The Glory of the Godfather

Chapter 655 Premier League New BIG4

Aston Villa beat Chelsea 3-1 at home.

In winning this game, Aston Villa reached 20 points, surpassing Chelsea by two points, and reached the top of the Premier League.

Chelsea ranked second with 18 points.

The game is over, but the story surrounding this game is not over.

Soon, the reporters received an exciting news.

At the entrance to the hallway of the players' locker room, Aston Villa players and Chelsea players clashed.

A Chelsea player'attacked' an Aston Villa player, which caused further conflict between the two sides.

What makes reporters a little regretful is that the coaching staff of both sides are relatively calm. Under the constraints of Fang Jue and Ancelotti, the conflict quickly subsided and no major disturbances were caused.

"Nothing." Fang Jue shook his head, "Absolutely nothing, your news is wrong."

At the press conference, Fang Jue categorically denied that there was a conflict between the players of both sides in the locker room corridor.

Fang Jue didn't admit it, the reporter turned to ask Ancelotti.

"Everything is fine, no unpleasant things happened." Ancelotti said.

Fang Jue was gentle and calm, he was not worried.

He and Ancelotti have already discussed it just now, and this skirmish will be digested internally, so don't break up.

The trouble was so big that it attracted the intervention of the FA, but unfortunately the two teams.

The matter was not too big, but Terry questioned Costa. During the verbal conflict between the two sides, Costa scolded Terry, and Lampard pushed Costa when he came up. This action caused the gathering and confusion of the players on both sides. .

However, the matter is not small. If it is paid attention to by the English Football Association, multiple players on both sides will be punished.

Of course, although this matter will be digested internally, the Liangzi of the two teams can be regarded as settled.

In this round of the league, there was a small upset:

Manchester United was drawn by West Bromwich Albion 2-2 at home and only scored one point.

In this case, Manchester City, who defeated Blackpool 3-2 in this round of the game, scored 17 points, 3 points ahead of Manchester United, and continued to rank third in the league. This is also after one-fifth of the schedule in recent years. The best result.

"Vila has become a new force in the Premier League! 》

After the match between Aston Villa and Chelsea, the French "Team Daily" published an article on an important page.

The senior critic of "French Football", Jean Fernanz, elaborated a point in his column:

Aston Villa is already eligible to be named a new power in the Premier League.

The new Premier League forces he is referring to do not mean the so-called traditional Premier League teams, traditional strong teams, nor does it mean that they have the strength to compete for the championship in a certain period.

A particular contender for a championship in a certain period of time is often a ‘short-lived’ label, or a dark horse.

In the article by Jean Fernanz, Aston Villa is clearly tied with Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal.

He put forward the concept of the new BIG4 in the Premier League.

Under the very bad situation of Liverpool this season, the Frenchman kicked Liverpool out of the traditional BIG4.

Then pull Aston Villa into this circle and give it the concept of the new BIG4.

Liverpool fans certainly don't approve of this new division of the French. What do you compare to a Frenchman in the Premier League?

Of course, the fans of Aston Villa are happy. "French Football" is not a toilet paper newspaper. It has considerable authority in the sports media. It can be recognized by "French Football" and even overwhelmed Liverpool. People are full of joy.

Although within the Premier League, many people do not agree with this new BIG4 statement.

However, the rise of Aston Villa has already attracted the attention of all Premier League teams.

Before the start of the season, some public opinions believed that, or rather, they expected Aston Villa's success last season to be short-lived.

The Guardian also specifically mentioned Blackburn, thinking that Aston Villa may be the second Blackburn.

From the perspective of The Guardian, Blackburn and Aston Villa are really similar.

Compared with the big cities of London, Manchester, and Liverpool, Blackburn, which has a population of just over 100,000 in Lancashire, is inconspicuous.

Although the size of the city is limited, it has not hindered people's enthusiasm for football.

Established in 1875, the Blackburn Club had won 2 league titles and 6 FA Cup titles before the establishment of the Premier League.

This, like Aston Villa, belongs to the ancestors.

Despite its impressive record, this club is as unpretentious as Blackburn, an industrial town dominated by cotton textiles, which can be seen from the club’s motto "Technology and Hardworking".

However, the unpretentiousness of Blackburn was changed by the arrival of one person.

Jack Walker, a billionaire who made his fortune through the steel trade, his initial capital injection of £30 million in Blackburn was the envy of many wealthy clubs at the time.

Soon a group of famous players came to Blackburn, and Liverpool coach Dalglish also came to coach.

With the support of Jack Walker's huge amount of funds, this century-old club has ushered in a period of dreams.

In this regard, Aston Villa and Blackburn are similar. Fang Jue and his wife bought Aston Villa heavily.

The only difference is that, although Aston Villa spends a lot of money in the transfer market, it sells harder.

Two of the outstanding players newly introduced by Blackburn back then have to be mentioned. One is Alan Shearer who joined the sky-high price of 3.6 million pounds.

The other is another striker Sutton joined by a transfer fee of 5 million pounds.

The forward line composed of these two players made all the teams afraid.

Under the command of Dalglish, Blackburn, whose total salary is already No. 1 in the Premier League, is advancing all the way. Coupled with the decline of Liverpool and Manchester United, Blackburn won the Premier League title in the 1994/95 season.

Jack Walker was quite satisfied with the Premier League champion that made Black himself proud. After winning the championship, he said the famous sentence: "This champion allows people to find Blackburn on the map."

However, after ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ won the championship, coach Dalglish left, and Alan Shearer, the back pillar of the European Cup in 1996, also left to join his hometown team Newcastle.

After the continuous loss of absolute main players, Blackburn was finally unable to recover after several struggles and was relegated from the Premier League in the 1998/99 season.

Therefore, the "Guardian" took Blackburn as a reference, and believed that Aston Villa will decline in this new season, which may have an impact on the league championship situation, but it wants to continue the glory of last season and continue to compete for the league. It is impossible to win the championship or even defend the title successfully.

Now, after eight rounds of the league in the new season, Aston Villa has once again climbed to the top of the standings, and in direct dialogue with Chelsea, after beating Chelsea to the top, this way is even more persuasive.

"Vera is not Blackburn!" Birmingham local media said proudly.

The new BIG4 in the Premier League, although this statement may make many people uncomfortable, especially Liverpool must be very angry, but they also have to admit that Aston Villa has risen.

(End of this chapter)