Chapter 151: Spotlight

The 2003-2004 league season is over for Derby, even if it's only mid-April and there are still four league games to go, but Derby County have won the league title, and the remaining four league games are completely irrelevant, even if they lose all four games, they will still be the league champions.

So for Derby, they can be free to celebrate.

Derby County are first in the league and second in the league is also decided, Norwich continue to win and are now nine more league points than third-placed West Bromwich Albion, with only four league games remaining, Norwich will almost certainly be second in the league, which means that two teams have been confirmed for promotion to the Premier League next season, one is Derby County and the other is Norwich, and the last place will be determined by the promotion play-offs after the season.

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That's the real brutal fight!

The third to sixth in the league, four teams one-on-one home and away two-legged fight against each other, and the final winner will compete to determine the last promotion place, each season's promotion play-offs are very cruel, some teams even if the league results are very good, won the third place in the league, but to the cruel promotion play-offs, but may not be able to win other leagues ranked low opponents, only the final winner can fight for the last promotion place.

However, at the end of the second division, the teams above 10th in the league are fighting for a chance to participate in the promotion play-offs, after all, it is better to have a promotion chance than not to have it, and for them, the truly brutal schedule is only just beginning.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Derbyshire.

In terms of the league, Derby County are already celebrating the title, and even if the fans are looking forward to a trip to the top flight next season, League One has nothing to do with them.

But for sure, the Derby County season is not over yet as they have a very important game to play. It was the FA Cup – the final against Manchester United at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff a month later.

The game is an FA Cup final, and the winner will win the FA Cup this season, the FA Cup means a lot to every club in England, and every team wants to win the trophy that means more than the top flight title in the eyes of the fans, and Derby County is no different.

However, in the eyes of Derby County fans, the team's season seems to be over, they are celebrating once in promotion, once in winning the championship, after two celebrations, all that remains is emptiness, at least for now. And Derby County took a three-day break directly after winning the title, so it didn't seem to care about the FA Cup final.

No one was upset about this, as if it were taken for granted, as Derby County's FA Cup final opponents were Manchester United.

Even in the past ten years, when Derby County had the best results, they did not dare to say that they could beat Manchester United in the cup, Manchester United is the hegemon of the Premier League, not to mention, Derby County has only just been promoted to the Premier League. It's not summer yet, there's no reinforcement, and in fact, they're just a League One team.

A League One team. Be content to reach the FA Cup final!

This season, Derby County have been perfect – with promotion to the Premier League, League One and qualification for next season's UEFA Cup, what's not to be satisfied with? They got it all when they should have got, and they got it when they shouldn't.

It was truly perfect.

The Derby fans are already very satisfied. Even some fans just shook their heads when they thought about the team's FA Cup final.

Derby County beat Manchester United to win the FA Cup?

It's unrealistic.

But the real situation, did Wan Sheng give up on the FA Cup final? No. No way! Wansheng has always wanted the team to win the championship earlier, the purpose is to have more time to prepare for the FA Cup final, and after winning the championship, they naturally don't need to pay attention to the league, so they can focus all their energy on preparing for this game.

What if you can win a title game, even against Manchester United?

Do your best no matter what!

Victory, a championship trophy, the glory of an FA Cup winner; If you lose, you don't lose anything at all, and it's a fool to give up in such a game.

What's more, the opponent is Manchester United!

McGuinness, who can remember all the victories, can you remember the face of the old guy in Ferguson, if he led Derby County to lose to Ferguson, then the next time the two meet, he feels that he must bow his head to the old guy in Ferguson? Wan Sheng couldn't stand it even when he thought about it.

Therefore, even for the sake of face, he will definitely let the team fight for the victory in this game, not to mention, there is the temptation of the championship, what a wonderful word, what a tempting thing.

Wansheng felt that he had somehow crossed over to here, just to win more championships

Under the prestige of Derby County's four rounds of championship ahead of schedule, the whole of England is reporting on Derby County at this time, even if many media are concerned about the top league, the upcoming summer transfer market, and the transfer news of stars of various giant teams, but they also have to report on Derby County, because Derby's results are too dazzling in League One.

With 114 points from 42 league games, this is a new point in history, not to mention that they still have four league games to play, and Derby County have already won the league title when many teams start their end-of-season sprint, which is a stark contrast. (Note: Before the 60s, the English league was all 2-point system, and before the 90s, there were not so many teams in the second league, so in fact, this points history dates back to the creation of the Premier League 10 years ago, and the value and significance are not high.) οΌ‰

So at this moment, most of the media reported on Lower Derbyshire.

Especially for their head coach Wan Sheng, it is even more hyped, this is because Wan Sheng himself is concerned - he is a Chinese, only 27 years old, and he is also a pure academy coach, England's academy coaches themselves are very rare, these aspects are very worthy of reporting, the second is that before Wan Sheng was the topic of England, but all kinds of media' A lot of fans have been impressed with him, and now that he's led Derby County to the league title, it's natural to do some coverage so that fans follow the news as well.

But many fans who don't know the situation are surprised.

Some time ago, various media were also reporting on the young Chinese coach of Derby County, but the meaning of their words was completely a slamming and sarcastic attitude, and now it has become a praise for Derbyshire's achievements, and the change of style is really a little too fast.

But the media is also helpless at this point.

Many of them reported that Wan Sheng was a bit forced, who let the little princess of the Murdoch family give the order? Those reports also brought them some negative comments, but recently the little princess seems to have ignored the matter, and they naturally return to their original reports.

But the media outlets that are not part of Murdoch's News Corp don't care, they use a lot of content to describe Derby County's this season, to describe Derby County manager Wan Sheng, which has made Wan Sheng the focus of the whole of England in mid-April, and he has even been in the media more times than Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, who is likely to win the league this season.

The Independent named Wan Sheng the focus of England in April, commenting that "just when all eyes were on the upcoming summer transfer, Wan Sheng, a mysterious Chinese young man who led Derby County to win the League One title four rounds ahead of schedule, became the focus of England in April with his unique temperament, controversial personality and perfect results." ”

At the end of the article, they also put the finishing touch on the comparison, "Wan Sheng, the number of times this name has appeared in the media is twice as high as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, 20% higher than Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger, and 50% higher than Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson.

This is just a joke, but it also shows that Wansheng's hot journey is dΓΉ, countless reporters want to interview Wansheng at the moment when Derby County won the league championship, Wansheng's agent, friend, and contract partner Kevin Tagore has been invited to an interview by a large number of TV stations and big media, but Kevin Tagore has all helped Wansheng refuse, because Wansheng does not want to appear in front of the media, and perhaps because Wansheng is really busy at this time.

He was stuffy in the room checking the Soccer Trainer system

Wansheng has worked hard for a season, and at this time it is also the time to harvest, the three tasks given by the football training master system, the task of achieving the achievement of winning consecutive games, were submitted when the ten rounds of consecutive wins were submitted, but there are still two tasks left, which are also completed after winning the league championship.

Open the football training master system, and the system message interface has been refreshed with several messages.

"Wan Sheng, you have completed the personal task 'Journey of the New Season', obtained 3,000 experience points, and obtained the opportunity to upgrade one skill to max perfect skill, and obtained two skill upgrade points."

"Wan Sheng, your experience has reached 5000, and you can be promoted to coach lv.8."

"Wan Sheng, you have completed the personal task 'Personal Honor Mission', obtained 500 experience points, and officially opened the honor skill."

"Wan Sheng, congratulations to the team you led to win the league championship, you won the skill aura 'league championship', and the second-tier league championship points are 25."

"Guild member Marcus has reached 100 in his esteem rating for you, and his membership level has been upgraded to the elder level, and he has begun to enjoy the privileges of being an elder member!"

(To be continued......)