1103 World War I eight years later
No one or thing in the world will be recognized, praised, and respected by everyone.
There are always two sides to things, especially when it comes to people who are inherently complex and changeable.
Becky is a heartthrob, but the people who hack him don't seem to be less than those who like him.
Millwall is a super strong man and is worshiped by countless people.
But in the same way, the two-sided image of Millwall is reflected in the fact that they are liked by the widest and largest number of fans, but they are also disgusted by the widest and largest number of fans!
Stepping on the top stage for 10 years, excluding the first year of survival in League One, these 10 years, Millwall, as a "trophy reaper", has as many victories, relatively, there are as many losers, and even the number of losers is multiplied, because there is only one winner, and the losers are a group in a game where many people compete!
They re-inflict injuries on some teams, leaving their opponents scarred in front of them, and a new encounter is like tearing open old scars and adding pain to the pain.
When the pain is extreme, it is numbness.
This "king's spirit" or "blue terror" began to undergo subtle qualitative changes!
It can be said that the past 10 years have been an accumulation of quantity, and after a certain period of dΓΉ, a qualitative change has occurred.
Such a situation should not have happened, or the probability of it happening should be minimal, because no matter how strong a team is, it can't beat time, and the players can't beat the old, and if the team wants to continue to be strong, it is difficult to climb to the sky.
The last king that was able to create a similar shock effect, Real Madrid, has bid farewell to the Champions League title for nearly 40 years.
And the last dynasty to be admired, the Milan dynasty. Now take a closer look at AC Milan's achievements with Millwall's achievements in the same time span. One will feel that the two are no longer comparable.
You could say that AC Milan inaugurated the dynasty of that era.
But it's hard to say: AC Milan and Millwall are both dynasty builders.
Because the gap between the two dynasties has been clearly widened.
The dynasty will be a representative memory of the era. It may not be obvious now, but in retrospect, most people can only think of Puskas and Di Stefano, but it is difficult to name a few of their contemporaries, such as Beckenbauer, The Three Musketeers of Milan, Busby Boy, and so on. But with a history spanning nearly half a century, how many generations of players have been drowned in it? What can be left to future generations to remember and can be recalled is actually very few in each era, and those who can be remembered are often the characters who stand at the peak of the era at that time.
It's one of the fears that Millwall creates for many, many ambitious players.
Because Millwall's transcendent strength brings out their humility and insignificance to the times. Maybe twenty years from now, fifty years from now. The memory of this era may open its mouth and name some of Millwall's great players, but forget those who were actually good at the same time, but repeatedly lost to Millwall in the competition!
Losing to Millwall again and again will make the frustration worse, and when it rises to deeper thinking, it will wear down their will even more.
AC Milan are not actively trying to change anything, at the end of the day, Millwall are too strong, so strong that they are now invulnerable.
Aldridge used the last substitution as the game was about to go into stoppage time.
Southgate replaces Thiago Silva!
'Millwall made a special substitution and Gareth Southgate put on for Millwall for the last time! Although there is not much time left for him, it can be regarded as a consolation, he will be here for a complete curtain call, in a few minutes, he will take off the Lion's shirt, there is news that Southgate will go to the FA after retirement, what kind of role he will hold, we are still uncertain, now, Millwall is in very good shape, the fans in the stands can also do their best to express their support and gratitude to Southgate, thank him for his contribution to the Lions for 11 years, and wish him all the best in his future career and life! β
Two minutes later, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the match.
At this time, the stands were already empty of a considerable area.
Because AC Milan fans started to leave the stadium at the end of the 90th minute, they left silently with unspeakable pain, probably wanting to get drunk, fall asleep, forget what they witnessed today, and try not to think about the day as much as possible.
Millwall won the league and Champions League in May and defended the double!
AC Milan, on the other hand, lost the league and the Champions League in May!
Inside the stadium, the AC Milan players were standing in place, they wanted to leave, but they couldn't!
Damn it, why is it the final?
Why is it a final where you can't hide the pain after losing?
And why is it so cruel to stand here and watch the champion receive the award, and stand in the spotlight of the world to receive the meaningless runner-up medal?
Around them, Millwall's players were in a variety of poses, Nedved and Larsson ran to Southgate, and the three captains of the first generation of the Wild Lions knelt down and embraced, as if they had completed a shocking feat!
That's right, they wrote their names into history.
The first in the past!
Won the Champions League with the team six times!
Then Schneider and Bout also walked over, and the veterans hugged each other and chanted indulgently, freezing this historic moment!
Lahm and Silva, who really provoked the main pillars as the main players, they have been with the team as the main team this season, and they cannot be described as lucky, because they have a contribution that cannot be ignored, and their role in the team is increasing day by day, and when it comes to the end of the season, no one looks at them with the eyes of a newcomer, and more worries are eliminated than at the beginning of the season.
Lahm and Silva raced around the pitch with excitement, taking off their shirts and waving them overhead, as if to spread their excitement to the world.
Alonso and De Rossi, the two players who won the championship with the team for the second time as the main team, were more calm than last season, and they hooked their shoulders and whispered with a smile on their faces, as if they had a faint style of a big man, and they were not shocked.
Even more breezy are Xiao Luo and Henry. The two of them stood in the arena and chatted with their waists crossed. I don't know what I said. Henry smiled heartily, and Xiao Luo seemed to have Latin songs in his ears, and the gestures he made when he spoke seemed to be beating the beat.
Nesta ran to the sidelines, rushed to the edge of the stands, kissed his girlfriend emotionally, and almost had the urge to propose on the spot
Kaka and Villa chatted with Cristiano Ronaldo on the sidelines in a suit, despite Ronaldo's regrets. But he still had an excited smile on his face, as if to steal the camera, he deliberately stood on the sidelines with a more open view, and then talked to Kaka and Villa elegantly like a gentleman, shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders slightly from time to time, as if to say that he didn't mind missing the final due to injury this time, and nodded implicitly like a leader from time to time, as if to express appreciation to his teammates
At the end of the match, Aldridge closed his eyes, calming his excitement.
At the time of Nedved's goal. He had catharsis and really couldn't restrain himself.
Right now. He opened his eyes and walked slowly towards his opponent's dugout, ready to shake hands with Carlo Ancelotti after the match.
As he walked along, Carlo Ancelotti approached him, and Aldrich stopped abruptly.
Because he saw Ancelotti's eyes, he seemed to understand the meaning of the other party's eyes.
Ancelotti didn't want to shake his hand!
Although he was sure that as long as he walked over and stretched out his hand, Ancelotti would definitely not refuse!
A handshake with grace and grace, Ancelotti certainly wouldn't give it to others, and the next day the global football media ridiculed him for not only losing the final, but also losing grace.
But what about his heart?
Was he willing to shake Aldrich's hand openly?
No, he doesn't want to!
At least at this moment, when his team was scarred by Aldrich's Millwall, it was not just a loss of a game, but more importantly, a mental blow!
Aldridge read the vague "sadness" and "indignation" in Ancelotti's eyes.
He stopped and didn't walk any further.
If he takes another step, it's like rubbing salt in Ancelotti's wounds!
He and Carlo Ancelotti are no newcomers and both know what the late signs of AC Milan today represented.
It was the end of a peak, and it would be accompanied by a short period of low tide!
It's like Millwall squeezing Chelsea in the Premier League this season, which will have a profound impact on Chelsea's domestic league competition for years to come.
Like Manchester United won the Champions League in 99, but in that season and the following season, he fought to catch up with Millwall but was suppressed by the Wild Lions and could not raise his head.
Like last season, the near-perfect Arsenal were crushed by Millwall at the last minute!
AC Milan, who won the Champions League in 2003, was destroyed by Millwall in 2005, which will definitely have a serious impact on the development of AC Milan in the future.
Aldridge can even foresee that after the lack of Kaka, AC Milan, which would have maintained peak competitiveness in the next two years, will not appear again, there will be doubts before, now, he is sure!
Ancelotti's bitterness, no one can understand!
Eight years ago, in the autumn of '97, in Nyon, Switzerland, he sat side by side with Aldrich, and at that time, he was going to compete with Aldrich!
When he left Parma and became the manager of Juventus, he wanted to fight Aldrich!
Leaving Juventus and coming to AC Milan to reach the top of the Champions League, his most desired opponent is still Aldridge!
When the two finally met on the club's top stage, it had been eight years!
Eight years is enough for the football circle!
Aldrich is no longer the young marshal who is simply passionate, simply sharp, and simply wild and unrestrained!
Now, Aldrich, who is standing in front of Ancelotti, shows a temperament called majestic!
Intimidating opponents!
Completely unassailable and terrifying!
He and him, the young marshal of the year, looked forward to the pinnacle battle, which will come eight years later, but how Ancelotti hopes that this battle will come sooner, sooner, sooner!
Perhaps the sooner he beats Aldrich, the more likely he is to defeat Aldrich, just as Aldrich also almost "killed" the hands of the silver fox Lippi and was defeated by Heathfield!
However, time can't go back!
Ancelotti was unwilling, but he didn't have any way, he was just at this moment, unwilling to face Aldrich, unwilling to let Aldrich see his eyes that he might not be able to hide, there must be a dim light in it, called "admitting defeat". (To be continued......)