Chapter 21: They're My Friends!
On 24 July, Derby County ended their training sessions behind closed doors, with fans able to buy tickets to watch training outside the training ground, as well as journalists to access for interviews. ă. []
Since the beginning of the preparation for the new season, Derby County has been in closed training, which makes external reporters extremely dissatisfied, because Derby County's training is normally open to the public once a week, and every time around the match day, Derby's training will be open to the public, that is to say, Derby County's training can be watched half of the time, and even many times, in order to create zĂ o for the club to create zĂ o income, training will also be open continuously (fans need to buy tickets to watch training), but after the start of the new season, Derby County's training has been closed, no outside fans, reporters know their training, they want to know Derby County's preparation is very difficult, so the media coverage of Derby County still revolves around the summer transfer and other official news of the club.
Journalists have been trying to pressure the club to get Derby County to open up training and want to know how Derby County are preparing for the new season, so the club's press officer, Mr Richardson, has been very busy during this time, he is tired of dealing with 'harassment' from various media reporters, and he also needs to come forward and explain why the team is training behind closed doors in order to maintain a positive image of the club.
But in fact, how does Richardson know why the team's training is closed!
He is just the team's press officer, a club's staff involved in foreign affairs, he can't interfere in the club's affairs, and the team's affairs are Wansheng alone, he doesn't know these things at all, but he still has to explain these unclear things in detail, in order to deal with those reporters who keep asking. But it can't be helped, that's his job.
Richarson's work pressure is not small, and Wansheng's work pressure is also very high.
The pressure on Wan Sheng is not from the journalists, in fact, the journalist community in Derby County is now divided into two factions, all journalists. The tabloids can be divided into two groups, one is the club's 'opposition', that is, those who are the mainstream media of Derbyshire Sport, and the other is the 'lackey party', which is the journalists in his MSN group who have a good relationship with him.
It's a joke in the media outside of Derbyshire about the media war within Derbyshire, but it's very popular at the moment.
The relationship between the 'opposition' and Wan Sheng is extremely bad, Wan Sheng refuses to interview them again and again, and then they simply do not bother Wan Sheng now. On weekdays, these reporters ignored Wan Sheng when they saw him, let alone came over to interview him.
They just want to show an attitude - resolutely refuse to interview Wan Sheng!
Do you always put on a big card and refuse to be interviewed? We are the mainstream media of Derbyshire, we don't go to interview everyone, if you refuse to be interviewed, we simply don't interview, don't bother you, and then you go to lead the team to play, only two or three kittens come to interview, and see who is more uncomfortable in the end!
That's what they think.
There is no need for the 'lackeys' to come to the interview. They knew that Wan Sheng didn't like to be disturbed in his private life, and they didn't want to 'offend' Wan Sheng because of interview questions, not to mention, they didn't have to interview at all. Wansheng often posts some news on the MSN group to let them know about the team's situation, and they only need to add some illustrations to make a news report.
So reporters even want to get a close-up shot of Derby County training. If you want to watch the training interview with Derbyshire, you won't come to disturb Wansheng.
Wansheng's pressure has nothing to do with the reporters.
The pressure on him comes from the fans.
A lot of Derby County fans are aware of the situation, especially those who live nearby. Many people want to see the club's training with their own eyes, so every day when Wansheng comes home from the club, or on the way to the club in the morning, he will meet a lot of fans, and they will ask about the current preparation of some teams.
In the face of reporters, Wan Sheng can also ignore the attitude and continue to do his own thing, but there is no way in the face of fans, these fans really care about the team, he can only say it in general, at least to answer, but there are more people who ask, the pressure comes, and even one afternoon, he just left the club and was surrounded by more than a dozen fans, these fans are even crazier than those reporters, which makes Wan Sheng a headache.
In fact, there is a reason why Wansheng conducts closed training.
Some time ago, I was conducting physical reserve training, and there was nothing to open to the outside world, and there was no training to watch, but it was possible for those 'opposition' reporters to seize the handle and have something to say to slander the team. Collaboration' skills, tactical training has doubled the effect, he still always feels that the preparation time is tight, naturally he can't open training, every day is very precious for the team.
But on this day, the team's training was still open.
Wan Sheng is thinking that the team's first warm-up game will be two days later, and it is impossible to close any news next, and there will be more reporters who want to interview, and more fans want to see the fans' training, and the team's closed training has been nearly a month, and it is time for public training.
The situation of this open training also surprised Wansheng.
The team's open training, under normal circumstances, that is, hundreds of fans to watch, after all, fans also have to live, work, few fans will have time to run to watch the training on weekdays, but this morning, buy tickets to enter the stadium over 400 people, this is the result of the club stopped selling tickets, these many people stand outside the training ground, making the training ground look like a game, but in fact, in the morning training ground only a few people such as Reiter.
When the time was close to nine o'clock, all the players came to the training ground, and when they saw so many fans and reporters watching from the periphery, their mental state was immediately different.
Wansheng is now training more seriously, more energetic than usual, and working harder, of course, there are many people who seem to deliberately show off their skills to the fans, such as Frank Ribery, this guy has been repeating the ball before the nine-o'clock gathering, constantly playing with the technique, but this approach has no practical meaning at all, at least in Wansheng's opinion, it is meaningless, and Ribery will not do it on weekdays. But now that he's done it, it's easy to see why.
He wants to be recognized by the fans!
Ribery has a heart to become a star, and after so long in the professional league, he wants nothing more than to be famous, so at all times, he wants the fans to recognize him, and he tried to do it before the rally, and it worked well - Ribery's side of the fence, there were many fans who complained about his juggling ball, and it was clear that his work on his feet still attracted the attention of the fans.
Ribery is like that. The others weren't much better, especially a few new arrivals.
Cahill is better, after all, he has been in League One for several years, he doesn't care about training with fans watching, Millwall's training is also often open to the public, such as Layton Baines and Leto Ziegler, they are both newcomers to the professional league, naturally want the fans to recognize themselves, but unfortunately they don't have the same skills as Ribery. And he is too young to be famous, and it is difficult to attract the attention of fans no matter what he does.
Formal training began.
Before the start of the official training session, Wan Sheng reminded everyone to concentrate and not be influenced by those media reporters and fans. Seeing everyone's serious response, Wansheng began to train.
Training is actually nothing special, it is a daily activity at the beginning, running laps, running with a ball, etc. Tactical training began only when all the players were physically active, and there was basically nothing to see in tactical training. This is not a regular game, just training, even if there are new tactics, it is just to let the players adapt to the position, and carry out some small-scale tactical cooperation, only watching from the periphery, even professionals are difficult to see anything, after all, the stadium fence is far away from the training place, they can't hear what Wansheng and the players say.
Even so, the fans were very satisfied.
It's been a long time since they've seen the team train, it's been a long time since they've seen the team play, and they can start looking forward to the new season by watching the players they support work hard.
Journalists also stood outside the fence to film.
There is a special space outside the fence for reporters to put their equipment, and the angle of that place is also very good, so that reporters can calmly shoot the training scene in the stadium.
Now they are all Derby mainstream media reporters from the 'opposition', who came to shoot interviews to report on Derbyshire's preparations, but many of them, especially several reporters from Derbyshire Sport, hope to capture some players making mistakes, Wan Sheng angrily reprimanding players, or other teams internal conflicts, which can be used as negative news, so that the news subject of such a picture will definitely attract the attention of the fan base.
They were all excited to get into the work.
But one thing makes them feel strange, that is, they don't see the sworn enemies of their peers who have been supporting the Chinese recently, normally speaking, Derbyshire's open training, these people will definitely come, although they belong to the 'non-mainstream' media, the influence in Derbyshire is not large, but they are also media after all, need to do some reporting, Derbyshire's first public training is definitely attractive news, how can they not come to shoot interviews?
"Aren't they coming?" Someone said.
"Impossible!"
"They're definitely coming, this is Derbyshire's first public tour, maybe we didn't see it?"
"Maybe the Chinese gave them the reporting material? I heard that they have an MSN group, and that Chinese often posts some messages and even pictures in it"
"Is there such a thing? What is the group number? I'll add it! â
"I tried, I couldn't get in at all, there was only one management of that group, that damn Chinese!"
"Can you drag a friend in?"
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"Let's talk about why they didn't come today!" An old reporter saw that the topic had shifted to an unknown corner, so he hurriedly pulled the topic back up.
Many of these people discussed for a long time and there was still no result, and they could only shake their heads and give up, and then focus on the work in their hands.
During the shooting, time passed slowly.
When it was eleven o'clock, suddenly a reporter standing close to the fans exclaimed, and other reporters looked over suspiciously, only to see the reporter pointing to a corner of the training ground and exclaiming, "Look, there is a person filming there." â
Everyone nearby went over and glanced at it, just one look. And they all exclaimed.
"How did he get inside?"
"It seems like there is more than one person! There's also a guy who just walked in with a camera in his hand! â
"I know him, it's from Derbyshire Life!"
"How did he get in?"
"It's much closer to the stadium than here, the location is much better, the shooting will definitely be clearer, and we have to find a way to get in!"
A group of reporters hula la, but they walked around and there was only one gate in the training ground, and there were security guards guarding the gate, so they couldn't find any other place to enter, and even if they thought about it, they couldn't find any other way in. If there was a place to go in, so many fans would have appeared.
"And how did they get in?"
"Did the Derby County club allow them in?" Someone finally thought of why.
As a result, the group began to protest loudly.
"Interview freedom!"
"Interview fairness!"
"It's a difference!"
"We're going to go in and shoot too!"
Their shouts were so loud that they even overwhelmed the surrounding fans, many people looked at them, and the uproar could be heard in the training ground, and Wan Sheng, who was standing with Diamares on the sidelines and talking something, also turned his head to look this way, and as a result, the voices of these reporters were even higher.
Wan Sheng frowned, then turned his head and continued to talk to Diamares. I didn't pay any attention to that voice.
Soon the reporters realized that this was completely useless, so they went to the club's press officer, Richardson, and asked him why those people could shoot inside and they were only on the periphery.
Richardson was so angry!
A while ago, he had a lot of pressure at work. These reporters came to bother him, but he was a press officer, and it was impossible to offend the reporters, so he could only put on a pleasant face to deal with it. Yesterday he was relieved to hear that the team was finally going to train openly, and he even thought that he should take a leave of absence. Relax for a few days, anyway, before the official start of the league, his work tasks will be easy.
But these reporters are here again!
"Why were those people able to shoot in there? You ask me, I ask who goes? Richarson directly denied that there was such a thing, because he didn't know the news at all, and as a result, the reporters brought Richarson to the training ground in order to prove it, and Richarson could only come and take a look.
Then the pressure on him was even greater.
Richardson couldn't explain it to reporters because he didn't know, so he could just say, "I'll ask the manager." After saying that, he walked into the court and ran quickly in front of Wan Sheng.
As for finding justice for the reporters or something, Richardson wouldn't do it, he came to complain.
"Wansheng, I really can't help it! The reporters were always bothering me, and I wanted to spend two days free! You see I'm so old, I should have cut back on my work and the club hasn't given me a raise for two years,' Richarson kept saying.
In fact, he was not very old, only in his forties, and he said that he was a little old, but he was just a relative to Wan Sheng, and then won sympathy.
Wan Sheng shook his head amusedly, he did know about Richardson's troubles.
"Okay, I'll go explain to them." After Wan Sheng finished speaking, he walked towards the fence, and the direction was where the reporter was shooting, and Richarson let out a long and relaxed breath behind him.
If Wan Sheng couldn't get over, there was nothing he could do, and the press officer was supposed to do this kind of dirty work.
Seeing Wan Sheng coming over, the reporters outside the fence shouted even louder. They shouted as if they were demonstrating, and they seemed to have become heroes who did not hesitate to die generously for the sake of the revolution, full of a sense of justice, and Wan Sheng wanted them to defeat the target.
Now that goal has come along.
When Wan Sheng walked in, the reporters stopped, and then a representative reporter from the Derbyshire Sports stood up and asked, "Mr. Wan Sheng, we demand that the interview be fair, we demand that we be treated fairly, why are there other reporters in the training ground who can shoot up close, and we can only be here, this is not fair!" We demand fairness! â
Wan Sheng looked at the reporter, this is a guy on his blacklist, he seems to have refused two interviews with the other party, but this time he did not refuse to answer, just looked at him with a smile, and asked rhetorically, "Why am I in the training ground?" â
The reporter was stunned, rolled his eyes and said, "Of course, you're the head coach of Derby County." â
"Why are my players in there?"
"What's the problem? We're here to cover Derby training, and of course your players can be in there, they're Derby players. â
Wan Sheng nodded and said with satisfaction, "Your answer is very accurate. â
"But what does that have to do with what they can do in there?" The journalist asked, "They don't work for Derby County FC!" Not a player, not a coach! â
Wan Sheng smiled and replied, "Because they are my friends, inviting friends to visit the club is my personal matter, and I would also like to thank the chairman of the club, Mr. Smith, for allowing me to bring my friend in for a visit." â
The reporter was dumbfounded, and he pointed over there and said, "They're your friends?" He reacted, feeling the urge to vomit blood, "They're all your friends!? â
Wan Sheng said as a matter of course, "Could it be that British law also stipulates that it is not allowed to have many friends?" Wan Sheng turned his head to look at it suspiciously, and thought about it, "It's just a dozen friends, I think this is normal, right?" You'll have a dozen friends too, won't you? â
Reporter Mu Ne nodded, just reacted, only to hear Wan Sheng said firmly, "So this is just a private matter, it has nothing to do with what interview is fair and impartial, I will never discriminate against anyone, treat anyone differently, Derby County Club is the same, will not treat any reporters and fans differently, will not divide reporters and fans into groups, you don't have to worry about this at all." â
After saying that, ignoring the protests of those reporters, Wan Sheng turned around and left.
He walked back to the training ground and asked Richarson to prepare two tables and a few chairs for the reporters in the training ground, and asked him to go to the club restaurant to ask for some meals and drinks. â
Then the reporters outside the fence saw their sworn enemies sitting very comfortably next to the training ground, drinking drinks and holding meals, chatting and taking close-up shots.
The most infuriating thing is that they also have two huge shade fans on their heads (to be continued!).
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