Godfather Of Champions

The English media described the FA's “rape gate” for Dunn—the name given to this incident by the British media. Dunn described it as “unimaginative” because it sounds like he really raped someone— The punishment seemed to tickle Dunn, but it only made Dunn more comfortable. As for Dunn’s curse of West Ham’s relegation, the FA didn’t care at all. Rod jumped up and down for a long time and didn’t get any answers. Angrily, he accused the FA of ineffectiveness. As a result, the FA responded very quickly. They immediately The poor acting West Ham coach was fined five thousand pounds.

Another victim, the referee Winter of the FA Cup game, appeared helpless, but he did not make any statement and refused to accept any media interviews. At this point, he was much smarter than Rod.

Dunn was not severely punished, which became the focus of discussion in the subsequent issue of "Today's Game". When the host Lineker talked to Mark Hansen about this issue, Hansen ironically guessed whether Dunn was Palios' brother-in-law. After the show was broadcast, the BBC received a letter of protest from the FA, but they ignored it.

As the party involved in the whole incident, Dunn had already stayed out of it. The media likes to hype that is their business, Dunn now put all his mind on training. The daily training affairs of the team are still presided over by Des Walker and Ian Bowyer. Dunn wears sunglasses and stands on the training ground every day, but he has few things to say. He has to continue to study. What makes Dunn the happiest thing is that Bowyer seems to have abandoned his previous suspicions. Although he still doesn't communicate much, he doesn't make things difficult for himself in his daily work. On the contrary, he is very cooperative.

It turned out that Dunn was worried that Bowyer would be the last straw to crush the Forest team, but now it seems that he was worrying too much. While drinking at Burns' Forest Bar that day, Walker once talked about Bowyer. Only then did Dunn realize what a brilliant career this 51-year-old old man had. He is the main contributor to the Forest team's two European Champions Cup wins!

His experience will surely be the greatest help to himself. Dunn decided to have a good relationship with this person.

The next game of the Forest team is on the afternoon of January 18th. During this period, the League One has played a round. The Forest team was postponed to the twenty-eighth round of the league due to the FA Cup. Held on the 5th. This also gave them a rest period of up to fourteen days. On the 18th, they will go to an away game against Coventry`City, which is a tough battle. First of all, the team's head coach is in a suspension period and will not be able to direct the game from the coaching bench. Secondly, Coventry is now ranked sixth in the league standings. Since their home game losing 1:2 to Preston in the 21st round of the league, they have remained unbeaten for seven league rounds. The morale of the team is currently booming. In addition, it is the home field... What makes Dunn more headaches is the style of this team. This is a tenacious team with a die-hard temperament. It is this temperament that allows them to stand in the league for seven consecutive rounds. invincible position. This record may have been terminated several times, but they were all rescued by themselves.

Dunn hates this kind of team, because he himself has this style. This game is completely different from the FA Cup. West Ham will not put down their body and fight themselves, but Coventry will, because it is related to whether they stay in the Premier League after the end of the season. These days he doesn't go to Burns's Forest Bar anymore, as if he is back to life like a Puritan, he always takes his work home after the team training is completed every day. He must study this team thoroughly before the game and know each of their players. If possible, he even hopes to see all the undefeated games in the seven rounds. Unfortunately, the intelligence work of the Forest Team could not meet his requirements.

"I'm sorry, Tony. The only video we have about Coventry is their away game at City Stadium in the first half of the season. We won them 1-0." Looking at Walker, who was sorry, Dunn thought maybe he should find someone specifically. The scout is responsible for observing the opponents of the team in each next game and putting all the information about the opponents he can know on his desk for his reference in time before the game. Just like he played FM2007.

However, the team currently only has three full-time scouts, two of whom have been away for a long time, looking for talented children from all over the UK, and then doing everything possible to bring them to the youth academy in Vilford. The other is mainly responsible for player inspections in the Nottingham area. It is impossible to help him with that job.

Dunn rubbed his temples. It seems that the team still needs to change a lot, but unfortunately he has no energy and dare not try. A head coach who doesn't know what his future will be, naturally he dare not try his plan. Dunn feels a bit like Chelsea coach Ranieri now. The difference is that Ranieri is tinkering with the team's tactics, while he is tinkering with the whole team. He dare not use any ideas, for fear that he has a plan for the front foot and the back foot is due to poor record. Jia was driven, all efforts were wasted.

Because he became the head coach, Dunn now looks at a team's information, and he gets used to looking for the team's head coach first. In a sense, a head coach greatly influences a team’s style, tactics, temperament, performance... To understand a team, the best way is to start with the current head coach. . Dunn looked at the current head coach of Coventry... He saw a somewhat familiar name: Gary`Mcallister.

Dunn looked at the English name for a long time, then hesitantly translated it into Chinese: Gary McAllister.

McAllister? !

Dunn almost jumped up from his chair. He remembers this old guy was in Liverpool last season? The 2000-01 season was Liverpool’s most glorious moment in 14 years. It was the first time since 1984 to become a Triple Crown. McAllister scored a penalty in the UEFA Cup final that year, in the final of overtime. In minutes, he used a free kick to "assist" Alaves player Gurley, who made his own own goal, and achieved the most glorious scene in Liverpool's Hollier era. They won a total of five championships that season.

It's only two years now, why did it come to Coventry, the League One team?

The data shows that the Scot returned to Coventry after the end of the 2001-02 season, and he is a coach and player.

Dunn knows that as a player, McAllister is very powerful. His free kicks often help Liverpool score goals, but he knows nothing about the coach McAllister.

Dunn stared at this name for a long time, as if he could see what he needed from the name. In fact, it was so, and after a few minutes he laughed.

"Player and head coach?"

Coventry used to be one of the four largest cities in the UK, with a history of a thousand years, but that was all yesterday. And for Dunn, a Chinese, the so-called "big city" in the UK may be no more than a county-level city in China. The city was once destroyed by the Luftwaffe in World War II, and it was almost completely destroyed. Coventry, which was rebuilt after the war, became the center of the British automobile industry, where cars were produced specifically for the British royal family.

Dunn's knowledge of the city is almost zero, and he does not plan to focus on turning over the travel brochure. For a football coach, understanding the history of a city is far less important and useful than understanding the history of a certain team in the city.

Although the city of Nottingham, where the Forest Team is located, is only about thirty miles away from Coventry, it can be reached within an hour by car. However, as an away game, the Forest team came to the city one day in advance to prepare for the next day's game.

Dunn sat on the team bus, looked at the gloomy sky outside and the newspaper that was blown into the air, turned his head and asked Walker sitting next to him: "What's the weather forecast?"

"It will rain tomorrow and the temperature will be very low."

Dunn thought of Kenny's description of Britain, and he couldn't help but swear. He hates racing in the rain, hates all weather that is not conducive to the game, rain, snow, wind, hail and lightning...if any.

At this time, outside the bus window, a cream-colored building seemed to be the rising sun, slowly rising from behind the houses on the street.

"Highfield Road Stadium." Walker introduced to Dunn, "Coventry's home court."

Listening to Walker's words, Dunn couldn't help but look at the building where his team will play tomorrow. Most of the stadiums in the UK are very small, unlike those in Italy, Spain or Germany that look magnificent. The four low stands, barely covering the roof of the stands, and a green lawn are all of a stadium. The City Stadium, the home of the Forest, can hold 30,000 people. Built on the river bank, it looks like an affiliated stadium of a middle school. The same is true of Coventry's stadium.

The grandstand of the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home of the Spanish giants Real Madrid, has six floors, equivalent to the height of a 20-story residential building, and the stands are designed to be very steep. Dunn hadn't been there, but he could tell from the TV broadcast what kind of momentum it was. When you stand at the top of the stands, you can't see the numbers and movements of the players on the court when you look down, but there is an illusion that you may fall off at any time. This kind of shocking sense of oppression is rarely experienced in British stadiums. Most British stadiums have two or three tiers of stands. Manchester United’s home stadium, Old Trafford, is currently the largest professional football stadium in England, which can only accommodate 60,000 people. Floor stands.

However, this design of the English stadium also has great advantages. It allows fans to be closer to the stadium and is more conducive to the development of a good relationship between fans and players. Therefore, there are two diametrically opposite feelings of playing in an English stadium: the home team will think it is heaven, they can clearly hear the songs sung by the fans and the slogans supporting them, and they can rush to the sidelines and the audience after a goal. Celebrate together; while the away team will think this is hell. They will suffer from the boos and singing of the home team fans all the time. They can clearly hear every word of those people swearing at themselves, and clearly see the roots. Raised middle finger.

Even though Dunn had only experienced one game, he was equally impressed. In the FA Cup at City Stadium, he deeply realized these two feelings. In the first half, he felt that he was away and returned to the home court in the second half.

I wonder if the fans in Coventry are friendly...

The game was held at two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was difficult to find an empty parking space at one o'clock in the parking lot outside Highfield Road. There was a drizzle in the gloomy sky, but this did not disturb the fans. They waved the sky blue flag of Coventry and sang songs praising Coventry from all directions. Seen from the sky, it looks like a large group of ants are running towards the big fragrant cheese.

The forest team players are obviously used to this. They are doing their own things in the car, listening to music, closing their eyes to rest, or looking around. Dunn still couldn't adapt. This was the first away game he led the team. When he was at the City Stadium eleven days ago, he didn't feel anything special about the stadium atmosphere. Now he really feels like he's on the away game: a completely strange city, a livelihood fan, a strange stadium, a strange opponent...

Finding that Dunn's attention was on the fans outside the car, Walker decided to say something to ease the tension in the mind of the acting head coach.

"Tony, don't worry. Do you know Old Trafford?"

"Of course, a big name."

"Old Trafford Stadium has a special security system. They will classify the safety level of away fans based on historical data. Liverpool and Leeds fans are classified as Class C, requiring high security measures and a large number of police; Coventry is B Level, just a few police officers. So they are nothing to fear." Walker pointed to the Coventry fan passing by the team bus outside.

Obviously Dunn is more interested in the security system at Old Trafford: "Then where are the fans who are designated as A-level?"

"Wimbledon."

Hearing Walker’s answer, a guy’s name flashed through Dunn’s mind, and then he laughed: “It’s really funny. The fans who have Pooh Jones’ gangster turned out to be the most civilized... old The guys at Trafford didn't count the Wimbledon spectators as football spectators and input them into the computer, did they?"

In 1988, the Wimbledon team that defeated Liverpool and won the FA Cup in England has the title of "crazy gang" in English football. Just by looking at the name, you know the style of this team. Not to mention that they had two lunatic leaders at the beginning: the gang leader is the well-known evil Han Vinnie Jones (Vinnie Jones) in English football, and the deputy gang leader is the same rough and tough Dennis Wise. Ten minutes before the kick-off of the FA Cup final, the captain of the team, Pooh Jones, led his men in the player channel to scream at the big-name Liverpool players. Then the game started less than a minute before Jones again Shoveled Liverpool striker McMahon on the stretcher. In the end, Wimbledon defeated Liverpool 1-0 in the game, creating a legend. Jones and his team have also been recorded in history.

Things like this before the FA Cup final are countless in the "Kang Gang". We must know that in the season when Wimbledon was just promoted to the top league, after Liverpool's home game at Wimbledon's Plough Lane (Plough Lane), the proud Reds players almost ran back to the lounge crying. They told the media: Wimbledon fans are terrible, this stadium is simply hell!

Hell is the impression other clubs have on Wimbledon and fans.

How could a "hell devil" fan be a civilized audience of security level A? Dunn thought it was incredible.

"So...I don't believe in the security system at Old Trafford now. I think it's better to experience it myself than to believe in the data summarized by the computer." At this point, Dunn suddenly realized that Walker was speechless. Those who were looking for something to say this to him, he smiled and said to Walker, "Dess, thank you for your kindness, but I have never been afraid of anyone."

Walker also smiled: "Me too."

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