Chapter 905 The birth of a tradition
"Yesterday, the 2025-2026 Premier League season came to an end. After thirty-eight rounds of fierce competition, Leeds City, who was not optimistic, finally unexpectedly won the Premier League championship this season... After winning the championship, Flanders Stadium became a happy place Ocean, after the team won the cup, the fans were reluctant to leave for a long time... In the end they The team's bus started a parade around the city... Of course, there were many accidents during the parade, and minor traffic accidents occurred from time to time. Considering that this is the first Premier League championship in Leeds City's history, then. It’s understandable that something like this happens...Of course, I still want to remind everyone to pay attention to safety..."
The TV was showing footage of Leeds City's championship parade last night.
Little Matthew carried a sports bag containing jerseys and sneakers, ran down the stairs and took a look over there. He found that his father was not in front of the TV, so he asked his mother in the kitchen: "Mom, where is my father? Isn't he going to give me a gift?" Going to train?”
"He's packing the car outside." Mom said to the yard outside the door.
Little Matthew ran out with his bag and saw his father, David Miller, squatting next to the main driver's door of the Citroen car, carefully pasting a strip of lace.
In the place where it had been pasted, little Matthew saw that it was the Leeds City team emblem. As his father smoothed the pattern in his hand and pasted it next to the team emblem little by little, little Matthew gradually saw that it was the Leeds City team emblem. ...The Premier League Championship Trophy!
"Okay!" The focused David Miller didn't know that his son was standing behind him. He looked at the results of his work with satisfaction, and the more he looked at the Premier League trophy that appeared next to the Leeds City team logo, the more joy he got.
So he gently hummed the Leeds City team song:
"We love you, Liz, Liz, Liz...we go through it together, through the ups and downs...we walk together until the earth stops spinning...forward, Liz...eh?"
He stood up and walked back while humming, and then he saw his stunned son Matthew.
After the initial shock, he frowned: "When did you come out?"
Little Matthew came back to his senses and teased: "Dad, I heard everything. To be honest, your singing is comparable to Hu You's - I heard people in the club say that Hu's singing is terrible!"
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David Miller glared hard at his son: "Is this your attitude towards our team's championship-winning hero!"
Little Matthew's eyes widened: "Isn't it? Dad, isn't it? Who said he was just here to sell jerseys?!"
David Miller took a deep breath, then gritted his teeth and said: "If you don't want to walk to training by yourself today, then you'd better shut up!"
Little Matthew stopped when he saw that he was ready, quickly opened the door of the back seat, and threw himself and his sports bag in: "Daddy is the best!"
David Miller stood outside the car and laughed angrily when he saw his son like this, and decided not to argue with his son.
He also opened the main driver's door and got into the car, started the car and drove to Leeds City's youth training base.
On the road, they saw many cars of all kinds, with different brands, models, prices, and grades... but one thing they had in common was that they all had latte art stickers related to Leeds City's championship on the outside.
And when such cars meet, the two cars will honk at each other: "Beep!" (Go forward!)
"Bah!" (Liz!)
This is the code for Leeds City fans. As long as you press the horn twice and get two responses from the other party, everyone is on the same journey.
Then the driver smiled knowingly, passed each other, and drove away.
Along the way, David Miller honked the horn countless times and communicated with so many Leeds City fans... He even saw someone on the side of the road pick up their mobile phone to take pictures of his car. He knew it must be him driving the car. The latte art stickers outside the door attracted those people's attention.
So he rolled down the window and gave those people a thumbs up very proudly. Then his movements and expressions were recorded together with the latte art stickers...
"Wow!" Matthew, who was sitting in the back seat looking down at his phone, suddenly exclaimed, "Someone actually bought Leeds City to win the championship before the season started! The odds at that time were 5,000 to one! This The truck driver who won the lottery said he would continue to drive a truck... It's really crazy. If I had so much money, I would definitely not go to school..."
"Huh?" came his father's heavy hum from the front.
"No, I mean, if I win so much money, I will definitely buy you a car for Dad! He paid five thousand for a loss, and he spent two hundred pounds on the bet, and now it is one million...ah! Dad, as a die-hard Leeds City fan, why didn’t you think of placing a bet?”
"Who would have thought Leeds could win the title?" snorted David Miller.
"Neil Mullin didn't expect this," Matthew said, pointing to his mobile phone. "In an interview, he said that the bet was just to express his support for the team. Dad, look at people's love for the club... …”
"Shut up!"
Little Matthew grinned, then looked out the car window, and then said wow: "There are so many people in the Red Hot Chili Peppers!"
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Wang Haoxi, Pei Yu and Song Xinghe looked up at the hotel sign hanging on the wall.
"Red pepper!" Wang Haoxi said excitedly. "Chinese Football Holy Land Tour! Let'sGO!"
He waved his hand and led the way inside.
Song Xinghe, who was following behind, complained: "What a tour to the holy land of Chinese football, he is obviously trying to find an excuse to eat red peppers!"
Pei Yu laughed: "To commemorate the first Premier League championship of Chinese players by eating Chinese food... I think there is nothing wrong with it!"
The three walked into the restaurant and let out a collective "Wow."
The restaurant was almost full and bustling with people.
The waiters had to run to serve the guests so that the restaurant full of guests would not feel that they were being neglected.
And looking around, there are many people who are not oriental-looking like Wang Haoxi and others, but are natives of Leeds.
"I do know that 'Red Chili Pepper' has a high status in the hearts of locals in Leeds City... I have never seen so many foreigners come to eat at the same time!" Wang Haoxi was stunned.
Song Xinghe said beside him: "Old Wang, why do you come to Red Pepper to eat? That's why they appear here."
As they were talking, a waiter passed by them, glanced at them and said, "Sorry, it's full. How about you go outside and queue up?"
After saying that, he ignored the three international students of similar age to him and trotted towards the kitchen.
Wang Haoxi, Song Xinghe, and Pei Yu still withdrew and stood in line at the door. Soon more people appeared behind them and lined up with them.
"Forget it, the three of us will take a photo together first." Wang Haoxi took out his mobile phone and motioned for his two roommates to come closer to him. Then they took a group photo with the Red Pepper Restaurant sign above their heads behind them as the background.
Then Wang Haoxi lowered his head and did some operations on his mobile phone, and sent a message to Moments and Weibo:
"Chinese Football Holy Land Tour: Leeds City Celebration Banquet Designated Restaurant - Red Pepper!"
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"...after yesterday's victory celebration parade, the entire Leeds City team quickly appeared at the 'Red Chili' restaurant again. This is the second time in a row that the entire team has gone to the 'Red Chili' restaurant for a meal... …One has to wonder whether this is a new tradition for the Leeds City team…
"Of course after the dinner, Hu clarified in our interview that this was just a small bet between him and head coach Clark - before the season, Clark once made a bet with him that if he could win the season's top scorer, please He had a meal of red pepper... But somehow, the news got out, so the original invitation to just him became an invitation to the whole team...
"But I think this is a good collective activity. After each season, the head coach pays for all the players to have a dinner together... It can unite people, boost morale, and also enhance the relationship between players and coaches, so that both parties can Cooperate better in the next work...Although we guessed wrong before, I think maybe Leeds City can really seriously consider this matter as a tradition of the team and stick to it...< br>
"After all, there is one thing that has become a Leeds City tradition today - the panda doll that competed with Hu at the signing ceremony. Since Hu joined, this panda doll will appear every time Leeds City plays a home game. On the sidelines, jumping and jumping to cheer for the team. Over time, Leeds. City fans are used to having such a naive panda doll on the sidelines. Many fans even think that it is this panda doll that brings good luck to the team and allows the team to always win the game... So it was originally A commercial act has naturally become a new tradition of the club...
"So now why can't the team going to the Red Hot Chili Peppers after the season become a new tradition? No matter what the original intention is, when something is repeated many times, a tradition is established. Just Just like the Christmas tradition of New Yorkers eating Chinese food, it was just because of the Jews in New York. It was Christmas, but most of the restaurants on the street were closed on that day, and only the Chinese restaurant was open, so they had no choice but to go to the Chinese restaurant to eat on Christmas Day... After this scene was repeated every Christmas, It changed from the habit of one person and one family to the tradition of a group of people and a city
"So what if there was no tradition before? Now just create a new tradition from scratch. Just like Leeds City's past history, it is boring and a blank slate. But now they have the Premier League championship! Maybe in a few years, this championship will be Will this be the beginning of a championship tradition for Leeds City? ”
——"Leeds City News" reporter Jason Lowe's column "The Birth of a Tradition" (End of Chapter)