Joint Press Conference

April 21, London.

Inside The Times building, Sports News Department.

"Helen, Arsenal and Chelsea are holding a joint press conference tomorrow. They say they have some major news to announce. Go attend it and see what big news they have."

The editor stood at his office door and called out to the open-plan workspace.

A slender, fair arm rose and waved at the editor. The girl named Helen replied, "Got it, boss. By the way, where's the press conference being held? At Arsenal's club offices or Chelsea's?"

Helen was a reporter specializing in football news. She was still young, around twenty-three or twenty-four, and had been at the newspaper for less than two years.

In Britain, football held a higher status than any other sport, so only elite, core reporters at the paper were assigned to cover football news.

Besides, this was a major newspaper like The Times. For Helen to become a reporter covering Premier League clubs at such a young age and with so little seniority was clearly no easy feat.

That was because Helen had graduated from a prestigious university, was genuinely outstanding at her job, and worked incredibly hard.

Since joining the paper, she had quickly earned the editor's appreciation and risen through the ranks.

Premier League clubs generally had their own office buildings, and when holding so-called press conferences, they preferred to do so on their own turf.

Helen had attended quite a few press conferences held by different clubs, so she was already very familiar with the routine.

After all, they were the Sports News Department. Of course they knew football extremely well. In Britain, was there even any other sport besides football...?

The editor opened the folder in his hands and rummaged through it for a while. After finding a fax, he glanced