King’s Landing in Nottingham

Chapter Thirty-Four

After a 50-minute drive from the University of Nottingham, Wei Xun finally arrived at the Notts County base. It was already noon for dinner, and the old Grant still stood by in the concierge and did his best. Seeing Wei Xun coming, Old Grant pressed the electric door switch for Wei Xun, and Wei Xun drove into the base and stopped by the gatehouse.

"Old Ge, lock the door, let's go to eat, don't be afraid of monitoring..."

The old Grant was not embarrassed, and directly sat in the first officer of Wei Xun's Grand Cherokee, and after 3 minutes he was downstairs at the No. 1 restaurant in Notts County.

The first restaurant is the first building completed in the entire Notts County base except for the large bathroom "Magpie Pond". Although no paint is used in it, it still needs a period of wind before it can be officially used. Therefore, Notts County The employees and players of the company ate in the newly built board room next to the first restaurant. The air conditioner was blowing and the sour plum soup was drinking, but it didn't feel hot.

Now it’s time to eat. The entire Notts County staff, young players, and coaches are lining up in the first restaurant to have a meal. Many people see Wei Xun coming, and they all greet Wei Xun one after another. Familiar face. Wei Xun refused several requests to let himself eat dinner first, and lined up quietly.

The old Grant benefited from the "respect for the elderly" announcement issued by Notts County. There is a separate window to serve the elderly Notts County "babies" such as Old Grant, Crouchen, Devlin, etc., and it has been set up. After dinner and sat down, Wei Xun also reserved a seat.

After waiting for a few minutes, Wei Xun finally sat opposite Old Grant. Wei Xun’s food was very light: two boiled eggs, a fried chicken breast, a fruit salad, a bowl of multi-grain rice and a bunch of freshly squeezed. Orange juice.

In contrast, Old Grant’s plate included a portion of steamed fish, a portion of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, half a portion of potato sirloin, and a bowl of multi-grain rice. In short, there are fish and meat every meal, milk and fruit in the morning and evening. It pays more attention to the balance and matching of nutrition than the meals of the players and young staff. This can be regarded as a kind of welfare for the elderly in Notts County. They are all. The wealth of Notts County.

After eating lunch, Wei Xun received a phone call. After a brief conversation, Wei Xun was a little excited to show his merits to Old Grant, "Old grid, let's use a big color TV to watch the game today..."

"Big color TV?" Lao Ge, who was eating fish, almost choked on Wei Xun's words.

In the past, in Notts County, you could only use the radio to follow the team's away game. If you don't broadcast it, you can only wait for them to dictate or read the newspaper when they come back. Now that the transnational black-and-white TVs enter the color era, the old Grant is still a little surprised. This step is too big, and it is easy to pull eggs.

"Yes, Lao Ge, it's a color TV. I bought it for $600. You must like it..."

Lao Ge’s half of the fish was gone, and he brought the plate to the elderly window and asked the staff to put half of the fish in his lunch box, freeze it, and eat it if it was hot at night, although Wei Xun’s life would be better after coming. Too much, but I dare not waste it.

In July 1967, the BBC used color signals to broadcast the Wimbledon game.

According to the "Daily Mail" data, in 2000, there were still 210,000 black and white TV users in the UK. Although this number is declining at a rate of 20% per year, until 2016, there were still more than 10,000 in the UK. Black and white TV users.

The annual tariff for black and white TV is 49 pounds, and color TV is 152 pounds. They are not worse than this 100 degrees. It is just that the picture and sound quality of black and white TV is full of nostalgia, full of rich retro style, and it smells "real smell".

When Wei Xun and Old Grant returned to the concierge, the color TV was already placed on the base that Wei Xun bought together. Because I bought the TV license before and asked the BBC staff to pull the line, it is now in The final debugging state is now, less than an hour before the start of the game, Wei Xun and the old Grant quietly waited for the staff to notify them that everything was OK.

This color TV is also in the shape of a big belly, but it is not the best-selling brands such as Changhong, Panasonic, and Toshiba in China at the same time, and it is somewhat different from what Wei Xun remembers.

In less than ten minutes, the staff of the broadcasting company completed the commissioning. After enthusiastically sending a small gift from Notts County to the staff of the broadcasting company, after watching them leave, Wei Xun and old Grant sat in the mail room and watched quietly. After watching this big color TV, it didn't take long for the players of Notts County and Brighton to warm up on the field on the TV screen.

"I K, this TMD is simply AV quality!" Wei Xun put his head in his hands, couldn't believe his glasses, how could such an expensive TV set still have snowflakes, pixels visible to the naked eye. But after thinking about it, Wei Xun was also relieved. He came from an era of ultra-clear and 4K all over the ground. It is indeed difficult to adapt to watching programs on low-definition machines after watching it. It's clearer, learn to endure and get used to it, hey.

As the newly promoted team of the League Two, "Seagull" Brighton is regarded as a soft persimmon by many teams in the League Two, and they all want to bite off a piece of meat from it.

However, Wei Xun clearly remembers that Brighton, the fourth-level champion of England in the 2000-2001 season, won the League B championship in the 2001-2002 season and successfully promoted to the League One next season.

In the face of such a team, it is absolutely self-defeating to be careless and careless.

Last season, Brighton’s main striker Bobby Zamora scored 28 goals in 43 fourth-level league games, with full firepower. As a 20-year-old striker, Bobby Zamora moved step by step from the fourth division to the second division, and then followed Brighton to the first division a year later. Due to continuous outstanding performance, after the end of the League One season, he moved to the Premier League’s Tottenham Hotspur team, reaching the peak of his career. Although his performance at Tottenham was not satisfactory, his experience of reaching the top league from the low-level league and being selected to the national team can be regarded as an inspirational legend.

At Westdam Stadium on August 27th, the Premier League has three wins and three wins against Brighton, which ranked first, at home against Notts County, which has only 4 points with one win, one draw and one loss.

Brighton coach Mickey Adams, as the meritorious coach who led Brighton to promotion, is also confident and ready to do a big game in the new season.

Therefore, this game is a battle between two ambitious young coaches. All the factors before the game determine that this is a wonderful duel of sparks hitting the earth.

Notts County’s veteran Hubner and coach Guardiola took a break in this game. Chiellini, who performed well in the last round of the Cup, won a starting position. Notts County changed to a 352 formation in this game. : Goalkeeper No. 1 Reina, three central defenders Balzali, Chiellini, and Mertesacker join forces. The wingbacks on both sides are No. 16 Ram and No. 4 Lichsteiner, 2 of them Forward George Grant partnered with Harvey Alonso, forward Sneijder, and the two forwards are No. 13 Kuyt and No. 20 Van Persie. This is the first time that three Dutchmen have started in the same game.

Brighton sent their usual 4411 formation. Bobby Zamora is still the starting lineup as a single striker. He has scored 5 goals in 3 rounds, and it is the "culprit" who made Guardiola decide to use three central defenders. The culprit".

In the fifth minute of the game, Harvey Alonso took the lead after a long absence from Notts County. He took a heavy shot. "The earth was shocked, the earth was shaken and the ground was shaking." He hit the bottom of the goal beam and bounced into the goal. Notts County Made a fantastic start. This made Wei Xun and the old Grant who were waiting in front of the TV excited, and the old Grant seemed even more excited. After all, it was his son George who assisted Alonso.

The offensive rhythm of the first half of the game was firmly at the feet of Notts County, Brighton coach Adams did not want to overthrow his arrangement before the game, the score of 1-0 was maintained until the end of the midfield.

I don't know what Adams said to his players at halftime. After the start of the second half, Brighton players fouled and trash talked endlessly. In the 52nd minute, the central defender Barzagli, who had just been selected as the best team of last week's League Two, was angered by the trash talk of the Brighton players. In a defense, he knocked down the opposing player from the rear and was sent off by the referee with a red card. The situation on the court in Notts County instantly became tense.

Wei Xun couldn't believe him, and Balzali, who had always been calm, would be sent off with a red card. Guardiola could only make adjustments quickly, changing to a four-back formation, trying to strengthen his defense in the half.

In the 65th minute, Bobby Zamora, the young shooter king, finally broke free from Chiellini’s bite defense, and a reverse run to find a chance to shoot, non-stop the ball directly volleyed and scored, showing With his superb shooting skills, 1-1, the two teams returned to the same starting line again.

After Barzagli was sent off, Guardiola began to think about the team's plan with assistant coach Javier. After the score was equalized, Guardiola decisively replaced Van Persie and replaced German striker Klose, leaving behind. The Dutch striker Kuyt.

Kuyt spared no effort in the frontcourt to run and grab, providing valuable time for Notts County's awkward defense, which is what Guardiola needs most at this time.

In the following time, Notts County was forced to move around his restricted area, and occasionally several counterattacks were promptly destroyed by the Brighton defender.

The camera was aimed at the coaching bench in Notts County many times, and Guardiola couldn't see any expression on his face.

In the 82nd minute of the game, Notts County took advantage of a corner kick. Klose scored a header from the front of the small penalty area. 2-1. Notts County took the lead again. Wei Xun and Old Grant held tightly in the gatehouse of Old Ge. Hug together, this is the number one in the league!

Wei Xun and Old Grant believed that Klose’s goal would be the last goal of the game, and it would also be Notts County’s lore, but it backfired.

They forgot about Brighton’s nuclear weapons-Bobby Zamora. In the final moments of the game, Zamora started his performance. After receiving a pass from his teammate, Zamora dunked George Grant from the penalty area line, in Chiellini and Mertesacker. Before closing the goal, flashing through the gap between the two of them, a wonderful pull the ball turned and the goalkeeper Reina also cleared the goal. In front of him, there was only an empty goal. He was the gold of the fourth tier of the league last season. Boots, Bobby Zamora didn't take advantage of not being able to score the goal, a burst shot without aiming, and the ball quickly rolled across the goal line.

The entire Westdam Stadium is boiling, and the fans of the Notts County Expedition who have just been counting down waiting for the end of the game are very sad at this moment. The three-pointer in hand has become one point, just a few seconds away!

Zamora’s performance was great. He played the entire defense line of Nottsshire alone and turned the tide. At this moment, he is the savior of Brighton and the **** of Westdam Stadium, a domineering side. The leaky boxing celebration moves, highlighting his heroic qualities.

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