Chapter 2 Emily Down
Emily, who had been listening, suddenly said: "We don't have the money to buy Wimbledon, we can set up a Wimbledon ourselves."
This sentence made her the focus of attention of the audience. Even Chu Zhongtian, who had been busy pouring wine for the drinkers, couldn't help but give a glance.
Emily continued without waiting for others to ask questions: "We plan to set up a football club that belongs entirely to our fans to replace the club that we have decided to move out. We should call on everyone to donate in two days."
Everyone was stunned for a moment, then reacted and asked, "That would require a lot of money, Emily?"
"It shouldn't be many. What we want to set up are not giant teams like Manchester United and Liverpool. We just need to be able to maintain basic expenses. Now we have the support of Wimbledon_independent_supporters_association (wisa) and we donate to form a trust organization to select people to manage it and serve as an investor for the club. Such a club belongs entirely to our fans' own club!" Emily was excited. She jumped off the stool, stood in front of the big guy, and said loudly. "As long as the money is paid, he will be a member of the club's board of directors. Everyone has a vote. Any major matter involving the development of the club requires us to vote and decide on it ourselves. No rich people will interfere with us, and no one can steal the club from our hands!"
A group of drinkers older than Emily raised their hands and shone light from their eyes, which was completely different from the frustrated and painful fans that Chu Zhongtian saw a day ago. Although they were actually still those people, they are obviously attracted by the prospects described by Emily.
"That's a good idea!" Boss John was the first to react, and he slapped hard on the bar. "Tell me when you want to donate, Emily."
"That's right, right! We raise money to set up our own club!"
"The senior executives of those clubs always say that the fans are the owners of the club, but they are all farting! If we are the owners, why can that bastard Winkelman do whatever he wants to do to Wimbledon?"
"If I donate a lot of money, can I keep a permanent seat in the stands behind the goal in the future?"
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Chu Zhongtian listened to these people's comments full of hope, and his subordinates kept distributing the wine one by one. He really didn't expect that after the girl came, the atmosphere in the bar would change drastically in just a few words. No wonder she was called "Princess Duns"...
Everyone drank fresh beer and returned to their respective seats to outline what kind of future should a club that belonged entirely to their own. Emily finally lost people around her.
She looked at the Chinese bartender standing in front of her and raised her empty cup at him.
Chu Zhongtian understood the meaning, and wanted to have another cup. This kind of cup is very big, and one cup is equivalent to a bottle. I really can't tell that a girl has a pretty good alcohol tolerance.
So he took the wine glass and refilled Emily.
"What's your name, Chinese boy?" asked Emily, who was lying on the bar.
"Chu Zhongtian." Chu Zhongtian put the unfilled cup aside and waited for a minute to add foam. Such Guinness dark beer is more fragrant and delicious.
"Do you like playing football, Chu?"
Unexpectedly, he was asked this question, and Chu Zhongtian almost knocked down Emily's wine glass.
"Do I look like someone who likes to play football?" Chu Zhongtian asked back with a little displeasure when he made an ugly appearance in front of the girl.
Emily smiled, instead of answering his question, she changed the topic: "I'm quite popular here."
"You can see it." Chu Zhongtian replied casually.
"They raised them all. I was still young at that time. I was only twelve years old for the first time when I came here, and I was taken by my father..."
"Wait." Chu Zhongtian interrupted Emily, "The law stipulates that you cannot enter the bar under the age of fourteen..."
"I'm an exception." Emily dialed a strand of blonde hair that drooped in front of her eyes. "When I was six years old, I went to Wembley with my father to watch the FA Cup final that year. We fought against Liverpool. Later we won. It was an amazing game, an unpopularity that no one expected before the game. There were many reporters at the scene. My father and I cheered for the championship were photographed by a photojournalist and put it in a magazine. Then I became famous. When I was a child, I was fatter than I am now and looked like a doll. I became a celebrity among Wimbledon fans. Some people started calling me 'Princess Dons'. Actually, I like this title very much... because I am a Wimbledon fan, I am Dons."
Dons is the self-proclaimed by Wimbledon fans. Many team fans have a name to call their own group. For example, Inter Milan fans call themselves "nerazzurri", which means "blue and black" in Italian; Juventus fans call themselves "juventini", which you can tell what the name means at the beginning. tini is the noun suffix, that is, "Juventini"; Liverpool fans call themselves "kop", which is the name of the Anfield home team fans stands. Over time, Liverpool fans also use this name to refer to themselves. There are many similar situations. Wimbledon fans call themselves "dons", Dons. This is taken from Wimbledon's last three letters of English "wimbledon", and s is in a plural form. Fans have never only one person.
"So even if I was only twelve years old for the first time, no one expressed dissatisfaction. They liked me very much." Emily pointed to a wall on the side, which was filled with various photos. Chu Zhongtian had seen it before, but later when he worked here for a long time, he found that those photos were regular customers here.
"There is also a photo of me there. A photo of me and my dad."
After hearing what she said, Chu Zhongtian suddenly wanted to go over and look for it now.
"My family was nearby, right next to Praud Lane Stadium, so our family started with my great-grandfather and were all Wimbledon fans."
So that's it. Chu Zhongtian said so in his heart.
"I moved three years ago, and it was thirteen blocks away from here. It was not convenient to come here. In addition, I had to prepare for the college entrance examination at that time. So I never came here."
Emily pointed to the wine glass next to her: "A minute has passed, Chu."
"Ah? Uh..." Chu Zhongtian quickly picked up the wine glass and added some foam, and then handed it to Emily. "Sorry..."
"Do you like playing football, Chu?"
Unexpectedly, Emily asked again. This time, before Chu Zhongtian said anything, she continued: "I watched your game three days ago."
Chu Zhongtian thought for a while before he realized what she was talking about - the International Student Friendship Match of Wimbledon Art School, which was played against the British Student Team. They were slaughtered by the British five goals in that game, which was a game that Chu Zhongtian was unwilling to recall. Because he hated failure, he hated such failures that had no power to fight back. In addition to failure, he also hated those teammates who had no fighting spirit because they made him feel alone, and he hated this feeling very much. Since three years ago, he has hated it very much.
"You played well."
"I'm still good at being fooled by a monkey?" Chu Zhongtian sneered, "You're not here to entertain me, Princess Duns?" I still remember the game freshly. For this reason, he had a big fight with his temporary teammates. He was a little embarrassed with his roommate Yang Yang. In short, he had a very unpleasant fight. He really hoped that he had not participated in such a game. Now he didn't know what was wrong in his mind. Yang Yang asked him to tell him that there was a game that was not enough and wanted to ask him for help, but he actually agreed. You know, he had not touched football for three years before this game...
The girl in front of her mentioned this game again, which evoked Chu Zhongtian's unhappy memories, so he was not very polite tone.
Emily shrugged. "Although you lost the ball, and you lost miserably. But in my opinion, you played very well. Losing is not your responsibility, but your teammates..." Speaking of this, she found that Chu Zhongtian raised his head and stared at him. "Well, they don't cooperate with you at all, defense is not a matter of one person."
"I really can't tell that you still understand the ball well?" Chu Zhongtian said with a slight sarcastic look.
"Because I'm a girl?" Emily didn't care about the mockery in Chu Zhongtian's tone.
Chu Zhongtian nodded. In his nearly nineteen years, he had come into contact with girls who like football and knew about football. He counted it with ten fingers. Some girls like football and just follow the trend and like celebrities. For example, if they are all David Beckham fans, there must be unfair reasons. To say that one of them is Beckham fans, there must be a fish that misses the net. Chu Zhongtian did not mean to look down on the star-chasing people, but talking about football with these female fans often makes him feel powerless, so he did not communicate with female fans much about football.
"Are you a little bit masculine chauvinistic?" Emily asked.
Male chauvinism refers to the idea that men must be superior to women, with a very broad range of coverage and specific meanings.
"No." Chu Zhongtian denies it like a conditioned reflex. To admit that he has racial discrimination in front of black people, it is equivalent to tearing his face apart. He does not need to show off with a girl who has just met for less than half an hour. Although he admits that he has some of that meaning, for example, he believes that many sports are actually not suitable for women, so soccer is also because women's football only have technology but lacks strength and speed, so the attention to women's football has always been low? It cannot be said that there is a lack of promotion. The fundamental reason is actually caused by the shortcomings of women's football itself.
Emily looked at Chu Zhongtian and the corners of her mouth slowly raised. Obviously she didn't believe Chu Zhongtian's defense, but she did not delve into this topic.
"Do you want to come to our team to play football?"
"Your team?" Chu Zhongtian was a little surprised, and then he remembered that it should be the new Wimbledon, which Emily and the drinkers discussed before, which was established by fans.
"Yes, our team. The upcoming new Wimbledon."
"I still have to work." Chu Zhongtian shook his head and refused, not even hesitating. After the game the day before yesterday, he found that it was right to leave football three years ago, although he was still very reluctant when he left.
"It doesn't prevent you from working. We only have two days a week to train with the team."
"But I want to make money..."
"If you pass the trial, you can sign a part-time contract with the club and you have money every week."
"I don't have a labor certificate..."
"We are an amateur team and we play amateur game, and we don't need a labor certificate issued by the FA."
"Why are you looking for me? There must be many of you fans, right? If I remember correctly, there are two of the teams we played against a few days ago who came out of the Wimbledon Youth Team, right?"
"There are always no people who can play football. They are them, you are you. I think you play pretty well, I hope you can try it."
Chu Zhongtian opened his mouth, and he suddenly couldn't think of any reason. Emily looked at him proudly.
"I don't like playing football." In the end, he could only say to Emily viciously.
Emily shook her head, not believing what he said: "Will you go to that game if you don't like playing football?"
Chu Zhongtian suddenly laughed: "That's because I have money. My classmate told me that I only went there for fifty pounds in a game. Who can I use to play that kind of shit game if I don't have money?" He said this sentence fiercely, completely from the heart, and his emotions are sincere and natural, because he felt that it was indeed a "shock game". After that, he pointed at his feet, "I work here and I can earn nine pounds in two hours. If I don't have money, why would I go?"
Emily didn't expect that this was the case. She looked at Chu Zhongtian in surprise, then frowned with golden willow-leaf eyebrows. Judging from Chu Zhongtian's expression, she felt that he was telling the truth.
Seeing that she no longer mentioned playing football, Chu Zhongtian shut up and looked at Emily with some pride, thinking that this inexplicable woman will never bother her again. What football should she play? Haven’t lost enough yet? I just want to work and go to school now. After four years of graduation, I will find a good job, and then... I haven’t thought about what to do now, what is too far away?
After a while, Emily said to Chu Zhongtian: "Okay, no matter whether you want it or not, it's also very happy to meet classmates here."
"Are we classmates?" Chu Zhongtian was a little surprised.
"When it's September, we'll be there," Emily smiled. "I'm from the Department of Drama Performance at Wimbledon_school_of_art."
As she said that, she stretched out her hand to Chu Zhongtian: "We are alumni, and if you have any difficulties in the future, you can come to me." She introduced herself again. "My name is Emily Stan, just call me Emily, or Amy. I'm very happy to know you, Chu."
Chu Zhongtian reached out and held it with her. He felt that it was a pair of warm and soft hands.
He looked up at Emily in front of him. If she didn't mention football, she would be a really cute girl, but now he hoped that he would not see her again in the future.
"I'm also very happy to know you, as long as you don't mention anything about joining the team..."
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ps, because I have to cook tonight, I sent the second update half an hour in advance~~
In addition, thank you everyone, I have pushed me to the second place in the new book list. But it is easy to fight, but it is difficult to defend... Everyone works hard to maintain this position, and at the same time threaten the seemingly out of reach of the dance on their heads, haha! I believe he must feel that the height is so cold now~~~
Let us revive the glory of "Champion Godfather" on the new book list!!
Tomorrow is still one update at 10 am and 6 pm, so stay tuned~~!!
Chapter completed!