Not only ruined David Beckham's European Championship, but also his club

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This article is originally selected from Gerald's Autobiography, and the following is related to his "century of slipping" in the book

In the last minute of the first half against a cagey Chelsea, set up to stop our rush to glory by Jose Mourinho, it happened. A simple pass rolled towards me near the halfway line. It was a nothing moment, a lull in our surge to the title. I moved to meet the ball. It slid under my foot.

Chelsea, who played away, played conservatively and Mourinho's side wanted to prevent us from taking the title. In the last minute of the first half of the game, the accident happened. I received a simple pass near the midline, which was supposed to be a very humble moment on our grand road to victory. However, when I stepped forward to catch the ball, my feet slipped and I watched the ball slip away from me.

1.Cagey: Cautious, discreet, here can be understood as swing bus

2.halfway line: Midfield line

3.lull: Here as a noun, the original meaning refers to the period of calm, here is the expression of the meaning of the waves, I translated it as "very unremarkable"

4. Surge: Here as a noun, like a wave of turbulence

Instead of hitting a long crossfield pass to set up a goal, making a decisive tackle or curling the ball into the Mark Schwarzer’s net to seal our victory, I had fallen over. Chelsea scored a second goal in the final minute, but the killer moment was that simple change of luck.

I couldn't deliver an accurate long pass to make a goal for my teammates, I couldn't make a key tackle to keep the city goal, and I didn't blast out the world wave through Mark Schwarzer's ten-finger mark, but I fell. Chelsea went down a minute before the finale, but what really determined the direction of the game was the slip, and at that moment, Lady Luck was not on our side.

1. Long crossfield pass: Long passes

2. Tackle: In football, it refers specifically to shoveling interceptions

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