Godfather Of Champions

In fact, the city of Nottingham has always had two professional teams...

If it weren't for this FA Cup match, I'm afraid many people would ignore this, right?

Many cities are proud of having "high-level intra-city derby", because this shows that their football atmosphere is very strong and the standard is very high. This is almost never possible in the city of Nottingham. Because Nottingham Forest and Notts County are not on the same level.

Nottingham Forest has won five UEFA Champions Leagues, while Notts County has yet to participate in the Premier League.

Based on the status gap caused by the huge power gap between the two teams, there is rarely a formal Derby game between Nottingham Forest and Notts County.

Thanks to the FA Cup, this opportunity is here.

The fans of Notts County are most grateful to the FA Cup because their opportunity has come. They have always wanted to teach that arrogant neighbor, but suffer from no chance. Nottingham Forest will naturally not look for opponents like Notts County to warm up in the pre-season warm-up game-they are smart, for fear of hurting one or two main players and affecting the whole season...

In fact, Nottinghamshire had no confidence to challenge Nottingham Forest before, and could only swear swear words on the mouth, calling Nottingham Forest a running dog of foreign capital, and it would not be considered an England team for a long time.

Today, the situation is different. The arrival of Don has greatly increased the strength of Notts County, and they can also stabilize in the middle of the English Champions League. This also made them feel active, wanting to prove their strength in front of the old enemy. The so-called "satisfaction and warmth"... Well, it actually means the same thing. The strength has risen to a level, and the spiritual realm has naturally risen to another level, and I dare to think about things that I didn't even dare to think before.

So when a month ago, the third round of the FA Cup was arranged, Nottingham City was boiling. At least half of the people are gearing up and waiting for the game to come. In addition, ordinary people... In fact, Nottingham Forest is not very interested in this kind of city derby.

Perhaps you can use this sentence to summarize the status quo of the two teams-"Nottingham Forest only sees Nottingham Forest, but Nottingham Forest sees the whole world".

So in the face of the rare "same city derby", Nottingham Forest's training plan is not unusual, just like they faced any ordinary FA Cup match before. Most of the players are not talking about their opponents in the FA Cup, but the league.

Only Chen Jian found this thing interesting. He experienced a city derby in the Spaniards and then bid farewell to that city. Unexpectedly, just after coming to a new team, a new city, I met another derby in the same city.

Both the end and the beginning fell on the "Derby", which is interesting, indeed interesting.

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"In fact, this derby is still a bit interesting..." Until the day before the game started, someone finally remembered that they were going to play a derby in the same city tomorrow.

"The current head coach of Notts County used to be our assistant coach before." Gareth Bale told a group of new players about the past, and everyone was quite fascinated. Now in the team, there are really few players who have experienced the era of "Chinese assistant coach".

"Speaking of, I didn't expect at that time that he would one day be the head coach, and he would be our opponent in the same city..." Bell squeezed his chin and said. "Moreover, it has something to do with Chen Jian..." He directed everyone's eyes to Chen Jian.

"Huh?" Chen Jian found that everyone was looking at him. He didn't know what to say for a while. He came to the team for three days. He hadn't gotten acquainted. Suddenly faced so many people, he didn't know how to speak. .

"They are all Chinese, of course there is a relationship." Someone among the players said, not surprising.

"It is said that there are more than one billion people in China. Do you have a relationship with everyone?" Bell disdainfully said. He pointed to Chen Jian and said, "Chen Jian walked out of our forest youth training team, but here Did you know how he came to the Forest Team before?"

Few people will know this kind of thing. How many people care about the past of a Chinese player? The local media has not reported much.

"A commercial draft." Bell looked at Chen Jian and smiled. "He took third place, and then assistant coach Tang gave him a Forest team jersey, and he came!"

"Oh -" a group of people suddenly realized, but also satisfied. This story sounds really interesting and quite legendary.

Chen Jian was a little surprised. He didn't expect that someone in the team would know his past, but he had never talked about it everywhere. It was not a sensational news to come to the forest team for a one-year trial. No one in the first team should care about such trivial matters. Later, he came to the youth team to train again, which was normal. Later, although he became a member of the first team on contract, he never showed up in the first team, and did not wear the Forest team jersey to represent the first team. A game, even if it's just a trivial commercial game.

He felt that in Nottingham Forest, apart from Coach Dunn, no one should remember him as a hurried passing.

I really didn't expect that now, the second captain of Nottingham Forest, Gareth Bale, remembers his past!

He suddenly remembered what Dunn had said to him.

That was after he had just attended the press conference of joining the team. The reporters were gone. Dunn took Chen Jian to the Crimson Stadium and stepped on the turf. It was another "welcome ceremony".

"Chen Jian, do you know the legend of Nottingham's past?"

Chen Jian was stunned for a moment, and then reacted: "You mean Robin Hood legend?"

Dunn nodded, stopped and looked at Chen Jian who was following behind. "Although the name Nottingham Forest has nothing to do with Robin Hood, the team logo does. The thing that looks like a mushroom is actually an oak tree." Dunn pointed to the Nottingham Forest team logo on the stadium stands. "The oak tree is where Robin Hood and his brothers gathered at the beginning. It sounds a bit like your Chinese "Water Margin", right?"

Chen Jian was a little surprised: "You even know "Water Margin", boss?"

"Not only do I know, I've seen it many times." Tang En really wanted to answer him like that.

"How could I not know about the four famous Chinese books?" Dunn did not continue on this topic, but said, "The oak tree represents the friendship between Robin Hood and his brothers, and also represents the unyielding. The legend of the forest team. Captain Stuart Pierce is hailed as having an'heart of an oak tree'."

Chen Jian didn't understand what Dunn was going to say to him. This topic got further and further away. One time it was Robin Hood, another was the team logo, another was the oak tree, and another was the current England coach...

"What I want to tell you is-Nottingham Forest is like the Green Forest thieves gathered under the oak tree. The people here are pure, good is good, bad is bad. If you want to integrate into the team as soon as possible, get them The acknowledgment and acceptance of Kung Fu does not work on the surface. Use strength to speak. If you can show the strength to make them nod, then you will be a member of the Green Forest Thieves Group. After that, you can fight with them. Drinking from the bowl, eating big pieces of meat, ha!"

Dunn laughed.

Hearing such a strange team culture, Chen Jian was a little surprised. He was standing in the huge crimson stadium. The surrounding stands were empty. The afternoon sunlight came in obliquely only to the east stands. The green field was already shrouded in the shadow of the stands and the ceiling.

The Nottingham Forest team badge was on the roof of the stand directly in front of him, and the sun was shining right on it, and the metal edges glowed golden in the sun.

"...Nottingham Forest is a robber-like team, do you know what I'm talking about? They can do whatever they can to win, stealing and snatching are their useful methods. Such a team can win the European Champions Cup for the fifth time. , Really the sadness of modern football..."

This is what a famous Chinese football commentator said on his blog after Dunn led the team to complete the triple crown. Chen Jian saw it accidentally while surfing the Internet.

Thinking about it now, that man obviously hates the Forest team very much. He should be a Real Madrid fan, but he was right.

Nottingham Forest is a black den where a group of bandits gather...

When Chen Jian came back to his senses, Bell and his teammates were talking about Notts County again. In fact, they basically didn’t know much about this opponent, even though Dunn showed them several times in the tactics class these days. But who cares about a weak opponent?

So everyone’s topics are focused on "Oh, I heard that their No. 10 is not bad", "Is selected for the England Under-21 Youth Team", "The 18th seems to be okay, but...the body is weaker." ""But it's the level of the middle reaches of the British Championship." "Their sideways seem to be able to use..." "What does the boss mean?"

When it came to head coach Dunn, everyone was silent.

After a while, Bell, the oldest in it, frowned and said: "I always feel that the boss doesn't value the appearance of this game..."

Chen Jian wanted to laugh when he listened. I don't think you take it seriously.

"To be honest, I think if we still want to participate in the European competition next season, relying on the FA Cup to participate in the European League is the most appropriate way." Bell continued to analyze. "But I always feel that the boss will take the initiative to give up the FA Cup and focus on the league. But it's too difficult to get into the top six of the league..."

Chen Jian has studied the situation of the Forest Team. After all, he is also a member of the Forest Team... I have to admit that what the second deputy captain said makes sense. Although the cup matches are very contingent, a team like Nottingham Forest is suitable for the Big Cup. There may be a way to specialize in the FA Cup. The league is too long, who knows if something goes wrong in the future?

"What are you still rubbing with?"

When a group of people were at a loss for the future of the team, Captain One George Wood pushed open the locker room door and walked in: "If you don't go out anymore, all are late for the penalty run!"

Rumbled, the dressing room was like a galloping horse, and a group of people ran away from Chen Jian in the blink of an eye.

"This..." Chen Jian really didn't expect his teammates to be so capable and quick to move.

Wood turned to leave and found that there was another person in the locker room. When he found out that it was Chen Jian, he stopped and looked at him again.

Chen Jian realized that he had lost his temper, and quickly bowed his head and ran out of the locker room from beside Wood.

This captain is so majestic, just looking at it makes him afraid to look up... Chen Jian still thought so when he ran out.

Fortunately, fortunately, he can't read the news on that domestic dog day website...

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Bell was right, Dunn did want to give up the FA Cup. But he will never give up in the first round.

All Premier League teams will start their FA Cup journey after the New Year. For them, this is the first round, but it is actually the third round of the FA Cup.

Not only did Dunn not give up, on the contrary, he also attached great importance to this game, otherwise he would not continuously show the players the video of the game of Notts County. It's a pity...he values ​​it very much, but his players may not value this weak opponent as much as he does.

The players have their reasons for not paying attention to this game. Because this opponent is too weak, according to the thinking of the forest team players, only 50% of their strength can be defeated. What about Derby? It is not that they have defeated Notts County in the Derby. Of course, that was a long, long time ago. The people who participated in that game at that time, now only Wood is left on the team. Even Bell was still accepted by the youth team and the reserve team at that time. Exercise.

However, this history can always be found out. Recently, the local media in Nottingham have been reporting on this same city derby 14 years later. The derby match fourteen years ago was the closest to today. How could it not be repeatedly mentioned by the media?

With such a "historical record" ahead, the players of Nottingham Forest certainly feel that winning is a matter of course, and defeating opponents must be effortless.

If he were to be an ordinary head coach, he would have the same idea with his players. But Dunn's reason for attaching importance to this game is very special and cannot be told to others.

He had always wanted to be an opponent with Tang to see how far Tang has grown over the years. In addition, he believes that Tang must know that this game is his best opportunity to show his strength in front of Nottingham Forest fans and Evan Daggerty, and he will not let it go.

Knotts County will definitely go all out. This game is not comparable to the game 14 years ago.

If you are not careful, you might... This time it shouldn't be "capture in the gutter". Today's Nottingham Forest is definitely not a big sailing ship, and Nottsshire today is definitely not a stinking ditch... (To be continued, if you want to know what happens, please visit www.qidian.com, chapters more , Support the author, support genuine reading!)

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