Chapter 125: Stepping on the Shoulders of a Giant!
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Everton FC's long and proud history has earned them a respectable place in the history of English football.
That's why they're arrogant.
In 1878, Everton FC was officially founded, 14 years before their arch-rivals, Liverpool.
In the 20s, Everton established a reputation as a powerhouse in England, and in 1927-28, the legendary Dean scored 60 goals in a single season, helping Everton not only win the league title that year, but also set a single-season scoring record that no one has broken to this day.
Over the next 50 years, Everton continued their success, winning four league titles and one FA Cup, and in the 80s they dominated the English League One twice, before winning the European Cup Winners' Cup making them one of the most feared teams on the European stage.
Everton, who had declined slightly since the 90s, stubbornly defended their Premier League place and still hold a proud record – they have never been relegated from the top flight since 1954, and last season they were a dark horse in the Premier League, finishing seventh under manager David Moyes.
These are the reasons why Everton FC is arrogant.
Compared with Everton's history, Derby County is too slim, let's just say that Everton is also a strong Premier League team now, and Derby County is just an English First Division team, so why does the media think that Derby County can beat Everton at Goodison Park?
The people of Everton feel incomprehensible and at the same time quite angry!
With manager David Moyes making public statements, a number of players, fans and Everton supporters jumped out in support of Everton, and soon the voices for Everton were much louder than for Derby County – in fact. Those voices who support Derby County are not very resolute, they just follow the trend to support Derby, not from the heart at all, compared with these pure Everton supporters, their support is not at all, when faced with the wave of counter-offensive of Everton supporters, the media supporting Derby County immediately died down.
Derby then began to face a stormy media offensive from Everton.
Under this offensive, there are very few media outlets that stand up for Derby County.
The voices that supported Derby County before all disappeared without a trace for a while, and more importantly, more importantly. The Daily Mirror stopped praising Derbyshire, and the followers did not have the courage to fight head-on with the media in the north of England – in fact they were only followers, with no reason to support Derbyshire and no strength to do so.
That's pre-match for Everton and Derby.
Everton looked like a giant compared to the two teams, and Derby County began to rely on the sound of the media to climb up the ladder, and then the giant stood up and the ladder suddenly broke. At this point, Derby County was almost suspended in mid-air, there was no support point at all, and perhaps the only thing they could do was jump on the shoulders of the giants. Continue to look down on the giants, otherwise, they will fall straight to the ground and become a joke.
Derby County is currently in such a situation.
Neither the Derby County club nor the whole club expected it. Public opinion was able to change in two days, and the outside coverage was almost always biased in favour of Everton, even the neutral media. Perhaps it was also because the voices that supported Derby County were too arrogant before, so they provoked a lot of opponents for Derby County, and now Derby County is about to face this wave of counteroffensive.
Even Brand didn't expect that the big hole he dug in order to paralyze Derbyshire did not have an effect, and the sudden stop of praise had this effect.
There is an old Chinese saying that 'if you lose the east, you will reap the mulberry', and this is exactly what happened.
Naturally, he was happy to see such jokes.
Under the offensive of public opinion, the pressure on the Derby County club is still very high, if the media only supports Everton's voice, the key is that the multimedia is also verbally satirical about Derby, and their arguments are generally Derby County's 'arrogance', 'arrogance' and the like, which are also the media tables that previously supported Derby.
But in fact, Derby County is purely carrying a black cauldron. They didn't do anything, and they ended up where they are.
Wan Sheng didn't expect things to develop like this, although he didn't care about the media's comments at all, but he was still very upset with so many hostile remarks, but he knew that the pre-match was not the time to show his timidity.
Whatever the reason, but Derby County have come this far and they have to stick tough on it.
Facing the reporter's interview, Wan Sheng waved his fist and said viciously on his face, "I don't know why those people say that, they say we are arrogant?" Are we arrogant? I don't think so, because this time we went to Goodison Stadium to trample on the pride of the Liverpudlians! ”
"There are media who think we can represent football in the south of England, I don't think so, but they insist on saying that, so we can be arrogant. Hear someone say Everton is a giant? Well, then we're going to step on the shoulders of giants! ”
Wan Sheng said conclusively.
This time it wasn't a rumor, Wan Sheng really said that, so the media who supported Everton were furious, and they lashed out at Derby County even more.
In their rhetoric, Derbyshire has become far more than arrogant and arrogant, completely transformed into a grandstanding clown, and Wan Sheng is described by them as an incompetent and arrogant villain.
The media is almost all about Wansheng's negative remarks.
Many people in the club are worried about this, and they can't imagine how they can withstand so much pressure if they are in Wansheng's position, but Wansheng still works normally on weekdays and leads the team to train normally.
He also explained to the players that they should not think too much.
'We're top of the league, we're in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, no one could have thought we'd come this far before the season, so what are we afraid of now?'
"Whatever the media wants, let them say it, we just have to try to win the game! When we win the game, let's see what else those guys have to say! ”
"Guys. Sue me, do you have confidence in the game! ”
Hearing Wan Sheng's words, many players also laughed and shouted.
Although there is a lot of talk in the media, after playing against Tottenham Hotspur and Birmingham, the players of the whole team are still very confident in the game, and this is the advantage of beating a strong team - before winning against a strong team, the players will automatically put the team in the position of the underdog, and after beating the strong team, the players will feel that the team has a chance to win against the strong team.
Seeing everyone's confidence, Wansheng also smiled with satisfaction.
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However, Diamares is still worried about Wansheng. He knew the reason why Wan Sheng said that in front of the media - Wan Sheng was not to provoke his opponent for no reason, but wanted to put all the media's speech pressure on himself.
A day earlier, the media had made a statement about the entire Derby County team.
A day later, the rhetoric changed to that of Wan Sheng alone.
Many reports do not mention Derby County, and the direct irony is that the Derby County manager, Wan Sheng said those words, almost all Everton supporters offended. Even the media around London felt secretly unhappy about Wan Sheng's saying 'Derbyshire ghostwriting football in the north of England', and they also followed a few words.
In short, the English media is a bit of a 'universal boycott' at the moment.
Wansheng did this, which is tantamount to putting the whole team under the pressure of public opinion. It's all on his shoulders, so his pressure can be imagined.
Diamares cared, "Wansheng, is this really good?" ”
Wan Sheng laughed instead. "What's the big deal, as long as the team can win." It's worth everything. ”
If the average coach is faced with the pressure of public opinion from the media, he will definitely deny the previous report, saying something like 'we didn't say anything like that', 'Everton is a strong team worthy of respect', which will somewhat reduce the impact of public opinion, if this is done, Wansheng will hardly have any pressure, that is, the media underestimate Derby County.
But to do so would be demoralising, and it would also turn public opinion against the club as a whole.
Wansheng chose the most direct way.
He stepped up, stepped up to attract firepower, and then pulled the whole team out of it, so that the whole team didn't have to face any pressure, all the pressure was on his own person.
Of course, the price is not small......
Wansheng's reputation was not very good before, and now the reputation is simply worse, and few media can have a good impression of Wansheng, and those Everton supporters even directly list Wansheng as hostile.
But Wansheng didn't care.
He knows very well the rules in professional football, no matter what the situation, winning is the most important thing, as long as you can keep winning, a qiē is not a problem.
It's like when he first became the manager of Derby County, he wasn't well-known at the time, he couldn't be said to be good or bad, but the media was all questioning his remarks, why?
Because he has not yet won.
But when he led Derby County to victory after victory, and even now became the top of the league, there was very little opposition in the Derby County region, and even those media who had a bad feeling for him would report the good news.
Now he is not well-known in the top circles of English football, so when he says that he wants to beat Everton, the media will have such a big reaction, if a famous manager says the same thing, the media will not react so violently - if Ferguson or Wenger say something similar, it is estimated that the Everton media will start to worry about the team.
That's the difference.
The reason why he has so much pressure on him now is that he has too few wins and too little fame in the top flight.
Wan Sheng can see this clearly, so he doesn't care about what the media accuses him of, but those negative remarks make him look forward to the team's victory over Everton even more -
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