Chapter 1 A Crazy Match

"The game is over! This was truly a crazy game!" When the final whistle blew, there wasn't an uproar in the commentary box.

This sentence was perhaps the final summary the commentators could offer.

During the game, the commentators' passion had been completely exhausted.

Before the game, no one could have imagined it would turn out this way.

The final score displayed on the big screen was 17-0.

Just three more goals, and the game would have entered the twenty-goal mark.

If one only looked at the score and not the teams involved, viewers would have assumed this was a World Cup qualifier held in Oceania, with New Zealand playing against some South Pacific island nation.

But it was actually an English Premier League match.

So, many people, faced with this score, didn't know what to say—it was simply beyond their comprehension.

After a while, a commentator finally sighed, "The rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester City has entered a new chapter…"

That was all that could be said.

Even if Chen Hero retired, the feud between Liverpool and Manchester City would likely be endless, passed down forever.

There are many rivalries in modern football, but few have seen how these rivalries were formed. Now they had the good fortune to witness how, after eighteen seasons of constant entanglement, Liverpool and Manchester City had gradually become bitter enemies.

They witnessed the birth of a rivalry; they also witnessed history.

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After the game, the riot police were on high alert. They all knew the score and understood what kind of stimulation this score would bring to the Manchester City fans.

Now that the game was over, no one dared to guarantee that these Manchester City fans would obediently stay in their seats.

Therefore, as soon as the game ended, a squad of fully armed riot police rushed to the sidelines, signaling Liverpool players to leave immediately.

The Liverpool players had originally planned to enjoy the feeling of humiliating their rivals so thoroughly on their home turf, but they were interrupted by the killjoy riot police.

But for their safety, the riot police were right to do so.

So, they reluctantly retreated from the field. Then, under the protection of the shields raised by the riot police, they entered the tunnel.

Chen Hero was among them.

But he didn't want to celebrate this game.

He actually knew that this game might not make Manchester City fans fear Liverpool; instead, it would only make them hate Liverpool even more. But apart from this method, he had no other means of retaliation.

The score of 17-0 not only set a Premier League record but also a record for the top tier of English football.

But he couldn't be happy.

Liverpool had paid too high a price for this game.

Now, more than three hundred fans who had followed the team to this dangerous away game were trapped in the stands, their safety unknown.

There was also Hoyle Eduardo, who had been sent off with a red card, and Jerome Adams, the fitness coach, who had been taken to the police station for questioning.

He thought the game was far from over.

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At the post-match press conference, Gerrard came and went in a hurry.

He only said a few points.

First, strongly condemn and fiercely criticize the actions of Manchester City fans and the lax management of the Manchester City club's stadium.

Second, Liverpool Football Club will submit the video of this game to the FA and file an appeal, demanding severe punishment for Manchester City fans and Manchester City Football Club.

Third, he slammed the referee of this game, Warner Rodney, accusing him of clearly favoring the home team in his decisions during the game. They will also appeal to the FA's referee committee, demanding severe punishment for Rodney. At the same time, they will appeal for Hoyle Eduardo's red card, demanding that this unwarranted red card be rescinded.

Fourth, Liverpool Football Club will firmly stand behind fitness coach Jerome Adams; his actions were purely self-defense.

Fifth, Manchester City being scored on seventeen times at their home stadium was their own fault. What kind of team you have, you have what kind of fans. Conversely, what kind of fans you have, you have what kind of team. He regretted not being able to score three more goals. He firmly believed that if the fourth official had added more stoppage time, even if it was only three minutes, his team would have been able to score three more goals.

Sixth, those Manchester City fans who stormed the field are sons of bitches.

Seventh, all the reporters who hyped this matter before the game are also sons of bitches.

Finally, after dropping the expletives, he got up and left the press conference in the stunned gazes of the many reporters.

Then, the group of reporters waited for a while, and the press officer came over to tell them that the press conference was over. Because the home team's coach, Lipton Anderson, refused to attend the press conference, the press conference was over.

A reporter shook his head and sighed as he left the press conference hall, "A farce! It's really a farce!"

He was right; it was indeed a farce, but he didn't seem to be qualified to criticize it, because who caused this farce? Wasn't it them, these reporters who were afraid that the world wouldn't be in chaos for the sake of news?

If it weren't for their enthusiastic hype and participation, how could this matter have fermented to such an extent?

In their frantic hype, Manchester City fans seemed to have been encouraged. So, when they stormed the field, they were all fearless, holding their heads high even when they were caught, smiling at the cameras surrounding them.

They became famous; they were in the newspapers and on TV. As for the other consequences, they didn't care.

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Half an hour after the game, an article appeared on Liverpool's official website, specifically targeting Manchester City Football Club and Manchester City fans.

"Strongly worded" was not enough to describe this article.

Or rather, it would be better to say "scolding harshly."

Liverpool Football Club angrily rebuked and cursed Manchester City Football Club and Manchester City fans in the article.

The scolding was very nasty, but it was very reasonable.

Then, Liverpool's general manager, Niang, immediately announced that they had initiated the appeal process and would appeal everything about this game to the English FA.

Moreover, this time he brought out a trump card—he stated that if the English FA could not give Liverpool a satisfactory explanation, then he would not mind appealing to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport!

As if it had been discussed in advance, the official website of the International Olympic Committee also published an article on its homepage, paying attention to this "special" Premier League game. Moreover, the wording of the article clearly sided with Liverpool.

Everyone could see which side the IOC was on at a glance.

The English FA really felt enormous pressure this time.

If they provoked the IOC again, then things would be a disaster.

They completely believed that Liverpool and Chen Hero would do it, and would dare to do it, just like what had happened last time.

Moreover, the current public opinion was also very unfavorable to them.

The media outlets that had been watching the excitement before the game were afraid that things weren't big enough. Now, when they realized that the wind direction was wrong, they all turned their guns around and fiercely criticized the actions of Manchester City fans, and also launched merciless criticisms of Manchester City Football Club's usual practices at their home stadium. With a turn of their bodies, these media outlets that had been stirring up trouble turned into messengers of justice.

This made the people at the FA feel disgusted, and they cursed the entire families of these media outlets countless times in their hearts.

But now, the situation was stronger than people. No matter how unwilling they were, they had to bow their heads.

First of all, they naturally couldn't let Liverpool take this lawsuit to the IOC's International Court of Arbitration for Sport. Things had to be within a controllable range.

Secondly, under the pressure of public opinion, they also had to show something, otherwise, so many people wouldn't be easily fooled.

Thirdly, Manchester City had really gone too far this time. In fact, during the game, when they saw Manchester City fans rushing into the stadium like dumplings in the second half, they were all frightened. They realized the seriousness of the matter at that time.

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Over there, Liverpool was in a state of thunderous rage, and this time they received unanimous support from the media. After all, everyone knew what those Manchester City fans were going down to do. Using such a formation just to insult an innocent child in order to provoke Chen Hero was really too low.

It would have been fine if one or two fans had rushed down. But the crazy storming of the field later made people feel that they had gone too far.

Everything has a limit. Was it really necessary for Manchester City fans to do this because of their hostility towards Chen Hero? For a time, the media was full of criticism of Manchester City. Even the programs that had previously taught Manchester City fans how to break through police lines had undergone a complete transformation and began to launch a loud denunciation of Manchester City fans and Manchester City Football Club.

Over here, Manchester City's life was even more difficult.

Manchester City Football Club obviously didn't expect its fans to be so crazy. They had indeed initially intended to use the fans to cause trouble for Chen Hero and Liverpool. In their view, fans were a very easy group to manipulate.

And if something happened, they could push all the responsibility onto the fans, saying that they were a group of unruly extremist fans, and their club had suffered from them repeatedly and was troubled by them. They would pretend to be the weak and win sympathy, shifting all the firepower to the extremist fans. Anyway, football hooligans didn't have a good reputation in England in the first place. When the time came, they would push all the responsibility away, and they believed that neither public opinion nor the FA would be able to do anything to them—many clubs had used this trick, and it had worked repeatedly.

But this method of driving away the wolf to devour the tiger was completely out of control when facing Chen Hero. Manchester City Football Club didn't expect this group of fans to be so crazy that they had lost control.

They raised a pack of vicious dogs, wanting to rely on this pack of vicious dogs to retaliate against their enemies, but they didn't expect that they would be bitten by the vicious dogs they had raised.

And they were bitten badly!

This is truly a case of Heaven's retribution being avoidable, but self-inflicted disasters being inescapable…