Walking into St James's Park, there was an unconcealable coercion in his face, which made Degan's heart move, he had also played in England with the team before, but he had not felt such a feeling at the time, this feeling can only be felt when he is truly immersive.

As the birthplace of modern football, after more than 100 years of development, football has been soaked into all corners of British society, and football is more of a sports culture in the UK than a sport.

In the United Kingdom, any football club can have a history of more than 100 years, so many stadiums have experienced years of erosion, a vicissitudes of life, many stadiums to say the exact age is really not easy, now the age of the St James' Park stadium where Digan is located, even the most loyal, the oldest Newcastle fans can not tell, they only remember that the stadium first ushered in a formal football game, or in 1880, it has been more than 130 years now.

Despite its age, St James' Park has a wide range of facilities, with covered stands on all sides, making it rain or shine for spectators.

There are many stadiums like St James's Park in the UK, which have gone through countless ups and downs and gone through three centuries, and can basically be said to be a living fossil that has witnessed the step by step of English football.

However, with the boom of the English Premier League in recent years, the number of domestic spectators has skyrocketed, and the average stadium seat in the UK is only more than 30,000 seats, so many clubs, including Arsenal, have built new stadiums, but this is also a big risk, because if you move to a new location, the consequences are likely to be the loss of fans and atmosphere around the club for a hundred years.

Feel the British football culture, an unavoidable topic, is the British fan culture, in the United Kingdom, every weekend, London subway lines are crowded with fans to watch the game, London alone has five Premier League teams, the first division team also has four or five, other levels of teams more.

Fans tend to be relatively fixed, and despite the high level of the Premier League, some fans may just like a certain second division team and therefore always follow their favorite team.

There are many reasons for this phenomenon, one of which is the long history of English clubs, and some clubs are more downtrodden now, but they may have won the league back then.

Many fans are "hereditary", and the reason why a fan likes a club team now may be because his grandfather or grandfather liked the club more at that time, and he just inherited the "family heirloom", which can be called a diehard.

When the Arsenal club was planning to build a new stadium, it encountered a problem, because many old fans were buried around the club after death, vowing to live and die with the club, and the Arsenal club also wanted to move the ashes of these fans to the new stadium, but because there were too many people, it might be more troublesome, so the club issued a notice, hoping to build a monument in the new stadium, and engrave the names of those fans who could not move their ashes to the new location on the monument, which shows the obsession of the fans.

In the UK, the relationship between football clubs and fans, both as a culture and as an industry, is quite complex.

Although many clubs currently regard their market development as the top priority of their club operations, it is too superficial to only regard the relationship between fans and themselves as the relationship between buyers and sellers.

Because these fans usually put a lot of their time, energy and love for the team into the team they like.

If it is a simple buyer and seller relationship, these fans will only support those teams with good league results, however, in the United Kingdom, the vast majority of fans have their own team in their minds when they are very young, and they tend to support them consistently, even if the results are not good, they will never give up, these fans have a complex and the fate of the team, firmly linked.

England fans' loyalty to their team can also be seen in its team songs, such as "You'll Never Go Alone", which are a reminder of the fans' ongoing support for the players and the club, which has helped the club through difficult times, and these songs express the fans' love for the team.

In order to win the hearts of the fans, clubs will also go to great lengths, and some will even set aside a place for fan representatives in the management, so that fans can really participate in the team building decisions, such as Everton is a good example, this is the first club to set aside a place for fans in its own upper management.

Of course, these fan representatives are elected through true democracy, with wide representation and appeal, and Everton has proved to be very wise in doing so, which not only reflects the club's respect and humanistic care for fans, but also gives the club a broad public base and strong backing.

Walking on the field, Degan also felt this rich cultural range for the first time, in the stands around, the singing of Newcastle fans has never stopped, they keep singing the Newcastle team anthem, the deafening singing, so that Degan can't help but feel the pressure, but also let Degan experience a different cultural atmosphere in addition to Italian football culture.

Before the Premier League's large-scale introduction of foreign investment, teams other than Manchester United and Arsenal were almost all playing in the same English style, and the gap in tactical ability made the Serie A powerhouses once dominated the Premier League giants.

With the entry of Jose Mourinho, Benitez and other famous coaches, this advantage has gradually been weakened, and the Premier League team has introduced more excellent players through strong purchasing power, and on the basis of the original fast pace, it has formed a style of play that emphasizes the whole, speed and tactics.

Before Serie A had Degan, and it could continue the remnants of the glory of the small World Cup, but since Degan left, in the last two seasons, the results of the Serie A team on the European battlefield can be described as a thousand miles away, last season, the Champions League championship was finally won by Manchester United, last season, Chelsea also reached the final, however, for two consecutive seasons, the Serie A team failed to enter the quarterfinals of the Champions League, which is a proof that English football overwhelmed Italian football

Comparing two completely different football cultures, in fact, whether it is Italy or England, fans do not change their beliefs easily, and many fans have supported a team since childhood, even three generations of grandparents.

However, there is a big difference between the attitudes of fans in England and Italy, with Italian fans being picky about the teams they support and ready to boo, while in England they are the opposite, supporting the team unconditionally, even if it is a mess.

For example, in the 2002 Rome derby, Roma defender Zebina saved the ball that was almost off the line, but Lazio midfielder Fiore who benefited from it easily scored the goal, and the game ended up 2:2.

After moving to Juventus, Zebina was always bitter when he talked about the past: "My memories in Rome are only gray, the fans are very unfriendly to me, and every time I go to training, people always laugh at me when I leave the parking lot. ”

But that never happened in England, where a bankrupt Leeds played their final Premier League game at Eland Road in 2003/2004.

From start to finish, the fans were encouraging the players, chanting "We are in this together", and the Italian coach Vialli, who coached in England, could not help but sigh: "If this is in Italy, it is absolutely necessary to send hundreds of police officers to maintain order, because there will be riots." ”

In England, the fans' tolerance towards their players is unconditional, and they mostly vent their frustrations to club management.

The completely different football culture makes Degan's heart full of freshness at the moment, everything around him is foreign to him, those fans who sing loudly, the opponents who are full of hostility, and the old football stadium.

And, of course, the unknown style of English football!

"Bastard!"

There is no doubt that this is a greeting to Degan, and this may also be an aspect of English football culture, racial discrimination, Britain used to be a typical colonial occupying country, there is a long history of discrimination and exclusion against foreign races, black players in the opposing lineup, or non-whites, can easily become the first target of attack by fans, these black players are often harassed by bananas thrown by fans.

There are also fans in the stands who often make up insulting slogans and anthems to make personal attacks on black players, typical example of which they will shout "monkey" together and make monkey gestures and gestures at the same time.

Degan is not white either, or the Brazilian is very complicated, and as the most dangerous player in the Tottenham Hotspur team, it is understandable that he is specially "cared for" by Newcastle fans.

"Relax! Rod! No big deal! Friedel, the old goalkeeper who walked behind Degan, reminded in a whisper.

Degan has a fiery temper, which has been rumored in the past, and when he was in Florence, he was even called a tyrant by the media, and Friedel was really afraid that Degan would be impulsive and cause some trouble.

In England, clashes between players and fans can be described as a culture, such as Eric Cantona's flying legs.

Deegan looked back at Friedel and suddenly smiled: "Don't worry! I'm not that vulnerable! ”

The further you go, the louder the Newcastle fans become, and the terrifying home atmosphere, what a Turkish hell home, is simply weak.