293 Boom and Fall

Eriksen made a big change in the second half in an attempt to regain control of the game.

But George didn't care about that at all, and still used a fast pace to deal with him. At the beginning of the second half, Giorgio even used a quicker pace than the first half to deal with Lazio. In later generations, there was a saying that the Premier League was the Premier League and Serie A, the Serie A and La Liga and the Premier League.

Although this is just a joke, it is not without purpose. This is the reason for the style of the ball.

The so-called Premier League and Serie A are actually the fast pace of the Premier League defeating the slow of Serie A. Just like Arsenal, they will be able to beat every Serie A team they face in the next decade. It's a matter of the style of the ball. That's why George is going to be fast and slow.

Twenty minutes into the second half, and Lazio still hadn't scored, George began to recover.

George replaced Miku with McAllister. Let Deco go up and use McAllister to increase defense and control.

Then he replaced Pire with Bellamy, so Lazio knew what a counter-attack was and what speed was. However, at this time, Lazio had no choice but to attack aggressively. In the end, Blackburn played a counterattack, Bellamy ran nearly forty meters, and finally handed it to Duff, who counterattacked together on the right side. Duff eventually scored the third goal with ease.

3-0, Blackburn Rovers defeated the mighty Lazio 3-0 in a strong conversation.

After the game, the reporters from Italy all came and went home in high spirits. I thought that after defeating Blackburn, I would take a good look at the arrogant George. But I didn't expect Lazio to lose 3-0 away from home.

George smiled smugly at the Italian reporter.

"I'm really sorry to disappoint everyone." George paused, looking at the Italian reporter's deflated appearance, and became more and more happy. "I'm a person who has absolutely no prejudice against Italian football. On the contrary, I admire Italian football because I am a coach who started out defensively. But that's how things are in the world. Serie A has flourished and declined, and it has flourished for more than ten years, and it has come to decline. ”

"The decline of Serie A, you should find your own reasons. Without reforms, the decline of Serie A is now just the beginning. ”

It's an indisputable fact that Italian football is now lagging behind other leagues in many ways. It's just that Italian football doesn't want to admit it.

The development of Italian football is now completely dependent on the investment of the big bosses behind them, while the development of the club itself is poor. Just because Italy does not allow clubs to have private courts, Italian clubs don't know how far behind Premier League clubs in terms of development.

Premier League clubs have their own stadiums.

Manchester United, for example, has the best stadium in the Premier League, Old Trafford. The 68,000-seat Old Trafford Stadium is entirely the property of Manchester United. With Old Trafford, Manchester United earns the most in the Premier League each season.

Coupled with the development and operation of places around Old Trafford, Manchester United earns more than many clubs in the world in a year from Old Trafford.

Even Blackburn, when Jack. When Walker expanded Ewood Park, he also bought a lot of land next to the stadium. Those plots were owned by Jack. Walker is used to develop a number of other uses. Therefore, even Blackburn Rovers far surpasses the Serie A giants in terms of stadium income.

It is also because of the important surname of the stadium that Arsenal will tighten their belts to build the Emirates Stadium.

But Italian football is completely behind in this regard.

Another important source of income is television broadcasting fees. The Premier League has the highest TV broadcast fee in European football, far surpassing Serie A. And the Premier League is bundled, while Serie A is separated. In particular, the top three teams in the north, Juventus and Milan, have a monopoly on half of all Serie A television fees.

In this way, except for the top three teams in the north, other Serie A teams can get even less TV broadcast fees than the Premier League relegated teams. This distribution system has made the gap between the rich and the poor in Serie A wider and wider. The top three in the north are getting stronger, while the other teams are getting more and more troubled.

So that the strength of the entire Serie A team has not been greatly developed.

Now the owners behind the Serie A club are still able to support the team. But when there is an economic crisis, once there is any problem with the boss behind them, then the whole of Italian football will collapse.

At that time, including the current Serie A powerhouses Lazio, Parma, and Fiorentina, will be hit by a huge blow.

To put it bluntly, Italian football is far behind the development of European football in every aspect.

If the above are all policy things, then there are many factors restricting the development of Italian football now. Needless to say, the "phone gate" that was exposed later is of course very harmful to the healthy development of a league.

But apart from that, there are big problems in Italian football.

Italian football is currently the most frustrated among Europe's top five leagues. Or watching the game live, there will be a lot of fights, burning tees, throwing things at the court, and so on. Anyway, it can be said that it is dangerous to watch the game live in Italy.

In addition to on-the-spot violence, there is also a very high level of racism in Italian football.

Discrimination against black people by Italian fans could be heard everywhere.

Everyone says England has the most football hooligans. But when it comes to the security of the scene, Serie A can't compare with the Premier League at all. The Premier League far surpasses Serie A in the fight against racism and football hooliganism. As long as there are fans making trouble at the scene, after being caught by the camera, those fans will be blacklisted.

For their punishment, not only will a lawsuit be filed depending on the size of the matter. And most severely, they will never get the chance to go to the stadium again. For those fanatical England fans, not being able to watch the game is worse than killing them.

And there are a lot of cameras in the stadium, as long as there is something that will definitely be recorded by the camera. You can't run away.

So the order in the Premier League is very good.

But Serie A is different. Molotov cocktails thrown at players' buses, fans fighting at the scene, fans burning stadium seats, and verbal abuse of people of color.

All of these factors have severely constrained the number of live fans in Serie A. So that the already very pitiful ticket income is getting less and less.

Having said so much, it actually means the same thing. The decline of the Italian league is definitely not a factor of any other. It's all because there are big problems in the management of the Italian league, and their development has not kept up with the development of European football.

This time, too, the Italian journalist was frustrated.

After the third round of the Champions League group stage, all the Italian media were dumbfounded. Because except for AC Milan's 2-0 away victory over Barcelona, defending the face of Serie A. And Juventus was beaten 1-0 by Deportivo La Coruna at their home stadium.

After three rounds of matches, Arsenal is already in first place with seven points from two wins and one draw, while Deportivo La Coruna is second with five points from one win and two draws, Panathinaikos is third with two points from two draws and one loss, and Juventus is with only one point from one draw and two losses.

This group is recognized as the group of death. After the draw, it was thought that Juventus and Arsenal were the most likely to break through. Of course, Deportivo La Coruna is not impossible, after all, it is Super Laco, and the strength is still there.

But I didn't expect that half of the game had been played, and Juventus, who was the most optimistic, seemed to be asleep, in a daze. Only one draw has been played out of three games.

The other team, Lazio, was beaten 0-3 by Blackburn Rovers on the road.

The Italian club's performance is so bad that the Italian media can't say anything.

On the contrary, the English media is very excited.

Manchester United's group is a bit complicated, and the points situation is messy. However, the British media still believe that Manchester United can easily break through. Blackburn, on the other hand, gave the English football world a lot of face this time, defeating Serie A champions Lazio 3-0.

But it's Arsenal that excites English football the most. Arsenal's group is the group of death, but Arsenal are the most optimistic to qualify. As long as Arsenal win one more game, they have basically already secured a place in qualifying.

………… After the 3-0 victory over Lazio, the British media's praise for Blackburn has reached the point of incomparably numb.

That's what competitive games are all about. No matter how much you hate someone, as long as they have good grades, they will praise him. George has a lot of grievances in the media in English football, and even more journalists have offended. But now George's results are so good, there are countless media outlets chasing George.

The media said that George was a famous coach in England.

Even George blushes when he reads these newspapers.

But Blackburn Rovers are at their best right now.

The media is even analysing when Blackburn will end their winning streak. Blake haven't lost a game since the start of the season and are now on an 11-game winning streak.

The analysis of many media is that it will either be an away game against Lazio or an away game against Manchester United in the 11th round. Because in the middle, Blackburn's opponents are only Middlesbrough, Everton, Manchester City and other opponents.

Even after reading it, George felt that he was not going to create a league winning streak.

With the win over Lazio, the Blackburn players were a little flustered. If we talk about beating Real Madrid, Real Madrid is still a little unsatisfactory. Then this victory over Lazio shows Blackburn's strongest strength.

Blackburn, on the other hand, lived up to expectations, beating Middlesbrough comfortably 2-0 in the eighth round of the Premier League. By the time of the win over Middlesbrough, all the media believed that this season's Premier League must be Blackburn's.

Because in the highlight of this round, Arsenal won 1-0 at home to Manchester United. As a result, Blackburn are seven points ahead of Arsenal and nine points ahead of Manchester United.

Blackburn Rovers are at full throttle, and everyone is wondering who can stop Blackburn?

Excited, George hopes to be able to continue this performance. Blackburn Rovers are also full of confidence right now.

Everyone praised Blackburn, even opponents Everton. But when he arrived at Goodison Park, he was beaten by Everton and lost his temper. Blackburn, who was full of confidence, was suddenly woken up.

Everton, who were low-profile, won 1-0 against Blackburn Rovers with a defensive counter-attack. It was the first defeat of the new season for George.

(To be continued)