The Era of Emerald

()ps: "Addition and Completion Plan" Chapter 29

As the match between Fiorentina and Arsenal was about to start, on the way to Highbury Stadium, Zhuang Mingge and others saw countless fans wearing Arsenal jerseys. The shops on both sides of the street also posted signs symbolizing the Arsenal club. "Cannon" pattern.

Highbury Stadium, the current home of Arsenal FC.

In 1913, then Arsenal chairman Henry Norris decided to relocate Arsenal from Plainstead to North London, and decided to settle the team's home stadium in Highbury.

After the invasion of two world wars and more than 80 years of ups and downs, as well as several reconstructions, the current Highbury Stadium can accommodate 38500 spectators, which belongs to the relatively "pocket" category in European football.

Zhuang Minge knew that the small capacity of the Highbury Stadium directly caused Arsenal to be unable to keep up with other competitors in terms of ticket revenue. This is why Wengen would rather not buy big-name players for several years to build a new stadium.

Although he visited a nearby shopping mall, Zhuang Mingge arrived at the visiting team's locker room one step ahead of the team.

Zhuang Mingge carefully observed the facilities in the visiting team's locker room. Zhuang Minge had heard from Kenyon before that in England, the visiting team's locker room would be much worse than the home team's.However, the scene unfolding in front of Zhuang Mingge's eyes is obviously beyond his imagination: In the visiting team's locker room, the shower room is only more than 20 square meters, and the arrangement of shower heads is also very crowded; There is no shelter in the room; in the dressing room next door, there are only simple wooden storage cabinets and benches.

... Let's go and inspect the home team's locker room. The visiting team's locker room is not even as good as the one at Frankie Stadium.

So, Zhuang Minge greeted Hill Wood and got the chairman's permission.Taking advantage of the opportunity for the entire Arsenal team to arrive at the match venue, Zhuang Minge slipped to the door of the home team's locker room and opened the door.

"Fuck me, the treatment of the home and away teams is too bad?"

The home team's locker room at Highbury Stadium has obviously gone through a careful renovation. Among other things, in the home team's locker room, Zhuang Mingge saw a lot of humanized design: the floor of the locker room is laid with a geothermal system, which can zi you adjusts the temperature to maintain the indoor temperature; the place where sports equipment such as jerseys and sneakers is placed is also reasonably designed, so that players can feel their own position even if they close their eyes; each position is also equipped with Leather sofa cushions.

In addition, the locker room of the home team is also equipped with fresh food, fruit and drinks. The neatly arranged leisure books and CD player can make the players better engage in the game after relaxing; at the same time, the locker room is also equipped with a belt There is a massage treatment room with 8 physiotherapy beds, a huge spa room, which not only has a massage swimming pool, but also a comfortable shower room.

Compared with the Frankie Stadium, which is still owned by the Florence city government, the Highbury Stadium, which is completely owned by the club, has obviously been transformed by Arsenal to be more humane, and the dressing room is full of humanity.The Fiorentina locker room at the Frankie Stadium is only used as a headquarters for the game.

"It seems that even if the Frankie Stadium cannot be owned by the club, they must get the right to renovate the stadium as soon as possible. Fiorentina can't lag behind other teams in such details." Zhuang Mingge secretly made up his mind.

It is estimated that the Arsenal players have already started the pre-match warm-up, because Zhuang Mingge, who was staying in the locker room, had already heard the cheers of the fans in the stadium, so he did not stay in the home team's locker room for a long time, and soon came out of the locker room He walked out, followed the signs into the VIP channel, and boarded the main stand at Highbury.

Compared with the majestic Old Trafford Stadium, Highbury Stadium, which can only accommodate 38500 spectators, can only be described as small and exquisite. On the one hand, every minute of space here has been fully utilized; On the one hand, the potential weakness of limited space development also became one of the factors that later restricted Arsenal's later development.

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Looking at the passionate Arsenal fans around, Zhuang Mingge, who doesn't know much about British football, is really a little hard to understand. Hasn't the game started yet?Why are these England fans so excited?It's completely a performance of excess energy-look at the Arsenal players who are warming up before the game on the pitch, doing the most common half-court lap practice one by one, can this make them excited?How can there be such a reason!

Could it be that they were demonstrating to the hundreds of Fiorentina fans who came from afar?This is possible, but is this a bit too much of a fuss?

Kenyon, who saw Zhuang Mingge's doubts, once again played the role of "answering questions and solving puzzles".

"Hehe, boss, do you think our British fans are much more fanatical than Italian ones?"

"Uh, yes, I always thought that the fans would only put their enthusiasm into the game after the start of the game, but these England fans seem to have some..."

"It's a bit too fanatical, isn't it? Because the younger generation of England fans now, a lot of their enthusiasm is for these stars."

"Well, Kenyon, after hearing what you said, why do I feel that this is similar to the situation in the nba... The fans' loyalty is concentrated on the stars rather than the club. Once some stars leave the team, the number of fans will change. Dramatic changes?"

"Hehe, you can see it too, boss."

"It's really sad. As the birthplace of modern football, Britain has been completely eroded by American business culture." Zhuang Mingge said with emotion.

"What's so sad, don't you think that after we develop Florence, it will be much easier to make money from the British than before? It's not the Italian lira that is worthless, but the real pound. !"

"I always feel that it's a bit inconsistent for you, an Englishman, to say that..."

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After the Arsenal players warmed up before the game, they returned to the locker room along the player channel. Their head coach Graham will make the final tactical arrangements and pre-match mobilization for the upcoming game.

The Arsenal players who had finished warming up naturally gave way to the Fiorentina players who came out of the player tunnel, but the cheers from the fans in the stands remained undiminished, but the slogans they shouted were not to cheer for the visiting team , but used all methods to interfere with Fiorentina's warm-up, trying to affect the state of the visiting team's players.

The London police, who were facing an enemy, protected hundreds of Fiorentina fans who came from afar.This time, the painstakingly learned London police adopted extremely strict isolation and restriction measures for registered football hooligans; at the same time, they conducted an almost harsh qualification review for British fans watching the game, which made Highbury The probability of rioters mixing in the stadium has been greatly reduced.

With the warm-up of Fiorentina players over, passionate Arsenal fans only need to wait a little longer to see the 90-minute spectacle jointly presented by Fiorentina and Arsenal at the Highbury Stadium!