For the FA, the FA Cup and the League Cup are like their own sons and godsons.

As the organizer of the FA Cup, the oldest football event in the world, it is naturally the FA, but the organizer of the League Cup was the Football League. The purpose of the latter was to challenge the FA Cup, because in the eyes of many English fans at that time, the status of the FA Cup was even higher than that of the League. In terms of the quality of the participating teams, it should be said that the League Cup was also higher than that of the FA Cup. The League Cup was limited to 92 teams under the Football League at that time. Although the Premier League later left the Football League and formed the Premier League themselves, this made the League team missing the top 20 teams at the pyramid, the League Cup system has not changed. However, the FA Cup teams can register as long as the teams registered with the FA can register. Therefore, the FA Cup teams that once reached their peak in the 0405 season.

Therefore, the development of the FA Cup and the League Cup is commonly said to be a godson trying to challenge the status of his own son, but the result is a relative or a relative, and the work is still a good thing. Of course, there is the fact that the League Cup is committed to death. The League Cup, which was established in 1961, began to accept title sponsorship in 1982, has changed its name six times. It is like a person who has changed more names, and others may not know you. The same is true for football. Compared with the League Cup, the FA Cup is much stronger. In order to maintain a century-old reputation, the FA Cup has always refused to accept title sponsorship, but has always been popular among internationally renowned brands.

Of course, for Manchester City today, they do not have the right to choose their own son or godson.

On the second day of the New Year, the FA's own son visited. Because there were no seed teams and draw restrictions, although the FA Cup would be more unpopular than the League Cup, this time Manchester City did not let themselves fall into their "first round". Adriano's goal helped them win the English championship 1-0 in the away game. Their neighbor Manchester United was not so lucky because the opponent was their century-old enemy Leeds United. Ferguson sent several main players in this game, but even so, they still lost to their opponents zero-to-one at home, revealing the biggest upset in the FA Cup.

A week later, in the 21st round of the Premier League, Manchester City swept Blackburn four-one at home. After a hat-trick against Stoke City, Bale made a comeback pass and shot after being "refrigerated" by Linsen for more than a week. This also provided a fresh hype material for many English media, such as Bale, Bale may become the second Robinho, and Bale used his high-profile performance to fight back against Linsen's doubts. In short, the world is not chaotic enough, and the tabloids still need to continue to work hard.

What excited all Manchester City fans is not only Bale's outstanding form. It also comes from Manchester City's league rankings. As Chelsea was delayed in this round of league, the winning Manchester City caught up with Chelsea in the standings and relied on the advantage of goal difference, it surpassed Chelsea, which has been ranked first in the standings since the beginning of the season, becoming the new leader in the Premier League.

The team's outstanding performance has also made Manchester City fans temporarily "forgot" the already opened winter transfer market.

Compared with the lively winter last year, the winter window, which has been open for nearly ten days, seems quiet this year. Not only does Manchester City have no news, but other major clubs are also temporarily silent. Although the British media still fabricates a lot of transfer news every day. But the only thing that is more eye-catching is a transfer officially recognized by Fulham. The protagonist is Chris Smalling, the main center back of the England U20 youth team. The two Premier League uncles Ferguson and Wenger fell in love with him at the same time, which adds a lot of gimmicks to this transfer. It is said that the value has been

After reaching the tens of millions, Lin Sen was shocked by the accidental report. It’s not that he thought Smalling was not worth the price, but he was also a main member of the future Manchester United defense line. What surprised him was that Smalling was not even a main defender in Fulham. Smalling, who just appeared in the Premier League last season, just gained a foothold in Fulham’s first team this season. Last year, well, now it should be considered the summer of the previous year. Ferguson’s price for sending Pique back to Barcelona was only five million euros.

Sure enough, household registration is not ordinary valuable in England. It’s also a pity that Linsen coached Malaga last year. Otherwise, in England, where the labor permit, just the budget for Malaga, even Linsen would probably need to consider how to relegate first.

On January 12th, the day before the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals, Robinho's transfer was finalized. Just as the fact that had happened, facing Mawood's "final reply", Juventus finally chose to retreat, and Robinho also returned to Brazil according to the familiar trajectory of Linson. On the same day, Brazilian giants Santos held a special press conference to announce that they had successfully loaned Robinho from Manchester City, and the Brazilian striker will return to Brazil's parent team until July 12th. During the loan period, Robinho's salary will be paid in full by Santos. At the press conference, accompanied by Chairman Santos, Robinho, who held Santos' jersey, had a bright smile on his face. When interviewed by Brazilian media, he called this return to Santos home. As for Manchester City, he kept silent and repeatedly stated that what is important is that he is very happy to return to Brazil.

It seems that Robinho is not willing to recall Manchester City. This is obviously not his "style", but after he returned to Santos, someone stood up for him, that is, the head coach of the Brazilian national team, Dunga. Although Dunga and Robinho were once tense due to discipline issues, Dunga still showed his love for this star player on the Brazilian forward. He was outspoken and pointed out that Lin Sen was a crime to "exiled" Robinho, thinking that Manchester City was too hasty in handling Robinho's affairs. Ironically, Dunga was criticized while he included Adriano, who was also a Manchester City player, on the roster in the new round of Brazilian national team warm-up match, but Robinho was defeated.

Linson did not respond to Dunga's words. From his perspective, this was just an excuse that Dunga was using himself and Manchester City when he did not call Robinho, and he had something more important.

In the semi-finals of the League Cup, Manchester City's opponent is Aston Villa.

Aston Villa is a true giant killer this season. In the first half of the season, Aston Villa suffered a total of five defeats, and among them, only one defeat to Arsenal was the loss to the top six teams in the league. Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool all suffered defeats on them. Even Manchester City failed to gain advantage from them. Manchester City's four consecutive draws in October were based on Aston Villa as the starting point. That game also caused serious dissatisfaction from Aston Villa coach O'Neal, because the referee gave Manchester City a penalty in the final stage of the game, which allowed Manchester City to escape a defeat.

Therefore, for O'Neal, Manchester City's four consecutive draws were completely retribution.

Lin Sen was originally just turning a blind eye to O'Neal's complaint, because the penalty kick was replayed through slow motion, which was controversial, but it was through slow motion. At the press conference, he had not seen the slow motion yet, but he just told the truth: I didn't see anything, the referee awarded us a penalty kick, and we sent it in, it was that simple. But the angry O'Neal didn't think Lin Sen was telling the truth, and he sarcastically mocked Lin Sen for opening his eyes and talking lies on the spot. Lin Sen ignored it. If he got the advantage, he wouldn't act obedient.

Two months have passed now, and the two teams met again. Lin Sen thought that the last round had happened, but he didn't expect that before the game, O'Neal began to chatter again. This time, Lin Sen was no longer polite. After winning the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals at home, Lin Sen calmly sarcastically said: Fortunately, the referee did not award us a penalty in this game.

"Only the blind man would say that the penalty kick in that game was not a misjudgment." O'Neal was angry on the spot.

"Only the loser will chatter about a penalty kick for two months." Lin Sen was not showing any weakness.

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The press conference was in chaos again, and in the end it could only part. Looking at the helpless expression of Miss Vicky Cross who was hosting the press conference, Lin Sen, who returned to the backstage, comforted the other party as if nothing had happened: Don't worry, occasionally.

Although it was occasionally, for the reporters present, there was no better press conference than this. The next day, the media headlines were not that Manchester City advanced to the League Cup final, but that Manchester City's head coach and Aston Villa's head coach almost fought at the press conference, which even extended to the dispute between the second largest city in the UK between Birmingham and Manchester.

O'Neal is not the only head coach Linsen has to deal with in the recent stages of the Premier League. Two days later, Linsen led the team to Liverpool to challenge a rival who should have met long ago - Moyes' Everton. Since the two sides are still far away from the make-up matches, the "second meeting" is now earlier than the "first meeting".

For Moyes, Linson is not only staying at the failed "Ferguson heir" in his memory, but only the opponent's toughness in Lescott's transfer this summer. In general, although Mawood gritted his teeth at Moyes, Linson's impression of Moyes is not bad, because it was his "interference" that Lescott, who should have transferred to Manchester City at a high price, finally stayed in Everton. For this reason, Lescott was also rumored to have had a conflict with Moyes for a period of time, but the South African World Cup is about to come, and Lescott cannot really fall with Moyes, so the two have already reconciled.
Chapter completed!