The Legendary Chairman Novel - Chapter 066
066 Another West Yorkshire Derby
Alfred McCulpini Stadium is a multi-purpose soccer stadium in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. It was founded in 1991 at a cost of £ 40 million and can accommodate 24,500 spectators. It is the common home of the Huddersfield Giants Rugby Club and the Huddersfield Football Club.
The course was designed and built by Alfred McCulpini, who was given 10 years of naming rights at the time of payment, so the course has been called the Alfred McCulpini Course since it was completed in 1994 until this year.
In Zhong’s memories, Alfred McCulpini didn’t renew his contract after a few years of contract expiration and was later bought out by Huddersfield-based Kilrock Health, known as Kilrock Stadium. In 2012, Heineken, the brewery group, won the right to name the stadium, which was renamed the John Smith Stadium.
The stadium is still called the Alfred McCulpini Stadium.
The Alfred McCulpini Stadium is packed for 24,500 people today, something that has not happened in the last four Premier League matches. Huddersfield has played two home games in the last four Premier League matches, averaging 52 per cent and an average of 10,000 players.
The Alfred McCulpini Stadium is really full today.
The Huddersfield fans wore blue-and-white stripes at home, creating a blue-and-white ocean. They waved their team flags and scarves to cheer for the team and hit Leeds United.
The atmosphere on the pitch was very good. The Huddersfield fans were very excited. It was a derby. After Huddersfield was relegated to the lower leagues, the derby between them and Leeds United was very rare. Many people almost forgot about the taste of the derby.
And today, at Alfred McCulpini Stadium, Huddersfield fans will once again face the exciting West Yorkshire derby. They are very excited and jealous. Now their brains belong to them. They are screaming madly.
Only a handful of Leeds United fans have come to this game.
Although Leeds was only 32 kilometers away from Huddersfield and only took about 25 minutes to drive by himself, there weren’t many people that could be ignored.
The majority of Leeds fans are still boycotting Zhong Cheng, and even the hardest-line Leeds fans don’t have an expeditionary force to play away games with him.
And Leeds United fans have claimed that if Zhong Cheng does not leave the Leeds United, they will not travel with the Leeds United for a day, and often wear away shirts at home.
The conflict between Leeds United fans and Zhong Cheng can be seen!
However, there were still a dozen or so sporadic fans today. They were now considered rational fans. They did not join the ranks of those who criticized and resisted Zhong Cheng, nor did they brainlessly support Zhong Cheng’s stinky feet. They were only focusing on Leeds’ performance and results on the field.
Zhong Cheng was very grateful to these rational fans. Furthermore, Zhong Cheng firmly believed that these rational fans would soon be conquered by him and become loyal fans of his Leeds United team.
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Regarding this match, the media reporters before the match were all paying attention to it. Even those who were not optimistic about Zhong Cheng thought that it would be very difficult for Huddersfield to win against Zurich United. They all felt that the chances of Leeds United winning this match were very high.
However, after seeing Leeds United’s starting lineup, almost everyone turned their backs. They thought that Zhong Cheng was really too arrogant, too arrogant, too crazy. Madman Loria was indeed worthy of being a madman. This was the rhythm of courting death.
Bradley Wilson also stood up. This time, he did not predict the outcome of the match. He only grabbed Zhong Cheng’s arrogance and belittled Zhong Cheng, claiming that Zhong Cheng was the biggest cancer of Leeds United. With him around, Leeds United would be doomed.
Gerald Krasna and the others echoed, believing that Bradley Wilson was right. Zhong Cheng was an arrogant and arrogant madman to the extreme. If Madman Loria continues to go crazy, Leeds United will be doomed.
Zhong Cheng’s starting line-up made the Huddersfield fans very angry and angry. Madman Loria, this damn guy, simply underestimated them. It was an insult to them Huddersfield, a blatant insult.
The Huddersfield fans were very angry. That was why they were so crazy and excited before the game. Lashing out at Leeds United.
Huddersfield coach Dennis Higdon is furious, saying: “Madman Roja is looking for death. Perhaps Leeds United are doing well in the Champions League, but they will pay a heavy price for underestimating us!”
Dennis Higgden said: “Madman Loria will regret his madness and he has succeeded in angering us. We Huddersfield will go all out and knock Leeds to the ground. In this game, we Huddersfield will use our lives to defend our dignity. Madman Loria, come on!”
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In this match, Zhong Cheng arranged a four two three one formation. The starting list was as follows:
Goalkeeper: Zhong Zheng
Fourth Guards “Left to Right”: Danny Pew, Vermaelen, Pique and Sagna
Double waist: Las Diarra and Albertini
Three avant-garde “Left to Right”: Jamie Winter, Luka Modric and Alan Lennon
Single forward: Nicklas Bendtner
Zhong Cheng’s starting lineup was really too young. There was only one player over 30 years old, and only two players over 20 years old and under 30 years old. Four players were 18 years old, two were 17 years old, one was 19 years old, and one was 16 years old. The average age of this lineup was only 19.54 years old, and the average age was less than 20 years old.
If Jamie Winter hadn’t celebrated his 19th birthday more than a decade ago, the average age of the Leeds United lineup would have been even younger.
No wonder the media reporters turned against Leeds United after seeing their starting lineup. Huddersfield fans and coaches were so angry. Madman Roja looked down on them. This was no longer looking down on them, but a mockery and humiliation to them.
No wonder Huddersfield’s head coach Dennis Higden pointed at Zhong Cheng’s nose and scolded him for being a damn arrogant lunatic. If it was anyone else, they would be furious when they faced Zhong Cheng’s humiliation.
Of course, the ones who were furious were the players from Huddersfield. The madman coach from Leeds United actually humiliated them so fiercely, which caused their anger to soar. They decided to properly repair these damned children. It would be best if they completely crushed these damned children physically and mentally, scaring them to the point that they would never dare to wait on the football field again in their lifetime!
At the same time, Huddersfield’s players wanted to slap Madman Roja loudly!
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Zhong Cheng, dressed in a white suit, stood beside the Alfred McCulpini Stadium’s coaching bench. He could clearly hear the vicious curses and harsh mockery of Huddersfield fans behind him, but Zhong Cheng ignored them.
Zhong Cheng’s attention was completely focused on this match.
Zhong Cheng wasn’t the one who gave up this match. Instead, he valued this match very much and was regarded as a match that he had to win.
Zhong Cheng had many purposes in discharging such a young lineup, and the first and most important of them was to anger the Huddersfield people, disturb their arrangement and mentality, and most importantly, to despise the Huddersfield players.
From Zhong Cheng’s point of view, this Leeds United starting line-up that he had sent out looked very young, but its strength was indeed not weak. Although these players’ experience is a bit lacking, and the way they play now is somewhat teenage. However, many of them have a very famous reputation in the future football world. In other words, although these people are young, they still have two brushes.
In this line-up, the defence is very young, two centre-backs one 18 years old, one 17 years old and 17 years old Pique has already accumulated four Champions League matches, in these four Champions League performance is not bad, known as a defensive star, he can still face the League forward.
The 18-year-old Vermaelen is a year older than Pique. Although he did not play for Leeds United, Zhong Cheng is confident in him.
Needless to say, with Albertini in charge, what’s there to be afraid of? And Las Diarra has done well in the last four Champions League matches.
On the vanguard front, Modric also had three Champions League matches. Although his performance was average, Zhong Cheng had high hopes for him. Not to mention Alan Lennon, although he is only 17 years old, he has more experience than most of the players in the Leeds United squad. He played in the Premier League last year at the age of 16 and 168 days. He is ranked high on the Premier League’s youngest record.
While the front is relatively weak, Nicholas Bendtner is 16 years old and 224 days behind him. Before this, he had never played for the first team. He only played for the U21 national team. However, Zhong Cheng is confident in him. Although this guy is young, his physique is excellent and his stature is tall, but his skill is not bad. He is a full-blown center.
Therefore, this lineup seemed to be young, but it still had the power to fight. There were key people in key positions. ; Under the contempt of the Huddersfield players, the chances of this lineup winning were high.
The current Huddersfield fans were cursing Zhong Cheng crazily, while the reporters in the press gallery were waiting to see Zhong Cheng’s joke …
Under such circumstances, the referee blew the whistle at the start of the match and the West Yorkshire derby between Leeds United and Huddersfield officially sounded.