Although it was only a win over an obscure Sparta Prague, the Blackburn press didn't care about that.

The last time I went to the Champions League, I only won the last inconsequential game. Six Champions League group games, one win, one draw and four defeats. And one win and one draw are the last two rounds of the group stage, and the situation in the group stage at that time has already become clear.

So to the disappointment of all Blackburn Rovers fans.

But this time was different. He had just set out and won a clean 3-0 victory over Sparta Prague in his first game.

Steven. Yellen followed George, becoming more and more arrogant. In the Blackburn Evening News, the headline reads, "This is the first step in the conquest of Europe!" ”

It praised Blackburn's performance throughout, and then ended with a stabbing "Europe, we Blackburn!" ”。

Even George was embarrassed to see this thing. If it is an old giant, it is qualified to shout "Europe, we are back" in the media. ”。 But Blackburn Rovers are not a green onion at all in European football.

The crowning achievement in European football was George leading Blackburn Rovers to the UEFA Cup last season.

However, after the first round of the group stage, the English media were very happy. Because the three teams that played for England were all very good. Compared to Blackburn's 3-0, the other two group stages are more in the spotlight.

First up is Group G, Manchester United is arguably the strongest team in England at the moment. Facing Anderlecht from the Belgian First Division, they swept Anderlecht at home with a score of 5-1. And if it weren't for the carelessness of the Manchester United defence in the middle of the game, they wouldn't have conceded a single goal. Of course, if Manchester United hadn't closed it in the end, it wouldn't have been possible to score two or three more goals.

Compared to Blackburn's 3-0, Manchester United's 5-1 is not far behind.

Coupled with Manchester United's fame in English and European football, this game can be regarded as receiving a lot of media coverage.

However, Manchester United and Blackburn have not reported as much on the Arsenal side combined. Arsenal's Group E is the group of death in the first round of the Champions League. There are Juventus, Deportivo La Coruna, Arsenal, Panathinaikos.

Panathinaikos is a recognized fish belly. Everyone is concerned about Juventus, Deportivo La Coruna and Arsenal, who of the three teams can stand out from the group stage.

And in the first game, there was a hard-hitting focus game. Arsenal face Juventus at home.

In terms of European results in recent years, of course, Juventus has the advantage. Juventus have not won the Champions League in the past five years. However, he has also entered the Champions League final for two consecutive years, although he can only win the Champions League runner-up in the end, but the Champions League results are already very good.

On the contrary, Arsenal's European record is much worse. At this time, Arsenal's record in Europe was not ordinarily bad. Last season, he was eliminated in the first round of the group stage and came to the League Cup. Arsene Wenger is really not good at the Champions League at this time, and he has not achieved any good results in the Champions League.

Therefore, although it is an away game, the Italian media is still more optimistic about Juventus.

But when the results came out, everyone was surprised. Because at home Arsenal won 4-3 against Juventus.

After the start of the competition, it turned out to be as expected. Trezeguet, who has just moved from Monaco for €24 million this season, has made a big splash at Highbury, scoring two goals in a row to lead the home team Arsenal 2-0.

But the rest of the race didn't go as expected.

Thierry Henry, who has gradually integrated into Arsenal, completely disarmed Juventus with a hat-trick. Henry's outstanding performance even made Juventus's top management regret it, especially Mogi, who watched the game live. Such an excellent Henry, was it a mistake to let him go back then.

Henry can be said to have completely penetrated the defense of the "old lady" Juventus. In the end, Ljungberg received a pass from Thierry Henry and scored a goal as well.

Thierry Henry's game was truly majestic, telling everyone with a hat-trick. A super striker is about to be born.

Although Juventus pulled a goal back in the end, they still lost 3-4 on the road.

The match that focused all the eyes of European football ended with Arsenal's 4-3 victory over Juventus. Panathinaikos, the recognized fish belly, drew 1-1 at home to Deportivo La Coruna. After the first round of matches, Arsenal led with three points, Deportivo La Coruna and Panathinaikos followed with one point, while Juventus, the strongest team, had only a few eggs.

Arsenal's victory over Juventus made English football a lot of joy.

The host of the BBC coverage of the Champions League programme quoted George as saying after the highlights of the Arsenal and Juventus matches. "The glory of Serie A is behind us, and soon European football will usher in the Premier League."

In English football, there is a lot of talk about the decline of Serie A.

Of course, the Italian media, which has always been accustomed to being the boss, is of course not satisfied with this kind of comment in English football. They then retorted to the English media, what trophies can you show off in the past ten years except for Manchester United's Champions League?

Cup Winners' Cup, League Cup, although there have been a few in English football in the past decade, Italy has won more. Moreover, Italian clubs have been absolutely strong in the three major cups of European football in this decade.

The controversy is definitely not only affecting the English and Italian media, but even the Spanish media. They watched the scolding battle between the two media almost from a top-down attitude, and then came over to pull away the two people who were arguing. Finally tell these two. Now the best league in Europe is the Spanish Primera Division, so don't quarrel with the two of you.

Looking at this scene of quarrel, George shook his head.

Although many journalists also want to hear the opinion of George, the big mouth of English football. But George didn't get what they wanted. George was busy now, and he didn't have time to pay attention to this kind of quarrel.

After playing the Champions League group stage against Sparta Prague, George flew to London to take on Chelsea away.

On September 16, it was raining lightly.

And Chelsea are in a bad situation right now, not in general. Chelsea have won one, drawn three and lost one of their first five games, accumulating six points. Of course, the most important problem is that Chelsea is currently suffering from internal and external troubles, and it doesn't matter if the results are poor, but the most important thing is that there are great internal contradictions.

The media is also staring at Chelsea every day, breaking the news every day about the contradictions between Chelsea coach Vialli and the internal bigwigs.

George liked this kind of opponent the most. If the teams are like Manchester United and Arsenal, there are no major scandals within the team, and the fighting power is maintained very well. So how is the game still played? George wants to see a team like Chelsea every day.

George's favorite thing is to fall into a well, and it is George's usual method to kill you while you are sick.

Because he had just finished the Champions League, George made a slight change of players. Deco, in particular, has basically not missed a game this season. George played a trio of Miku, McAllister and Hargreaves in midfield.

Of the two wings, Pire and Bellamy were used. The forward line continues to use Klose.

The game started at a fast pace and Chelsea are in poor form at the moment. Vialli simply can't command Chelsea's big-name players, and the players seem to be at odds with each other.

In the 12th minute of the first half, Blackburn had to play up front and finally scored the first goal through Pire.

Seeing Pire's goal, Vialli just spread his hands on the field. The expression of helplessness was beyond words. At this time, the camera of the TV broadcast was firmly locked on Vialli on the sidelines. The Italian star, a coach who has also managed Chelsea well, is already full of helplessness at this time.

And before the end of the first half, Klose received a pass from Miku and got rid of Desailly to score the second goal of the game. It also scored Klose's third league goal of the season.

Chelsea's sluggish form didn't change at all in the second half, while Blackburn Rovers continued to push the strings. Klose scored another second-half goal and Miku added the icing on the cake to a very comfortable 4-0 win over Blackburn Rovers at Stamford Bridge.

Although Vialli is a tough guy on the field, he also belongs to the kind of coach who has a lot of grace. But maybe there have been too many troubles recently, and I didn't say hello to George at all after the game, and left the stadium directly.

I didn't even go to the post-match press conference.

But no one cares. In the arena, they only pay attention to results, don't think that Vialli was so majestic back then, and now he can be so bullish. Even if it is Pele and Maradona, if they have poor results after coaching, they will be scolded.

When George returned to Blackburn the next day, he heard news. Chelsea Football Club has announced that after discussions between the club and Vialli, it has been decided that Vialli will no longer be Chelsea's head coach from now on.

Anyway, it's very nice. Saying thank you to Vialli for his contribution to the club, but to put it mildly, Chelsea FC sacked Vialli.

In fact, there was already news at the beginning of the season that Vialli would be fired. However, Vialli remained at Chelsea, but he did not expect that Vialli would never be able to level the Chelsea dressing room. One win, three draws and two defeats in six rounds, such a result is really not worthy of Chelsea.

So Vialli can only leave.

After Vialli got out of class, he did not sympathize with him, but the media and newspapers ridiculed him everywhere.

The Sun even nicknamed George the "Coach Killer".

"George was at Burnley, and he had Blackburn Rovers change manager twice. Because of the loss to George's Burnley, the two managers before and after Blackburn could only be disgraced. ”

'At Blackburn Rovers, they knocked Burnley out of League One last season. Burnley manager Roder was sacked immediately after that game. And Vialli also hit the trick this time, losing 4-0 at home to Blackburn Rovers, completely ruining his future at Chelsea. ”

"George is a coach killer. I don't know how many coaches will be planted in his hands. ”

George looked at the newspaper and could only shake his head helplessly. Speaking of which, only Ray When, who had just taken over as head coach of Blackburn Rovers, was the only one who took over as head coach of Blackburn. Shafort was really dismissed by George. The other managers are already in their own bad and shaky head coach positions. It's just that the last kick that brought them down was kicked out by George.

(To be continued)