Golden Greenery

After playing Everton away from home, Manchester City's "Devil's Christmas Schedule" for nearly a month has come to an end. There is no officially defined date line, but instead of double games a week, there is finally a week's gap between the next game.

There is no shortage of double games a week in other places, but the Premier League is obviously more intensive. Three games in ten days is basically the norm here, and one game a week is an exception. There is a way to relax, and what should have been a normal six-day break now seems as long as the entire summer vacation.

When people are free, they miss their wives, and Zhuo Yang wants to take leave again. Although he and Kou Kou had only been separated in Zurich for a few days, Zhuo Yang just thought that he was particularly hopeless at this point.

In fact, it is not necessary to have anything to do with Kou Kou. The key is to stay with his wife, who feels comfortable in every pore. It feels like an alcoholic who can't quit drinking.

But this time, he was a little embarrassed to speak.

Manchester City lost to Everton 2:4. Guardiola canceled his solo break with a gloomy face. Everyone is strengthening technical and tactical training in the base these days. As a die-hard supporter of Lao Gua and also the newly appointed captain, Zhuoyang had to support him and set an example.

The results have been ups and downs. Not only Guardiola has been oppressed by public opinion, but the players have also been criticized, and old scores have also been raised in the media.

In the match against Everton, the average age of Manchester City's starting lineup was 2. It was shocking to see that AC Milan, which was known as the "nursing home" back then, was not so extreme.

Where have all the rich and young people gone?

The media counted on their fingers for Manchester City. Since the summer of 2011, Blue Moon has spent a total of 570 million pounds on 43 first-line players in the past five and a half years.

But looking back now, 41 of them are not considered successful. Aguero is at least worth the money. The only one who can be regarded as a great success for the club is Zhuo Yang, and he is still worth zero.

Mansour's Abu Dhabi consortium took over Manchester City at the end of 2008. In the first few years, they still made targeted signings. The real crazy money burning started in the summer after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, with Silva, Toure and Balot. Leigh, Milner, Kolarov, Joe Hart, and later Aguero, the skeleton of Manchester City's two Premier League championships was actually reached before 2011.

But at that time, the team was already showing an aging problem. However, in the next five and a half years, another 570 million was poured into it, but it is still one of the teams with the oldest average age in the entire Premier League.

Except for Zhuoyang and Aguero, the media went over and criticized them one by one. De Bruyne with 54 million, Otamendi with 431.7 million, Stones with 47.5 million, Bravo with 20 million, Fernando with 240 million...

Everyone was careful to listen to Guardiola's roar in the base, for fear that they would be the ones to take the lead because of their lack of foresight.

Under such circumstances, how could Zhuo Yang just ask for leave? No matter what, you have to make up a reason that sounds reliable.

But the Irishman Ireland came to Manchester City's training base to visit and learned his story. Zhuo Yang was stunned and gave up the idea of ​​making up a reason for taking leave.

He is an Irishman, and his surname is indeed Ireland. This buddy, who is one year younger than Zhuoyang, has the same surname as the country, and his name is Stephen Ireland.

This is nothing surprising. The British have the surname 'English', the Scots have the surname 'Netherlands', the Americans have the surname 'America', and the Koreans have the surname 'Han'. 'of,

It seems that there are no people with the surname Ri in Japan...

Bruno Zina, the Portuguese midfielder who once played for Mallorca in La Liga, his 'Zina' is 'China', and now there is a 25-year-old left back in the Portuguese Super League Maritimo Club named Fabio Zina. China (·China), they are a bit confusing.

Stephen Ireland came from Manchester City's youth training and entered the first team in 2004 at the age of 18. At that time, Manchester City was still a famous team in the Premier League. The young Ireland immediately became the main force of the team with his clever footwork and excellent skills.

In the pre-Mansour era of Manchester City, that is, during the years when Sun Jihai was there, Ireland was the core of the team's midfield. He only moved to Aston Villa in 2010.

However, his life has not been very good in recent years. He has been transferred to Villa and Newcastle, and now he is doing very well in Stoke City. He is just a leftover on the bench. Moreover, his life is also in a mess. The luxurious mansion that looks bright on the outside is actually as messy as a doghouse.

Ireland returned home this time because his professional contract expires this summer and Stoke City has no intention of renewing it. He is not arrogant enough to want to return to Blue Moon today, but plans to retire. He came to ask in advance if he could get a job as an assistant coach for an echelon.

Zhuoyang doesn't know this guy, but because the year is not very long, Manchester City still has Kompany and Zabaleta who are familiar with Ireland. After the two old gossip men said hello to their old teammates, they turned around and started gossiping for Zhuo Yang.

The Irish national team was defeated by the England national team. At that time, the English national team, which also lacked skills in the five elements, also beat its chest and regretted it for a long time.

In the first six national team games, Ireland scored 4 goals, which is obviously not an ordinary person, but all his international experience only ended with 4 goals in six games.

The show started when Ireland received a call from his girlfriend Jessica before Ireland's home game against the powerful Czech Republic in 2007.

He went to head coach Steve Staunton with tears in his eyes and reported the bad news in tears: "My grandma passed away, boss. I have been fed by my grandma since I was five years old. She is my life." The most important person in the world, I...wuwu~~~"

Coach Staunton, who was less than 40 years old at the time, was also a sweetheart and immediately gave Ireland a warm hug.

"Silly boy, nothing in this world is more important than your loved ones. Don't worry about the team, go back quickly, remember, we are all with you. Be strong, stupid boy."

Coach Staunton was very generous. After reporting the incident to the Football Association of Ireland, he also requested the FA to charter a private plane to send Ireland home in the name of the team.

After landing, Ireland called Manchester City coach Eriksson and asked for leave for a week because he was so sad that he had to arrange a funeral as a last act of filial piety. So, the whole city of Manchester is with you, silly boy, go about your business and remember to express your condolences~

Sun Jihai had already returned to China at that time, otherwise he might have thought of sending a few wreaths there, and they had a good relationship.

The Irish Football Association was so damn generous that they immediately issued an official obituary in the media to mourn the loss of Ireland’s grandmother, Ms. Patricia Tallon. Your grandma is the grandma of all of us.

The only problem is that Ireland's Grandma Taron is still alive. The old man is so strong that he always competes with the young people for space and dances in the square. Grandma Talon happened to see the obituary in the newspaper. She was so angry that she almost didn't go there. She picked up the phone and scolded the Football Association.

Ireland burst into tears and explained calmly: You heard me wrong, it's not grandma, it's grandma. I have been pooped and peed on by my grandma since I was five years old...

English-speaking countries are not as particular as Chinese. Grandma and grandma are both called ‘grandmother’.

The Football Association of Ireland knew that they had made a big mistake and quickly removed the wrong obituary and replaced it with a new one, expressing their deepest condolences to their grandmother, Ms. Brenda Kitchener. Your grandma is the grandma to all of us...

Grandma Kitchener is still alive, dancing in the square, reading newspapers, and swearing.

Come on, silly boy, can you explain what's going on?

Ireland wiped away her tears, swallowed and said calmly: I'm sorry, I didn't make it clear. My grandfather and grandma divorced, but the one who survived was my grandfather’s second wife, my step-grandmother. She was also a grandmother, right? My step-grandma has been pooping and peeing since I was five years old...

The Irish Football Association and the newspaper were not really stupid. Before they changed the obituary again, they sent people to conduct an investigation. It was found that step-grandma Mary McCarthy was also alive and well, dancing in the square all day long.

The FA is angry, the national team is angry, Coach Staunton is angry, and the people of Ireland are angry.

Ireland, who did not go to school much, wrote a five-page apology letter, but it could not make the angry people forgive him. Since then, he has never been called up by the national team. He is such a stupid boy...

It is said that the real reason why Ireland took leave that time was that his girlfriend Jessica had a miscarriage. In fact, if he tells the truth, he might be able to get him to come down. The reason of taking care of his family is quite politically correct in Europe.

But this thing also has its own characteristics. When Xabi Alonso was in Liverpool, the team was going to play the Champions League with Inter Milan, and his wife happened to be giving birth. It was the first child of Longo and his wife. As a result, Benitez refused to give him a day off, and Longo was rude. His face forced him to walk away, and he never spoke to Marshal Bei again. He transferred to Real Madrid the next year.

Professional players have been talking nonsense in order to ask for leave, and there are all kinds of strange reasons. However, Ireland is the first person in history to talk about their own relatives and ultimately the future of their country.

In 2004, Valencia Mali midfielder Sissoko was participating in the World Cup preliminaries in Africa. He called head coach Ranieri to take a week off and said that there was still a very important national team friendly match.

After returning, Sissoko vividly told Ranieri how awesome he was in the game, free kicks and scimitars. Ranieri just watched him show off quietly, and then said expressionlessly: "Your national team leader called me and said you disappeared a week ago."

Sissoko: "..."

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Zhuo Yang clicked his tongue after listening to Ireland's story, arranging it based on his own relatives. Such people should be beaten to death on the spot.

So when Ireland, the dead-breast fanatic, came over to greet him humbly, Zhuo Yang made a face and didn't even look at him. They also went back to CEO Ferran Soriano and asked him to refuse Ireland's position as youth training coach and stop teaching the children badly.

Zhuo Yang was an upright man. He looked down upon Stephen Ireland for telling lies in order to ask for leave, and he kept telling lies in circles. He was full of contempt. He vowed not to collude with such a scumbag, so he gave up asking for leave with great difficulty and trained with the whole team honestly.

Asking for leave is a language art, which requires learning and singing.

Zhuo Yang is an upright man.

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