The FA Cup (the-football-association-challenge-cup), referred to as the FA Cup (fa-cup), is the most important cup in England and the oldest football match in the world. It is precisely because of this event's long history that it is of great significance in the hearts of English fans.

This event represents the football culture and history of England.

Before 2000, the FA Cup was always considered by English fans to be a more important game than the top league, but entering the new millennium, many people think that the FA Cup is not as important as before. They believe that the Premier League and the Champions League are much more valuable than the FA Cup.

There are two reasons for this.

One is the impact of the UEFA Champions League. The giants can make a lot of money from the Champions League, so those games are more important to them than the FA Cup. The FA Cup is just a cup competition, and even if you win the championship, it is just a championship. There is no other benefit except for a UEFA Cup qualification that is useless to the giants.

The second is the influence of coaches from other countries, such as the French. The French Cup is not very good, so they take it for granted that the FA Cup in England is meaningless.

There are two reasons, so the influence of the FA Cup gradually weakened.

But for English fans, the FA Cup is still very meaningful. This is the tradition of English football, full of distinctive culture and historical heritage, and it is an extremely glorious history. Almost every FA Cup has extraordinary significance. Many English fans will forget that the team they support defeats powerful opponents in the league, but they will not forget to defeat strong teams in the FA Cup.

The Cups of various countries are like a hotbed for unpopularity, and the FA Cup even shows this characteristic to the fullest. According to the FA Cup system, the winners and losses are decided by one game, and the opponents and home and away games are decided by the lottery. In such a competition system, there are often unpopularities in low-level league clubs that defeat high-level league clubs.

Every year, the FA Cup starts in August.

Before the Premier League was formed, top league clubs also had to participate in the FA Cup from the first round. However, considering various events such as the UEFA League, League, League Cup, etc., the schedule for high-level league teams from the first round to participate in the FA Cup was too intensive, so the FA has made some modifications to the event. The Premier League and English League One teams started from the third lap after Christmas.

In the third lap, that is, the top 32 games, there will be 64 teams participating.

In addition to the 44 teams in the Premier League, in the first two lap competitions that the low-level league clubs participated before Christmas, only 20 teams could be decided to continue to participate in the competition, which shows the cruelty of the FA Cup elimination.

After the match against Norwich, Derby County began preparing for the FA Cup.

Wansheng made the team prepare a lot for the game, because club chairman Ji Smith was not very lucky... Derby County drew a Premier League team, Tottenham Hotspur, and it was a away game.

Wansheng still has a very good impression of Tottenham Hotspur.

When he left Manchester United, he first went to Manchester City to find a coaching job. After failing, he went directly to North London and Tottenham Hotspur Club. That experience was not a good memory. At that time, Tottenham Hotspur youth coach Alex Inglesop did not even read his resume. He just knew that he was a Chinese and directly rejected him.

That guy is racist.

No matter where he is, a guy with racism will definitely not leave a good impression, especially as the object of discrimination, Wan Sheng doesn't feel very good about that guy. He originally thought it would be difficult to have any intersection with Alex Inglers in his life, because the other party is just a youth coach. As long as he doesn't coach Tottenham Hotspur, he will naturally not deal with Alex Inglers, but he did not expect that the world will be changing - now Derby County is going to play against Tottenham Hotspur, and Alex Inglers is exactly one of the acting coaches.

In fact, Tottenham Hotspur's situation this season is not very good. Due to the team's performance, Tottenham Hotspur club fired head coach Hoddle in September.

Hoddle has gone through two seasons at Tottenham, and Tottenham only ranked tenth in the Premier League last season. At the beginning of this season, Hoddle spent £11 million to bring three strikers - Postiga, Canut and Zamora, but the performance of the three was not satisfactory.

"Glenn (Hodell) and I talked tonight. After two disappointing seasons, we made another important investment in the summer to give us a better chance to succeed this season. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the season we had the worst record since the establishment of the Premier League."

After the firing of Hodel, Tottenham chairman Daniel Levi said.

"Combined with the boring results in the second half of the season, the current lack of progress and any significant improvement is unacceptable. This is a time of crisis, and the board and I should have absolutely trust in the success of the head coach, but sorry we cannot accept it. It is not an easy decision, but we are determined to see the success of the club and we must move forward now."

At that time, Tottenham ranked third from the bottom in the Premier League. Previously, Hoddle scored only 4 points in six games coached by him.

"Glenn holds a special place in the club and today's decision has not changed. He is one of our greatest players. Egret Lane always welcomes him, and I hope to personally thank him for his determination and promise and hope he has a good life. We will find a new head coach, which is a crucial date and we will use the necessary time to make the best choice."

Shortly after Daniel Levi's speech, Tottenham Hotspur club announced that guard coach David Plitt will temporarily serve as Tottenham Hotspur's head coach with youth director Alex Inglerthop.

The two have been in charge of the team together for three months. With their gorgeous lineup, good adjustment and leadership skills, the two have made Tottenham Hotspurs have improved their performance a lot, but Tottenham Hotspur is still ranked fifth from the bottom in the league and has not completely left the relegation circle.

Now in the FA Cup, Derby County has met Tottenham Hotspur, and Wan Sheng also met Alex Inglerspe again.

This may be fate.

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"The purpose of our participation in the FA Cup is to try to achieve better results. I will not give up on this cup. Our first opponent is not very good, Tottenham Hotspur, a Premier League team. They have not performed well now, but their lineup is indeed very strong. But I still want to defeat this opponent, and I am quite as strong as you have this kind of strength!"

Wan Sheng said solemnly to the players.

"This is the FA Cup in England, nothing is impossible. Not to mention meeting Tottenham Hotspur, even if we meet Manchester United and Arsenal, we will still work hard to fight! This is the case in the FA Cup. It is normal for low-level league teams to eliminate high-level league teams, and we must try our best to do this! I believe everyone can do it!"

The players were surprised when they heard Wan Sheng's words.

Before participating in the League Cup, Wan Sheng said in one sentence, "Just be a training force." Unexpectedly, when he came to the FA Cup, he asked to play as well as possible. Especially those foreign players, such as Ribery, Ziegler and others, did not understand why Wan Sheng had to play the FA Cup firmly, but most English players still understood that the FA Cup is of great significance to English clubs, and this is not a cup match that is easy to give up.

But in the first game, we will play against Tottenham Hotspur... Regardless of Tottenham's performance now, it is definitely a real strong team. They are the arch-rivaled rivals of Arsenal in North London and have the strength to compete with Arsenal.

Can they defeat such an opponent?

Wan Sheng looked at everyone's performance and said seriously, "Nothing to be surprised. I hope everyone can perform as much as possible. Our opponents are strong, but remember that we are strong too! At the beginning of the season, I told you to fight for the championship. How many of you really believe it?"

All the players lowered their heads, and they really didn't believe it at the time, after all, the team was still relegated last season.

"But what now?" Wan Sheng's voice turned around and continued, "Now we are the first in the league! We proved with our results that we are a strong team. Now we just met Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup. Is it more difficult to defeat them than to win the first in the league? Think about it and know which one is more difficult. We only need one game, ninety minutes, work hard and ninety minutes, and victory is ours!"

"Think about how happy the fans would be if we eliminated Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup, and how surprised the media would be... that would be interesting!"

"I like the feeling of victory, especially defeating strong teams! I think you will definitely like it too, am I right? Everyone likes victory, right!"

"Yes..." The players made scattered voices.

Wan Sheng yelled, "Say it again! We all like victory, right?"

"right!"

This time it became much tidy and louder.

Wan Sheng nodded with satisfaction, "You must remember that football matches are about pursuing victory. We must take every opponent seriously. As long as we participate in the game, victory is the only goal. I want to defeat every opponent and win every championship, you must also think! This may be a bit too luxurious, but we must do our best to do our best for this goal!"

"The thing that blocks us now is Tottenham Hotspur. We want to defeat them, eliminate them, and let everyone see that we can eliminate Premier League teams too!"

The training of this day ended with Wan Sheng’s passionate voice. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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