Lin Hai Ting Tao
Chapter 1159 You Treat Me with Sincerity, and I Will Never Let You Down (Fifth Update for Monthly Tickets)
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Liverpool defeated Manchester United at their home stadium, widening the gap between the two teams to six points.
After the game that night, all major British media outlets spent a lot of time and space reporting on this pivotal battle.
And not just in Britain, but around the world, this match was highly anticipated.
Many believed that with Sir Alex Ferguson aging and Chen Hero in his prime, this match was a head-on clash between the old and the new. Liverpool's victory over Manchester United might not completely replace Manchester United's position overnight, but it accelerated Manchester United's decline. As time passed, the balance of power between the two sides in England would be completely reversed, with Manchester United going downhill and Liverpool rising sharply.
Ferguson is a strong man, a very capable coach. During his many years at Manchester United, the team has always maintained a high level.
But Ferguson is old after all, and he will leave the team sooner or later, and this "sooner or later" won't be too long.
On the Liverpool side, although Gerrard is also getting old, they are not relying on Gerrard now, but on Chen Hero!
Born in 1988, Chen Hero is only twenty-six years old, right in his prime. The golden years of a professional player have just begun, and he has plenty of time to lead Liverpool past Manchester United.
So, if Chen Hero doesn't leave Liverpool, and the Liverpool management doesn't go crazy, and continues this operating strategy, Liverpool's future is quite promising.
"This game may be the key battle in the change of dynasty! Liverpool has achieved a victory at Old Trafford that will determine the direction of the entire war, they have won the most important battle. Perhaps now people can't see the importance of this game, for them it's just helping Liverpool win a league title... but I think in a few seasons, when people look back on this game, they will all acknowledge its historical significance! Hero's hat-trick for Liverpool is not just a league title trophy, winning a Premier League title once shouldn't be Liverpool's pursuit, what he has won for Liverpool is the future!"
The sky of the Premier League is about to change.
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Because they defeated Manchester United away from home and secured a valuable victory, and because they were plagued by two games a week afterwards, Martin O'Neill announced, while still on the bus back to Liverpool from Manchester, that they would have a full day off tomorrow.
Everyone cheered.
In fact, Ferguson was right. After several weeks of playing two games a week, Liverpool's players were indeed exhausted. But the desire for the league title has supported them to persevere, and if they had to persevere, they could still do it. The power of the spirit is strong.
But they were also very happy to get a break in advance.
With a rare day off, Chen Hero didn't continue to practice hard in the alternate dimension, but accompanied his girlfriend, Cabreza, who had come to England, to go shopping.
With the league title about to be won, Chen Hero didn't need to push himself any further.
A balance of work and rest, the way of the pen and the sword.
If you don't know how to enjoy life, what's the point of earning so much money?
But this time, Chen Hero didn't complete the task of accompanying his girlfriend shopping, because most of the time he and his girlfriend Cabreza were surrounded on the streets of Liverpool—having just defeated Manchester United and secured the league title for the team, Chen Hero's position in the hearts of Liverpool fans was unparalleled.
Just like his name, he is the hero of these people.
So wherever he goes, he will be surrounded by enthusiastic Liverpool fans. Some people ask him for autographs, some want to take photos with him, but more people just surround him, cheering, singing, and applauding.
Out of professional habit, Cabreza was initially very nervous about Chen Hero's safety. But Chen Hero quickly dispelled her worries.
"Don't worry, Christine. Only my home is safer than here." Chen Hero said to Cabreza while fulfilling the requests of enthusiastic fans.
In the end, the fans all sang the "Red Giant Bear Song" that had been sung in the game against Real Madrid:
"He is a fierce giant bear from the north, breaking high mountains and tearing apart the cold winter! The earth will sing everywhere: Hero! Chen Hero! Our Liverpool giant bear!"
"He is a magical dragon from the east, spraying flames of fiery red! The earth will sing everywhere: Hero! Chen Hero! Our Liverpool dragon!"
"Everyone must accept this reality, invincible Hero has become a reality! Pay your respects to the most powerful Hero in the world with reverence and awe!"
"Long live! Hero! Long live! Long live! Ten thousand years—!"
At the end of the song, everyone made a gesture of worship, just like they did in the stands.
The whole crowd fell into a frenzy.
Chen Hero was also infected by this frenzy.
He thought these Liverpool fans were very cute.
For Chen Hero, who had just experienced a life-and-death struggle with the Napoli fans, it was really not easy to feel that the fans were cute...
Because of his experience in Naples, he had always harbored a sense of vigilance and resentment towards the fans. Even with the "Red Giant Bear," he was using the fans to provide him with fan prestige, and it accounted for a large part of it.
But now, the sight of the Liverpool fans surrounding him, singing, dancing, and applauding, touched him deeply.
These fans liked him from the bottom of their hearts, but he didn't seem to like them from the bottom of his heart...
He suddenly understood a little. Why had he scored so many goals, helped Liverpool win two championship trophies, and was about to win a third... but he still hadn't been able to complete "shock the Kop stand"?
Logically speaking, being able to score so many goals and bring championships to the team, the cheers for him in the stands should be the loudest. But why hadn't he been able to complete that task?
Chen Hero had pondered this for a long time without understanding why.
He was so good at scoring goals and bringing so many victories to the team, so why hadn't he completed this task?
This task could reward a reward, although it was Dalglish, it was still quite useful for the current Chen Hero. Now he was playing the "Master League" mode, and his team needed an artificial intelligence coach, not the kind that came with the system that could only execute limited commands that you input.
But unfortunately, he couldn't complete it.
Now he suddenly understood.
He used to think that he hadn't scored enough goals, and he hadn't won enough championships.
But now he realized that it didn't seem to be the case...
In the hearts of the fans, Liverpool is very two parts, one is everyone knows Liverpool, one is the Kop.
They were just cheering for his goals, just like they cheered for any Liverpool player. But they didn't treat Chen Hero as a Kop, which was the most important thing.
They cheered for you just because you played well. If you didn't play well, they might not support you. For them, you were just an ordinary Liverpool player... perhaps a little more famous than an ordinary Liverpool player, but that was it.
But you are not Kop, so they can't wholeheartedly love you from the bottom of their hearts.
Although it's all love, love has different levels and degrees.
It's not fair to complain that Liverpool fans treat them differently. In fact, Liverpool fans weren't like this before. It was mainly because they were hurt too deeply by Torres—when Torres transferred from Atletico Madrid to Liverpool, he broke Van Nistelrooy's goalscoring record for a foreign player in his first season, and broke a series of other records.
At that time, Torres was affectionately called "Saint Torres" by Liverpool fans, and even the vice-captain Carragher began to look forward to Torres playing for Liverpool for many years and eventually becoming a legend of the club and a part of its history.
Liverpool fans naturally had such thoughts for a long time. They sang praises for Torres, loving him and supporting him with all their hearts, hoping that he could become a legendary club star like Dalglish and Ian Rush.
But what was the result? They gave so much true feeling and sincerity, and what they got in return was Torres's departure at all costs.
In the end, he went to Chelsea as he wished, and everyone's "Liverpool legend dream" was shattered.
After this incident, everyone naturally looked at Chen Hero with a wary eye, after all, the two had exactly the same position, and their journeys after transferring to Liverpool were very similar.
Even though Chen Hero had brought two championship trophies and countless goals to the team, some people were worried that Chen Hero would choose to leave at the end of the season. Whenever they saw the media say that Chen Hero's transfer to Liverpool was a waste of talent, they were very nervous and unwilling.
When did everyone's attitude really start to change, and they put their true feelings into it?
It was after Chen Hero publicly announced that he didn't care about going to Real Madrid, and even ridiculed Real Madrid and Barcelona, completely offending the two major La Liga powerhouses.
The Liverpool fans felt a little more secure in their hearts.
They felt that Chen Hero probably wouldn't leave them so easily.
They gradually invested their suppressed true feelings.
Chen Hero's performance at Old Trafford yesterday conquered many people, and they liked this arrogant young man from China from the bottom of their hearts.
That's why they were so excited when they found Chen Hero and his girlfriend shopping on the street today, and even formed a crowd.
Chen Hero naturally didn't know about the changes in the hearts of the Liverpool fans, he was just reflecting on his previous actions.
He didn't completely treat the Liverpool fans as his own, or rather, he didn't invest his emotions. He thought that as long as he kept scoring goals and bringing victories, the fans would naturally support him from the bottom of their hearts and cheer for him.
But now he felt that those loud cheers were just like himself, lacking a kind of sincere emotion behind them...
If you can't love them from the bottom of your heart, and you want to win their support just as a way to complete a task, then why do you expect them to love you and support you from the bottom of their hearts?
Now, looking at these fans who were surrounding him, making gestures of worship and singing songs of heroes, Chen Hero felt that he should also change the way he treated them... At the very least, he should also invest his emotions.
If you treat me with sincerity, I will not let you down.