Chapter 124 Teasing

The next day, when Chen Yingxiong arrived at the training ground, he was "teased" by his teammates. It was because of his foul language during the live broadcast of "Match of the Day" yesterday, which caught the program team completely off guard. They didn't even have time to use sound消音 (xiāo yīn, noise reduction) technology to replace everything with "beep beep beep."

So all the British fans knew about it.

"Match of the Day" (abbreviated as MOTD) enjoys a lofty popularity in the UK. It is BBC's main football program, broadcast every Saturday night during each soccer season, and later a Sunday version was added. If there are games during the week, they will be broadcast after the game, but the name will be different. If it is a Tuesday game, it will be called "Tuesday Action," commenting on the day's game. Because BBC does not have the broadcasting rights to the Premier League games, this program has become a highlights compilation with guest commentary.

It is a very old show, which premiered on August 22, 1964, and the studio is located in Manchester.

This program is very popular among British fans, and the ratings have always been considerable. Moreover, not only fans like to watch it, but some players also like to watch it.

So you can imagine how widely the news of Chen Yingxiong scolding the program team on the phone yesterday was spread through the live broadcast.

After such a thing happened, his teammates in Liverpool quickly found out.

So when they trained the next day, everyone joked about Chen Yingxiong.

When Chen Yingxiong walked into the locker room, his teammates whistled at him, and some people gave him a thumbs up.

Carragher came up and patted him on the shoulder: "You're amazing, Hero. You're the first person I've ever seen who dared to swear at MOTD in public."

Chen Yingxiong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, because being "worshipped" by his teammates for this matter was not a good thing...

Not everyone was so heartless. Sanchez was worried that Chen Yingxiong's trouble would turn into another Naples fan riot. When he first played for Udinese, Chen Yingxiong had just arrived in Naples, which aroused the anger of Naples fans, which evolved into a riot that affected the whole of Italy. The impact was so profound that it could almost be compared to the Pope of the Vatican... Later, he transferred to Naples and witnessed it again in the season when Chen Yingxiong left.

So he was quite worried about Chen Yingxiong.

But Chen Yingxiong shook his head and waved his hand indifferently: "I'm not afraid of them!"

This was his hometown dialect, but it was interesting when he said it in English. "Hammer" is the nickname of West Ham United. West Ham United was originally a team belonging to the workers. Its predecessor was "Thames Ironworks." Workers carrying big iron hammers have become their best image spokesperson. The team's nickname "The Hammers" comes from this. If you look closely, you will find that the West Ham United team emblem has bright-handled crossed iron hammers. Corresponding to West Ham United's advocacy of adventurous offense, this "hammer" has indeed staged many times the good show of "hammering" the old master to death.

Chen Yingxiong's words also showed that he was not afraid of the Hammers at all. What's so great about the Hammers?

In fact, most people think the same as Chen Yingxiong. Aren't they just fans of a team? What's there to be afraid of? There are so many things like this in English football.

Back then, after Adebayor transferred to Manchester City, he met Arsenal. In the game, he scored a goal and ran ninety meters across the entire field to celebrate in front of the Arsenal fans. This provocation aroused strong dissatisfaction from all Arsenal fans.

But nothing happened later. Adebayor still played his football in the Premier League and had many excellent performances. No Arsenal fans ever did anything to Adebayor.

So the fans' anger is actually just the pressure brought by the huge boos during the game for the players.

And Chen Yingxiong is not afraid of this at all.

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Chen Yingxiong didn't think that West Ham United fans could pose any threat to him. At most, they would just scold him. He was never afraid of people who only made noise.

The media weren't too enthusiastic about this matter either, because there were more interesting things to divert everyone's attention. Chen Yingxiong's foul language during the connection with "Match of the Day" was much more interesting than his feud with West Ham United.

After the media's hype, the news of Chen Yingxiong's foul language on the show immediately spread like wildfire.

Many people jumped out and accused Chen Yingxiong of having a bad influence with his foul language. You must know that professional football players have always been idols for teenagers, and many people regard them as their role models. Chen Yingxiong's behavior set a bad example for everyone.

Chen Yingxiong dismissed the accusations of the media and some critics. He didn't believe that the current British teenagers were so pure that they had never even said a swear word. Not to mention swearing, the matter of being a father at the age of fourteen or fifteen has also been on the news, and there are also incidents of siblings having sex in the elevator, and then the brother giving the sister pocket money.

Today's British teenagers are rotten to the core. This is a free and indulgent country, so the next generation here is also free and indulgent. They drink, take drugs, gamble, have indiscriminate sex, street fights, drag racing, participate in violent activities... Compared with adults, they are not far behind.

So Chen Yingxiong never regarded himself as an idol for these people. He even believed that if British teenagers really regarded him as an idol, they would definitely live healthier and more meaningful lives than they do now. Compared with these little bastards, he is simply a saint who only appears once in two thousand years.

Besides, swearing is very common in the English media. The only difference from his incident is that those swear words have been 消音 (xiāo yīn, muted), while Chen Yingxiong's was not technically processed because the TV station was caught off guard and did not react. So if there is any responsibility, it is BBC's responsibility, not Chen Yingxiong's problem. You know, all kinds of swear words often appear on English TV programs, and they are also very common in movies and TV series. Why doesn't anyone run to criticize those programs and people like they've been injected with chicken blood?

There are also some organizations, such as the "British Youth Moral Quality Organization," "British Parents Association," "British Good Boys Association," "British Public Figure Ethics Committee"... These messy organizations with various names, you never know they exist at ordinary times, but once something happens, they swarm out and demand that Chen Yingxiong apologize for his foul language in public.

Chen Yingxiong's response to this was to put a song on his Twitter. This is a song by Lily Allen, and the name of the song is: "fuCk_you!"

Nothing else but this song, but everyone knows that this song is actually Chen Yingxiong's response. Because not only the song title, but even the lyrics are what Chen Yingxiong wants to say to those people—"You're just a racist, you're not even worthy of tying my shoelaces! Your views are outdated, so... fuCk_you (fuCk_you)! fuCk_you_very_very_muCh..."

Well, very personal indeed. People asked him to apologize for his foul language, and he responded with foul language...

Those moral judgers must be going crazy at this time.

Some people were not reconciled, and ran to Liverpool's Melwood training base to pull banners and protest, and then were beaten out by Liverpool fans, and the banners were torn to pieces.

Liverpool fans don't care about the painful thing that Chen Yingxiong's foul language in the "Match of the Day" program will affect the quality of the next generation in Britain. They support Chen Yingxiong because Chen Yingxiong can bring them victories and goals. This reason is quite sufficient. Who else would they support if they don't support Chen Yingxiong?

Of course, it's not that all Liverpool fans don't care about Chen Yingxiong's foul language, it's just that they are alone and knowingly choose to remain silent.

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In addition to the foul language, there is another thing that the media and fans are particularly interested in, which is more gossip, not so serious, but full of strong gossip.

That is, everyone is speculating about what happened to Chen Yingxiong when the "Match of the Day" program team called Chen Yingxiong, which caused him to be so angry.

Many people ran back to look up Chen Yingxiong's original words in the program, hoping to find some clues from them.

Chen Yingxiong's original words are easy to find, and many print media have quoted them, but in order to show that they are all particularly "moral" and have "social responsibility," they replaced the swear words with asterisks.

This is not Chen Yingxiong's "original words." There are more on the Internet.

A search turns up a lot.

Chen Yingxiong's original words are like this—"What the fuCk! Who the fuCk is this? Calling at this time, do you fuCking have any public morals? Are you fuCking trying to kill someone by calling tomorrow! FuCk! You delayed Laozi's important life event, can you fuCking afford the responsibility! Why the fuCk didn't you call earlier or later, but you had to call at this time!"

Soon they found the key information—"delayed Laozi's important life event."

What is an important life event?

Everyone knows that Cabral has been living in Chen Yingxiong's home recently.

Could it be related to this woman?

But aren't they already a couple? What big event could there be between the two of them?

Having sex is obviously not a "major life event" for couples in love.

They must be familiar with it.

How could the media have imagined that Chen Yingxiong has not completely conquered the female bodyguard until now?

So the important life event they thought of was... Was Chen Yingxiong proposing to Cabral?

This is the only major life event they can think of, and it really is a big deal!

Chen Yingxiong proposed to his girlfriend! Is he about to enter the wedding hall?

If he was interrupted by this annoying phone call during the proposal, it is completely understandable that Chen Yingxiong was so angry. After all, the proposal must be the most romantic and warm moment. At this time, a piercing cell phone ringtone suddenly rang, which was really too disappointing!

Anyone would be furious. So everyone expressed their understanding of Chen Yingxiong's foul language, and some even supported him.

This is the difference between serious media and entertainment media...

Subsequently, the entertainment gossip media began to report that Chen Yingxiong was already engaged to Cabral, and perhaps the wedding was not far away.

This news was so gossip and sensational that even the Chinese people who love gossip were very interested, and Chinese media reprinted it.

Some Chinese media even called Chen Yingxiong's father, Chen Tao, to verify... Only then did Chen Tao know that his son was going to get married!

Suddenly, he became very angry—you are my son. It is so important for a son to get married, but you didn't even notify me. I was asked by reporters and I was still clueless! Is this how you act as a son? It's simply unfilial!

So he made a phone call and scolded Chen Yingxiong.

As I said before, Chen Yingxiong is not afraid of anything, except his father. So he didn't dare to say a word when his father scolded him. Only later did he realize that something was wrong. Why were there so many keywords related to marriage, such as "marriage," "engagement," and "proposal"?

"Hey, old man, what are you talking about?"

"Aren't you going to marry your girlfriend?"

Chen Yingxiong was suddenly embarrassed.

The father seemed to have noticed something wrong. His son's surprise didn't seem to be fake, and he didn't need to pretend... Marriage is a good thing, after all. He was angry not because his son was going to marry Cabral, but because his son didn't tell his parents in advance, which meant that he didn't have his parents in his heart at all.

Chen Yingxiong learned the whole story from his father.

He didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the time.

Marriage?

Although he and Cabral are in a very good relationship now, neither he nor she has ever considered marriage. Europeans don't like to get married early, because it makes them feel bound and not free. If they really want to be relatively stable, they will choose to have children first. So in Europe, many people live together for many years, and they have several children, but their relationship is still just boyfriend and girlfriend... There is a typical example around Chen Yingxiong—Arshavin and his girlfriend have not yet married, but they already have two children.

Hearing that his son did not intend to deceive his parents, but had no intention of getting married at all, Chen Tao breathed a sigh of relief.

But he only breathed half a sigh of relief before it was lifted up again. He was afraid that his son would never get married in his life...

So he gave another series of instructions, telling him that a good man should first establish a career and then start a family, but don't keep dragging it on. Now that Chen Yingxiong's career has been established, he can consider getting married in two years...

Chen Yingxiong didn't know whether to laugh or cry again. He was only twenty-four years old, and it was too early for him to get married.