Chapter 43 Thirteen consecutive victories and three consecutive defeats
This is how Chu Zhongtian lived after school started.
Monday to Friday, this is the day of school. In the morning, I ran to school with football, listened carefully, took notes and experienced a completely different atmosphere from the preparatory course. During the break, I talked about football with Charles Philip, Joseph Kenny and Wimbledon. After lunch at school, I went to school with Russell and Borger for special training on the ball control field. Emily sometimes came to watch and comfort Chu Zhongtian who was working hard, or chat with Russell and the others.
If the afternoon class ends early and the team is training that day, the three of them will go to the stadium to participate in training. In order to hurry up, Chu Zhongtian will not go running.
If the afternoon class ends early, but Wimbledon has no training plan and does not have to go to Mike China to send orders, Chu Zhongtian will continue to review Russell's Protestant things on the school court, and then pack up and go to work at the Duns Bar when the time is about to come. Emily will always accompany him at this time, knowing that he is going to the bar before going home.
If the afternoon class ends early and Wimbledon has no training plan, but needs to go to Mike China to send orders, he will take the football straight to Mike China, receive his own orders, and then run to distribute all the advertising orders in the area he is responsible for. Of course, he still has the ball under his feet, even when he meets a dog... Chu Zhongtian is actually afraid of dogs, but in order to improve his ball control skills as soon as possible, even if he is chased by the dog he is afraid of, he will also be jealous.
He went out. But when he was chased by the two dogs a few times, he found that the dogs were not trying to bite him at all, but wanted to play with him - they thought Chu Zhongtian was playing with them... This was really a tragedy. Chu Zhongtian must have never heard of a dog who had to squat down and not run away when he encountered a dog. Although these dogs were trying to play with him, Chu Zhongtian would not stop to satisfy them. He still ran away with football, followed by two bulldogs dragging their saliva behind him.
After finishing all this, I went back to the apartment where I lived for dinner, then took a break, and reviewed the course I learned today. Seeing that the time was almost over, I got up and went to the Duns Bar. Of course, I was still running and still carrying football under my feet.
It was eight o'clock when I arrived at the bar and started changing clothes and working. I was busy until eleven o'clock in the evening and worked for four hours. This would take twenty hours five days a week, which just met the time limit for international students to work, and there was no waste.
After coming out of the bar, running back to the apartment, taking a shower, it was time to lie down and go to bed. At that time, Yang Yang often just went to bed. He was a person with a regular schedule, basically he didn't stay up late, and he would sleep before twelve o'clock. If he hadn't fallen asleep, Chu Zhongtian would talk to him casually.
When he woke up the next day, he continued to repeat this schedule. It was only different on Saturdays and Sundays, because he could have more time to work and participate in the AFC Wimbledon competition. At that time, he was like Superman. When he changed his clothes in the phone booth, he transformed from an ordinary newspaper reporter named Clark Kent to a Kryptonian visitor who wore underwear and saved the world.
One is an ordinary international student, and the other is a player who enjoys thousands of cheers on the court. Chu Zhongtian enjoys this change in identity. He tries his best every game, hoping to make up for the regret of not being able to participate in the mid-week game with his performance.
His cheerleading team in the stands was also expanding slightly. In addition to his companions at the Duns Bar and Emily, Yang Yang later joined, and now Chu Zhongtian's new friends at school, Charles Philip and Joseph Kenny.
There is a fixed square in the stands now. When the competition is played, they will definitely cheer for Chu Zhongtian loudly, holding up the sign with Chu Zhongtian written on it, but no matter how you look at it, it seems to be promoting themselves. Except for Emily's sign, which is simple and unpretentious "Chu, come on!", everyone else's laughed and laughed and cried - Colin John, the owner of Duns Bar, still said: "Chu, you are the pride of our Duns Bar!"
The Duns Bar was marked with red and bold, which was particularly eye-catching. After being reminded by him, Yang Yang also made a sign with the words: "Da Chu, your fellow villager, classmate and roommate Yang Yang cheers you up!" "Yang Yang" also marked with red and bold. The newly joined Charles Philip and Joseph Kenny quickly formed a group with these people with their lively personalities. They also followed suit and held up such signs: "Chu is our classmate!"
Under the banner of cheering for Chu Zhongtian, they promoted themselves. They could be regarded as a special scenery in the stands. Even the teammates in the team used this to make Chu Zhongtian jokes, and they said to Chu Zhongtian: "You are their cheerleader, Chu!"
Russell would not miss such an opportunity to hit Chu Zhongtian: "It seems that you are not very popular."
Chu Zhongtian was speechless to this group of people, so he could only eat coptis chinensis in a mute manner - he couldn't say anything about his suffering.
※※※When Philip and Kenny replaced "we" with their respective names on the brand, and everyone started to wear thick clothes such as sweaters, more than three months had passed for Chu Zhongtian's life.
In the past three months, AFC Wimbledon played 18 games. Thirteen league games, five cup games were cup games, three of the cup games were London Senior Cup (LSC, referred to as lsc), and two were Premier_challenge_cup. Just half a month ago, on November 16, they were eliminated in the Super Win Cup and lost quite badly. Chu Zhongtian did not go that game because the match day was midweek again, and he had to attend classes. After the game Emily pouted and told him that the team's defeat had a lot to do with his failure.
In that game, Wimbledon lost to Sausal with a score of 1:5. This team was the first day of school. Wimbledon went to challenge the team away. At that time, Chu Zhongtian did not go with the team because he was going to class. The team shook hands with the other party 0:0.
Chu Zhongtian felt a little embarrassed to lose the Cup with such a score. Because it was not only Emily who told him that if he was there, he would not know whether to win or not, but he would never lose so badly. He himself also firmly believed that if he was there, he would never allow Sausal's kids to ravage the goal so wildly, with five goals... Since losing to Walton and Heisham in a friendly match with a score of 0:5, no team can score so many goals in Wimbledon in a game. If Chu Zhongtian was there, it would be a shame for him. He would never allow his opponent to be so presumptuous.
The failure of this game also announced the end of AFC Wimbledon's thirteen consecutive victories.
Although this failure was disappointing, the previous game still excited Wimbledon fans and Chu Zhongtian himself.
After tied with Saussal on September 3, Wimbledon lost to Westdean 2000 away (withdean_2000). The score was 0:2. The team is now ranked first in the league, so losing to them is a result that Wimbledon is still slightly lacking in strength.
After this game, Wimbledon was like a bullet train that suddenly entered the high-speed rail, constantly winning, winning, and winning again. Starting from the 2:0 home victory over Reading Town on September 14th, until November 9th, defeating Merstham 2:0 away, he won all thirteen games! Ten of them were the league, which also allowed them to jump from the previous middle and lower reaches to the third in the league.
This result made Wimbledon fans and senior executives very excited. When they first established this team, they didn't expect everything would go so well. They entered the top three less than half of the season. Although their ideals were great... After Game 13, the club's chairman Chris Stewart also appeared to praise the team's performance, claiming that the board of directors was very satisfied with their performance and hoped that they would continue to work hard.
As a result, the chairman really felt like a broom star. He rarely came to praise the players in person before. This time he suddenly praised him once. In the next game, Wimbledon lost 1:5 to Sausal in the Super Winning Cup.
In fact, it is not that the chairman is the broom star, but because the team was a little proud after winning thirteen consecutive games. Everyone, including Chu Zhongtian, thinks that the level of this league is just that. After the season is over, they will directly advance to the eighth level league with the first place. So everyone's mind is no longer on opponents of this level, and some have even begun to look forward to the second season of the game.
Eames couldn't reverse the players' thinking because after winning thirteen consecutive games, he said that no one would take anything to his heart. People are like this, and they wouldn't have a memory without suffering.
Fortunately, their opponents helped Eames teach this group of boys who didn't know how to be tall and rich.
After losing to Sausal with a shameful score of 1:5 at home, they can still think that this is just a cup match, and giving up the cup is to better attack the league. However, in the next away game, one home game, they lost to Feltham and afc_wallingford with a score of 0:1 and 0:3 respectively.
After losing these three games, head coach Eames scolded the team in the car back to Kings Ranch. If there was a TV broadcast, everyone would probably only hear a "beep--", "beep--", "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "beep--" "
Although it was a little rude and direct, this method really works. In the next cup game, Wimbledon defeated Bedfont 2:1 at his home court and advanced to the next level in the London Senior Cup. However, since this game is still in the middle of the week, Chu Zhongtian was in school and could not participate. Russell and Borger skipped classes to prevent the team from continuing to decline. It seems that Coach Eames's scolding played a role... Russell and Borger invited Chu Zhongtian before leaving, but Chu Zhongtian was unwilling to skip class and refused, which disappointed the two. Fortunately, they finally won the game and lost again.
, I don't know if I will not give Chu Zhongtian a good face after coming back... Next December 1st, Wimbledon will play against Glenford in the league in the away game. Since this was a game held on Sunday, Chu Zhongtian started. His existence ensured the team's defense line, and the opponent's strength was too weak... When the league just started for five rounds, the team ranked last. Now the league is almost half, and they are still ranked last. The deputy squad leader doesn't want to change it. If nothing unexpected happens, they will be relegated to the 10th League after the end of this season.
Facing such a weak opponent in this game, Wimbledon is naturally not polite. They need a hearty victory to re-boosting morale and prove to head coach Eames that they are not a group of castrated pigs.
In the end, Andy Sullivan scored a hat-trick and scored three goals alone. Captain Kevin Cooper added icing on the cake. Wimbledon defeated the league's deputy squad leader Glenford Vikings with a score of 4:0, which was a small crisis of three consecutive losses. The only regret is that this game was on the away game, and only more than 800 came, and the atmosphere was not warm enough. If there were such a result at home, Kings Ranch would have been cheering a lot. After the game, many fans would rush down to talk to the players and pat their shoulders to congratulate them on their victory. Maybe someone would pay to invite them to have a drink in the evening - this is not a daydream for the players. When they won thirteen consecutive games, this situation did not happen much after the game.
This is also the difference between amateur games and professional games. After the game is over, those professional stars are busy dealing with the media, or go straight into the locker room and don’t come out. Fans can only watch them get on the bus from afar under the police quarantine, and then wave to them in the car through the window. This alone can make the fans extremely excited.
In amateur games, fans can walk out of the stands and go directly to the stadium to communicate with the players. There will be no security guards or police to stop them, and the players will not put on airs and refuse such communication. They usually chat with familiar fans and friends for a while, then make an appointment to have dinner together, or go to a bar where they often go to for a drink, and have a good chat about the game that has just ended.
Even the club's chairman and other senior leaders sometimes make an appointment with Eames, Ingrich and others to have a drink together after the game, without any airs of board members.
Chu Zhongtian deeply liked this game because it was simple enough. Without the erosion of those commercial elements, there were not so many messy shady scenes. Whether it was playing football or watching football, he was enjoying the purest football without any impurities.
※※※The team has gone out of crisis and embarked on the road of winning streak again.
This is certainly a gratifying thing, but Chu Zhongtian felt regretful that no matter how hard he tried during the game, he never heard of the ball given to Borger in that game. Not only was it technically impossible, but even that intuition never played a role. He became a blue-collar worker who only knew defense and only did dirty work and wanted to take on the heavy responsibility of organizing offense? That would never be expected.
Although he never relaxed his ball control skills every day and made some progress in ball control. Russell also kept his promise and continued to teach him. However, his condition in the game that day never appeared again, and he still felt a little regretful when he remembered it occasionally.
Did he really miss the offense? That time he performed well but was just luck? Chu Zhongtian was a little unwilling to accept it... The scene where a pass penetrated Hartley Winterney's entire defense line was still vivid in his mind. The shouting in the stands and the excited smiles of his teammates made him feel the same sense of accomplishment as defense. He likes to do things that are bad for others. The defense is the same. Isn't it the same for offense? When the opponent carefully organizes the defense, he lets himself penetrate the ball, which is also bad for the opponent's good? There are also shots, goals lead or equalizes the score, or overtakes the reverse... Are these all good things that are bad for the opponent?
As for Chu Zhongtian no longer performing like that, Russell's explanation was that "you have no control over football", so he had an excuse to continue to torture Chu Zhongtian in "special training". Now he has added some changes to the original simple basis, making those exercises more complicated and tormenting... In fact, Borger has always believed that Russell must have avenged his personal revenge, and then taught Chu Zhongtian's skills, while tortured Chu Zhongtian in various ways to avenge the revenge he was humiliated by the other party.
Of course, Russell denied this, saying that if it weren't for the sake of his classmate and Emily, he wouldn't have come to teach Chu Zhongtian and other things. The implication is that Chu Zhongtian himself would not be able to ask for such an opportunity. He should cherish it and continue to listen to his calls.
Chu Zhongtian didn't care whether Russell was taking revenge or whether he was called by the other party. Since this training did improve his ball control skills, it means it was really useful. Since it was useful, what else should he care about? As long as it was useful, just learn it yourself. During the ten years of his time in the football school, he only worked on physical training, which had been wasted ten years of time, and now he can't delay it anymore.
So he still practiced every day. In the past three months, he has played three football games, and two pairs of broken nailed rubber-soled sneakers specially used to practice on the road were also broken. However, he did not pay attention to these expenses, and just practiced hard, hoping to find the refreshing feeling one day.
When he looked up again, it was almost Christmas.
Chapter completed!