Two days before the game, the entire Manchester City squad left Manchester for London.

They flew from Manchester to London on a plane gifted to Manchester City by the Abu Dhabi consortium.

At London Heathrow, they were warmly welcomed by Manchester City fans. It was a lively scene that made the uninformed think that Manchester City had already played the Champions League final and returned with honors......

But in reality, they just came to London to play.

The fact that they received such a warm welcome before the game even started was a testament to the enthusiasm and interest of the Manchester City fans.

These City fans arrived in London earlier than the team to wait for the final to begin. Not just two days early, some fans even arrived in London four or five days early.

They almost all came to London, and they occupied large and small hotels and guesthouses in London, and some people simply set up tents outside Wembley Stadium, not because they couldn't book a hotel, but because they wanted to be closer to the final venue.

Tickets have long been sold out, but there are still Manchester City fans holding signs outside the stadium and asking for tickets to the final at high prices.

This is the first time in Manchester City's history that they have played in a Champions League final, and they are looking for more than just a ticket, but more of a historical witness.

A few years later, when they reopened the ticket, the details of the final would also come to mind. They want those memories to be sweet.

Manchester City fans are particularly excited, if Manchester City can win the Champions League, then I am afraid that they will wake up laughing every night in their sleep for the whole summer......

Champions League champions, Champions League finals, things they couldn't think of before, but now they are gradually coming true.

And what about the nouveau riche?

What about Jin Yuan's invasion of football?

Few Manchester City fans will think Cruyff is right this time, and they are all firmly on the side of Glory and the Abu Dhabi consortium.

They don't care what the future of football will be, they only know that it is precisely because of the Abu Dhabi consortium that Manchester City has money to bring glory, and the transfer fee of 80 million pounds is an almost impossible burden for the previous Manchester City. And it is precisely because of the money that they can attract so many world-class stars to join.

They have changed every year, from fourth in the league to league champions, from defending their league title to reaching the Champions League final......

Which of these things is inseparable from money?

Cruyff also said that money has tarnished the stage of the Champions League, as if Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Chelsea and other teams are poor...... It's as if the poor teams were able to snatch the Champions League title from the big teams.

The Champions League and football themselves are rich people's games. In the past, Manchester City was struggling and had no money, so they could only watch their rival Manchester United get bigger and bigger, and watch the rich talk and laugh on a stage like the Champions League. They don't even have the qualifications to go around and see the flowers.

Now that we have the money, we can finally enter the market and play with the rich people who used to be only able to look up, and as a result, those who feel threatened by us have begun to preach their feelings. Don't forget your original intention, and pursue the purity of football...... You have the ability to reduce your budget of hundreds of millions of pounds a year to 10 million!

Cruyff said it so high-soundingly, in fact, he was worried that Manchester City would snatch the championship from Barcelona. These giants have been monopolized for too long and have already considered the Champions League title to be in their pockets.

As if they were the only ones who could win the title, as if they had won the Champions League without tarnishing their glory......

That's just a veneer of sanctimony.

It comes down to profit.

But now we must let those old diehards know that the world has entered a new century, and a new force in European football has also risen!

We are here to end your time! We are here to take your lives!

The fans waved their fists in unison as they greeted the entire Manchester City squad at the airport, chanting: "Let's go backwards!" Regression to primitive society! ”

In this way, they are showing solidarity with Glory.

They are not celebrities like Cruyff who can write their opinions in the media, but they also have their own ways of expressing their demands.

They put their hopes in glory.

They hope Glory can help Manchester City beat Barcelona in the final, they can't draw Cruyff's face, but Glory can!

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On the last day before the game, both teams acclimatized to the venue.

After Barcelona got used to the venue, Messi was blocked by reporters who wanted to hear Messi's thoughts on the final and glory.

"Rong seems to have taken the championship into his pocket, what do you think about that, Leo?" A journalist from Catalonia asked.

"The final hasn't started yet, and it's unclear who the title will belong. But we are also confident. Messi's answer is quite decent.

Then the reporter asked him again: "Now that you are temporarily ranked first in the scorer list, everyone is talking about you may break Rong's monopoly on the top scorer in the Champions League, what do you think about this?" ”

"I'm glad I'm number one now and I hope I'll still be number one at the end of the final." Tong guò expressed his confidence in this way, and it can be regarded as a decent answer, neither humble nor arrogant.

One last question: "Which do you choose, the top scorer or the champion?" ”

Everyone thought that Messi would definitely answer "as long as I can win the championship, I would rather be the top scorer"...... That's the case.

Unexpectedly, what Messi said was exactly the same as the original glorious answer!

"I want both the championship and the Golden Boot." Messi smiled at a group of stunned reporters.

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When the final came, Rong Guang got up very early, but it was not because it was the Champions League final that he didn't sleep well, on the contrary, he slept very well last night, and when he woke up, he opened his eyes just when he should get up - a powerful biological clock.

The glory comes early because he usually gets up early, and he always gets up earlier than most people and starts his morning exercise of the day.

At that time, if they were really at home, Debora and Yaoyao were actually still sleeping at home.

Someone once made up a joke to satirize Robinho, saying that Robinho knew what Milan and Manchester were like at five o'clock in the morning.

This means that Robinho is keen on going to nightclubs for the nightlife and always has to play until five in the morning before returning home.

But for Rongguang, this sentence is not a joke, but something that really happened to him.

There is no irony in it.

While the whole city was still asleep, Glory had already gotten up.

It seemed so in São Paulo, it was also true in Bremen, and he had seen what it was like at five o'clock in the morning in Munich and Manchester.

Today, in London, he still does.

When he got dressed, changed into running shoes, left the room lightly, walked through the quiet hallway, entered the elevator, pressed the button on the first floor, and half a minute later, he appeared in the lobby.

Then, under the surprised gaze of the front desk attendant, he walked out of the hotel through the automatic revolving door.

Standing outside the hotel door, he turned up the hood of his sweatshirt to cover his head and began to run towards the road outside.

Growing up, his favorite thing to do was running, whether it was in the ravine of his hometown, or in the lakeside park of São Paulo, or on the roads of London, whether it was barefoot or wearing custom-made running shoes provided by sponsors, the environment changed, the equipment changed, but the feeling of running remained the same.

Running will make him feel free, completely out of this world.

He was running through the streets of London at five o'clock in the morning, with very few cars on the road, only street lamps illuminating every stretch of the road beneath his feet. Passing by the garbage can, a wild cat seemed frightened, deftly leaped over it, and disappeared into the darkness.

As he ran, the air ran through his cheeks, blowing his hair, the cold hairs on his skin, and the placket of his shirt, and the zippered sweatshirt bulged up on his back like the sails of a sailboat.

He felt like he was flying in the wind.

Glory turned a street corner, passed the homeless man sleeping on a bench at the door, the wind brought the newspaper on his body, and the homeless man pressed the newspaper with his hand, turned over, curled up and did not wake up.

Glory passed through a junction and ran past a drunk man who was sitting crookedly on the ground against a lamp pole, accidentally knocking over an empty wine bottle, which spun and bounced on the concrete pavement, making a crisp continuous sound that echoed in the silent street, everyone clearly. But that didn't wake the drunkard, who just clicked his mouth twice and purred meaninglessly, as if he was still reminiscing about last night's drink.

Rongguang continued to run forward, without looking back, and then he stopped at an intersection and waited for a green light. But even so, his two legs did not stop, but continued to raise his legs in place.

A taxi pulled up at the intersection next to him, and a scantily clad woman with heavy makeup got out of the car, and she looked strangely at the man who was raising her legs in place at the intersection.

At that moment, the green light came on, and the glory suddenly set in, like a cheetah, and the wind he brought with him even blew the girl's hair and skirt. The girl looked at his back in surprise, and forgot to cover her ******...... The taxi driver tilted his head and feasted his eyes.

Rongguang passed by a teenager who was delivering newspapers on a skateboard, and the speed was so fast that the skateboarder forgot about it and threw the newspaper in his hand into the yard next to him......

As he ran, the number of people and voices grew as he passed, and his regular footsteps were no longer the only sound wafting over the streets.

When he turned around and ran back to the main entrance of the hotel, the morning sun jumped out from the eastern horizon, and the street lights went out one after another.

The sky was completely bright.

The waiter at the front desk of the hotel was surprised to see the revolving door of Rongguang Tong Guò back in the hotel lobby, he took off his hat and exhaled, his face was shiny with sweat, his wet hair was lying on his scalp, was there a crystal clear drop of water falling from the tip of his hair, reflecting the sunlight outside the window in the air, like a brilliant little sun. I1292