PS: "Additional updates and completion plan" Chapter 29

Since the match between Fiorentina and Arsenal is about to begin, on the way to the Highbury Stadium, Zhuang Mingge and others saw countless fans wearing Arsenal jerseys, and the shops on both sides of the street also posted "cannons" patterns symbolizing Arsenal Club.

Highbury Stadium, the home court currently used by Arsenal Club.

In 1913, then-Arsenal chairman Henry Norris decided to move Arsenal from Planstead to North London and decided to settle the team's home court at Highbury.

After two world wars and more than 80 years of ups and downs, and after several renovations, the current Highbury Stadium can accommodate 38,500 spectators, which is a relatively "pocket-sized" category in European football.

Zhuang Mingge knew that the small capacity of the Highbury Stadium directly led to Arsenal's inability to keep up with other competitors in terms of ticket revenue, which was also why Wenger would rather grit his teeth and build a new stadium for several years without buying big-name stars.

Although he visited the nearby shopping mall, Zhuang Mingge arrived at the visiting team's locker room before the team.

Zhuang Mingge carefully observed the facilities in the visiting team's locker room. Zhuang Mingge had heard Kenyon introduce that in England, the visiting team's locker room would be much worse than the home team's locker room. However, the scene that appeared in front of Zhuang Mingge now was obviously beyond his imagination: the shower room in the visiting team's locker room was only more than 20 square meters, and the arrangement of the shower head was also very crowded; the adjacent bathroom actually had only 4 squat seats, without any cover between them; in the next door, there were only simple wooden wardrobe and stools.

...It's better to go and inspect the home team's locker room. This away team's locker room is not even as good as Frankie Stadium.

So, Zhuang Mingge greeted Hillwood and received the permission of the chairman. Taking advantage of the opportunity that the entire Arsenal team had not yet arrived at the game venue, Zhuang Mingge slipped to the door of the home team's locker room and opened the door.

"I'll just go, the treatment of the home and visiting team is too bad, right?"

The home team locker room at the Highbury Stadium was obviously carefully renovated. Not to mention, in the home team locker room, Zhuang Mingge saw a lot of humanized designs: the floor of the locker room is paved with a geothermal system, which can freely adjust the temperature to maintain the indoor temperature; the place where sports equipment such as jerseys and sneakers is placed is also quite reasonable, allowing players to touch their own positions even if they close their eyes; each position is also equipped with leather sofa cushions.

In addition, the home team's locker room is equipped with fresh food, fruits and drinks, neatly arranged casual books and CD machines, which allow players to participate in the game better after relaxing. At the same time, the locker room is also equipped with a massage treatment room with 8 physiotherapy beds, and a huge spa room, which not only has a massage pool, but also a comfortable shower room.

Compared to the Frankie Stadium, which is owned by the Florence Municipal Government, the Highbury Stadium, which is completely owned by the club, is obviously more humane and has a humanistic atmosphere. The Florence locker room located in the Frankie Stadium is only regarded as a competition command center.

"It seems that even if Frankie Stadium cannot be taken over to the club, we must get the right to transform the stadium as soon as possible. Fiorentina cannot fall behind other teams in such details." Zhuang Mingge made up his mind secretly.

It was estimated that the Arsenal players had already started warming up before the game. Zhuang Mingge, who was staying in the locker room, had heard the cheers of the fans on the stadium, so he did not stay in the home team's locker room, and soon walked out of the locker room, followed the sign into the VIP passage, and climbed into the main stand of Highbury.

Compared with the magnificent Old Trafford Stadium, the Highbury Stadium, which can only accommodate 38,500 spectators, can only be described as small and exquisite. On the one hand, every minute of the space here has been fully utilized; on the other hand, the potential weakness of limited space development has also become one of the factors that restrict Arsenal's later development.

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Looking at the emotional Arsenal fans around him, Zhuang Mingge, who doesn't know much about British football, is it really hard to understand. Isn't the game not yet started? Why are these English fans so excited? It's a sign of excessive energy - look at the Arsenal players who are warming up before the game on the court, doing the most ordinary half-court running exercises, which makes them excited? How can this make sense!

Could it be that they are demonstrating to hundreds of Fiorentine fans coming from afar? This is possible, but this is a bit too much, right?

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

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

"Uh, yeah, I always thought that fans usually only devote their enthusiasm to the start of the game, but these English fans seem to have some..."

"It's a bit too fanatical, right? Because the young generation of England fans are largely on these stars nowadays."

"Uh, Kenyon, after hearing what you said, why do I think this is similar to the situation in the NBA... The loyalty of the fans is concentrated on the stars rather than the club. Once some stars leave the team, the number of fans will change drastically?"

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

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

"What's sorrow? If you don't think this is the case, will it be much easier to make money from the British after we Florence develop? That's not the Italian lira that is worthless, but the real pound!"

"I always feel that it is a bit inconsistent to say this, as a British person..."

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After finishing warm-up before the game, Arsenal players returned to the locker room along the player's passage, and their head coach Graham will make the final tactical arrangement and pre-match mobilization for the upcoming game.

The Arsenal players who had finished the warm-up naturally gave up the warm-up venue to the Fiorentine players who came out of the player's passage, but the shouts of fans in the stands were not reduced at all. However, the slogans they shouted were not to cheer up the away team, but to use all methods to interfere with Fiorentine's warm-up and try to affect the status of the away team players.

Like the London police facing a great enemy, they protected hundreds of Florence fans who came from afar. This time, the London police, who learned from their mistakes, took extremely strict isolation and restriction measures against registered football hooligans; at the same time, they conducted almost harsh qualification reviews on British fans watching the game, which greatly reduced the probability of intruders in the Highbury Stadium.
Chapter completed!