Chapter 126 Boots Room (First, ask for monthly pass)

Winning the League Cup made a lot of Liverpool players relaxed, so next, they paid the price in the league. ("") They were on the road and lost to an opponent that no one could think of-Wigan Athletic.

The unbeaten record so far this season has been ended.

In the away game, Liverpool lost 1:2. Although Chen Yingxiong had one in, he could not save the defeat.

The Liverpool team was too relaxed. After being scored by Wigan Athletic, they couldn't find the state for a long time and couldn't get up. This is the end...

As I said before, there are two things that can no longer arouse the interest of the media and fans. One is that Chen Yingxiong has scored again, and the other is that Liverpool have won again.

After losing 1:2 to Aston Villa in the 28th round of the league last season, Liverpool has not lost a full 38 rounds of the league. One season is just 38 rounds of the league.

If Liverpool's performance is put into a full season, they can already rely on their unbeaten record throughout the season to win the championship.

Unfortunately, this is the sum of the records of the two seasons.

Nevertheless, it is also a very remarkable achievement.

Unbeaten in twenty-eight rounds of the league this season.

It's a pity that all of this is now over.

After the game, Wigan Athletic and Liverpool both made headlines.

Wigan Athletic is naturally a positive image, and Liverpool is a typical negative.

"Liverpool got overwhelmed after winning a League Cup!"

"The brave and tenacious Wigan Athletic made the arrogant Liverpool suffer!"

"When the whole of England and even the whole of Europe were asking'Who can beat Liverpool', the little-known Wigan Athletic stood up!"

"Salute to Wigan Athletic! Liverpool should lose a goal too!"

Martin O'Neill's remarks and performance in the post-match press conference were used as critical topics. The latest chapters of the church

"Martin O'Neal said that it is okay to lose one game. Given Liverpool's current situation, even if he loses two more games, he won't have any major problems... I have to say, these words are really hypocritical!"

"O'Neal said that the team lost this game only by an accident. The reality is that they had the advantage but failed to win the opponent, so he thought it was just an accident...this is really nonsense! Losing is losing, and The scene doesn’t matter. If it’s just going to be the scene, I think Arsenal has already monopolized the league championship in the past few seasons..."

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"Hmph! This group of media!" Of course O'Neal knows how the media evaluates himself and Liverpool, and the performance of the media can only make him hate these people more. "Just like after the carnival..."

The assistant coach Sami Lee, who was sitting next to him, smiled: "What are you afraid of? Let them spend the holidays. If you want to find something to criticize from us, it's really hard to think of them..."

At first glance, Sami Lee was speaking for reporters, but everyone could hear the strong confidence in his tone.

"We must win the next game, and even a tie is not allowed! Only in this way can we fight back against those **** media." The second assistant coach Clark also said.

"There is no problem with the hero's state. He had seven shots in the last game, five of which were within the range of the goal frame. He just had bad luck. So I am not worried about the team's loss."

"Yeah." Martin O'Neal listened to his colleagues submitting various data in the game, and then concentrated the analysis, and finally came to a conclusion.

The outside media regarded this match as Liverpool's bad luck and gloated.

Only they know that in the "boot room", this is nothing at all.

Yes, this is Liverpool's "boot room". Although it is different from before, the sign on the door actually says "boot_room" (boot_room).

Every week, Liverpool’s coaching staff will meet here to discuss the past week’s affairs in an informal way and look forward to the future of the team. (《》)

In this room, there is no so-called difference between seniority and inferiority. Anyone can express their opinions. Even if you are just an ordinary coach, as long as you are reasonable, the head coach will agree.

Here, everything about the team and football can be discussed, but other topics are not popular here.

The "boot room" was originally just a small room under the main stand at Anfield Stadium. But don't underestimate this simple little room. It was in this square inch that a group of people from the working class worked hard and dedicated themselves to push the Red Army from the British Isles to the top of Europe.

It can be said that Liverpool's most glorious period is also the morale of the "boot room". Over a period of forty years, the boot room has trained several coaches for Liverpool. At the same time, during this time, Liverpool won thirteen league championships (the top league in England at the time) and one league championship. , Four times the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Cup twice, the UEFA Super Cup once, the League Cup five times, and the FA Cup five times.

This is the most successful period in Liverpool's history. It was the period when Liverpool went from an ordinary team in Merseyside to the world's top giants.

The boot room was gradually formed when Shankly coached Liverpool.

Shankly moved into the head coach's office, and assistant coaches Paisley and Bennett used an old room on the other side of the dressing room corridor. This is a small square room where the players’ boots are stored and hung on the court, hence the name "boot room". At first, there were no chairs in the boot room, and the only beer box that could be seated was another assistant coach Fagan who got it from Olna. Orr is the coach of a local amateur team. With the help of Fagan, the club agreed to allow Orr's players to receive treatment at Anfield. In return, Orr sent a large amount of beer to store in the boot room. Since then, the visiting coach has often been invited to have a drink in the Boots Room, and a large group of Scots at the club also like to come here to review the afternoon game. But Shankly seldom cared about the boot room, perhaps because of his own identity, Shankly left the boot room to his assistant. The boot room has gradually become an office for studying strategy and tactics, and its importance is increasing day by day. If someone is passing by and hears a "pop" inside, it must be someone who has opened a can of beer again. Unconsciously, the boot room became the nerve center of the assistants' work. The team's daily training and game files and accurate information are summarized here. Fegan was the first person to record daily training points for the record, and everyone gradually became accustomed to this nightmare. For a time, the Red Army's attention to detail reached a fanatical Chengdu. Any factors that may affect a player's performance are recorded, such as weather, injuries, and so on. If a player has trouble qualifying in training and it is difficult to judge, you can check the database to search for similar cases. If it is a sign of some kind of injury, how to solve the problem, or change the training method, the easiest may be to change a pair of sneakers to get it done... These things are all decided in the boot room.

So saying that the boot room is Liverpool's brain is really no problem at all.

It was in this boot room that two coaches who led Liverpool to the top of Europe were trained.

Paisley and Fagan.

The two coaches who came out of the boot room have always been Liverpool people. They know everything about the club, are good at listening, and will not mess with the team. They are also experienced and know what Liverpool’s true tradition is. Such a person is almost the perfect Liverpool coach.

Under their leadership, Liverpool completely reached the pinnacle of the entire Europe, and they achieved incomparable glory and glory in the 1980s.

It was the most glorious period in Liverpool's history.

No one can surpass it so far.

This is the function and greatness of the boot room.

However, with the advent of the Premier League era, tradition has finally been dwarfed by money, and the boot room has no longer been able to train the right coach of the team.

Later, after Souness succeeded Moran as Liverpool's head coach, he also sounded the wake-up call for the "boot room" tradition. He not only razed the boot room to the ground and turned it into a new media reception room, but also drove away the old Liverpool people who had haunted the boot room, planted his recent cronies, and completely ruined the tradition of the boot room. Let Souness and many of Liverpool's old people become enemies.

Later, Souness dismissed get out of class because of his poor record, and boot room old man Evans came on stage, but at the wrong time and the wrong candidate, Evans could no longer lead the hard-to-return Liverpool back to the top.

Finally, when the Liverpool board of directors made a decision to let the Frenchman Hollier and Evans coach together, then Evans took the initiative to let the virtuous and let Hollier take the power alone. Since then, Anfield no longer has a "boot room".

In fact, to put it plainly, the so-called "boot room" tradition is the succession system of assistant coaches-Liverpool's coaching team must be Liverpool's own people, they have worked for Liverpool for a long time, and even played for Liverpool since the player period. This kind of talent is the person who knows Liverpool best and is also the person who knows best what Liverpool needs. At the same time, they will abide by Liverpool's tradition and will not completely subvert everything like Souness.

In this way, after the previous head coach leaves the team, the assistant coach trained by the boot room can take advantage of the situation and replace him and become the new head coach of the team. Because he understands everything about Liverpool, this coaching change is very smooth and smooth, and will not bring any impact to the team, and the team's performance can naturally be guaranteed.

Paisley is a typical representative of the "boot room" tradition.

Paisley played for Liverpool as a player. Later, after retiring, he became the team doctor and treated the players. Then when Shankly came to power, he became Liverpool's assistant coach, serving Shankly and accepting Shankly In the end, he succeeded Shankly and became the head coach of Liverpool, and then took Liverpool to a height that Shankly could not even do.

Only with the arrival of Hollier, with the full-scale invasion of English football by the mainland football team, sticking to tradition has become ridiculous. So the glorious "boot room" tradition has naturally disappeared.

However, with Dalglish’s second time on stage to coach, he began to rebuild the boot room, and he even found a room in Anfield again and cleaned it up to make a new boot room.

But the unpaid man was first fired because of his poor record.

Martin O'Neal became the new head coach of the team. Just when everyone thought that Liverpool’s “boot room” tradition would die again.

Martin O'Neill chose to stick to the "boot room" tradition.

Now at his insistence, one day every week, all the coaches will gather in this new boot room to discuss and brainstorm. Many people think that Liverpool's revival is because Niang brought a Chen hero to the team. In fact, the contributions made by these obscure coaches are not trivial.

Today’s boot room is no longer an eight-foot dilapidated cabin, but combines modern factors, more spacious and brighter, with rows of seats, and a set of multimedia facilities, where game videos and training videos can be played. , There is also a computer used to store all the data in training and competitions to form a database. All the competition data of Liverpool in the past few years are in it.

The tradition of the "boot room" under the transformation of Martin O'Neal is no longer simply an assistant coach succeeding the head coach, but has become a kind of brainstorming. Perhaps the assistant coach will not become the next head coach, but this good atmosphere will become Liverpool's new wealth.

Liverpool is reborn. It has created countless brilliances, and the "boot room" that was eliminated because of being behind the times has also moved towards a new life...

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