"Two days ago, Mike asked me if I wanted to have an end-of-game parade this year."

In the conference room at Thorpe Arch, George Lee was assembling the team's coaching staff for a meeting, and he asked everyone this question at the beginning.

Of course, no one could answer that question, as the team's coaching staff was lamenting that their team had not won the league title this season.

However, George Li's next words couldn't help but make everyone raise their heads.

"I said, if you want to do it, you have to do it." George Li slapped the table hard, and several people on the side bounced up.

"You tap, George." Casper was the closest to George Lee, and he was visibly frightened.

'At least we have a League Cup trophy this season and Arsenal certainly don't have anything. George Lee ignored Caspar and continued to say to everyone, "And the FA Cup is also in sight, we can win two trophies, can't we?" ”

"Wrong, three. This season's Community Shield is ours too. Casper took the initiative to remind.

When George Lee heard this, this time he didn't ignore Casper, but pondered for a while and nodded.

"In this way, even if Manchester United win the Champions League, there will still be only two trophies. The most successful team this season is still Leeds United. ”

"Come on Chelsea, take out Manchester United!" Caspar shouted.

"Hahaha~"

Everyone was amused by the conversation between George Lee and Casper, which dispelled the originally very oppressive atmosphere, and the conference room became active again.

Seeing that the goal had been achieved, George Lee began to prepare for the team's final pre-match coaching staff meeting this season.

"Our opponent is Portsmouth, I think ......"

^^^

"Hello, George."

"Hello, Harry. Hopefully it's a good game. ”

"I hope so."

George Lee and Redknapp shook hands amicably, with their players already in the final stages of the game, as England's 07/08 FA Cup final was about to begin.

Portsmouth's head coach Redknapp is also experienced, having Harry Redknapp ending his playing career at Bournemouth in 1982 to become assistant coach at the club. He was promoted to head coach in 1984 and held a position he held until 1992, during which time he assisted the team in successfully relegating to the relegation and led the team to the third division in 1987 and promoted to the second division. Due to injuries and a sharp drop in the team's form, they were relegated to Group C in 1990. In the summer of the same year, Harry Redknapp and team director Brian Taylor went to Italy to visit the World Cup, unfortunately encountered a car accident, Taylor and four others died on the spot, Harry Redknapp survived, although his body recovered, but since then he has lost his sense of taste.

He went on to become manager of West Ham United, director of football at Portsmouth, manager of Southampton before returning to Portsmouth in 2005. At that time, the team was under serious relegation threat. In January 2006, Alexander Gaedamac officially bought the team and provided funds for Harry Redknapp to buy the player, and Portsmouth narrowed out relegation in 17th place at the end of the season. The following season, Portsmouth finished ninth in the Premier League, the club's highest ranking since the 1950s.

These achievements are certainly not comparable to George Lee, who has emerged in recent years. However, this season Portsmouth has been able to reach the FA Cup final under Redknapp, which is already quite good.

Now that they have a trophy chance in front of them, they are ready to fight for the FA Cup to break the monopoly of the FA Cup by Leeds United, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool in recent years and qualify for the 08/09 UEFA Cup.

It's just that it's good that Portsmouth has this idea, and they met Leeds United, who have just won the league runners-up and have nowhere to vent their anger.

From the start, the two teams battled it out in midfield, and it was only after Gareth Barry found Robben on the right at Leeds United that Portsmouth became honest.

It was a dangerous attack, and Portsmouth's left-back Traore was caught by Robben without paying attention, taking advantage of the gap behind him.

If it weren't for the slow follow-up of Arneson in front of and behind the goal, the goal would have gone in.

After the Portsmouth formation shrunk, Leeds United completely controlled the rhythm of the game here.

High pressing, front-court scrambling, full-backs forward, wing-backs, quick counter-attacks, it can be said that Leeds United showed the audience a tactical training session of the team.

Except for the lack of goals, everything else was a beautiful game.

The first goal was not scored until the 41st minute of the game, and it was Kuyt.

Here Portsmouth made a mistake in the front pass and Lualua tried to pass the ball to the Portsmouth striker after advancing on the right to meet the defence.

But the direction of his pass is unpredictable, it looks like he is going to pass to Kanu who is running in front, but the direction of the ball is oversized is that Kanoo's heel is flying, and he himself is facing the goal; It was like he was about to pass to Kranica, but the ball was still far away from Kranica, and it was unlikely that he would catch up with it.

There was no way, Kanu could only turn around and catch the ball.

However, even though the Nigerian's physical coordination was good, he was still a step slower, and he only touched the ball lightly with his foot behind his back, and the ball still rolled in front of his feet.

It's okay if you don't touch it, Kranica can still fight it, but the path of the ball changes when Kanu touches the ball.

Kranica didn't pay attention, and the ball rolled in front of his eyes, and it was too late for him to stretch his legs.

The ball was rolling in the direction of Barry, but Barry looked at the ball and immediately started running forward.

Because he saw Milner, who was a right-back, appear in a central midfield position.

"Knock~"

Not long after his return, Milner played a long ball to the left of the team, where Arneson had already crossed the Portsmouth defence and was successfully countered offside.

Arneson jumped up a little on his feet, unloaded the ball in front of him, and immediately accelerated again to start the break.

Once the Norwegian gets the ball and breaks through in the open, there are really few people who can catch him in the Premier League.

Unfortunately, there really isn't one here in Portsmouth.

Arneson dribbled into the box and when he faced the onrushing goalkeeper James, he pushed the ball across the middle for the follow-up Kuyt to send the ball into the empty net.

There is no solution to this combination, and the goalkeeper can only choose to go out to save the first player who is single-handed.

And Leeds United here as long as the players who follow up can keep up, then the goal can almost be said to be covered.

Even if Kuyt in the middle doesn't get in front, Robben at the back point won't be slow either.

Leeds didn't celebrate after Kuyt's goal, but took the initiative to get the ball out of the goal and let Portsmouth kick off quickly.

In the same way, George Lee gave the players the task of letting Muamba play whenever he was three goals ahead.

In order for this hard-fought team-mate to play a few more minutes, the Leeds United players on the pitch can be described as full of energy.

Now the situation is in Leeds' control, they just haven't scored, and now they don't want to waste time and want to score three to get Muamba on the pitch.

In the end, the game ended 3-0, with Muamba coming on today with 73 minutes to play. On 82 minutes, he also completed his first Leeds United first-team effort with a long-range effort that was picked up by the opposition goalkeeper.

After the game, Smith lifted the FA Cup trophy with Mamba, which also heralded the end of Leeds United's 07/08 season.