The Empress's Intuition

<Europe's Chinese Team Loses to the Real Chinese Team!>

<The Eastern Lions Sink the Unsetting Fleet; the Three Lions' Unbeaten Record Is Broken by the Chinese Team!>

<Lin Feng Pays Tribute to Beckham with a Banana Kick as the Chinese Team Thrashes the England Team 3:1!>

<This Match Exposes England Team's Huge Hidden Worries; Their World Cup Bid May Become Nothing but a Dream!>

Capello Must Take Responsibility for This Defeat!

<Perhaps We All Underestimated the Strength of This Chinese Team!>

Fleet Street's efficiency truly was extraordinary. No sooner had the friendly against the England team ended than all sorts of reports came flooding in.

Some heaped praise on the Chinese team, while others lambasted the England team.

Capello, who had led the England team to eight straight victories in the World Cup Qualifiers, was nearly nailed to the pillar of shame by Fleet Street's reporters just because he had lost one insignificant friendly.

Although, given the England team's strength, losing to a "traditional weak team" like the Chinese team was indeed rather outrageous.

Still, using that to dismiss Capello's achievements in the World Cup Qualifiers was somewhat unfair to him.

But when did Fleet Street's media care about any of that? All they cared about was creating a major story to grab attention and generate traffic.

What did Capello's predicament—or even the fate of the England team—have to do with them?

"Luckily, those guys didn't set their sights on me. I was really afraid they'd grab hold of me and refuse to let go!"

Beckham felt rather fortunate that the media had overlooked him and hadn't dragged him out for public condemnation.

Back when he was at the height of his career, he had suffered plenty of harassment from those reporters because of the team's poor results. They