I Am a Nobleman in England

To understand why the British are so obsessed with doping, look at the historical records.

Britain is recognized as the birthplace of poker, and it is also the first place where lottery tickets appeared. Lottery tickets began to be issued in 1569. In today's British leagues at all levels, staff from different gaming companies are selling them in each arena. Place a betting slip, betting is as easy as buying a glass of beer.

The so-called banker was also born at that time. In order to make the bets fair and safe for the winners, people are willing to hand over the bets to those highly respected, honest and credible intermediaries for safekeeping and pay tips. Later, these intermediaries gradually became professional Gamblers, this is the embryonic form of today's UK gaming companies.

After the legalization of gambling in the British football world, it is not that there is no match-fixing phenomenon at all. In the football leagues of Italy and other countries where the gambling is also legalized, the problem of match-fixing is much more serious than that in the UK. It is natural to legalize the football. A once-and-for-all solution.

For example, when you see a rich team being upset and defeated by a weaker team, you will lament that this is the mystery of football, or you will hum two words contemptuously from your nostrils, "Fix the match!"

"...Real Madrid in the 1980s and 1990s. There has always been a "habit" of presenting Rolex watches worth £1,500 to £4,000 to the linesmen before games, and Real Madrid won these games in the end. up.

The Ligue 1 powerhouse Bordeaux even set up a special account as a special fund for HUI related personnel in as many as 16 European games. . . "During the phone call, Nicola Costi continued to explode football scandals to his boss with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.

"Don't look at the HUI methods of the DU Football Group, which may seem old-fashioned, but they are extremely powerful. They are very particular about selecting targets for HUI. Those who are beautiful in LIAN take advantage of their weaknesses to "hold up" their chess pieces.

If players and officials cannot be bribed, they also have a "smart way" to deal with it, and that is poisoning! "

Hearing this, Arthur not only frowned, sure enough, if there was a 100% profit, someone would dare to take risks; if there was a 200% profit, someone would dare to flout the law; If there is a profit of three hundred, then someone dares to trample on everything in the world!

"...To treat those 'disobedient' players, they bribed the team doctor and the chef of the hotel where he stayed to give him a du sentence, so that he could not play the game. It is rumored that a team doctor of the Slovenian NIYA team once Poison and "tranquilizer" to the team members.

When it comes to next, the most famous is Ronaldo's performance in the 1998 World Cup. Before the final, Ronaldo suddenly became physically abnormal and did nothing in the final. The Brazilian team eventually lost to the French team.

After the game, many media broke the inside story, saying that Ronaldo "ate something that shouldn't be eaten in the lounge before the game, which resulted in jingluan and almost couldn't play..."

After hearing these revelations, Arthur also had to sigh with emotion. Sure enough, as long as there are huge interests, the struggle around interests will not be eliminated. This time, this "anti-drug storm" triggered by European football How much deterrence it has, and whether it can really be checked to the end, people will wait and see!

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Nicola Costie arrived in London from Southampton, joined Arthur, and drove to the FA headquarters together.

This time when I came to the FA, it was completely different from the desertedness of the last time. The entire FA headquarters can be said to be full of people coming and going, and it was very lively. The people who came to the meeting this afternoon were all the heads of the British professional teams. Including the staff of the FA, there were almost two hundred people sitting in the entire auditorium.

This time the FA can only focus on the big and let go of the small, and focus on professional teams. After all, if they really want to call all the football clubs in the UK, I am afraid they can only go to the stadium for a meeting.

You must know that as the birthplace of modern football, Britain is one of the countries with the most complete grassroots football system. Almost all communities have teams and participate in leagues. There are more than 37,000 clubs in one region of England, and hundreds of thousands of games and football community and football education activities are held every year.

At the top of the football league pyramid is the 20-team English Premier League. Below it is the football league, which is divided into three levels, the British Championship, the First Division and the Second Division, with 24 teams in each level. Although the Premier League broke away from the Football League in 1992, its 20 teams and 72 league teams are still collectively known as league clubs, both of which are full-professional teams.

Although there were many people, but young as Arthur, he was undoubtedly the only one there. As soon as he and Nicholas sat down, many people cast their attention on him.

And these gazes contain all kinds of emotions, some are scrutiny, some are indifferent, some are joking, and of course, more of them are kindness and curiosity.

Arthur can understand the curious eyes, but those who nodded and smiled at him from time to time made him a little confused. You know, although there was a lot of trouble when he bought the Southampton club, it was definitely the first time for him Appearing for the first time at an assembly of the British football community, not to mention familiarity, not even familiarity.

Nicola Costi, who waved to acquaintances from time to time, smiled and nodded to say hello, turned his head and saw the puzzled expression on the face of the young boss beside him. At this time, he happened to see Arsenal's head coach Arsene Wenger nodding in their direction, and couldn't help but With some understanding, with a smile on his face, he lowered his voice and whispered to the young boss: "Boss, although we are in the first division, our youth training is unmatched by other clubs..."

"Hehe..." Hearing that Nicholas broke the connection, Arthur also shook his head dumbfoundingly and said, "Well, they really regard us as a sought-after player supermarket."

Arthur, who realized the root of the problem, really didn't know what to say. No wonder the heads of the clubs in the Premier League treated him with smiles. They were not interested in him, a young billionaire owner, but Coveting his club's youth players.

Damn, every old fox is really not a good person!

"Produced by the saints, they must be high-quality goods." Although Southampton's youth training has not produced many superstars, many of the players produced have become the backbone of the league, especially the British local players, which are really sought-after.

The Saints' survival mode in the Premier League can be described as second to none. Since Arthur took over, the Saints' youth training system has now been doubled, and some media have even said that it is even better than Arsenal! The Ajax youth training has brought fresh blood to Dutch football, the La Masia youth training camp has brought many superstars to Barcelona, ​​and Southampton has supported half the sky of the Premier League!

In the past few years, whenever the leading star was sold, the fans would think that severe blood loss would make them suffer relegation, but the Saints were often able to survive the risk and rely on the British Championship. When other giants burn money to buy players, Southampton relies on the youth training system, even when the club's finances are the most difficult, they can still survive. . .

However, since Arthur took over, he has not only publicly stated that he will no longer sell the leading stars, but even the good seedlings in the youth training system have been protected and will not be sold at all.

The former Premier League supermarket now has no products on the shelves. This makes several Premier League teams who are thinking about the Saints youth training players really depressed.