiles of his teammates made him feel exactly the same sense of accomplishment as the defence. He likes to do bad things for others, and the same is true for defense, isn't it true for offense? When the opponent carefully organizes the defense, but lets himself penetrate the ball, isn't it also a good thing to spoil the opponent? There are also shots, goals to take the lead or equaliser or overtake and comeback...... Aren't these all good things that are bad for the other person?

For Chu Zhongtian to never perform like that again, Russell's explanation was that "your control of football is not yet at home", so he had an excuse to continue to torture Chu Zhongtian in "special training". Now he's added a few changes to what was already simple, making those exercises more complex and more torturous...... In fact, Bolger has always thought so - Russell must be a personal vendetta, and then while teaching Chu Zhongtian techniques, he tortured Chu Zhongtian in a different way. to avenge the revenge of being humiliated by the other party.

Russell, of course, denied this, and said bluntly that if it weren't for the sake of his classmate and Emily's face, he wouldn't have come to teach Chu Zhongtian these things. The implication is that Chu Zhongtian himself can't ask for such an opportunity, so he should cherish it and continue to listen to his calls.

Chu Zhongtian didn't care if Russell was taking revenge, nor did he care if he had face when he was called by the other party. Since this training has really improved my ball control skills, it means that it is really useful. If it's useful, what kind of face do you care about? As long as it is useful, learn it yourself. In the ten years in the football school, he only worked physical training, which can be regarded as a delay of ten years, and now he can't delay it anymore.

So he still practiced every day, and in the past three months, three football balls have been broken, and two pairs of studded rubber soles specially used to practice with the ball on the road have also worn out. He didn't spend on these expenses, just buried himself in hard work, hoping that one day he could find the feeling of being so happy again.

By the time he looked up again, it was almost Christmas.

(To be continued)