Godfather Of Champions

The game between Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace was over. With the resurrection of Lebrov, the home team overcame their opponents 2:1 and widened the gap between them and the relegation zone.

After the game, almost all Nottingham media reported on the game. All the players of the Forest team became heroes, especially Rebrov, who was praised by the media. The media praised him for regaining his status as a Premier League player and regaining his former state.

And what about Tony Dunn, who directed all this? He found a picture of Rebrov talking alone on the court during the intermission, which had already made headlines. After the game, the reporters interviewed Lebrov, who was elected the best of the game for the first time, and asked him what coach Dunn had said to him during the intermission on the court.

Rebrov smiled and said: "It's nothing, he just asked me to retreat and let me play for myself. I saw a completely different world."

"...This is Tony Dunn, who has the ability to turn decay into magic. During the game, the TV commentator said he was a magician, and I deeply agree with that. Look at Collymore's Forest team, then look at Tony . Dunn’s Forest team, everyone is still those people, but the team is completely different. We scored the key three points and restored morale. Listen to the cheers in the city stadium, Nottingham Forest is slowly waking up Come!"

The moving tram was swaying slightly, and the carriage was empty. Several elderly people squinted and took a nap. Trams run through the suburbs of Nottingham, and there is almost no honking of cars outside, and there are even few pedestrians. It was Sunday morning, and Dunn was sitting on the tram heading to the small town of Hocknall. Outside the car was a peaceful countryside. He looked outside and then inside. A passenger on the opposite side held up a newspaper that went on the market this morning and read it intently. The side facing Dunn has his own photo and a large caption:

"Tony Dunn is back!"

Seeing this scene, Dunn smiled lightly, sounding like "Superman Returns". He is back on the front page headlines, and it feels good to be admired and followed...

In this quiet morning, the empty tram is completely different from the tsunami-like atmosphere of the city stadium yesterday. Dunn leaned his head on the window and closed his eyes to reminisce about the game that had just passed.

I am back again, this time I will never leave easily.

With a crisp jingle bell, the shaking of the tram stopped. Dunn opened his eyes and saw the church spire on the hillside. The destination was here.

Jumped off the tram and stretched. Dunn walked towards the church.

He hasn't been here for some time since he came once in summer. Half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, and he is no longer the unemployed coach Tony Dunn who was hesitated and could not see where he was going.

Because of Gavin, he decided to stay in the forest team, waiting for the opportunity to return to the city stadium coaching seat. Now he came back and led the team to win again, so he came back here again.

For him, the cemetery behind the gray brick church is the starting point for another journey. When he wants to stride forward, he should come back here to reconfirm his direction.

Although it seems to be close, there is still some distance uphill from the tram stop to the church. Dunn bought a bunch of lilies in a deserted little flower shop on the side of the street, held it in his hand for a while, and then he presented a card to the shop, took out a pen and wrote on it:

——To the most loyal fans of Nottingham Forest, George Wood's forever supporter: Gavin Bernard.

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There was a group of children playing football in the green area in front of the church, and several of them were wearing red forest team jerseys. They yelled, vying for a ball. When someone shoots a football between two piles of clothes, they will imitate the stars doing all kinds of celebrations.

When he was young, Dunn often played like this. But they are not on such a good lawn, but on the dam used to dry the valley in their hometown. They take school bags, bricks, torn shoes, clothes, baskets... In short, everything that can be moved is used as a goal, and then a group of children are on it. Chasing a broken ball, from Dunn's current eyes, even the best "star" in the group of people when he was a child is actually terrible, but everyone is having fun. Next to the dam is a pond for raising ducks, and people often accidentally kick footballs into the lake. The ball was played badly, but Dunn, who is good at swimming, is always the one who goes to the lake to catch the ball.

When he arrived in high school, he went to a boarding middle school in the city, where there were no simple dams and ponds, and there were special courts, but Dunn stopped playing football and only watched others play on the sidelines, as well as in college. Until now, he is used to standing on the sidelines and watching others play, and he has found a sense of fun and accomplishment that is completely different from playing off the court in person.

Dunn stayed by these lovely children for a while before continuing to move forward. He bypassed the deserted church and turned into the forest path.

The cemetery is even colder than the church. It is surrounded by dense woods, and the temperature seems to be one or two degrees lower than outside. Dunn wrapped his coat tightly and walked straight to Gavin's grave.

When he saw a bunch of lilies in front of the tombstone, he was a little surprised. There are still drops of water hanging on the fresh petals, and the person who put it here has obviously just left. Dunn raised his head and looked around the cemetery, but there was no one.

He lowered his head and noticed that a card was also inserted in the bouquet, so he picked it up. There is only one sentence above:

Give Gavin.

There is no signature, and Gavin's name is misspelled. Looking at the crooked and slanted handwriting, not as good as the pupils' handwriting, Dunn smiled.

He put the bunch of flowers down again, and at the same time put his bouquet carefully aside. After doing this, he took out a cigarette from his coat pocket, ready to take a bite. The fire came out, but he was stunned looking at the jumping flame, then took out the cigarette from his mouth and reinserted it into the cigarette case.

He forgot just now that there is a child by his side.

So he squatted down again and looked at the line of fine print under the tombstone.

When Michael said to him at the bar, "Tony, I won't go to the game tomorrow. I won't go anymore", his face was calm, as if he was talking about someone who has nothing to do with him. At that time, Dunn thought his heart must be dead, even... he no longer loves football, but hates football. Because football has taken away his favorite son.

When Michael told him that he was going to the United States that day, he strengthened Dunn's idea. He hated football and wanted to escape from football.

But when he later saw the line of small characters at the bottom of the tombstone, all the impressions that Michael had left on him were overturned in an instant.

He loves his son so deeply, and he loves football so deeply. He must bury this kind of love deep in his heart, and then add a lock, never touch it again, whether it is others or himself.

Dunn swept away the dead leaves that had fallen in front of the tombstone, then stood up, turned and left this humble little tombstone.

The forest team will restart training in the afternoon. Three days later, on December 17, in London, on the south bank of the Thames, at Newdon Stadium, where they will challenge Millwall, their opponent in the quarter-finals of the English League Cup.

That is a game that Dun En can never lose!

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Dunn, who returned to the club's training ground in the afternoon, went to the reserve team before the team's training. On the side of the reserve team training field, he saw that Gareth Taylor, and the other side also saw him. From his eyes, he seemed to be a little dissatisfied with his young coach.

But it doesn't matter...you don't accept it, boy. I just want you to score for me.

He waved to Taylor, and the reserve coach called the big man down.

Dunn looked at Taylor, who was standing in front of him, slightly taller than him, and then turned around to leave. "follow me."

Taylor did not move: "Where to go?"

Dunn’s body turned halfway. He turned to look at Tyler, then turned back, and stretched out two fingers: "I’m not in a good mood right now, so I give you two choices: one, follow me, don’t ask anything. ; Second, you continue to stay here until the winter transfer market opens. Choose yourself."

After speaking, Dunn never looked at the stunned big man again, turned and walked away.

Taylor didn't expect Dunn to walk so resolutely, he was stunned there for a while. The reserve coach patted him gently: "Don't follow up?"

Tyler, who was awakened from the dream, ran after him, and then followed Dunn silently. The two of them walked to the side of the first team training field. At this time, the players were already on the court preparing to warm up.

Dunn stopped on the sidelines, while Taylor consciously ran to the training ground, never daring to ask the shameless head coach again.

The players were not surprised that Taylor returned to the team. Now that the striker is short of people, it is only natural that Taylor, who has been scoring in the reserve team, is back.

Walker saw Dun En, who was standing on the sidelines and pursing his lips tightly, and walked over.

"Des, look at his training performance, if possible, put it on the team roster. We played 451, defensive counterattack, he is an important person. Let the team practice this formation and tactics in these two days." Walker came over, Dunn said to him.

Walker nodded, seeing that Dunn was not in a high mood, and walked back again. When he returned to the training ground, he blew the whistle and shouted: "Okay, guys! Start training, don't think that you can live better if you win the ball! Make me nervous, from now on you guys You have to pay for the debt you owed in the previous four months! Pay it hard!"

Hearing Walker's call, and then looking at the players who jumped up, a smile appeared on Dunn's face.

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In fact, with Nottingham Forest’s poor performance in the league, it’s really amazing that they were able to make it through to the quarter-finals of the League Cup. Collymore is not useless, at least Dunn would have to thank him for bringing The team persisted to this point.

Originally a week ago, when the Forest team had just changed their coaches, the major bookmakers' odds for this game were quite disinterested in the visiting team Nottingham Forest. But after Dunn led his team to win the Crystal Palace and returned perfectly, the bookmaker immediately adjusted the odds.

Among them, the leading British bookmaker William Hill (William`Hill) company offers the most representative odds.

Although the Forest team won a goal, many people are optimistic about him again, but considering their away game and the team's new coach, the situation is unstable, it only slightly increased the away team's winning odds.

The odds for the Forest to win away games have changed from one to three to one to two to one.

Dunn does not bet on football, nor does he like to bet on football. But from the betting odds that have been perfectly integrated into English football, it is still possible to get a rough idea of ​​the current situation. To put it bluntly, although the team just won, there are still not many people who are optimistic that they can beat Millwall away. By the way, the major bookmakers' odds of winning the League Cup for Nottingham Forest are also a bit higher than their current opponent Millwall.

What does high odds mean? It means that bookmakers and the public are not optimistic about them.

For example, in a game where the home team of both participating teams is Manchester United, and the away team is a debt-laden amateur team that can't even afford hotel fees, then the home team wins the odds of one by one, and the away team wins. One loses eleven. The former has low odds because Manchester United’s strength is too strong, and there is almost no suspense about winning. In order not to lose money, the bookmaker offers such odds. Everyone knows that this result is easy to come out. Only ten pounds can be earned in pounds. Although the profit is small, but the price is stable, not to lose. The latter’s odds are high. Although you vote for a hundred pounds, you can get a thousand one hundred pounds if you win, but the probability of such a result is too low. Therefore, teams with high odds are not favored.

This England League Cup quarter-final is actually the most unattractive of the four games. What's the point of a match between two English second-tier teams? In the other three games, two of the Premier League teams were fighting each other, and one of the players was the well-loved Arsenal team.

Apart from their respective fans, who will pay attention to this quarter-final?

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A cup of black tea with a seductive aroma was placed on the table by the window. Outside the window is overcast, the sky is dim, and it looks like it will rain at any time. But this did not affect the leisurely sentiment of the cup of tea drinker holding the newspaper in hand, leaning on the sofa with his legs tilted up, and reading the newspaper intently. If the weather is fine, it is really a good tea time.

He put down the newspaper, stretched his waist, then reclined on the sofa, picked up the black tea and turned his head to look out the window. Leisurely like an ordinary traveler, and the noisy lobby he is in, and the people walking around him are two completely different parallel spaces.

For Nottingham Forest coach Tony Dunn, this is a rare free time before the game.

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