Chapter 994 Distant but not romantic Türkiye
There is actually a public case about Leeds football and Türkiye.
That year, Leeds United participated in the first leg of the 2000 Europa League semi-finals and challenged the Turkish team Galatasaray away from home.
As a result, before that game, Leeds United fans caused trouble in Istanbul, causing conflicts between fans from both sides. Two Leeds United fans were stabbed to death by Galatasaray fans.
This matter caused a great deal of fuss. As a result, the Turkish Embassy in the UK received multiple threatening and intimidating phone calls, and some Turks and Turkish expatriates living in the UK were also personally attacked. In the end, the second round had to be held at a neutral venue.
It is even said that Dutch football hooligans issued an appeal to British football hooligans after the incident, calling on the two football hooligans to join forces to retaliate against Turkish fans during the European Cup that year.
Hu Lai himself only found out about this bloody incident that occurred before Hu Lai was born, by looking back on the incident afterwards.
At first he thought it was innocent British fans who were attacked by brutal Turkish football hooligans in the away game. Later he found out that it was a gang fight between football hooligans from both sides, with dog eating dog. It has to be said that the combat effectiveness of British football hooligans is really weak. Just like their national football team, thanks to the well-developed Fleet Street propaganda skills, they all look very strong, but in fact they are vulnerable...
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Of course, this happened in the time and space before Hu Lai traveled through time.
In this time and space, there is no Leeds United or Galatasaray, and Leeds City had not participated in any European competition before this year. Naturally, there is no exciting drama about British football hooligans and Turkish football hooligans causing blood in the streets of Istanbul.
No Turkish team is a mortal enemy of Leeds City.
Leeds City also have little influence in Türkiye, despite winning the Premier League title.
This may be explained by one thing-when the Leeds City team arrived in Istanbul, they actually slept peacefully that night.
You must know that before they came, they had heard about the fanaticism and... "impoliteness" of Turkish fans.
Before them, there were many European teams who came here to play away games and were harassed by Turkish fans.
Therefore, Leeds City players are fully prepared.
For example, Charlie Potter prepared a lot of earplugs to plug his ears while sleeping to minimize external noise interference.
As a result, when they woke up, they found that it was surprisingly quiet and normal outside the hotel yesterday.
what does that mean?
"This means we are looked down upon..."
In the hotel restaurant, Sam Landill, who was having breakfast, lamented to his colleagues on the coaching staff.
"It's normal to be looked down upon. We haven't won against European teams in pre-season. Moreover, this is the home court of Gulf Lighthouse. They have the home court advantage. Isn't it easy to beat us?" Matt said with a smile.
Clark said hey: "I hope they look down on us more..."
"Don't always think about good things!" Randhir poured cold water on him mercilessly.
In the players' dining area, everyone was also discussing the surprising scene last night.
"Isn't it that Turkish fans are notoriously scary? From the descriptions in the media, I feel that Turkish fans are almost all 'devils' with horns on their heads and fangs in their mouths. Now it seems like they are all British ones. Deliberately smeared by unscrupulous media? ”
"It's not slander, it's just exaggeration..."
"Isn't this good?" Charlie Potter came up, "I heard that the home stadiums of Turkish teams are all 'devil's home stadiums'. If it's so polite... that's also a good thing for us, maybe It’s not that scary anymore…”
Everyone nodded and agreed with Charlie Potter's words.
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“FUCK…”
The Leeds City players looked at the flashing stands, and for a moment they were not sure whether it was the hand-held flares of the fanatical Turkish fans, or whether they had really set the stands on fire, causing half of the stadium's stands to be engulfed in flames and smoke. Among them, even the goal of the distant bay lighthouse became hazy...
"British bastard, look at this!"
A group of strong men with red paint on their faces and naked upper bodies were giving the middle finger to the Leeds City players on the field.
This is already the most "polite" greeting.
When the Leeds City players were still waiting to appear in the tunnel, the live broadcast sounded: "Let us welcome our guests from afar - Premier League champion Leeds City!!"
The announcer's voice was very enthusiastic, and the fans in the stands were a hundred times more enthusiastic than him - they gave a Turkish-style "welcome" with deafening boos and roars.
It even beat the live Champions League theme song.
Then the Leeds players started walking out of the tunnel and onto the pitch. At this time, the Bay Lighthouse fans on the high platforms on both sides of the channel entrance roared and cursed to attack the "British guests" who had come from afar.
The scolding was very dirty. How dirty was it?
It was so dirty that if I wrote out exactly what they said they scolded, I'm afraid this chapter would be blocked.
This left those Leeds City players who thought the Bay Lighthouse fans were polite before the game feeling speechless.
As Leeds City's number one star, Hulay is naturally the target of greetings from Turkish fans.
At this time, Hulay realized the disadvantages of knowing the languages of various countries - he understood all the words these Turkish fans scolded him!
It was routine to greet his family.
Some home team fans attacked Hu Lai from a very strange angle. For example, they kept yelling at Hu Lai: "Your penis is like a toothpick!"
This is very confusing - whether a professional player's place is big or not, what does it have to do with competing against him? Even if Hu Lai is as small as a toothpick, can't he score your goal?
It's better to scold him as "asking you how much sorrow you can have, just like a group of eunuchs going to a brothel". At least you can get some luck, and curse Hu Lai for not cumming for ninety minutes...what? Turks don’t understand Chinese? Oh, that's okay.
Hulay listened to those Turkish fans scolding him and took a deep breath: It is really good to participate in the Champions League. You can understand different customs and customs by following the team on away games...
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Facing huge boos and curses, Leeds City ushered in their first European game in team history.
As soon as the game started, the home team Gulf Lighthouse launched a fierce attack on Leeds City's goal amid the crazy cheers of the fans.
According to the information they had before the game, Leeds City is a team that is good at offense but poor at defense.
Then the Bay Lighthouse has the advantage of home court and uses a fierce attack to overwhelm its opponents and gain a victory.
However, after attacking for more than ten minutes, they discovered that Leeds City's defense was not so easy to break down...
The legendary offensive maniac "Crazy" Tony Clark didn't let his team play against the Bay Lights in the game!
Clark looked at the Leeds City players who were being besieged on the field and smiled at Sam Randill next to him: "Ha, so why do I never deny the misunderstandings about me in the media? Because I just want them to misunderstand me. Who said that a coach who is good at attacking will not let his team defend? I am crazy, but I am not stupid! Why should I attack if I know that I will die?"
Randhir shook his head and said: "Sometimes, I don't know if you are deliberately trying to create this image to confuse people, or if your character is confusing enough, Tony..."
Clark glanced at him: "What's the difference? It's all confusing anyway."
Randhir tilted his head and thought for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "Hell, there is really no difference."
In the first half of the game, Leeds City focused mainly on defense.
In fact, since the pre-season training this season, Clark has spent a lot of effort on training the team's defense.
Although this will not turn Leeds City into a bus-type team with an impregnable defense, it can still improve the team's defensive level.
Especially when you make up your mind to shrink your defense.
Just like this game.
Faced with the aggressive offensive of Bay Lighthouse, Leeds City shrank its defense to avoid its edge. At the same time, it used the individual combat capabilities of Kamara and Laski to carry out counterattacks and harass, reducing the pressure on the defense line.
Yes, the purpose of Leeds City's counterattack is not to score goals, but to defend.
Prevent the Bay Beacon from being too unscrupulous on its home turf.
The performance of Hu Lai, the Zhengyin center, on the court is not as impressive as that of his strike partner Laski.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that he was tightly defended by his opponents and maliciously treated by the fans.
As soon as he gets the ball, the boos are very loud, which can be said to be the highest decibel of any player in the Leeds City team.
People who don't understand the virtues of Turkish fans will be surprised that this is Hulay's first time playing against a Turkish team, and he has never heard of any grudges between him and the Turkish team before.
Why do Turkish fans dislike Hulay so much?
In fact, it's not that Turkish fans don't want to see Hulay, nor is it that they have any personal grudges with Hulay.
There is only one reason why they treat Hulay this way, and that is that Hulay is the most threatening and famous player in Leeds City.
If the Turkish fans don't boo him, who will be booing him?
Should I just find some unknown person to boo?
So what are the Turkish fans to do - their emotions are not in unlimited supply.
"...This actually just shows that Hulay made the Bay Lighthouse fans feel threatened, otherwise they would not be so crazy about Hulay... This is Hulay's first time participating in the Champions League. He should be very clear, something like this Scenes like this will definitely happen again in the future as his reputation and performance increase. There will definitely be this kind of treatment that is completely different from other teammates... But again, this is the only way to become a superstar. I think Hu. Lai has such a heart..." He Feng praised Hu Lai and comforted the Chinese fans.
This is Hu Lai's first appearance in the Champions League, and it is also the first appearance of a Chinese player in the Champions League.
So even though the game took place at two o'clock in the morning in the Chinese capital, there were still many fans waiting in front of the TV just to witness this historical moment.
However, after the game started, Hu Lai did not perform well.
In addition, every time he picked up the ball, there would be harsh boos in the stands, which really made the Chinese fans in front of the TV hold their breath.
He Feng was also unhappy, but as a commentator, there are some things he can say and some things he cannot.
So he could only keep his dissatisfaction in his heart, and on the surface he still had to explain the game fairly and objectively.
"He didn't get enough support. After all, the team's tactic is to shrink the defense. In addition, Bay Lighthouse played more brutally, so this performance is normal..." Hu Lixin added to his wife's explanation.
Xie Lan nodded and just hummed.
This surprised Hu Lixin. He glanced at his wife secretly and found that she was watching the game seriously and attentively. It seemed that she was no longer worried about her son.
Although he doesn't understand why, Hu Lixin thinks this is a good thing. Otherwise, he would be shocked when watching the game, and his heart wouldn't be able to bear it...
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PS, two updates will be resumed tomorrow! Thank you all for your understanding and support!
In addition, I really didn’t know how to code when I went out, and I didn’t even bring a computer with me.
I haven’t typed for many days, and when I come back to find my groove again, I feel that even my typing fingers are stumbling, and I often make typos...(End of this chapter)