Godfather Of Champions

After the game with Arsenal, in the eyes of outsiders, Nottingham Forest suddenly found the motivation to move forward. They scored three wins and one tie in the February game, and they jumped to eighth in the ranking, only two from the top six.

When the team's performance is good, people's brains will become active.

Evan Daugherty looks at the calendar every day to see what number it is today and how long it is until the end of the season. Dunn said that he would not do it at the end of the season, echoing in his mind. The media know it, and the fans know it. At the FIFA awards ceremony at the end of December, he repeated it again. He seems to be determined to retire.

But Evan Daggerty didn't want to let Dunn leave again. He once made a mistake on the question of Dun En's staying or leaving, and this time he could not make any more mistakes.

He was thinking, after more than two months, has Dun En's mind changed?

Every day, Evan Daugherty will come to Vilford’s training base on time to observe Dunn’s performance in training, in order to guess the inner world of this man.

He saw Dunn chatting with his colleagues intimately on the training ground, joking with the players, and he even hugged Bell and Wood and whispered to them.

It seems that he is in a good mood and is enjoying football.

Evan Daugherty felt the time was right.

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"Hey, Tony. I heard that your wife is back?" During the training interval, the players will gather to chat and relax. The coach is the same. They are also human and need to rest.

And the coaches are more gossiping than the players.

Yesterday, the British entertainment gossip magazine reported that Shania Dunn had come to the UK. These old men ran to the training ground to ask Shania’s husband for inside information.

Dunn has nothing to do with these old men who like to gossip.

"Yes, I arrived yesterday."

Several coaches looked at each other and laughed: "It seems that we will win the next game! Haha!"

The big guys laughed at them. This is an old joke. Before Dunn hadn't left the Forest team, as long as Shania came back, the team's performance would be good and stable.

Dunn allowed them to laugh, and there was nothing unhappy about it. In his view, a harmonious team atmosphere is the key to good results. Since the atmosphere is very harmonious now, why does he want to destroy it?

After finishing the training, Dunn walked to the head coach's office alone. He had to tidy up a bit before going home. Shania had prepared lunch at home and was waiting for him. Although there is a restaurant in the training base, most of the meals cooked are for athletes, which is basically something ordinary people can’t eat. Dunn is not an athlete, so naturally he doesn't have to eat lunch that tastes the same.

Dunn put the training notes on the table, took out the car key from the drawer, and was about to leave. But when he looked up, he saw a person standing at the door.

"Evan!" Dunn exclaimed, "You scared me. Just standing at the door silently, like a ghost, don't you know?"

Seeing Dunn's appearance, Evan Dogetty smiled embarrassedly: "Sorry, I didn't call you when I saw you were busy. Are you ready to go home?" He looked at the string in Dunn's hand. car key.

Dunn obviously noticed where his gaze was, so he shook the car key: "Yes, Shania is still waiting for me at home."

"Ah..." Evan felt a little regretful. "It seems that this is not a good time to talk."

Dunn felt strange, so he asked: "What's the matter with you? Evan."

"Uh..." Evan hesitated, but still didn't say it. "When will you have time, I want to talk to you alone, Tony."

Dunn thought about the recent arrangements, and then gave Evan a reply: "After the away game this weekend, I will have time."

Evan nodded: "Then I will go to your room to find you then. Goodbye, Tony, I dare not delay you too long, otherwise your wife will blame me."

He was fairly self-aware, knowing that he had a bad impression in Shania's heart.

Dunn watched the leader of the club leave without further expression. This sixty-year-old man seemed to have lost the arrogance and domineering he had four years ago, in front of him, just like an ordinary old man. And the relationship between the two of them can't be returned to the original past when it is restored in time. Once there are cracks on the smooth and clean mirror, how can it be as if nothing has happened?

Evan seldom joked with himself now, and he wouldn't just go to his office and sit and chat. The relationship between the two of them still looks very harmonious on the surface, but from some small details, it can still be seen that it is different from before.

It was an indescribable feeling, only to be understood.

Actually they all know it.

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Nottingham Forest challenged Manchester City at the weekend. The two sides tried to send the strongest lineup of the main force, and finally the Forest team relied on a somewhat controversial ball to win the home team by one goal. After the game, the home team media thought it was an offside ball and chattered at the press conference. But Dunn delegated all the responsibility to the referee: "...I was in a bad position at the time. I am not sure what happened when Chen Jian passed the ball. But since the referee thinks the goal is valid, it is a goal. Effective... What matters is not these processes, but the results. The result is that we won and I am very happy."

The home team media had nothing to do with this rogue Dunn, and could only watch him "steal" the victory that belonged to them. Of course, verbal criticism and cynicism in the media after the game are indispensable. But Dunn doesn't care about this. Fifteen years of coaching is basically a period of fifteen years when he and the media attacked each other and mocked each other. This kind of thing is not surprising to him.

The highlight of this weekend is not this game, but in the hotel where the Forest team stayed after the game. To be precise, it was Room 1102 where Dunn was.

This scene will definitely make people feel a little familiar. Four and a half years ago, in the hotel in Madrid, in the same room where Dunn was, a similar scene was staged. It's just that there is one less lead actor today, and the scenes they perform are also different.

If it was said that four and a half years ago was a play of conspiracy, then it is a play of misery today.

The protagonist of bitterness is Evan Daggerty.

"You have something to say to me, wouldn't it be to persuade me to stay in the forest team, Evan?" Dunn sat on the side of the bed, looking at Evan Daugherty sitting on the opposite sofa.

"What else can it be? Tony, don't you believe me?"

Evan Daugherty's expression is very bitter now. He spent a lot of saliva just now to express his desire for Dun En to stay in the Forest Team, but it was Dun En’s rhetorical question that responded to him. Can this not make him feel bitter?

Once there is a crack, it really cannot be bridged...

"Of course I believe you, Evan, otherwise I would not accept your invitation to return to the team to coach." Dunn tilted his head and said to Evan.

But this attitude can only make Evan even more unsure. In his opinion, Dun En was perfunctory by such words.

So looking at Evan’s expression, Dunn smiled helplessly: "How do you want me to prove it to you, Evan? I'm really not perfunctory to you..."

"Then stay, Tony."

Evan Daugherty looked at Dunn, but he didn't see anything from Dunn's eyes.

"That is impossible, Evan. I have my family, and my body does not allow me to continue working in this position." Dunn shook his head and refused Evan's plea again.

"But... you have never had a problem with your body in the past few months..."

Dunn reached out and interrupted Evan. "I know my body, Evan. I feel that my energy is not as good as it used to be... Besides, can it be considered a physical problem only if I pass out on the edge of the stadium and be sent to the hospital for forty-eight hours? I think as my friend, you don't want me and my family to experience that kind of thing again, do you?"

Evan Daggerty asked this question speechlessly. He was eager to retain Dun En, and he did not consider this. If he is really good for Dun En, then he shouldn't put his health in a dangerous situation.

No one spoke in the room for a while, Evan Daggerty lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking, Dunn turned his eyes to the TV, where the evening sports news was playing, and it happened to have ended earlier. The game between Forest and Manchester City. The focus of the news naturally focused on whether Mitchell's ball was offside.

At the press conference, Dunn said that he hadn't seen the situation at the time, and now he has the opportunity to take a closer look. On TV, the scene before Mitchell's goal was replayed. At that time, he and Manchester City's defense line were parallel. Then when Chen Jian played the ball, the game was frozen. Dunn saw clearly this time, and Mitchell's upper body leaned out...

Strictly speaking, this is really an offside, but the judgement is based on the scale of the referee. If he feels that this upper body leaning out is irrelevant to the overall situation, he can not be sentenced to offside. If he strictly followed the rules and sentenced him to offside... It is estimated that it is Dunn's turn for those who chatter after the game.

The voice-over on TV is different from Dunn. They believe that Manchester City is defeated by the referee this time, and strongly condemns and protests the referee on duty. Dunn paid attention to the logo and found that it was the local media in Manchester. No wonder...

Dunn was not interested in listening to the next words. He turned his attention from the TV screen to Evan's side, and found that Evan was also watching TV in a trance.

Dunn thought for a while, then laughed: "I need the referee's help to win the game, you see, I'm really old."

When Evan heard him say this, he shook his head: "What does the referee's mistake have to do with you? Besides, although our possession rate is lower than Manchester City in the whole game, we have an advantage in the number of threatening shots. Yes, the victory was supposed to be, but our luck was not so good. We did not score a goal after several threats..."

Dunn didn't interrupt Evan, just tilted his head and listened quietly to Evan's talk, and then the corners of his mouth slowly twitched unconsciously.

Evan Daugherty also noticed the change in Dunn's expression, and then he realized that he had said too much. He stopped quickly and looked at Dunn.

"Ha!" Dunn laughed, "When I think of the person who couldn't even distinguish the'coach' and the'manager' at the beginning, but now he can analyze it well, it is really interesting. You see, we It’s all changing. Now I don’t want to continue working for a few more years. I’m fifty years old, Evan, and I’m still a guy with a heart problem. I have a sense of crisis, I’m bound to die in front of Shania , So I have to cherish the time I am still alive and spend more time with her and Teresa...You are also a man with a family. Can you understand my thoughts?"

Evan nodded, can he still shake his head?

"But..." But he was still unwilling to be persuaded by Dun En.

"I am now sure that you are really thinking about the club, really, I have always believed in you, Evan. But I really don't fit the Nottingham Forest anymore. We are all changing, and Nottingham Forest is also changing." Dunn persuaded, " There is no unbeaten team in the world, nor a team that always wins championships. Those teams that have created an era and dynasty have their ups and downs. The same is true of Nottingham Forest..."

Dunn talked and left.

Chapman led Arsenal to rampage in English football for too long; Jazz Busby, who led Manchester United to the first European Champions Cup, has long since passed away; he has shaped Liverpool into a generation of powerful players and has profoundly influenced Liverpool football Shankly, who developed in the future, has also become a noun; Clough, who competed with the Red Army in Liverpool's strongest era and jointly created the "England Red Era" of European football, is now just a bronze statue standing in the center of Nottingham City Square. Like; after entering the Premier League era, Ferguson, who has been so powerful after entering the Premier League era, has now become a rare old man who basks in the sun every day at home and can't even see his favorite horse racing; and Arsenal godfather Wenger, who once stood side by side with Ferguson, is already 70 this year. Retirement is just around the corner...

Those once brilliant names have been buried in the dust of time one after another, and sections of the past can only be recalled. I believe that in a few years, I and the former Nottingham Forest will be the same. Just as children born today will not know how great Michael Jackson is when they grow up, Ronaldo fans will not know how powerful Maradona is. Maradona fans cannot see Pele playing with their own eyes. Lee's fans are so strange to Di Stefano... the same. The past will eventually pass,

After so many things, what else can't let go?

"I can't stay in this position all the time, nor should I be like that. What Nottingham Forest needs is a long-term plan to develop slowly. An arrogant person like me is eager for quick success, and it is not suitable for the future development of Nottingham Forest."

Evan seemed to want to prevent Dunn from being so self-deprecating, but Dunn took the lead: "Don't you understand, Evan? Why did the forest team's performance start to decline as soon as I left the Forest team, no matter how much you change, you have the level It’s useless for the head coach to come? I don’t want Nottingham Forest to become "Tony Dunn’s Nottingham Forest." That way, no matter how many championships you win, you will be a castle in the air. Ordinary people will not even be able to live a hundred years, but now the world There are many century-old teams in football. If a team is really strong, it is impossible to rely on one person. Why are Liverpool giants? They were nothing before Shankly, but the important thing is not this, but in Hong Kong. After Klee they won five European Cups."

Dunn leaned out and looked at Evan.

"Some media compare me to Shankly in Nottingham Forest, but do you know what is the most correct thing Shankly has done in this life?"

Watching Evan's expression change from doubt to suddenness to distress and helplessness, Dunn laughed.

"It was he who suddenly announced his resignation and left Liverpool since then."

When Dunn was a fan, he was no stranger to Shankly's story, and he knew the story of Shankly's successor Paisley. But he has never been clear why Shankly resigned suddenly and left the Liverpool club when he was doing well in Liverpool. It stands to reason that he should continue to do things that are earth-shattering, such as leading Liverpool to the first European Champions Cup in club history. Dunn and everyone else believe that as long as Shankly can do it, then he It can be done.

Now he knows it, it's totally clear.

These words completely suffocated Evan Daugherty. He opened his mouth unconsciously and sat on the sofa blankly, without making a sound for a long time.

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