Emily left Wimbledon the next day. Chu Zhongtian didn't see her in school, bar or even outside the court for several days, so he was sure that Emily had left. He felt a little lost, as if something was missing in life.

But Emily is no longer here, but her life is going to continue and the league is going to continue.

Chu Zhongtian later paid special attention to the Wimbledon Evening News. If he saw that there was a report on it, he planned to buy it and collect it. It was the first time that his name appeared in the media. As a result, he followed it for a week and did not see any articles related to him. There was a news about the team that announced to readers that the local team Wimbledon Athletics had entered the FA Cup. However, Chu Zhongtian's name was not mentioned in the article.

He was originally on a whim, but now he saw that the other party had not published it, so he lost interest. He never went to read the Wimbledon Evening News again.

Chu Zhongtian still does not participate in the mid-week competition, but he has begun to participate in the mid-week training more and more frequently, at the cost of skipping classes as well.

Skipping classes will definitely delay learning, so Chu Zhongtian could only work hard to make up for his homework in other times. When working in the bar, if he was not too busy, he would pull football under his feet to do habitual exercises, and look through his hands at the textbooks and notes to review his homework. Seeing his hard work, the drinkers in the bar didn't come to chat with him much.

Sometimes, when Chu Zhongtian is tired of reviewing his homework, he will occasionally think of the girl who is already working hard in the United States. Guess what she is doing now. There is an eight-hour jet lag between the UK and Los Angeles. Emily may still be sleeping when he is in class. When he is working in a bar, Emily may be busy putting on makeup and preparing to appear on the set.

This imagination is very interesting and can help him recover his energy quickly.

But more often, he devotes himself to studying, trains seriously, and plays his best in the game to help the team win one league after another.

l) It seems calm for Chu Zhongtian and Wimbledon's Athletics team. From the beginning of the league to the present, they have never lost a single game. Not only that, they have maintained a complete victory in all thirteen league games!

Wimbledon also ranks first in the league standings. If this momentum continues, it will be no problem to upgrade at the end of this season, and they even have the hope to upgrade in advance.

Facts have proved that Wimbledon's strength is indeed much higher than this league, and it is understandable that they will enter the FA Cup main game. No matter how bad the dark horse is, it must have enough strength. The failure to upgrade last season is related to their lack of tacit cooperation, but it has nothing to do with their strength.

The opponents in the first round of the FA Cup have been released. Wimbledon's opponent is Nordsshire, the oldest football club in England. Now, Nordsshire is in the third division in the English League Two. From the perspective of Premier League clubs, English League Two is nothing, but a typical bottom team. However, looking up from the perspective of the Ninth Division, you may not be able to see the shadow of the third division - that's too far away, and the third division team is too strong for them.

This draw is not good, because drawing a team in the fifth division is better than that in the third division.

Wimbledon was a little disappointed. They were not disappointed to draw a third-tier team, they were because there was no TV broadcast in this game... "There is no famous stage without TV broadcast!"

"Ahhhhhh! No flowers and applause! No beautiful girls!"

A group of people were wailing like this.

"What are you afraid of?" Chu Zhongtian said to them, "We beat Nords County and take another step forward, will we have another chance to get live TV?"

When everyone heard this, it was true that this was true, so they turned their worries into joy. They didn't even think about whether they could defeat Nords and whether they could move forward.

I really don’t know where their confidence comes from. Perhaps it is related to their thirteen-round winning streak in the league? Or it is related to their being the heirs of the "Mad Gang"? The Mad Gang is also called the "Mad Gang". The people playing football here are all crazy and psychopaths, paranoids, and common sense does not exist at all. What they think is common sense, and what they firmly believe in is the truth.

Eames is instilling the spirit of "crazy gang" into this team bit by bit. Chu Zhongtian could feel that Eames never said to them at any time on any occasion, "Our goal is to reach the first round of the main competition", "The opponent is too strong, everyone should do their best", and these words that make people feel that although they are very realistic and smart, they are a little discouraged. He always says, "We can do it!" "What is the first round of the main competition? Our goal is farther!" "Go as far as you can, whether it is luck or strength!" "I don't want to be just a dark horse in the qualifying competition, we should be a dark horse in the main competition!"

※※※Nords coach Billy Dearden (billy_dearden) is fifty-nine years old this year, but now he looks more like a sixty-nine-year-old. This is his third season in Nords. He came to this team in January 2002. At that time, he was full of confidence and did not expect to spend a period of bankruptcy with the players... His club has been in a terrible financial crisis since last year and is responsible for broadcasting England Class A and B

The bankruptcy of independent TV and digital TV stations in low-level leagues has led to the failure of many clubs to pay for their broadcasts. In addition, the low salary budget has made the team unable to make ends meet. Since June last year, the Nordsshire Club has been officially taken over by the government. If they raised less than 3.2 million pounds before December 8 this year, this football club, which may be the oldest football club in the history of England, in the history of modern football in the world, would be forcibly disbanded.

Before this, the club's fans had already launched donations and raised 150,000 pounds for the team, which is not a small amount, but it is still a drop in the bucket for solving the club's problems.

Fortunately, they drew a good draw in the League Cup - on October 29, they challenged Chelsea away in the League Cup, and this game was included in the TV program. The club's people have been negotiating with Chelsea club, hoping that Chelsea can make full-time ticket revenue to help Nords overcome the difficulties, because another Monopoly, Fulham owner Fayez did this when he encountered financial difficulties in the League Cup a few years ago. You should know that Chelsea's current boss Abramovich is much richer than Fayez. In fact, when he met Chelsea's draw in the League Cup, many fans were already shouting that thank God, because meeting big-name teams meant a generous box office income.

According to the rules of the League Cup, the balls hosted will receive 45% of the ticket revenue for this game, the opponent will also receive 45% of the tickets, and the remaining 10% will be the cup organization. Calculated by adult tickets for 20 pounds, Chelsea will only earn about 200,000 pounds in this game. For a wealthy boss like Abramovich, it is simply a drizzle, but for Nords County, it is a life-saving money.

They have not received a response from Chelsea club yet, but good news has come - Chelsea coach Ranieri ordered the players to sign the jerseys to give them to the Nords County Club after the game is over for their auctions. In addition, he promised in an interview that he would send all the main players to the League Cup to attract more fans to watch the game at Stamford Bridge, which may allow Nords County to get an additional tens of thousands of pounds in the ticket share.

Therefore, he didn't care about the first round of the FA Cup that was released at this time. He just took a look and found that his opponent's name looked familiar, but he didn't think about why he felt it was familiar, so he put the matchup aside and began to consider the third round of the League Cup with Chelsea.

For him and his team, this League Cup with Chelsea is the real life-and-death battle - not in the win or loss of the score, but in the ticket revenue... On October 29, the third round of the League Cup began, and Deerden led his team to Stamford Bridge to participate in the game. Before the game, he received news that it was said that this game attracted more than 30,000 fans to watch the game, which was exciting news, which means that they would have more ticket share, which might help the club alleviate a little financial crisis.

In the end, Chelsea defeated Nords 4-2 at their home court. It was a showdown between the prince and the beggar. The prince won, but the beggar also won people's respect with two goals.

After the game, Chelsea players took off their jerseys as their head coach Ranieri said, signed the name on it and gave it to the Nordsshire players, and asked them to use it for auction to raise funds. This is also considered a exchange of jerseys, but Nordsshire players cannot give their jerseys back because they are in financial distress, they have long stipulated that the jerseys should be washed and kept by themselves, and cannot be exchanged - the club has no money to buy new jerseys for them.

There was a small episode before the game. Stephen Mildenhall, the goalkeeper of Nords, said that after the game, he would walk straight to Abramovich, pat the Russians on the shoulders, and ask if he had any friends who would buy a B-class club: "No billionaires are needed, millionaires are enough. If he can't remember such a friend, then I'll ask him if he can find under their sofa, maybe he's missing millions of pounds there."

Of course, he didn't have the chance to really go to Abramovich after the game. Even if he was going, it was still a question whether he could pass through the bodyguard safely.

But Abramovich gave him another answer - he promised to donate all the entire segment of the game's ticket revenue to Nords County to help them get out of the economic crisis and the seventeen-month custody state, a time limit that has set a record of being custodial.

Of course, this 200,000 pounds cannot completely help Nords get out of the crisis, but it finally brings a glimmer of hope to the club. Now they are starting to seek whether they can be acquired by the consortium.

It was not until after this game that Dilden had time to pick up the FA Cup matchup that he threw aside, and carefully check who their opponent in the first round was - he only thought that the name looked familiar, but he didn't think about it carefully.

Now, it turned out to be Wimbledon!

He was surprised. Wasn't Wimbledon in the League One? Shouldn't the League One team join the third round in January next year? How could it be a team that played from the League Nine?

Soon he realized that it must be a local low-level team in Wimbledon. Such teams often use local place names to indicate their place of ownership, which is not uncommon.

Although in terms of strength, Dilden believes that his team can easily defeat this amateur team from the Ninth League, he still envies the financial situation of this team, and they look much better than their own team.

This is also related to Wimbledon's expenses. The weekly salary of all Wimbledon's first team players is not as good as a week's salary of a Nodsshire player. The three-week salary of all Nordsshire players is not enough for Chelsea midfielder star Perron.

For the FA Cup, Dearden planned so that he would have to last until the third round, so he would have the chance to play against Premier League teams again. If he scored another away game and got a chance to live TV, he would have a large amount of tickets and TV broadcast income, which would help alleviate the team's current poor financial situation - although he still doesn't know whether Nords County Club can still last until the third round of the FA Cup. You should know that December 8 is the deadline, and if the club still can't afford enough money by then, it will close and disband.

※※The league on October 29th was held in the middle of the week. Chu Zhongtian did not participate, and the team still beat Godalming Guildford 4:0 at home. On Saturday, November 1st, Wimbledon defeated Reading Town 2:0 away. Chu Zhongtian started and played the whole game and performed well. If the Ninth League matches were scored by the media after the match, he should be able to be scored an eight-pointer. Although the team could win without him, the team's defense was more reassuring. Now Chu Zhongtian is increasing his chances of participating in the offensive bit by bit, and sometimes he can pass some good balls. Unfortunately, it has not directly caused an assist.

Although there are two weeks left before the FA Cup on the 15th day and there is still one league game in the middle, head coach Eames has decided that no matter what the league is like, the gap between them and the second place is now ten, and it doesn't matter if they lose one game.

He focused on the team's training focus on the FA Cup, and he recorded the League Cup match between Nords and Chelsea. Nords' performance was very outstanding in that game and had high reference value.

Eames showed the video of the game to the players, then analyzed the performance of each player in Nordsshire for them, and told them what to do if they encountered a similar situation. He gave it very detailed and even took an afternoon to take this tactical class. Chu Zhongtian naturally escaped from school class and came to listen to the class.

Chu Zhongtian's task in this game is quite heavy. He has to be responsible for watching the midfield core Darren_caskey of Nordsshire.

"He is a very, very good guy, he has received very systematic and good training at Tottenham Hotspur, and has played there for three seasons and has performed well."

Although Wimbledon does not have special scouts and employees responsible for collecting intelligence, they are lucky to have a sponsor who has achieved great success in football data collection. The si company that produces champion football managers provides them with a lot of information related to Nordsshire, including the players’ past record, technical characteristics, whether they are vulnerable to injuries... and so on.

These books are game data, but most of them are still real and credible. Eames compared the game and directly adopted it.

"And don't think that if he has excellent skills, his body must be thin. His body is very strong. If you just fight for brute force with him, you may not win." Eames pointed to Kasky on the TV screen and said to Chu Zhongtian. "With his brain to defend, he is not fast, has poor explosive power, cannot bounce, is not flexible, and is easily injured. Do you know what to do, Chu?"

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "Yes, boss. I know what to do."

In addition to being quite strong, this person's physical fitness is simply useless. Chu Zhongtian just needs to not let him pass the ball easily. He doesn't have to worry about the opponent's forced breakthrough, because he can't run fast at all and he has an absolute advantage in fighting for high-altitude balls.

"You have to remember that Nordsshire is completely different from that Thurlock. They have a very good passer." Eames pointed to Kasky who was frozen on the screen. "So we cannot implement oppressive defense in this game, and Chu will press him in close proximity, and we will shrink the defense. Therefore, the defensive counterattack is something we will focus on in the next two weeks. At the same time, I announced that in order to prepare for this game, the weekly training camp has been changed from two to three times. I hope everyone can try their best, especially the main players. This is a very important game. We have already released the big talk, but football is not a win by mouth. We need to put in enough effort for it, otherwise everything will be empty talk!"

After the tactical class was over, Eames found Chu Zhongtian and wanted to ask if he could accept the training arrangement three times a week. He knew that Chu Zhongtian was going to school, and he couldn't force it in this regard.

Chu Zhongtian's answer was very refreshing: "No problem, boss. I can definitely come."

"What should I do if I study?" Eames asked with a smile.

"Go back and make up for it yourself."

Eames nodded: "It's a pity that we are just a half-professional team, otherwise I will definitely give you a contract that will allow you to train with peace of mind. Ha!"

Chu Zhongtian just thought the boss was joking, so he laughed with him. After spending a season with the boss, he had already figured out his temper. Although he usually had a stern face, he seemed to be unhappy with anyone, but in fact he was very protective and friendly to the players he liked. Unless you performed poorly, he would not mind making jokes with you.

After laughing, Eames shrugged: "It would be great if you were British... Whether you were English, Scot, Welsh, or Northern Ireland, as long as you were British. Unfortunately, you are a Chinese. Have you considered joining British citizenship, Chu?"

Chu Zhongtian shook his head: "I'm sorry, boss. My motherland does not allow dual nationality. And I am very satisfied with my current nationality."

"Oh, hell..." Eames was a little regretful. "Okay, no matter what, I'm glad you are in the team, Chu." Eames patted Chu Zhongtian on the shoulder.

"I'm also very happy to be playing football in this team, boss."

"Perform well during the FA Cup and let us go further!"

"I will give my all, boss!" Chu Zhongtian clenched his fists and expressed his determination. This is not a show of loyalty. He is saying what he said in his heart. He will indeed give his all to such an important game. In fact, Chu Zhongtian has never given his all to any game?
Chapter completed!