Chapter Ninety-Four: I wanted to get along with everyone as an ordinary person
"I've heard of some people who are performative personalities and like to use exaggerated words and actions to attract people's attention.
I was very suspicious that the referee had this problem, so I advised him to see a psychiatrist and if he couldn't afford to pay for the consultation, I could help out of humanitarian reasons. ”
Benjamin, who didn't want to comment more on the referee's decision, still felt unhappy in an interview after the game.
'He ruined the game with a very double penalty and I will appeal to UEFA.
If there were referees of this caliber in a world of the world's attention to the Champions League, I would be very skeptical about what the Champions League would look like in the future. ”
As the manager of a Premier League team alone, UEFA may not bother at all.
Even if an appeal is lodged through the official Tottenham club, the most it will do is to pretend to give an answer.
But Benjamin's surname is Lewis, not an ordinary family.
How could Charlie see that his son was wronged, and made more than a dozen phone calls the next day, and the old man who learned the news may have also quietly contacted a few old friends.
Joe Lewis is one of the top 10 richest people in the UK, and most of his investments are in the Americas.
Charlie relied on the creativity of his son Benjamin and his father's investment, earning no less assets than the old man, and the industry spread all over Europe.
Coupled with their Jewish identity, it can be said in the whole of Europe and the United States, capitalism, the capitalists have the final say.
It may not be so easy to interfere in a country, and if your own family is wronged, you can still do it if you interfere with UEFA.
Anyway, the Lewis family invited them to come forward, and they always have to pay it back in the future.
Platini, who was the president of UEFA at the time, didn't expect it to be so big, because of several controversial penalties in a very ordinary Champions League group stage, he received many warnings one after another.
"As for it? No one will dare to give this guy a red card in the future.
Forget it, when we operate in the future, remember to avoid this guy as much as possible, we can afford to hide if we can't afford to provoke us. ”
In the final analysis, it is still the supremacy of interests, and several UEFA sponsors have directly issued notices that if this incident affecting UEFA's image and reputation cannot be properly resolved, it will be regarded as a breach of contract by UEFA and unilaterally terminate the cooperation.
No matter how unhappy Platini was, he could only pinch his nose and compromise.
Benjamin's red card was cancelled and he will not have to be suspended for the next Champions League game.
As for Anastasias Sidiropoulos, he was suspended for life from UEFA matches.
This almost declared the end of the Greek's refereeing career early.
Anastasiaos probably never dreamed that he would be punished so severely just to find a picture so that his name could appear on the news the next day.
For a referee, if you don't play a little more cards and make more controversial decisions, you won't get any space at all.
Now Anastasiaos has gotten what he wanted.
Many people joked that just giving Benjamin a red card led to the dismissal of a referee.
And that's not all, almost all the media that reported on the incident were unanimous in their praise for Benjamin and Tottenham's defence to power, and UEFA made the right decision to punish after making a mistake.
And in a corner that no one knows, an intern reporter of the Sun newspaper wants to find another way, reverse reporting, and explore the "truth" behind this matter.
was directly fired on the spot, and was warned, if you don't want to be completely unmixed in the Western media industry, remember to have some vision in the future.
The protagonist of this incident, Benjamin, only smiled slightly after learning of the penalty decision given by UEFA.
He didn't want to make such a big fuss, and if UEFA was sensible, it wouldn't have been all the troubles later.
Although Benjamin also wants to get along with everyone as an ordinary person, their status as a rich Jewish man does not allow cats and dogs to dare to bully him.
Even if the team suffers injustice, Benjamin himself obviously must not be treated unfairly.
It is not surprising that Anastasiaos ate the bear's heart and leopard guts, a small football referee, dared to deliberately treat him unfairly and directly give Benjamin a card when the reason was not sufficient.
Speaking of Benjamin, it is too strange, with his net worth and status, it is enough to directly buy a team as the owner, but he has to come and show up as the head coach.
After this happened, some people finally realized that Benjamin was different from the other players and managers.
Compared to the average football manager, Benjamin has more resources and connections than they can even imagine.
It's just that Benjamin has always been very low-key with everyone when he was okay before, and he has never used any special privileges.
Now that something happened to happen, Benjamin can only say that I wanted to get along with everyone as an ordinary person.
Now it's a showdown, don't pretend, I'm hanging like this, you'd better watch it in the future, don't mess with me.
Back in the Premier League, Tottenham host Stoke City.
I don't know if it's due to outside influence, or whatever, Tottenham's players are not in form today.
Thirty minutes into the first half, the visitors were already 1-0 ahead.
Walters set up Bojan to score a goal to help Sky City break the deadlock at Wembley.
Until the end of the half, Tottenham Hotspur, who were playing at home, could not equalise.
"What's going on today? Can't play football anymore?
Go back to the field and show me some real skills! ”
Shortly after the start of the second half, Sadio Mane set up Lamela to open the scoring and the Lilies equalised.
The rest of the game was in the home side's rhythm as Harry Kane, who had been on a hot streak lately, scored again to score the game-winning goal for Tottenham.
In the end, Benjamin's side won 2-1 against Stoke City.
Although Tottenham Hotspur have won all of their games since the start of the new season, except for two draws.
But if you look closely, you will see that Tottenham have conceded a lot of goals.
There are many reasons for this average goal conceded.
In addition to goalkeeper Lloris going off the line from time to time, the occasional mistakes of defenders are also related to Tottenham's aggressive attacking tactics.
Sir Alex Ferguson once said: Attack wins the game, and defense wins the championship.
Benjamin thinks that offense may not always win games, but it is true that they can win fans.
After all, what fan would love to watch their home team crouch and defend every game, playing that boring and frightening defensive football?
Unless that style of play leads to a championship, no one from the club to the players to the fans can endure it for a long time.
Benjamin's Lily Army used a wonderful performance in attack to attract more and more Tottenham fans back to the stadium to watch the game and cheer for the team.
This can also be seen intuitively from the attendance at Wembley Stadium.
In the past, Tottenham's home stadium, White Hart Lane, could only accommodate more than 30,000 people at most, and it was only that full.
And now Wembley is full of 80,000 spectators, a ticket ranges from tens to thousands of pounds, and the ticket price alone can sell at least hundreds of thousands of pounds more.
Don't think it's a lot of hundreds of thousands of pounds, an average of at least 40 games a season, half of which are at home.
This is equivalent to saying that Tottenham will earn more than 10 million pounds in a season.