Golden Greenery

West Bromwich Albion are nicknamed the "Knickerbockers", as the name suggests, because the team's pants were very fat in the early years, and they were so fat that they were unique. This style is also called carrot pants, but it is obviously not as interesting and graphic as bloomers.

There are more than one nicknames. Teacher Zhan Jun once called Xibro a "robin" in his commentary. This was a misunderstanding. The West Bromwich Albion crest shows a thrush standing on the top of a hawthorn tree, not the robin, the UK's national bird.

So West Bromwich Albion are also called the 'Thrushes', and the 'Mockingbirds' are another team, Bristol City, now in the English Championship.

Zhuo Yang's mission at this time was not to kill a mockingbird, but to strangle the thrush to death or take off his bloomers.

Guardiola completely forgot about what he said before the game, '3:0 I will consider letting you come up and have a little fun.' Anyway, being unfaithful has now become this Catalan braised egg's new skill.

Zhuoyang replaced Brazilian Fernando in the 70th minute. Following Guardiola's instructions, De Bruyne moved to the midfield. He pulled up and became a left winger, echoing Sterling on the right.

Zhuoyang came up to solve the offensive problem of thunder and no rain, but as soon as he and Fernando finished handing over on the sideline, he was forced to act as a Marcelo-style full-back.

No matter how weak they are, they are all Premier League players after all, so no one can be any worse than the other. Manchester City could not attack for a long time, but West Bromwich Albion's defense was highly confident. A group of young and old men were filled with pride under the hawthorn tree.

Manchester City's happy boy Sterling turned into a bicycle boy, his legs were like two shit sticks, and Cameroon full-back Alan Njom was involuntarily stunned by him.

But there was an old man in the family, and the famous Northern Ireland player Gareth McCauley came through like a mountain axe.

Macaulay and Evans are the absolute backbone of the defense. In the past two years, they followed Northern Ireland in the European Championship qualifiers, beating Romania and Greece, and historically entered this year's European Championship as the first in the group.

During this summer's trip to France, although Northern Ireland lost two consecutive 0:1 losses to Poland and Germany, it unexpectedly defeated the famous Ukraine 2:0 and ranked third in the group in the top 16. In this game that will go down in the history of Northern Ireland football, Macaulay opened the scoring for his team with a corner kick in the second half.

However, in the 1/8 match against the British team Wales, Macaulay scored an own goal, causing Northern Ireland to lose 0:1 and be eliminated.

Now 37 years old, Gareth Macaulay is a rare animal on the court because he was born in the 1970s.

As time goes by ruthlessly, the players born in the 1970s who once dominated football are rapidly fading away. There are very few players who can still play the main role in the team, and Macaulay is one of them.

Young players now look at Macaulay just as Zhuo Yang looked at Maldini and "Baton" Costacurta when he first went to Milan ten years ago. Of course, Macaulay cannot compare with those two old gods in terms of level. He only became a professional player at the age of 24 and only played his first Premier League game at the age of 30.

Today, West Bromwich Albion also has a 32-year-old Chris Brent in the starting midfield. He, Macaulay and Evans are the "Northern Ireland Three" of the Knickerbockers.

Macaulay made a steady and hard sliding tackle, and immediately stole the ball from the feet of Happy Lin, who had just knocked off Nyom on his bicycle. How clean and neat. The veteran got up and made a long pass to launch a counterattack, but the young man lost his bicycle and was messy in the wind.

Zhuoyang was rushing down from the other side to prepare for the response. When he saw the situation changed, he took a moment to look at the movement patterns of both sides. He thought to himself, "No," and then he buried his head and ran straight towards his own goal.

The Knickerbockers' counterattack was so fast that most of Manchester City's players were on the left side of their backcourt before they had time to turn around.

Brent, one of the "Three Heroes", didn't need to hit the bottom this time. He directly passed the ball at a 45° position. Stones and Long Dong, who retreated in time in the penalty area, fought hard for the ball, but no one touched the ball.

Bravo struck out and picked the moon in the middle of the air. The posture was quite graceful, but he was unable to pick it off despite the interference of Fletcher, and the football continued to fly towards the back point.

West Bromwich Albion's counterattack was quite sophisticated. The Belgian Chadli stopped the ball at the far end and then hooked it back to the white point in an inverted triangle to Long Dong.

On the very authoritative German transfer website, 27-year-old Salomon Rondon is the only Venezuelan player worth more than 10 million euros, with a guide price of 14 million.

Facing Bravo who abandoned the goal and attacked, Longdong took two steps to the right, then rubbed the overhead of Bravo who was flying sideways, and the football was thrown towards the empty goal in a small parabola.

The kitchen knife chopped the wires, and a figure arrived at the goal first with the light of fire.

From the moment Zhuo Yang entered the scene, as usual, there was a camera dedicated to following him.

In the replay footage, Zhuoyang suddenly turned around in the frontcourt, then opened up his long legs and ran towards the goal with all his strength. He did not slow down at any turns along the way, did not say hello to anyone, and swung his arms above his head.

He ran from the left to the goal line in one breath, braked suddenly and turned around, and the ball that Long Dong rubbed from the right arrived. The half-high ball with long hair reaching waist is very difficult to handle, and Zhuoyang's running inertia has not been completely released.

It's as awkward as a right-hander wiping his butt with his left hand.

Zhuoyang twists and uses inertia to bounce himself up. While his body falls into the net, he lowers his waist, holds his chest and abdomen, stretches his neck like a giraffe, shakes his head and knocks the football, and accurately knocks the ball to the late Ou. Tamendi.

Otamendi made a rescue, and Zhuo Yang was caught, entangled like an unlucky Atlantic salmon.

Saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda!

At least four players in Manchester City made mistakes and were out of position in this ball. If they were defeated at the Hawthorn Stadium because of this ball and suffered a six-game losing streak, do you think Guardiola really wouldn't kill anyone? Mansoor can let leopards bite him. He keeps two at home and often flies with him on a special plane.

Zhuo Yang came to the rescue this time and built a twenty-eight-level pagoda in an instant.

The Manchester City teammates who had been saved and could only watch the show with a cold heart hurriedly came to fish Zhuo Yang out. Even the referee Lee Mason showed concern and ran over to beat him up.

Bravo affectionately held Zhuo Yang in his arms, and his thousands of words turned into surging hearts.

It was West Bromwich Albion's third shot of the game, and it was also the only shot on target. The Prince Regent really didn't want to be a 'shooter on target'.

Guardiola experienced a short and thrilling journey on the sidelines. He was shocked that the team suddenly lost the ball, and he was shocked that Zhuoyang saved the life and was injured. His movements just now looked not like human beings.

Seeing Zhuoyang walk out of the bottom of the net intact, Guardiola's heart fell back into his chest, and then he became angry again.

The danger stems from Sterling's frivolity in the frontcourt. It's not that you are not allowed to pass by on a bicycle, but in the situation just now, Silva and Aguero in the middle are in very ideal receiving positions, and there is Zhuoyang at the far end. If Sterling chooses to pass the ball instead of driving, Manchester City will form a highly layered and effective attack.

When it's time to pass the ball, you remember to cooperate again when it's time to pass. Life just makes you awkward like this.

Spanish veteran Jesus Navas took the lead and replaced Sterling. As he walked down, Happy Lin, who knew he had made a mistake, was not happy at all.

Zhuoyang has actually forgotten about Navas. He thought he was the pretty good Sevilla winger in La Liga. Sevilla is right, but even earlier in 2004, his Madiburg team had a fierce battle with Sevilla in the UEFA Cup.

It was a battle of red cards and a battle of slaps. That game also featured Ramos and David Navarro.

Navas, who had just debuted in the first team that year, was slapped twice in the face by Hamsik in the melee. (For details, see Part 2·Madibao·Chapter 808·Relief and Beautification Navas)

Navas's skin was still very delicate at that time, and he still doesn't know who the bad guy was who took advantage of the situation and whipped him into that awkward state.

Jesus Navas, who is only three months younger than Zhuoyang, is now 31 years old. Twelve years have passed, and his face is no longer delicate, his skin is dark and his beard is unkempt.

On the contrary, after rebirth, Zhuoyang has a good look and is as fresh as before. Navas is like his elder.