The Legendary Chairman Novel - Chapter 180

180 Footsteps in the Premier League
Leeds United’s sudden defeat made the entire Champions League boil. They thought that Leeds United would not lose and would continue to win like this!

Leeds United put a lot of pressure on the Champions League team. Their strength made it impossible for many people to win the Champions League, as if this season’s Champions League title had already been booked by the Leeds United.

However, the Leeds United had lost this round, which was something everyone liked to see.

It turned out that Leeds United would lose as well, which gave the rest of the Champions League a lot of confidence, especially Sunderland.

Sunderland are in great shape these days. Mick McCarthy has coached Sunderland to become a regular winner. Sunderland have not lost since mid-February. They have won eight consecutive games and are as strong as Leeds United!

Now that Sunderland are only four points behind Leeds United, the Sunderlanders see a chance of winning the Champions League and their ambitions are growing. They want to overthrow Leeds United and win the Champions League this season!

As Zhong Cheng had expected, Mick McCarthy was a formidable fellow!

At the most critical moment, Sunderland steadied their footing and won eight consecutive victories. It was truly impressive. Now Zhong Cheng had no choice but to clench his teeth, they had to withstand Sunderland’s onslaught, this season’s Champions League title, their Leeds United must win!

Now is the most critical moment, at this time no one wants to lose, no one wants to win.

On 9 April 2005, in the forty-second round of the Champions League, Zhong Cheng led Leeds United away to face Watford, who are now 20th in the Champions League, fifth from bottom, but they have 45 points, just one more than Jillingham and Brighton, who are fourth from bottom and third from bottom. Yes, Jillingham and Brighton have 44 points together. Nottingham Forest, who are second from bottom, have five points, and Watford are still in the demotion zone.

We have to talk about Brighton here, after Kevin Blackwell ‘s Brighton was beaten by Zhong Cheng’ s Leeds, Brighton, who was in the middle of the league, fell into a state of defeat. Kevin Blackwell was stunned by Zhong Cheng. He became the laughingstock of the entire British continent. Perhaps because he was not strong enough to withstand pressure, Brighton was about to be demoted in his hands.

At this time, the upper echelons of Brighton couldn’t bear it anymore and finally fired Kevin Blackwell after the end of the last round. Brighton, who became the first team in the Champions League to fire a manager twice this season, is cleaning up the mess left behind by Kevin Blackwell.

Now, Leeds United’s fans were all glad that Zhong Cheng had angered Kevin Blackwell. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have said that they would go to the League One!

To get down to business, Zhong Cheng’s opponent now is the relegation team Watford.

To be honest, the harder the relegation team gets at this point, the harder it will be to play because they want to fight you to the death.

Sure enough, Watford played desperately at the beginning of the game. Their movements were very big and rough. They were even crazier than Leeds United. Zhong Cheng was extremely nervous and worried.

Sure enough, Ribery was injured in the 22nd minute of the first half. However, the injuries weren’t serious. It would only take one week to recover. However, he couldn’t play this match. Zhong Cheng was very angry and kept complaining to the fourth official on the sidelines.

In the 36th minute of the first half of the game, Leeds United’s Iron Man Las Diarra was heavily injured and announced his expense for the season. The referee gave the foul team a verbal warning. Zhong Cheng was angry at that time. This was an absolutely red card move, a very bad move. However, the referee turned a blind eye to it. It was good that Zhong Cheng did not rush to the hospital to send the damned referee to the hospital with just a verbal warning.

Angry Zhong Cheng cursed madly on the sidelines, even mobilizing Leeds United fans to humiliate the referee, embarrassing the referee. The referee sent Zhong Cheng to the stands with a gloomy face.

Watford did not restrain themselves in the second half. Instead, they became even more ferocious. In the 15th minute of the second half, Leeds United’s main goalkeeper Zhong Zheng was injured. The injury was not particularly serious, but he had to be suspended for two weeks. Seeing this, Zhong Cheng was going crazy.

The referee only wanted the foul to show a yellow card. The Leeds United fans were very angry, cursing the 18 generations of the referee’s ancestors and frantically throwing hard objects into the stadium. The Leeds United players on the pitch were also very angry, once surrounding the referee in the middle, almost causing trouble.

When the referee faced the battle, he was almost scared out of his wits.

Watford and the referee infuriated the Leeds United. Their movements were getting bigger and bigger. In just seven minutes, Leeds United won five yellow cards.

Leeds United’s expression was as gloomy as water. Everyone realized that this match was abnormal!

Leeds United fans shouted: “Black whistle! Rig the game! Black curtain! Fake ball! Fake ball!”

The fourth official’s forehead was covered in cold sweat. He was cursing at his peers on the field. This trash was too much. According to the attention of the Leeds United now, it would definitely cause big trouble after the match, damn idiot!

The fourth official was also thankful that the game was not home to the Leeds United players, otherwise they would not have been able to safely leave the stadium.

In the 86th minute of the game, the furious Milner knocked out the Watford striker on the restricted area line, but the referee awarded a penalty and gave Milner a red card.

Seeing this, Leeds United no longer shouted and did not have the strength to shout anymore.

Watford won the game with a controversial penalty.

After the match, Zhong Cheng attacked the damned referee in front of the media. His mouth was full of dirty words, and he even greeted the 18 generations of the garbage referee’s ancestors.

These words came out of Zhong Cheng’s mouth. Naturally, it attracted the attention of countless media. It instantly spread throughout the entire British continent, attracting great attention and repercussions. Immediately, the entire England was watching this match. Almost everyone who watched the live broadcast and video of this match could confirm that there was something wrong with the referee. Because this piece of trash was too obvious, it simply didn’t have any brains.

This matter attracted the attention of the FA. The next day, the FA directly stopped the referee three times and set up an investigation team to investigate this fellow. Soon, they came to a conclusion that this fellow was suspected of manipulating the match and was sentenced to a lifetime suspension and a fine. The FA also gave the referee to the police and he will be staying in prison for a while in the future.

However, the Football Association also gave Zhong Cheng a verbal warning that it was inappropriate to attack the referee after the game this season. Moreover, this would undermine the authority of the referee. Thinking back to this fellow’s overall performance in the game, the English Football Team was always certain that Zhong Cheng’s red card was established. However, it was only a one-match suspension. In the next match, Zhong Cheng could not appear on the sidelines to direct Leeds United.

And the result of this match was also deemed valid, and it would not be replayed on another day!

The FA did not punish Leeds United fans for trying to appease them because they could cause trouble after the game.

Therefore, the FA’s attitude is to calm this matter down as soon as possible and not let this matter continue to ferment and expand its influence.

There was no other choice, and Leeds United could only admit it!

–Division Line–

Fortunately, the rest of Leeds United’s rivals lost this round, and Sunderland, Ipswich and the others flipped over at the same time. The difference between them did not shrink, which was why Zhong Cheng was calming down.

If Sunderland and Ipswich won this round, Zhong Cheng would not let it go!

With four games left in the league, Leeds United are still nine points ahead of third-placed Ipswich. If both teams win the next round, Leeds United are still not sure of winning the top two, because the two teams’ goals are almost the same. However, if Leeds win the next round and both Ipswich and Wigan lose, Leeds can lock onto a spot for direct promotion three rounds ahead of schedule.

So the next 43rd Premier League game is very important for Leeds United. They have to win. However, the outside world was not optimistic about Leeds United, because Leeds United had already lost two consecutive matches, and they no longer seemed to be able to feel the sense of victory.

On april 16, 2005, leeds united continued their road trip to the queen park rangers. They were in the middle of the league and now had no chance of levelling up or relegating. Therefore, Leeds United should be able to win this match very easily.

However, Zhong Cheng was very serious. In this match, the Leeds United team was still playing with a broken formation. The Leeds United team was very cautious. In the end, they broke through the Queen’s Park Rangers’ goal with a long shot from Modric, winning 1-0.

The Leeds United team finally ended two consecutive defeats and scored another three points that they had been longing for for for a long time!

After obtaining these three points, Leeds United still had 91 points, firmly at the top of the Premier League. The second-placed Sunderland were tied and the difference was widened again. Sunderland now have 85 points, two winning games away from Leeds United.

Ranked third was Wigan Athletics, who completed their counterattack against Ipswich in this round. Ipswich was tied and Wigan Athletics scored 82 points, still 9 points behind Leeds United. Ipswich now have 80 points.

With three games left in the league, Leeds United are ahead of third-placed Athletic Wigan by nine points, but Athletic Wigan have scored a lot of goals, so Leeds United have yet to lock onto the top two.

However, as long as Leeds United remain unbeaten in the next round, Leeds United will lock onto the top two of the Premier League two rounds ahead of schedule and qualify for promotion to the Premier League!

The next round was too important for Leeds United, who felt an invisible pressure on them.

And in the 44th round of the league, Leeds United will return to their home ground to face Ipswich!

Yes, in the next round, Leeds United will challenge Ipswich, who is ranked fourth in the league. This team is very strong. Wigan Athletics and Sunderland naturally hope that Ipswich can win against Leeds United and delay their progress so that they have a chance.

Similarly, Ipswich wanted to fight Leeds United head-on because they also wanted to get a place in the top two and get a spot for direct promotion.

Yes, the competition for the top two of the league has already turned white-hot.

Leeds United face Ipswich at Ellen Road on April 23, 2005 and the Champions League season is coming to an end!