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Li Weifeng -- A Ball Bully Who Makes a Living with His Stinking Feet. What's He Got to Be Cocky About?

This afternoon's draw farce for the Chinese team -- at bottom it was all caused by Li Weifeng, this ball bully who makes a living with his stinking feet. Not long after kickoff today, Gao Lin received a red card and was sent off as a scapegoat for Li Weifeng's flagrant foul. The Chinese team began playing shorthanded in a passive situation. Later it was again because of Li Weifeng's swagger that two red cards appeared. Say the Japanese referee was wrong, but setting aside patriotic sentiments, from a purely sporting perspective, were the red cards excessive?

This lady's favorite sport is football. Of course, watching football, especially men kicking a ball around, is entirely from a consumer's attitude toward men. A good player naturally needs both physique and technique. But China's trademark ball bullies have neither physique nor technique -- apart from embarrassing themselves, what else can they do?

Due to some business connections, this lady is very familiar with the situation at Shenzhen Jianlibao. The inside story is even more damning. The way the recent ball bully scandal was smoothed over is simply a tragedy for the Chinese people. Li Weifeng -- a ball bully who makes a living with his stinking feet. What's he got to be cocky about? How can this kind of person still be on the Chinese national team?

I remember, before the last Asian Cup final in Beijing, this lady wrote a post titled "10,000 Jin Per Mu and Qing Dynasty Subjects -- Are Chinese Football Fans Ready for a Big Defeat Tonight?" After losing to Japan, many people were unhappy. But the world doesn't revolve around your happiness. The world is a world of strength. Without strength, neither "10,000 jin per mu" delusions nor "Qing dynasty subject" mentality will help.

Chinese football is a microcosm. If we don't crack down hard on ball bullies like Li Weifeng, everything is nonsense. The day even Chinese football stops being nonsense, our "10,000 jin per mu" and "Qing dynasty subject" complexes will also be resolved. Until that complex is resolved, everything remains nonsense.