Coaching legend

However, fortunately, there is still nearly a month before the first semi-final of the League Cup. There are still five Premier League games in between.

In the 18th round of the Premier League, Blackburn Rovers will challenge Ipswich away.

Ipswich is a very magical team. It was just promoted last season. But this season's performance is strong. Now the league is almost halfway through, and Ipswich is still ranked sixth in the Premier League.

Not simple, it is indeed not simple.

Ipswich's fast and concise style and short pass penetration style and playing style are pleasing to the eye. For a while, it brought a very fresh air to the Premier League, and many teams were restrained by Ipswich's playing style.

Or many Premier League teams were unable to find a way to restrain Ipswich for a while.

Strange team, strange playing style, plus because it was a newly promoted team, everyone despised it. Therefore, a miracle of a promoted team was created. Of course, it is nothing compared to the miracle of Kaiserslautern, but it is quite outstanding for a promoted team to rank sixth in the Premier League.

But this is only for those ordinary teams.

Facing Blackburn, his style of play has become their shortcoming. George is most afraid of iron-blooded teams, such as Bayern, which plays as a whole. Of course, Blackburn also has some difficulty playing against some teams that are open and close.

But George likes Ipswich, a club that learns the European style of play.

Klose, who has been resting for two consecutive games, received a pass from Duff on the wing not long after the game started, and scored Klose's 14th goal in the Premier League this season.

Of course, the game is not over. At the end of the first half, Riise rushed to the front court and scored the second goal of the game. This is also Riise's second goal for Blackburn this season. But Blackburn did not stop killing.

In the second half, Pires, Duff and Hargreaves, who came on as a substitute, each scored a goal, and finally defeated Ipswich 5-0.

Blackburn can be said to have completely beaten Ipswich back to its original form in this game.

After the game, George got exciting news.

Arsenal faced old rival Tottenham Hotspur in the London derby, and the final score was 1:1. Wenger's Arsenal was exhausted in this game. If it weren't for Henry's long-distance run before the end of the game, they would have lost in this derby.

Playing the toughest Champions League game has made Arsenal exhausted.

In terms of strength, Arsenal is now far superior to Tottenham. But in the game, Tottenham has always taken the initiative. Even Arsenal's steel man Vieira couldn't run in this game.

If Arsenal's draw is good news, then the news from Manchester United makes George dance with joy.

Manchester United was defeated by Houllier's Liverpool at their home ground. Liverpool defeated Manchester United 1:0 away. In this way, after the end of the 18th round of the Premier League, Blackburn leads Arsenal by seven points and Manchester United by eight points.

With the end of the 18th round of games, Blackburn has already locked the Premier League half-season championship in advance.

But George is not careless at all. Now they are only eight points ahead of Manchester United. When Manchester United reversed Newcastle, Newcastle was twelve points ahead of Manchester United. In the end, they were reversed by Manchester United.

Therefore, George will continue to increase the score before the new season of the Champions League restarts.

On December 23, Blackburn will challenge Coventry away.

In fact, this round should not be a game with Coventry. Because there is still Tottenham to play, but for some reasons, Tottenham's game was postponed.

As for Coventry, it is a weak team in the Premier League. Now ranked 18th in the Premier League. Together with Manchester City and Bradford, they are all hot teams for relegation in the Premier League this season. George will definitely not let such a team go.

It's just that Blackburn has always relied on playing games in one breath. In less than half a year, Blackburn players have played 30 games. Of course, if those national team players, their games add up to more than 30 games.

Although George attached great importance to this game, he was unable to score a goal against Coventry Blackburn away. Of course, with Coventry's strength, they were not able to break Blackburn's goal. In the end, George could only accept the score of 0-0.

Ipswich, who lost to Blackburn in the last game, had bad luck. Because they met the powerful Manchester United in this round, they were beaten 2-0 by Manchester United. They suffered two consecutive defeats. And Manchester United narrowed the gap with Blackburn to six points with this game.

As for Arsenal, they began to collapse.

The two death groups of the Champions League did have a great impact. And the absence of Ljungberg caught Arsenal off guard.

In the 19th round of the Premier League, they were beaten 4-0 by Liverpool, which has been in hot form recently. The gap with Blackburn, the first place in the Premier League, has become eight points.

Liverpool defeated Arsenal and Manchester United in a row, surpassing Leeds United and becoming the fourth in the Premier League again. The distance from Blackburn is already 13 points, only five points less than Arsenal.

Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League half-season championship.

Blackburn Rovers fans were very happy, and Blackburn Rovers newspapers were also very excited.

The Blackburn Evening News even shouted that Blackburn Rovers would soon win the Premier League championship.

Steven Yellen has now completely become George's advocate.

"Six years later, we won another half-time championship. In six years, we have had one coach after another, and finally we got the most suitable coach for us, George Levy. This is his first term at Blackburn Rovers. In three seasons, we have already seen the dawn of the league championship.”

"After six years, we Blackburn are truly back. Premier League champions, we Blackburn are here!"

And later on, there was even more disgusting praise for George's work at Blackburn. Now anyone who reads Yellen’s article will think that George and Yellen have some kind of personal relationship. In fact, who could know that three years ago the two were still bitter enemies.

Whenever George meets Yellen, he can't help but undermine him. All of Yellen's comments at the time were ridiculing Burnley and George.

But now the two people have become the best friends.

People's affairs can never be explained clearly.

Of course, many media attach great importance to Blackburn's half-time Premier League championship. Even the "Liverpool Echo", which has always been at odds with George, spoke highly of Blackburn's victory in the league's half-season championship.

"Blackburn won the Premier League half-time championship in the 1994-95 season. That year, Blackburn won the half-time championship and finally won the Premier League championship. Blackburn now is stronger and more stable than then. The Premier League has After half a season, Blackburn lost only one game and drew four games, conceding only 11 points.”

"Blackburn are now six points ahead of Manchester United and eight points ahead of Arsenal. They are in the best position."

"I believe the Premier League champion this season must be Blackburn Rovers."

George doesn't know whether the "Liverpool Echo" really thinks Blackburn will win the championship, or is unwilling to let Manchester United win the championship.

Anyway, for Liverpool, both Manchester United and George are annoying. Maybe they hate Manchester United even more, so maybe they support Blackburn to win the championship.

George had no interest in the opinions of these newspapers anyway. Half-distance champion actually sounds nice to say. Among the current probabilities in the Premier League, the probability of the half-time champion winning the Premier League championship is only over 30%, less than 40%.

Speaking of last season, Leeds United also won the half-way championship. so what?

At the end of last season, Leeds United did not even qualify for the Champions League. In that season of great reversal, Newcastle also won the championship halfway through. The difference was that it was reversed by Manchester United. So winning the half-time championship does not mean the Premier League championship.

But winning the half-distance championship is a good sign no matter what. George was very happy.

If the current schedule is more reasonable and there are not so many games at this time, Williams will definitely hope to hold a small celebration reception. It's a pity that Blackburn now has no time for such things.

Because five days later, Blackburn will go to London to challenge Tottenham.

So after the game, George gave the players two days off.

"The performance in the past half of the season has been good. Now we have two days off. Let's go and enjoy Christmas." Although George himself has no interest in Christmas, George's players all need to go to Christmas.

Players who get married should spend time with their families. Those young guys need to spend time with their girlfriends.

Because it was the game on the 28th, George waved his hand and asked the players to come back for training on the 26th.

"But remember it all. If anyone goes crazy in the past two days and cannot adjust well, they will have to go to the bench. Okay, dismissal!"

Looking at the players cheering, George shook his head. There are still many young players at Blackburn now, and of course they are willing to play. After the holiday, George was thinking about what he should do. Miranda recently said that their acquisition has entered the final stages. So I’m busy these days.

Before I could think about it, the cell phone in my pocket rang.

"John, what do you need from me?" George looked up at Williams' office and found that Williams was standing there calling George.

"George, do you have time tonight? Let's get together?"

"Okay. Of course." Although George is a country bumpkin, George really likes to communicate with gentlemen like Williams.

Williams is a quintessential English gentleman. He always speaks in a calm and gentle manner, making the person he talks to feel like a spring breeze.

"George, I'm not alone. Mr. Walker wants to see you too."

"Mr. Walker?" George was stunned. He hadn't seen Jack Walker for a long time. "OK."