Two days before the game, Manchester City's entire team left Manchester and came to London.

They flew from Manchester to London on a special plane given to Manchester City Club by the Abu Dhabi consortium.

At London Heathrow Airport, they were warmly welcomed by Manchester City fans. The warm scene made people who were unaware of it must have thought that Manchester City had finished the Champions League final and returned with honor...

But in reality, they were just coming to London to play.

Before the game started, they were welcomed so warmly, which shows how enthusiastic the Manchester City fans are and how much attention they pay for this game.

These Manchester City fans came to London earlier than the team, waiting for the final to begin. Not only two days in advance, but some fans even arrived in London four or five days in advance.

They almost went out in full swing and all came to London. They occupied hotels and hotels of all sizes in London, and some people simply set up tents outside Wembley Stadium. It was not that they couldn't book a hotel, but because they wanted to be closer to the final venue.

Tickets have been sold out, but there are still Manchester City fans holding signs outside the stadium to buy tickets for the finals at a high price.

This is the first time in Manchester City's history to participate in the Champions League final. What they are looking for is not just a ticket, but more of a testimony of history.

Several years later, when they re-extracted the ticket, every bit of the final will be filled with them. They hope that those memories will be sweet.

Manchester City fans are particularly excited. If Manchester City can win the Champions League, they may wake up laughing every night during this whole summer...

The Champions League champions and the Champions League finals, such things in the past, were gradually realizing now.

So what about a nouveau riche?

So what if the gold dollar invades football?

Not many Manchester City fans will think Cruyff is right this time. They all stood firmly on the side of Glory and Abu Dhabi Consortium.

They don’t care about football in the future. They only know that it is precisely because of the Abu Dhabi consortium that Manchester City has money and brings glory. The transfer fee of 80 million pounds is an almost impossible burden for Manchester City before. It is precisely because of their money that they have attracted so many world-class stars to join.

They have only changed every year, from fourth in the league to league champion, from defending the league champion to reaching the Champions League final...

Which of these things can be separated from money?

Cruyff also said that money has defiled the Champions League stage, as if Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Manchester United, Bayern Munich, and Chelsea are all paupers... It seems that those poor teams can win the Champions League championship from the giant teams.

The Champions League and football are both games for rich people. In the past, Manchester City was so hard that they had no money, so they could only watch their arch rivals in the same city grow bigger and bigger, and watch the rich people chat and laugh on stages like the Champions League. They didn't even have the qualifications to go and take a quick look.

Now that we have money, we can finally enter the field to play with the rich people who could only look up to before. As a result, those who feel our threats actually began to promote feelings. They say that they should not forget their original intentions and pursue the purity of football... They have the ability to reduce your budget of hundreds of millions of pounds to ten millions of millions of dollars every year!

What Cruyff said is so high-sounding, but he is just worried that Manchester City will grab Barcelona's championship. These giant teams have been monopolized for too long and have regarded the Champions League championship as their possession.

It seems that only they can win the championship, it seems that they won the Champions League championship without being defiled...

That was just a layer of hypocritical cloak.

It comes down to interests.

But now we must let those old stubborn people know that the world has entered a new century and new forces in European football have also risen!

We are here to end your time! We are here to take your lives!

These fans waved their fists neatly when welcoming Manchester City team at the airport and shouted: "Let the football go back! Go back to primitive society!"

They are in solidarity with glory in this way.

They are not celebrities like Cruyff, and they can write articles in the media to express their opinions, but they also have ways to express their demands.

They put their hope on the glory.

They hope that Glory can help Manchester City beat Barcelona in the final. They can't draw Cruyff's face, but Glory can!

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On the last day before the game, the teams of both sides adapted to the venue respectively.

After Barcelona got used to the field, Messi was blocked by reporters, who wanted to hear what Messi had to say about the final and Glory.

"Rong seems to have regarded the champion as his pocket. Do you have any opinions on this, Leo?" asked a reporter from Catalonia.

"The final has not started yet, and it is unknown who the championship belongs to. But we also have confidence." Messi's answer is quite reasonable.

Next, the reporter asked him: "Now you are temporarily ranked first in the scorer list. Everyone is talking about how you may break Rong's monopoly on the Champions League top scorer. What do you think about this?"

"I'm glad I'm ranked first now. I hope I can still be ranked first by the end of the final." This way, expressing his confidence is also a well-behaved answer, neither humble nor arrogant.

The last question: "Which one should you choose from the top scorer or the champion?"

Everyone thought Messi would definitely answer "As long as he can win the championship, I would rather not score the best scorer"...

Unexpectedly, what Messi said was exactly the same as Rong Guang’s answer!

"I want both the champion and the Golden Boot." Messi smiled and faced a group of stunned reporters.

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On the day of the final, the glory rose very early, but it was not because the next one was the Champions League final, which made him not sleep well. On the contrary, his sleep quality was very high last night. When he woke up and opened his eyes, he was just the time when he should get up - a powerful biological clock.

Rong Guang got up early because he usually got up very early. He always got up earlier than most people and then started his morning exercises for the day.

If they were at home at that time, Deborah and Yaoyao were still sleeping at home.

Someone once made up jokes to mock Robinho, saying that Robinho knew that Milan and Manchester would look like every five o'clock in the morning.

It means that Robinho is keen on going to nightclubs to spend the nightlife and always has to play until five in the morning before going home.

But for Rongguang, this sentence is not a joke, but something that really happened to him.

There is no irony.

While the whole city was still sleeping, Rongguang had already gotten up.

It seems like this in Sao Paulo, and it is also like this in Bremen, and he has seen both Munich and Manchester at 5 a.m.

Now, in London, he still does.

When he put on his clothes, changed his running shoes, left the room with his hands and feet, walked through the quiet corridor, entered the elevator, pressed the button on the first floor, and half a minute later, he appeared in the lobby.

Then he walked out of the hotel through the automatic revolving door in the surprised gaze of the front desk waiter.

Standing outside the hotel door, he turned up his sweatshirt cap to cover his head and began to run towards the road outside.

From childhood to adulthood, his favorite thing was running, whether in the mountains of his hometown, in the lakeside park in St. Paul, or on the roads in London, whether he was barefoot or wearing customized running shoes provided by his sponsors, the environment and equipment changed, but the feeling of running has not changed.

Running will make him feel free and completely detached from this world.

He was running on the streets of London at 5 a.m. There were very few cars on the road, and only street lights illuminated every section of the road under his feet. When passing the trash can, a wild cat seemed to be frightened, jumped over and disappeared into the darkness.

After running, the air flowed through both sides of his cheeks, blowing his hair, the hair on his skin, and the zippered sweatshirt bulged on his back, like a sail on a sailboat.

He felt like he was flying in the wind.

Rongguang turned a corner of the street and passed the homeless vagabond sleeping on a bench at the door. The wind brought the newspaper on him. The vagabond held the newspaper with his hand, turned around, curled up and did not wake up.

Rongguang passed an intersection and ran past a drunkard sitting beneath the ground leaning against the street lamp pole. He accidentally knocked down an empty wine bottle. The glass bottle was spinning and jumping on the concrete road, making a crisp continuous sound, echoing in the quiet streets, everyone was clear. But this did not awaken the drunken drunkard. He just clicked his mouth twice and made a meaningless gurgle, as if he was still savoring the wine last night.

Rongguang continued to run forward without looking back. Then he stopped at an intersection and waited for the green light. But even so, his legs did not stop, but continued to lift his legs high in place.

A taxi stopped at the intersection beside him, and a girl with heavy makeup and exposed clothes got out of the car. She looked at the man who was raising his legs high at the intersection in a strange way.

At this moment, the green light was on and the glory suddenly started, like a cheetah. The wind he brought even blew the girl's hair and skirt. The girl looked at his back in surprise, forgetting to cover the ***** under him... The taxi driver turned his head and feasted his eyes.

Rongguang passed by a boy who was delivering newspapers on a skateboard, so fast that the skateboard boy forgot to throw the newspaper in his hand into the yard next to him...

He ran along the way, and there were more and more people passing by, and the more sounds he also made. His regular footsteps were no longer the only sound floating above the streets.

When he turned around and ran back to the main entrance of the hotel, Chaoyang jumped out from the east horizon, and the street lights on the street went out one after another.

The sky is completely bright.
Chapter completed!