[Football] Bad Boy Batty

[Vote-Which Premier League club performed best in the first half of the 20-21 season? ]

As Christmas approaches, The Daily Telegraph launched a vote on Twitter, with Manchester City topping the list with a record-breaking 91% of the votes. In the subsequent "Club Most Likely to Win the Championship" voting, the Blue Moon Army also won first place.

Not only Manchester City fans, but fans of other teams, including arch-rivals Manchester United, have to admit that Manchester City's performance so far this season is unparalleled.

Since the beginning of the season, the Blue Moon Army has not tasted defeat.

No, it's not just undefeated, it would be more appropriate to describe it as undefeated.

在连胜曼联和利物浦后，曼城迎来了一波大爆发, 联赛中5-1富勒姆, 7-0南安普顿，4-0谢菲，还在格拉利什开局双响的情况下让二追5，5-2逆转维拉取胜。

Batistuta also brought his goal tally to an unprecedented 20 at the halfway point, breaking the 16-17 season... uh, his own record.

In the latest interview, Pele spared no effort to praise Batistuta. He said: "Who is the best winger in the world? Batistuta, without a doubt."

Of course, not only in the Premier League, Manchester City has also achieved extraordinary results in the Champions League and the EFL Cup. With rapid progress on all three fronts, in early December, they set a British football record of three consecutive wins (12+ goal difference).

Although Britain was plunged into a tense period of more than half a month due to the raging COVID-19 at that time, it did not affect the team's condition, but made them more united.

Many fans said: Manchester City? What's so good about it? Waking up to another big win

You know, this saying was first used to describe Bayern (making fun of them for being the only team in the Bundesliga and other teams being no match for them), but now it is used to describe Manchester City, which is enough to show their terrifying dominance.

Who can stop Manchester City from winning the championship?

I'm afraid we won't have an answer to this question until May next year.

While netizens were discussing this enthusiastically, Italian fashion brand DSquared2 released a preview of its joint series with Manchester City, in which a pure black suit will become Manchester City's exclusive pre-match suit during the Christmas period.

Before releasing the complete advertisement, DSquared2 first announced several photos on its official account, indicating that they were not the final poster photos, but were accidentally captured by the photographer at the shooting site. The person in charge felt good about them and kept them. The account administrator hoped to use them to warm up in advance.

Then, things went beyond expectations.

One of the photos, in which Guardiola grabbed Batistuta and forced him to fix his tie, became a hot topic and was forwarded crazily by netizens. The reason was simple: the photo was too Sicilian and too consistent with people's impression of the Mafia.

Highly praised comments on Twitter:
The taste is just right! The bald godfather and his beautiful heir who is particularly impatient with family meetings, I'm so mad!

In addition to the photos of Guardiola and Batistuta, Stones's photo was also widely circulated. The reason is simple - he looks too much like Tommy Shelby, the male protagonist of the recently popular British TV series "Peaky Blinders", wearing a suit and a retro beret.

The best part is that the resemblance between Stones and Tommy Shelby was recognized by the entire locker room. That night, Batistuta even posted an IG post with a comparison picture of the two to tease him.

Bati9:
Look, guys, I met Tommy Shelby! Do you think he's going to slit my throat with a razor?
Stones fired back in the comments section.

He posted a selfie of himself smiling at the camera wearing a beret and replied: If this is your Christmas wish, dear, I don't mind helping to make it come true.

Before Batty saw his reply, Kyle Walker took the lead and took the front row. He sent a few laughing emojis and said: Come on, Johnny baby, you don't even dare to kill a fish, and I doubt Batty can pin you to the ground before you take out a razor.

After that, Manchester City players left messages on Batistuta's IG, including Kompany, David Silva and Yaya Toure who had left the team.

The fans couldn't help but sigh while watching the show with relish -
The atmosphere in Manchester City is really good.

……

The morning after the melee, Batty came to the club as usual.

"Good morning, Claire." He waved to the receptionist. "Is everyone else here?"

"Coming," the young woman replied with a smile. "Who's always the last one to arrive? You, of course," she said, using Bailey's comment teasingly.

Barty rolled his eyes at her. "Haha, that's funny."

"Of course, my sense of humor is second to none." Claire tapped on the document. "By the way, Qiao Lin just published a new Heibang AU. Have you read it?"

"No, and I have no plans to watch it."

"You should go and see it, it's really interesting, I suspect you'll end up killing Pep for the top spot."

"not interested."

After expressing his refusal, Batistuta yawned and walked inside. He just met Lucas at the door. He was wearing a loose gray casual suit and seemed to be still sleepy. His face was a little dull and he looked sleepy. He was holding a courier box in his hand and it seemed that he had just arrived at the club.

"Ah! Batty!" It is no exaggeration to say that the moment Lucas saw Batty, he came alive. "Good morning!"

"Uh--" Batty was unable to stop the big dog from rushing over and was picked up and spun around several times. "Morning, Luki."

"Huh?" Lucas put Batty back on the ground, and uttered a puzzled single sound at the same time. "Are you unhappy?" he asked. "I thought you would be very happy."

"Why do you say that?" Batty raised his eyebrows and looked at him. "Because my response was not enthusiastic enough?" He leaned over and kissed Lucas on both cheeks, and then gave Lucas a loving hug. "That's enough, isn't it?"

"No, no, I'm not talking about that - of course, this is great, thank you Batistuta." Lucas accepted Batistuta's kiss a little embarrassedly. He scratched his hair and said, "What I mean is, didn't UEFA issue an announcement yesterday to cancel this year's Golden Ball Award? I thought you would be happy to know the news."

"Huh?" Batistuta had several question marks over his head. "Why should I be happy that the Ballon d'Or has been cancelled?"

"Because, well, you know."

"What do I know?"

"that is--"

"What is it?"

"Oh, it's about the award." Lucas hesitated for a long time before finishing his words. "Although we haven't lost this season, our results were not good last season. Lewandowski was the most popular candidate for the award a while ago."

"So what?" "So, even though you can't win, the selection will be cancelled so no one can win the award." Lucas spoke in a lower and lower voice, as if he knew his idea was not appropriate.

Unexpectedly, Barty burst out laughing.

"Actually, I don't feel anything about it (the Golden Globe)," he said. "Maybe it's because I've already won it, or maybe it's because..." Batty paused, "To be honest, I feel sorry for the Pole. He finally had a chance to win the award, but it was cancelled because of the damn epidemic."

Lucas was stunned, then sighed.

"Oh - my bad." He put his arm around Batty's shoulders, "I thought too bad of you. You are an angel. I swear I will never find a sweeter baby than you!"

“Ewww!”

Before Batty could say anything, a loud voice of disgust came from the cubicle at the front desk.

"This is the worst love talk I've ever heard, bar none." Claire poked her head out and said sarcastically, "You really made me experience the beauty of the second dimension, thank you very much."

"Go away. What's your business?" Barty rolled his eyes at her for the second time today. "You've become more and more annoying since you met Qiao Lin, Claire."

"Thanks for the compliment." Claire gave a traditional British fake smile. "By the way, you're going to be late. If you cancel the party tonight because you made Pep mad, you'll become 'public enemies.'"

"Party?" Barty paused. "What party?"

"Half-time victory party." Lucas interrupted to explain, "The chairman wants to treat everyone to a meal, and there will be a party afterwards. It's like celebrating Christmas in advance."

"Hmm." Claire nodded to indicate that this was what Lucas said. "You didn't read what was said in the group last night, did you?"

"What's so strange about this? I'm very busy at night, and it's not like some people can spare time to check their phones." Batty steadily caught the sarcasm sent by the receptionist and sarcastically responded.

"Hey! What did you do wrong, singles!"

"I thought you British people liked this, what's it called - oh, the art of offense." Batty smiled triumphantly and put his five fingers together to his lips and kissed them, making an Italian-style blowing kiss, and then connected a middle finger at the end of the action.

"Let's go Luki." The king looked up and dragged his silly knight towards the training ground. "Adios, Claire, I hope you can find a partner at the party tonight who will keep you from checking your phone."

Claire, with her nose crooked with anger, stared at Buddy's back for a long time, and finally took out her cell phone to contact her good friend Jolin.

If I can't do anything to you in real life, I'll mess with you in fan fiction.

She would use this guy's most annoying jokes to write about the person he hates the most, and then print them out and paste them all over his apartment! He would dream about the disgusting love story with the red-haired French guy next door!

Thinking of Batty's furious expression at that time, the lady at the front desk couldn't help but let out an evil laugh.

Humph, I can’t cure you.

……

On the way to the locker room, Batistuta and Lucas talked about celebrating the half-season victory, and from this, they began to discuss the possibility of winning all the games for the entire season.

"It's too difficult to go a whole season without losing a game. It's hellish and almost impossible to accomplish." Lucas said, "I feel like it's possible to go a season without losing, but winning all the games-"

"Hell level?" Batty repeated in a low voice.

"Well, I haven't heard of any club that can win all the games in a season. Looking at the top five leagues, there is none." Lucas added, "Even if we lower the conditions, no club in the next level of league can do it."

"That's perfect." Batistuta raised his lip. "We will be the first club to do it and be gloriously recorded in history."

Lucas looked over in surprise.

"Are you serious?"

"why not."

“That’s a season-high.”

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"Win the season!" Lucas' eyes widened, emphasizing the impossible goal. "How can you make it sound as simple as 'let's get some food in the restaurant'?"

Because I can, Batty thought.

He looked at Lucas and smiled.

"Trust me." Batty put on his usual flamboyant smile, "Nothing is impossible."

(End of this chapter)