Gary Speed appeared in the stands for Leeds United's home game against Liverpool in the 19th round of the Premier League.

After receiving McAllister's email, he thought about it for a few more days, and then he made a strange decision.

Due to injury, he may not be able to play in the second half of the season, so he chose to retire directly before Christmas, ending his nearly 20-year playing career. The news was sudden, but it was quickly drowned out in other Premier League news.

After all, with the continuous and rapid update of information, people are more concerned about the new developments and transfer rumors of those clubs, rather than caring about the retirement of this "living fossil" of the Premier League.

It was just a simple press conference, and then Speed embarked on his new journey. Although he also received an invitation from the Welsh Football Association to take charge of the Welsh national team, he still refused to the Football Association because he had already decided on his next home.

Although the position of head coach of the Welsh national team is tempting, he still hopes that he can go through the training before taking on the role of head coach of the national team. Speaking of being able to take on the role of head coach of the Welsh national team, Speed couldn't help but think of Leeds United's two young Welsh players in the current squad, who may already be very good players when he takes over as national team manager in the future.

Actually, Bale and Blake are not bad now, but Speed still wants them to grow a little more. And when I came to Leeds United, I was able to witness their growth.

Speed sat in the stands and saw the players warming up before the game, and he began to turn around and take a new look at the stadium.

The Eland Road Course is located at the foot of Biston Hill, next to the A643 and close to the town of Elland. The land on which the course was built was originally owned by Bentley Breuerly. Originally known as Old Peacock Land, the name "Peacock Legion" was associated with Leeds City and later Leeds United due to the bar of the same name opposite. The first owner of the stadium was Holbeck Rugby Club. After buying Old Peacock Land from the Bentley family for £1,100, the club moved here from Holbeck Playground. It was here that the club built a grandstand and the infield of the stadium, which later became known as Elland Road.

The stadium is not too big in the whole of England, nor is it small. If it is enough for an ordinary Premier League team, but now Leeds United's excellent performance in the past few years has made Leeds City's football market quite hot. Although it is not as good as London, Manchester and Liverpool, this stadium is a bit out of step for Leeds United, who have been participating in major European continental competitions for several years in a row.

However, I heard that the club is already building a new stadium, and it is nearby.

The two stadiums are not far apart, so once the new stadium is put into use, the stadium may be demolished. After all, there are two large stadiums in one city, and it doesn't make sense to be so close together. Unless other clubs in Leeds City buy or loan the stadium, or Leeds United set up a women's team and reserve team to play for use.

Speed turned his gaze away from the structure of the stadium and back into the stadium, where he had come to watch the game as a private person today. When George Lee heard that he was coming, he insisted on giving him a ticket, but he refused. After all, he has not officially joined Leeds United yet, and he has hardly tried such an opportunity to buy his own tickets to watch the game.

Both teams are actively warming up, both wearing their most common uniforms. Leeds United is white, Liverpool is red, and both are more visible on the green lawn.

The screen on the sidelines is playing the latest Premier League standings, because Leeds United has only achieved 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss in the last 3 rounds, so it has been overtaken by Manchester United and Arsenal, who were previously ranked behind. Leeds United have 12 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses in the previous 18 league games, accumulating 40 points, 2 points behind Arsenal and 1 point behind Manchester United.

Leeds United's opponents are only sixth in the Premier League table today, with Chelsea and Manchester City between Liverpool and Leeds United.

That's right, after the change of head coach, Chelsea relied on the tactical accumulation and personnel reserves left by the previous head coach, and tightly bit the first echelon. After spending a lot of money to buy two main players of Leeds United, Manchester City has entered the top of the Premier League standings as a dark horse under the leadership of former England manager Eriksson this season and is attacking for the Champions League places.

George Lee also said in a recent interview that he sold De Rong and Mills to Manchester City cheaply, and should have asked their Thai chairman to take a little more baht. also half-jokingly said that because of the exchange rate, the transfer fee he saw at the time was expressed in Thai baht, and he was a little stupid when he saw that number, and directly agreed to these two transfers. Now it seems that the converted price of 20 million pounds is really the price of cabbage.

And coincidentally, it was this part of the interview that was being played on the big screen in the stadium.

Speed and nearby Leeds United fans were amused by George Lee's interview, and the guy next to him even took out his mobile phone and opened the calculator, ready to really calculate how much 20 million pounds is equal to. The old brother took the initiative to greet Speed and asked Speed if he knew what the exchange rate between the pound and the Thai baht was.

Obviously, Speed didn't know. But he pointed to the big screen, which had already given the number that looked really staggering in the empty space of the screen.

It has to be said that the British television media understands the effect of interviews.

Then, the injuries of both teams were also shown on the screen. The home team Leeds United have Arjen Robben, Barton, Barry, Pedersen, Bowyer and Davies, of which Robben and Barry are the main players of the team, and the others are rotation players. Here in Liverpool, the fans were surprised when it was broadcast, except for a third goalkeeper who was barely recognizable and whose name no one had ever heard of, the Liverpool players were all healthy.

Reina, Finnam, Carragher, Hyypia, Reese, Mascherano, Alonso, Gerrard, Babbel, Benayoun, Torres, this is the main force of Liverpool today, sending the strongest lineup.

And here at Leeds United, Speed's two players Bale, who is most concerned about, are in the starting line-up, and Blake, as Milner's substitute today, is wearing a substitute player's vest and is also actively warming up.

After the warm-up, the players will start walking back to the tunnel one after another, and after a short break, they will line up for the official start of the game.

Speed got up, ready to go to the bathroom and buy a drink, he didn't want to miss a second of the game.

The timing was good, too, and when Speed was back in his seat, Liverpool's Fernando Torres and Benayoun were standing in the centre circle, waiting for kick-off.

“du~”

A whistle blows, and the game officially begins.