Late at night, Aldrich's house.

He had just returned home in London, and was sitting in his living room listening to Carter's account of the riots in Newcastle.

Evan came down from the upper floor, came to the back of the sofa, and pressed his hands on Aldrich's shoulders and kneaded them gently.

She knew that Aldrich was in a bad mood after Puskas entered the intensive care unit recently, and she was also a little sad, but in front of the children, she still had to force a smile, and now that this sudden incident happened, I am afraid it will make Aldrich feel even worse.

Aldrich seemed to have recovered from a state of confusion, raised his head and asked softly, "Are the children asleep?" ”

Evan hummed softly.

Aldridge turned his head to look at Carter again, and said lightly: "It's our fans who take the initiative to stir up trouble?" ”

Carter nodded helplessly and said: "Although most of the fans arrested are West Ham United fans, it is indeed our fans who took the initiative to provoke the trouble, and there are several more famous figures in this, such as our friend, Brady, oh, unfortunately, among the very few Millwall fans who have been arrested, there is also one of our friends, Saul." ”

Aldrich froze.

But he was stunned for only two seconds, and then burst out laughing, stroking his forehead and chuckling, and then laughing out loud.

"Hahaha, Thor, maybe he's in good health, he can't run fast enough, hahaha, he's going to be unlucky now, he can't escape the lifetime ban, as a photojournalist, he can't collect materials at close range, which makes him even more uncomfortable than killing him!"

Carter, on the contrary, was stunned again, unsure if Aldrich's current laughter was an irony?

Not quite like that. He looks like he's smiling heartily.

Evan, however, was a little worried. I'm worried about whether Aldridge has been under too much pressure lately.

"How can you still laugh? Now what? ”

Carter asked, puzzled.

Aldrich stopped laughing. Immediately, he sighed helplessly and smiled: "What else can I do?" It's business. The fans who were arrested were handled by the police, and what kind of fine the FA wants to issue, we will not appeal, just accept all the orders. Hehe, if one day Millwall's fans don't get into trouble, then Millwall FC must be out of the local community. has become Millwall, which truly belongs to the world, but that doesn't seem to be realistic, after all, London is not Manchester, not Liverpool, there are too many teams in London, the confrontation between the fan camps is strong, and the division of fans is also full of regionality. It is estimated that in another 100 years, it will be impossible to get rid of the genes that have been passed down from the past. There's nothing wrong with that. In his bones, the mad lion should be full of confrontation and fighting temperament, even if it is an active provocation, it is not impossible. ”

Things always have to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.

Combined with today's game, there was such a riot after the game, Aldridge was not surprised when he heard the news.

If we go back to the deeper factors of the outbreak, he is more able to accept the reality.

After the two pre-match games in East London this season, West Ham United fans took the initiative to provoke Millwall fans, but Millwall fans deliberately avoided it and did not cause a big riot, and occasionally passers-by fought or confronted each other alone, which was pediatric and negligible.

Aldridge is not a spiritual beautician, he has suppressed and standardized the behavior of fans in the past ten years, and it is impossible to teach fans to "change their minds and be new people", after being repeatedly provoked by West Ham United and avoided, West Ham United fans will naturally use this to mock Millwall fans to become weak, this depression to the extreme, will eventually erupt, under the stimulation of a catalyst, the emergence of today's riots can be said to be accidental, but there is its inevitability.

The next day, instead of Millwall, the Fleet beat West Ham United 4-0 to advance to the FA Cup final, and are expected to hit the treble again this season!

It's "East London Football Hooligans Scourge Newcastle!" ”

Almost all media will report such exciting news for the first time, and absolutely no media will miss such big news, even if they follow the trend, there must be countless readers who pay the bill.

West Ham United officials are the first to accuse Millwall fans of despicable behavior!

However, most of the detained fans were West Ham United fans, so they could not completely clear the suspicion and put all the responsibility on Millwall.

And after Carter left in the early hours of the morning, he communicated privately with the FA.

In this kind of public relations and dealing with the bureaucracy, Millwall's public relations work is very good.

In the early hours of the morning, Millwall informed the FA that the club would fully cooperate with the FA without complaints!

In the final analysis, the FA is also the "three regardless" zone in British society, a non-governmental organization with real power, lacking effective supervision, and the FA and similar organizations around the world, if the Football Association, UEFA, and FIFA are the same, they are building their own organizations into an impregnable fortress, refusing the infiltration of outsiders, especially unwilling to intervene in their management!

Therefore, when the fan riots broke out, in order to prevent the British government from trying to find trouble with the FA by playing the problem, the FA was bound to make an example and make severe punishments to calm the anger of the public!

Since Millwall is willing to cooperate, it is easier to do, than Millwall and the FA for half a day, procrastination cannot quickly cut the mess, the longer it drags on, the greater the bad impact of the incident!

Compared with West Ham United, who shirked responsibility in the first place, the statement issued by the official club of Millwall seems to be easier to gain recognition from the outside world.

First, Millwall condemned the actions of football hooliganism, and secondly, they apologized to Newcastle City as a club, and were willing to compensate for the damage after the fact.

Aldridge was known to have always hated football hooligans, and Millwall FC later published a statistical list, blacklisting fans who had been caught by the police and prohibiting them from entering the Lion King Stadium to watch Millwall plays.

In this way, Millwall is "daring", but his position is clear.

The fans represent a part of the club's image, which is inseparable, and even if they are on opposite sides, in the eyes of outsiders, the black sheep are also part of the club.

So Millwall will apologize, will make reparations, and just say a few words casually.

And Millwall does not tolerate such behavior of fans, which is also in line with their consistent style.

But in fact, this statement was a little trick by Millwall to make a time difference.

Fans who are arrested by the police will inevitably be punished with a lifetime ban after the fact.

Regardless of whether Millwall bans them from entering the Lion King Stadium, they will lose their entry to the tournament at least within England, and whether going abroad will also be banned, it depends on whether the FA will send this "football hooligan list" to other countries.

The FA's penalty came down quickly, and in the afternoon of the next day, the FA issued the heaviest fine in history!

The next two Premier League games between Millwall and West Ham United, if they play at home, the stands are half closed, and if they play away from home, the away fans' stands are not open!

Sentenced Millwall to pay a fine of £500,000 for mismanagement!

West Ham United paid a fine of £250,000 for the same reason!

After this fine was issued, the British society generally applauded, precisely because it was too heavy! The FA has promised to use 70% of the fines collected to compensate Newcastle for losses, and the other 30% to strengthen the supervision of the development of football hooliganism

£500,000 alone may not be too much.

But considering the more than 60,000 capacity of the Lion King Stadium, half of the ticket revenue, and the incidental matchday operating income, Millwall will suffer a direct economic loss of more than 1.5 million pounds!

As Aldrich told Sù Carter, Millwall took it all!

If you do something wrong, you must admit punishment!

Even if the fans did it, but the impact is too bad, the club can't stay out of it, this responsibility must be shouldered!

Millwall took the initiative to pay the fine and began to take action to deal with the aftermath, on the other hand, West Ham United began to protest with the FA, roughly the same set of rhetoric, putting all the blame on Millwall and defending themselves, the FA was impatient and did not give West Ham United the slightest chance to appeal, either, you give money to settle this matter, or, let's turn around and see if the Hammers can still get mixed up in the future!

West Ham United is not wealthy, and their loss may only be around seven or eight hundred thousand pounds, but for them, it really hurts!

The outside world saw that the FA punished Millwall so harshly, and Millwall obediently kept silent, it seems that the FA also used the topic to clean up Millwall.

The FA Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Liverpool went ahead that evening, and Chelsea, who were distracted by the Champions League, were not as prepared as Liverpool, who beat Chelsea 2-1.

Blues Chelsea FA Cup out of the way in the final!

Rafael Benitez will lead Liverpool, who have already secured Champions League qualification for next season, and Millwall, led by Aldridge, to the FA Cup final!

Another day, UEFA probably didn't know the situation in the Premier League, thinking that Millwall was being suppressed by the FA and learning to be obedient, so they jumped out and fell into the ground!

With half a year to go before the UEFA presidential election, the internal camp has begun to become clear, as an ally of FIFA President Blatter, Platini will become a strong candidate for the next UEFA president, and his camp supporters began to bombard Millwall, using the riots in Newcastle as an excuse to insinuate and warn Millwall not to bring the evil spirit of football hooliganism into the Champions League! (To be continued......)