Chapter 1 Chen Hero's Ban

Chen Hero's lawsuit with the English FA was over, and the media gradually lost interest in him. They turned their attention to the infighting between FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, but that had nothing to do with Chen Hero.

He officially entered his ban period. He couldn't think about playing in any of the games this season, and he would have to spend half of next season in the stands.

But that didn't mean Chen Hero could go on vacation earlier than his other teammates and enjoy a long nine-month break.

In fact, his days were no different from usual.

He still trained with the team.

It's just that on match days, he would choose to watch the game at Stanley Park Stadium or at home—depending on whether Liverpool's game was home or away.

It's just that his training plan was much more casual. He didn't have to follow the team for tactical training, and his training was mainly to maintain his basic physical condition.

After all, he was almost forty years old, and players of this age couldn't withstand too much high-intensity training.

And in order to maintain his condition, he also needed to play games.

After being banned, he mainly relied on participating in team matches to achieve this goal. For example, matches against the reserve team and the youth team.

At the same time, he would also take more time to train and play with the reserve team. To this day, Liverpool still maintains the tradition of having the reserve team play in the FA Cup and League Cup every year. Now no one questions Liverpool's approach as a disregard for the FA Cup and League Cup, because they have used one championship trophy after another to prove their attitude towards this event.

This is Liverpool's tradition, and no one can criticize it.

At first, Chen Hero always led the team. In the last two years, Chen Hero has become older, his physical fitness has declined, and he has also begun to have problems with his stamina. Therefore, this task was handed over to other players in the first team, sometimes Carlton Cole, sometimes others, but only "their own people" who were promoted from the Liverpool youth team and reserve team. It wasn't that they had any prejudice against players who were transferred. It was because these Liverpool players who had come up step by step from the youth training camp and reserve team were the clearest about the meaning of doing so. Because when they were young, they were also brought out by Chen Hero in this way. All the players who can be promoted to the first team through the reserve team are those who have performed well enough in the League Cup and FA Cup.

So they know very well what it means for the reserve team to play in the League Cup and FA Cup.

Only such people will not be perfunctory when they return to the reserve team to lead their younger generations in the League Cup and FA Cup, and will lead the team from the bottom of their hearts and fight alongside them.

It would be a bit troublesome to let those players who transferred understand these things.

Now, although Chen Hero can't represent the team in the FA Cup and League Cup, training with him is still a huge encouragement to the Liverpool reserve team players, and it also benefits them a lot. Chen Hero is already the idol of all Liverpool players, from the youth team to the first team, everyone, regardless of their position, regards him as an idol.

Being able to train and compete with an idol is, in a sense, more encouraging to them than giving a player a bonus. And training with high-level players like Chen Hero has also improved the reserve team's youngsters very quickly.

Liverpool has thus entered a virtuous circle.

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After the lawsuit with the English FA, it was Paul Gruul's turn to file a lawsuit—this kid sued Chen Hero for intentionally hurting someone.

However, the media didn't pay much attention anymore. Gruul planned to use the media's attention to hype up this matter, and then make Chen Hero unable to step down. A public figure can't be as knowledgeable as a commoner like himself, right? So in the end, he can blackmail the other party for a good sum of money.

Who would have thought that the media wouldn't pay attention, and this matter couldn't be hyped up. If it can't be hyped up, there's no influence. If the influence is low, his calculations won't work.

Then he can only compete with Chen Hero through legal means.

But where can a commoner like him win against the large group of legal elites that Chen Hero keeps for fun?

Anyway, in the West, it takes a long time to fight a lawsuit. A large group of lawyers cited classics and scriptures to deal with him, dragging it out slowly. Whenever Chen Hero is in a good mood, he will compensate him with money. But he definitely won't pay too much. Want to open your mouth like a lion? Then keep dragging!

He doesn't mind bullying others.

To deal with evil people, naturally evil people should grind them down.

Chen Hero is not a good person...

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The crisis passed just like that, and life returned to calm.

Chen Hero's children and girlfriend have always been with him, showing people a united and loving family image.

This also adds a lot of points to Chen Hero invisibly.

Everyone saw Chen Hero's deep love for his children from this. So it's only normal for him to kick that Manchester City scum for his son.

If Chen Hero usually doesn't care about his children and is not the kind of person who cares about his children, then his actions of kicking Gruul would lack persuasiveness, and the public and the masses would not sympathize with him and support him. Naturally, he would not have won the final victory and made the English FA and FIFA bow their heads.

And through this incident, the family of three also deepened their relationship. After all, no matter how good the relationship is usually, it will still be different if they experience a difficult situation together and solve it.

If there was anything Chen Hero didn't want to see during his ban.

That was Liverpool's performance.

Although he can't participate in Liverpool's games, he still cares about Liverpool's performance.

After he was absent from the game, Liverpool's performance seemed to be weak.

In his first game after being banned, Liverpool lost to Tottenham Hotspur.

Later in the second game, Liverpool won Blackburn at home, seemingly showing signs of stopping the downward trend.

But the facts proved that this was just a flash in the pan.

In the thirty-fifth round, in the most crucial league game, Liverpool lost 1:3 to Arsenal away.

Carlton Cole scored the only goal for Liverpool, but he was unable to prevent Liverpool's defeat.

Losing this game caused Liverpool to fall from the top of the league, and Arsenal took the top spot.

This game was a fatal blow to Liverpool's morale.

In the following games, Liverpool's performance fluctuated. Sometimes they could win, some games they could only draw, and in some games, they simply lost.

Before the thirty-eighth round of the league, Liverpool was three points behind Arsenal. If they could win in the last round and Arsenal lost, they would still use their goal difference advantage to win the championship.

But this hope is very slim. How could Arsenal, who haven't won the league title in more than twenty years, let go of this great opportunity? They can win the championship as long as they win the game, and they don't have to look at Liverpool's face at all.

Liverpool was in a huge crisis.

Liverpool must win this game, and they must also rely on Arsenal's face.

Although it was an away game, Chen Hero also took his family to the stadium to watch the game, using this method to cheer for the team.

But the actual situation is that Liverpool performed very anxiously in this game, and at the same time, they were a little lacking in confidence.

They can't seize the opportunities, and they seize the opportunities randomly when there are no opportunities.

The result is that they can't score goals.

A draw in this game is meaningless to Liverpool.

Liverpool did not score in the first half.

At the beginning of the second half, Liverpool was planning to regroup and break out a bloody path, but they were hit head-on - they let their opponent Newcastle United take the lead!

This goal became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Liverpool frantically counterattacked after the goal, but to no avail. Instead, Newcastle United seized the opportunity and scored another goal.

With two goals behind and little time left, Liverpool's season was over.

The commentator was very excited: "Liverpool is going to lose! They are about to lose their league title that they already had in their hands! If it wasn't for Chen Hero's impulse, maybe they would have won the championship early! After monopolizing the Premier League title for as long as fourteen seasons, they have finally given up this honor! This is definitely a historic moment! Liverpool's dynasty has been ended!!"

Chen Hero, who was sitting in the VIP box, snorted heavily when he heard the last sentence from the commentator.

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In the end, Liverpool lost to Newcastle United away and also lost the championship.

For the first time in fifteen consecutive seasons, they failed to win the league title. Although they won the FA Cup and League Cup titles this season, these cannot be compared with the league title.

The Liverpool players who lost the game and the championship slumped on the ground, and some even shed tears - although they have won the league title for fourteen consecutive seasons, the Liverpool players have never lost their desire for the championship. This is the most terrifying thing about Liverpool.

The effort to surpass Manchester United has lasted for fifteen years, and it fell short at the last moment. If Chen Hero hadn't been banned...this should have been another ending.

Chen Hero stood in the box, listening to the commentator's excited shouts from the TV, and watching his Liverpool teammates slumped on the ground wiping their tears, he clenched his fists.

Clench, release, clench again, release again.

He was unwilling, very unwilling.

He died in a conspiracy.

Although he won the war with the English FA, he is still a loser. A nine-month ban and a two-year ban will allow him to watch his team be overturned by his opponents and lose the league title at the last moment, and then be ridiculed by commentators like this person.

But conspiracies and tricks cannot kill a true hero.

He will remember this debt. He has never been a broad-minded person. He is petty and vengeful.

In January next year, he will be reborn with the endless killing intent and hatred accumulated over these nine months.

At that time, all the people who are gloating now will be unlucky, and the humiliation suffered today must be washed away with their blood. The sky above the entire England will resound again with a terrifying voice.