Arsenal defended their English Premier League title in advance. What followed was the next day, when Stamford Bridge sent heavy news that Mourinho had been expelled from Stamford Bridge in a fit of anger due to his inability to win the English Premier League or the Champions League for two consecutive seasons!
The Blues were reluctant to part with Mourinho. Many players publicly expressed their support for Mourinho, but they could not change the fact.
Fleet Street, while singing the praises of Arsenal, expressed their regret for Mourinho's departure.
Even though Mourinho could be seen everywhere in the newspapers, the reporters on Fleet Street all knew that Mourinho could keep their jobs secure.
He was not only a star manager, but also a controversial manager. There was never a lack of news about him.
Because of this, no matter how much they fought, sowed discord, and embellished, Fleet Street would stand up to publicly defend Mourinho if he really left.
"Mourinho's defeat was not the fault of the war!"
Fleet Street listed Chelsea's game results in the last two seasons and believed that Chelsea's achievements in the last two seasons were the best since the English Premier League era.
They directly blamed Chelsea's failure on the boss, Abramovich.
They thought that it was a football layman who was blindly directing.
Although Wenger achieved great success in only two seasons when he came to the English Premier League, he had the legacy of the Graham era: the five old defenders led by Adams!
Stamford Bridge was in Abramovich's dream plan to rebuild everything.
During this rebuilding process, people were in a state of panic. The people's hearts that were united during the Ranieri era also showed cracks after the power was taken away. Mourinho not only united Chelsea's hearts in the shortest time, but also brought Chelsea into the top ranks in Europe.
Abramovich's lack of patience was condemned by Fleet Street in speech and in writing.
They defended Mourinho and claimed that Mourinho only lost to time. Give him two or three years, maybe Chelsea could stand shoulder to shoulder with Manchester United and form an excellent circulation model under Ferguson.
As for the loss to Arsenal, Fleet Street also said that it was Abramovich's fault. Abramovich's failure to take Henry away from Highbury in 2004 and Qin Xiong from Amsterdam, as well as the subsequent series of scandals regarding the transfer of the two became the reasons for Chelsea's failure.
With Mourinho gone, Chelsea was leaderless. Even because of Mourinho's departure, the players rebelled internally and the fans turned against Abramovich. Stamford Bridge entered an eventful period, which made Arsenal very happy.
It would also be much easier to look forward to the future.
Manchester United would also be secretly laughing. Although Ferguson's rule was not peaceful and harmonious, with Ronaldo's rapid growth, the conflict between him and van Nistelrooy was irreconcilable. However, Ferguson had his own plans in his mind. The rise of the new Red Devils was just around the corner!
Arsenal Football Club was preparing for a simple championship celebration.
Perhaps in view of the fact that the Champions League final opponent, Barcelona, was too strong, the club's senior management did not dare to postpone the league title celebration like last year. Last year, the league title and the FA Cup were celebrated together. What about this year?
If the Champions League final was messed up, it would be awkward to hold the league title celebration again. It was not difficult to predict how many players would be happy and how many fans would happily salute the team.
It was better to drink today. As soon as the league title was over, they would hold a decent celebration to make everyone happy and then see the results of the Champions League final.
Wenger gave the team's main force a holiday. He would send a combination of almost all substitutes and youth players for the league title finale.
Wenger did not care whether the final game was won or lost.
The main thing was to let the main players have a recovery period and adjust their mentality to prepare for the Champions League final.
Qin Xiong's mentality was relaxed and he wanted to conserve energy, but there was still a lot of activity.
Before the final game, the Arsenal team went to a nightclub to celebrate the title and reward themselves for a season of hard work.
Then the players' union, the journalists' association, and the Premier League held separate cocktail parties.
Qin Xiong was an invited guest and he was the most important guest.
Because his performance this season had completely conquered the English media and opponents.
The players' union's player of the season was Qin Xiong.
The journalists' player of the season was still Qin Xiong.
The Premier League's best player of the season was still Qin Xiong!
Qin Xiong, who swept the three awards, became the man of the hour on the streets of the fleet.
BBC Sport specially produced Qin Xiong's personal highlights of the season and broadcast them on television.
It included clips of all his goals and all his assists, as well as his personal play in classic battles.
He was hailed by the BBC as "The Magician from the East" and "David Copperfield who is more agile than his hands."
When Qin Xiong attended all the ceremonies and cocktail parties, he would appear with Sylvia. He seemed to be telling the world who his lifelong partner was. Sylvia also began to pay attention to making herself more presentable. She was worried that she would affect Qin Xiong's image. She was more concerned about this than ever before.
And in the hearts of the China fans, Qin Xiong's personal image had risen to an unprecedented height. What they were looking forward to the most now was not the Champions League final.
It was the upcoming World Cup after the Champions League final!
In the eyes of the average person, since Qin Xiong was already so strong, he would be able to lead the China team to a good result.
It was just like how some fans joked that Qin Xiong would bring Arsenal's 1: 0 advantage when he appeared on the field.
In an interview with China's sports media, Yan Qiang, when asked by Yan Qiang about the future World Cup goals, Qin Xiong said with a slightly pessimistic tone, "The teams that can participate in the World Cup have a skill and strong characteristics in a certain aspect. The current China team still has a lot of problems, especially since we rarely play together. Maintaining tacit understanding is one problem. Another problem is that we don't have obvious strengths. The teams that participate in the competition are generally very cautious. If the China team wants to make a difference in the World Cup, then in my opinion, there is only one way. Since we don't have a strong characteristic advantage over our opponents, we can only adapt to our opponents, adjust our mentality, and then use a utilitarian style of football to gain substantial benefits on the field. "
Qin Xiong's words puzzled Yan Qiang. He asked, "We always say that we want to play out our own characteristics. Shouldn't that be the case? "
Qin Xiong shook his head.
"Our characteristics actually have no characteristics on the stage of the World Cup. Skills, tactics, techniques, stamina, confrontation, speed, cohesion, and so on. Which of our characteristics can we gain an advantage by focusing on? Do we? I don't think so. So we should be more realistic. We have to use our brains to fight. This is my idea. I don't know what it will be like. When the time comes, we have to listen to the manager's arrangements. But I don't want the precious journey to the World Cup to become a seemingly hot-blooded but actually ignorant journey. "
After Qin Xiong's interview program was sent back to China, it caused a heated discussion in China's football world. People from all sides seemed to be more anxious than anyone to express their views on Qin Xiong's remarks.
On the contrary, Qin Xiong temporarily forgot about the World Cup after the interview.
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