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It is said that cats have nine lives. Many people think that this legend comes from the "Buddhist Sutra: Part 1", which says: Cats have nine lives, which are related to communication, spirit, tranquility, righteousness, awareness, light, essence, energy and spirit.

In fact, this is nonsense, because there is no book called "Buddhist Sutra", and the Chinese characters of the real Buddhist sutra are difficult and obscure, and such a vernacular language cannot exist at all.

In fact, this statement comes from ancient Western folk superstition. Legend has it that witches can use cats to borrow life and achieve the effect of immortality. Some places say it can be borrowed nine times, such as England, Spain says it is seven times, and the French speaking area thinks it is six times.

Later, this legend came to China. This is not surprising, because domestic cats came to China along the Silk Road earlier and are not our indigenous species.

It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, a cat with nine lives is a good cat. But for the black cats Sunderland, this year is their sixth cat life, but it is already hanging in the balance.

Why are Sunderland called the 'Black Cats'? This has something to do with their urban history.

Sunderland is a port city located in the north of England, in the middle of the island of Great Britain, facing the sea and looking eastward to the European continent. In the early days, there was the richest coal mine on the island, which established Sunderland's status as the industrial center of central Sunderland.

Due to the geographical environment, the coal trade relied entirely on sea transportation. In the early years, young adults in Sunderland basically made a living on ships. To prevent rats from infesting the ship, cats were commonly kept on board ships. Over time, cats became one of Sunderland’s urban symbols, appearing in various paintings.

Why a black cat? Because black cats look more mysterious and powerful, black colors are also easier to express in paintings.

When a group of secondary school teachers founded Sunderland more than a hundred years ago, they adopted the crest of a black cat crouching on a football. So even though the coal mines have long been hollowed out, few people in the city are sailors, and the team's crest has changed into two vulgar lions, Sunderland is still known as the 'Black Cats'.

Sunderland began to avoid relegation five years ago. In the end of the five seasons, they relied on the advantage of less than one goal to survive. This year the scenery is still the same, but it is more dangerous. 2 people sit in the last place and can't get away.

Seventy-three eighty-four, the black cat’s sixth life is also a hurdle.

David Moyes was tricked into joining Sunderland last summer.

After two seasons of coaching at Spanish Real Sociedad that were definitely not successful, a confused Moyes heard the call from Sunderland and was promised a huge sum of money to sign him.

The 53-year-old Moyes should not be so gullible. If Sunderland is really willing to spend money, why should they walk a tightrope to avoid relegation every year? But who told him to do nothing but football? Unknowingly, he got on the bandit ship of Sunderland.

When the season started, Moyes suddenly discovered that none of the promised buyers had come, and he had to rely on his own connections to recruit old players such as Pienaar, Anichebe, and Oviedo who were exempt from the contract. As a result, Sunderland started the new season with a 10-game winless streak. So far, they have 2 wins, 4 draws and 17 losses, which makes the deputy squad leader's throne feel hot.

How do you think such a Sunderland team can be better than Hussein Town, who are ranked third in the English Championship?

In the first round of the Premier League this season, Manchester City defeated Sunderland 2:1 at home. At that time, Zhuo Yang had not signed with Manchester City. Aguero's penalty kick in the opening 4 minutes and Black Cats defender McNair's own goal 4 minutes before the end were actually very lucky to win the game. The non-famous striker Jermaine Defoe scored a goal in between.

Defoe, 35, has a very strange record. In the early winter window of 2015, he returned to Sunderland from the major league Toronto FC, and then scored against Swansea. As a result, all 20 teams in the 2014-15 season were scored by him.

I have no idea what the significance of this kind of record is, and it’s not like he accomplished all the goals in one season. Is it really unusual for a Premier League striker who has played professional football for more than ten years to reach this age? It can only be said that the teams that were promoted and relegated happened to be more interesting this year, not how good Defoe is.

Anyway, it is definitely not as good as Aguero. Akun must not bother to count these fake records.

Four days after the FA Cup match against Harbin Town, in the 27th round of the Premier League, Manchester City came to Sunderland's Stadium of Light to challenge the deputy captain Black Cats. Guardiola continued to use rotation. Considering that the team's front line has a large population, but there are really not many reliable ones, one of Aguero and Zhuo Yang must be in charge, and Guardiola chose Akun.

Zhuo Yang said, in this case, I don’t have to follow the team. I will give more classes to the students of Royal Beiyin. The employment situation for art students is grim, so I need to pay more attention to my classmates in teaching.

In fact, he wanted to sneak away to Germany to be with his wife.

Guardiola could see at a glance what he was trying to do. Lao Gua's family are all in Manchester City, and the rich man doesn't care about the hungry man. He very cruelly included Zhuo Yang in the squad and asked him to chat with Arteta on the bench.

In fact, Guardiola was made guilty by the team's insane ups and downs in the league. Even when facing Sunderland, he was still cautious. Zhuoyang sitting next to him can provide him with a sense of security and is also a killer when necessary. .

As a result, Arteta was almost annoyed to death by his chatterbox, and Guardiola was simply worried. Aguero solved the problem on the court and did not bother Zhuo Yang to take action.

Sunderland is actually not weak on paper. Not only do they have Defoe, but they also have England substitute pickford, as well as several old Manchester United players, including O'Shea, Gibson and Januzaj, three of whom are from Sunderland. Captain, so he can be the Black Cat Sheriff and Moyes is the shit shoveler.

Zhuoyang and O'Shea of ​​Manchester United are old acquaintances. In those years, they were yelled at on the court and drank off the court, but it was still Grandpa Mo's face.

Aguero broke the deadlock in the middle of the first half in the 42nd minute. This was his 14th goal in the Premier League this season and also broke the league's six-round scoring drought.

After scoring the goal, Akun specifically observed Zhuo Yang's expression, but found nothing strange. He celebrated happily with everyone on the sidelines.

Zhuoyang didn't remember it himself, but Akun counted for him. He had already scored 1 and felt that if he worked harder, he should be able to catch up or even overtake.

Regardless of the team's results, Akun hopes to become the team's top scorer this season and hopes that Manchester City people will miss him after he leaves in the summer.

When Sane scored with his fifth diagonal shot, there was basically no suspense in the game. In the end, Manchester City used a 72% ball possession rate to securely win the victory 2:0.

The stadium is called the Stadium of Light, but this season has not been bright for Sunderland. With this defeat, they are already on their sixth life away from the relegation zone as a black cat. Anyway, from Zhuo Yang's perspective, in the remaining 11 rounds, if it remains the same as it is today, there is no hope at all.

Zhuoyang did not talk nonsense on the bench. Although he annoyed Arteta to the core, he was indeed talking about football. However, he didn't realize that if he missed Sunderland in today's game, he would have very little hope of breaking through the Black Cats' goal in the future.

In this regard, he is indeed not as good as Defoe, although that record is very boring.