Entering August, the fiery atmosphere of the World Cup has just dissipated, but the flames of major European leagues have been quietly ignited.

The start time of the Premier League is only behind Ligue 1 among the top five leagues. However, as a sentinel battle in the Premier League, this year's renaming from the Charity Shield to the Community Shield also started after the opening of the French Ligue 1 gong.

With Arsenal winning both the league and FA Cup last season, this first Community Shield is between Arsenal and last season's league runners-up Liverpool.

As a result, Arsenal eventually won the first Community Shield 1-0.

It's just that after the professors and Gunners won this championship, I really don't know whether to celebrate or be sad.

You know, the famous "Charity Shield Curse" has been rampant in the Premier League over the years!

The so-called "Charity Shield curse" means that since 1997, any team that wins the Community Shield will miss out on the next year's Premier League title. It's been five seasons now, and the spell has been working.

The Cantona era and Beckham's Manchester United's 92 golden generation of Manchester United are unparalleled in the world. Neither of them could break the curse, and United won an unprecedented three consecutive Premier League titles in 1998-1999, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001. However, they suffered two heavy defeats to Arsenal and one to Chelsea in the Charity Shield in 1998, 1999 and 2000. In 1997, before the "treble" of the league, Manchester United won the Charity Shield, but in the 1997-1998 season, the Premier League title was taken by Arsenal. The 2001 Charity Shield was won by Liverpool. This was also an important part of the team's "five consecutive championships" that season. However, last season's Premier League title was won by Arsenal.

With Arsenal winning the Community Shield this year, Gunners fans can only hope that the Charity Shield will be renamed the Community Shield.

As Arsenal's local rivals, Tottenham fans are naturally hoping that the curse will continue to work. However, they clearly want their team to perform a little better than that.

The reason why Hoddle urgently went to the reserve team to transfer people to the first team also has a lot to do with the tight schedule of Tottenham at the beginning of the season.

Before the league begins, they will face a League Cup qualifier on 15 August. The opponent is FC Encamp from the Andorran Premier League, a team that is a traditional powerhouse in the Andorran Super League, but a veritable belly team in Europe. Therefore, they may not be able to cause too much trouble for Tottenham to reach the main stage of the UEFA Cup.

Three days after the first leg of the UEFA Cup qualifiers, on 18 August, Tottenham will face Everton in the first round of the league. Although it was only a confrontation between mid-table teams, it attracted the attention of Chinese fans. Because Tottenham has signed Chinese player Chen Xi, and will also hope to sign Chinese international Qu Bo, and Everton also has two Chinese internationals, Li Gang and Li Weifeng. In the eyes of the Chinese media, this is a rare "super Chinese derby".

It's just that they obviously ignore one point, these four players, except for Li Tie who can play in the team, the other players may not have many surnames on the field. Li Weifeng has been playing in the development team since joining Everton with the help of Everton sponsor Ke Jian, Qu Bo has not been able to officially join Tottenham due to labor certification issues, and Chen Xi has not been able to win the trust of manager Hoddle although he has signed a contract.

Therefore, the so-called "Super China Derby" is now just wishful thinking on the part of the Chinese side.

On August 24, Tottenham will also host Aston Villa in the second round of the league.

Three days later, on the 27th, the UEFA Cup is back and Tottenham will face Cardiff City from League Two (later League One).

Three days later, on 30 August, Tottenham have to play the second leg of the League Cup qualifying tie against FC Encamp.

In other words, in the first half month of the new season, Tottenham Hotspur has to deal with 5 games on three lines, although the strength of the opponent is not strong, but it can be called a devil's schedule!

However, Tottenham Hotspur still lost troops before the start of the season, and Hoddle's words are really sad.

Chen Xi, who learned of this situation, was a little excited in his heart. Obviously, the team is tight, which is a good thing for a newcomer like him. That means he has more chances to play!

And Chen Xi believes that once Hoddle gives him opportunities, he will seize them and strive to make himself an indispensable member of the team!

After figuring this out, Chen Xi obviously knew that what he had to do was to train hard and strive to integrate into the team as soon as possible, so that he could play better when he got the opportunity to play!

In fact, Chen Xi does not have much of a problem integrating into the team. First of all, his own surname is quite cheerful. In both worlds, his interpersonal skills are much better than the average young player. In addition, in his first tryout, he had impressed several veterans who had played alongside him on the team. Captain Redknapp and striker Sheringham have spoken to him, and Chen Xi's humility and respect for them have also made the two veterans appreciate him.

Therefore, Chen Xi, who reported to the team for the first time, was not subjected to any trouble because he was covered by bigwigs like Redknapp and Sheringham.

In the locker room, Chen Xi didn't have any trouble, and on the court, he didn't have any problems.

Although he was placed on the substitute side, Chen Xi's performance was like the stars in the night, and his light could not be concealed at all!

Because Tottenham is now suffering from a shortage of strikers, and Hoddle really doesn't look down on the waste strikers in the reserves, when training in the first team, the substitute side can't even find a center forward.

Helpless, Hoddle had no choice but to make a cameo appearance for the tall Irish centre-back Doherty as a substitute centre-forward.

is such a center forward who was driven out of the shelf, stunned under Chen Xi's continuous side breakthrough feeding, in a team match of 20 minutes each in the second half, completed a hat trick of headers.

This made Sheringham, who is the center of the main side, envious, you must know that in Chen Xi's first trial game, he tried Chen Xi's nanny-style assist. As far as he goes, if he and Doherty switch places, he'll at least be able to wear another hat!

Of course, Chen Xi's powerful assist is also related to the team's main left fullback Ziger's absence due to injury, although the substitute defender Benjesevic does not suffer physically, but the flexibility and speed are obviously not at the same level as Chen Xi, when Chen Xi breaks through, he is almost no different from a humanoid stake.

Chen Xi's performance in the first team is also so bright, which makes Hoddle have to admit that Chris's previous praise for Chen Xi is not an exaggeration.

Perhaps, I should give this young man some chance! Hoddle, who was in a situation of employment crisis, looked at Chen Xi, who was actively training, and thought.