Godfather Of Champions

In his home match with Aston Villa, the players of the Forest team found that there were more reporters on the sidelines during training. Everyone knows the local media, and most of the faces that make them feel strange come from London.

"We just tied the game. Why are these media so excited?" Eastwood asked inexplicably, pointing to the long guns and short cannons outside the barbed wire between the team's training.

"Because they also know that we are destined to be the champions of this season!" Dunn nodded vigorously beside him, his tone affirmative.

Eastwood turned his head and looked at Dunn who was talking to him in surprise: "Boss, are you kidding me?"

Dunn shook his head seriously: "No, of course I was joking."

Someone chuckled nearby.

David Chris Lak explained next to him: "They pay so much attention to us, not because of ourselves, but because of our opponent in the next round of the league-Arsenal."

Recently, the media has hyped the fateful entanglement between Arsenal and Nottingham Forest, just like a dog-blooded eight-point TV series, few people don't know it. Only Eastwood, who doesn't care about anything except playing his own ball, would be surprised to see so many reporters gathered in Vilford.

Pierce Bruce, who was standing outside the training ground with other reporters, had to lament the arrangement of fate: the opponents Arsenal faced when they broke the record were the team that set the record. When Clough led the team to create this record, it was considered that no one could match for a long, long period of time. Now that he is not dead, this record is in danger of being broken.

The North London media, except for those supporting Tottenham Hotspur, are all overwhelmingly optimistic about Arsenal, believing that Arsenal has broken the dusty record of 25 years at home in the Forest. After all, Arsenal are now strong and in good condition, and the Forest team is not too adapt to the rhythm of the Premier League. The first two rounds of the league only scored one point. The result of one loss and one tie is too convincing when facing the powerful Arsenal. Up.

At the end of training, the players walked from the training ground to the locker room, and reporters came up along the way to ask them about their records and questions about Arsenal. Most of them are asking "How do you think Arsenal are capable? How likely are they to break the record?" Some players can answer this question which has little to do with them in a more polite manner.

When meeting people with a bad temper, they won’t even bother those reporters. Take George Wood, for example, looking at the reporters who put the microphone in front of his mouth with a very cold look. When the other party was full of expectation, he looked away and left the group of reporters without saying a word. .

And more and more Forest players are treating reporters like him. At the beginning, everyone was very interested in this kind of attention and found it fresh. After all, they were too far away from the record 25 years ago, and they wouldn't think it was such a bad thing to be broken.

But if the people around you open their mouths and shut their mouths like "how about Arsenal" and "how about Henry", when people ask such questions, there will always be a feeling of "I am underestimated".

At the forest team’s regular press conference, 95% of reporters asked questions about the next game, and 80% of them asked Dunn to talk about his pursuit of Arsenal. Flatten this record.

Dunn himself does not hate Arsenal, nor does he hate Wenger, after all, he and Wenger still have so little friendship. But he hates these media that see the wind and rain, and he does not intend to give them any face.

So when all the reporters finished asking their questions, Dunn was in front of the camera, and the camera lens cut his ears, and then asked, "I tried to think that I had misheard, so I cut out my ears and planned to make this organ normal. It works. But I found that my ears were ok, so I tried to make myself think that my brain had a problem and couldn’t understand your problem correctly. But it’s too difficult for me to think so, because my brain is impossible. There was a problem... so in the end I can only draw one problem: it must be your problem."

He said so many plausible things that the reporter was completely puzzled. He didn't know what he was talking about and what he wanted to express.

Looking at the bewildered group of reporters, Dunn sighed: "Sure enough, I have to be blunt so that you can be clear-I said, gentlemen and ladies, you are in the wrong place. To follow Arsenal, please go to North London. This is Vilford, not Kearney (Arsenal training base). Here I believe you will not be able to ask questions other than Arsenal, so today’s regular press conference ends here and it’s the game. Before the end, my team and I will not accept any media interviews of any kind."

After speaking, Dunn got up and left the press conference hall, leaving a room of astonished reporters in it, looking at each other.

Dunn walked resolutely, and Miss Barbara Lucy of the Forest Club wanted to stay and clean up the mess for him: "This is the end of today's press conference. Please come back, gentlemen and ladies."

After speaking, she walked out quickly and caught up with Tony Dunn who strode back to the office.

"Mr. Dunn?" She called Dunn in a questioning tone.

Dunn stopped and looked back at Evan's personal secretary: "Miss Lucy, is there anything wrong?"

"Uh... I just want to remind you that tomorrow morning, Sky TV will have another interview with you..."

"Sit in the cafe at the Vilford Training Base and ask me questions about Arsenal?"

"This...I don't know, but I think...Yes." Lucy nodded.

"Very well, you can help me refuse. If we have agreed to accept this interview, let David go to receive those annoying reporters, I will lead the training."

Lucy nodded and left. As soon as Dunn walked into his office, he received a call from Evan Daugherty: "Tony, I heard that you embarrassed the British media?"

"You are very well informed, Evan."

"Don't forget that I also have friends in the media." Evan laughed. "They called and complained to me that the head coach of the Forest team didn't cooperate at all."

"I want to cooperate with them, but they are all asking questions about Arsenal. I can't cooperate if I want to cooperate." Dunn held the phone and shrugged.

"Come on, Tony. Don't do that in front of me. You feel uncomfortable, right?"

"Well... If someone compliments your direct competitor in front of you, and then asks you to say good things about this competitor, they will be dissatisfied with it if they say it is not good... I think Evan, you will also be very Not happy."

"This... you are right, Tony. Go ahead and let those who look down on us suffer!"

Just after finishing the call with the club chairman, Dunn received another call from Pierce Bruce: "Tony, are you serious about what you said at the press conference just now?"

Bruce was still standing in the parking lot of the Vilford Training Base at this time, and other reporters left here while complaining about Tony Dunn, who was playing a big game. Only he is not reconciled, hoping to use his personal relationship to obtain exclusive interview rights.

"Of course it is true." Dunn said without joking.

"This……"

"Well, Mr. Reporter." Dunn always called Bruce "Mr. Reporter", he didn't want Bruce to feel that the relationship between the two was very close. "I think it's more appropriate for me to say something for myself than you would say for me, so I will update my personal column in the Evening Post soon."

"But..." Bruce still hopes to sign his name on a report that will attract public attention.

"Mr. Reporter, would you dare to scold your colleagues for being'brought by a bitch" in your report?"

"How is this possible... why should I..."

"That's right, I dare." Dunn laughed and hung up the phone.

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In the "Nottingham Evening Post" the next day, Tony Dunn's column published a statement on the rejection of the reporter's interview. In the article, Dunn scolded the media for not knowing about respecting others and lacking professional ethics. Here, for the first time he used the phrase "brought by a bitch" to the media. Of course, despite using swear words, his tone is not fierce, and it is still his inherent style-mocking and vulgarity coexist, irony and all kinds of weird metaphors complement each other...

Dunn just didn't cooperate with the media. It was wishful thinking to inquire about any news from him. The first one to hit the window was a reporter from Sky TV. Dunn pretended to lead the team in training, and the war should not be distracted at the moment. He rejected this TV agency that exclusively broadcasts the Premier League.

The media can only dig deep-level gossip. They do everything possible to find the forest team players 25 years ago, but there are not many people they can find...Of course, most of the focus of attention is still on that forest. The team's head coach Brian Clough.

At Clough’s doorway far from Derbyshire, more than 20 reporters gathered in one day. They all wanted to hear the record creators’ views on record catchers.

In dealing with the media, Clough has more experience than Dunn. He praised Arsenal in the interview, calling himself an admirer of Wenger, his favorite team is Arsenal, his favorite striker is Henry, and he believes that Arsenal is playing artistic football ten years ahead of the Premier League. Therefore, his record is tied or even broken by such an excellent and great team, and he has no complaints. Finally, he also encouraged Arsenal to surpass the forest at the time.

He said this may make Arsenal fans very happy, but then this rebellious old man added: "Like Tony Dunn said, all records are used to be broken. After all. We have set a record. No one can despise the existence of the record. For me, the forty-two undefeated matches are more exciting than the Champions League. Arsenal are just juniors who challenge us."

This sentence is the last to say, but it is enough to show the pride of the old man. Unfortunately, not everyone notices this.

Dunn noticed, this sentence made him feel much better. He knows that the boss is still helping him, but the way the old British man expresses his emotions is richer in British tradition-he always likes to express their feelings in a quiet and low-key manner.

I support you, Tony. But you don't expect to hear a public good word from me.

Maybe one day, when you reach the height of my year, I will reluctantly say: "It's okay, the same as when I was young."

That's the highest praise for you, kid!

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Unlike Dunn’s rude treatment of the media, Wenger has no good feelings about the English media because when he first arrived in England, the English paparazzi declared that the French were gay... But he just always tried to be cautious and rarely alone. The office is now in front of the media.

Now that Arsenal's record-breaking is about to break, he has to appear in television footage or the sports page of newspapers more than usual.

Speaking of Nottingham Forest, he expressed the necessary respect for this team. Clough said he was his idol, and Wenger was also a little excited to speak. He announced that he was also a fan of Nottingham Forest. He loved watching Clough since he was a child. His team played, and the years that the Forest team swept Europe has made him unforgettable, and he is excited when he thinks about it...

But who knows that some of the sentences are true and some are false...

When talking about the upcoming game, Wenger put away his admiration for Nottingham Forest. Although he affirmed Tony Dunn’s deeds in the summer transfer market, he said with confidence that his The team is ready to set a new record.

"The best way to pay tribute to the record-makers is to defeat them and create a new record." After saying this "declaration of victory" that excited the media, Wenger walked back to the office building. He already knows how to deal with these media, but obviously his opponent doesn't know.

Thinking of the turmoil between Dun En and the media because of this incident, a smile appeared on the face of the Frenchman.

35-year-old head coach? So young...

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"Welcome to Nottingham! A historic city in central England. There are dense Sherwood Forest and the world-famous Robin Hood, who robbed the rich and helped the poor! There is also a great team-Nottingham Forest!" said a Sky TV reporter. Here, the cameraman tacitly gave a shot of the city stadium behind the reporter, zooming in, the close-up of the Nottingham Forest logo, the red one is particularly eye-catching in the sun.

"Yes, Brian Clough created the forest dynasty, and also left a record that future generations look up to-the unbeaten record of the English top league: 42 games! Until today...twenty-five years, This record may be rewritten. And we have to sigh the magic of the hand of fate: if the team that has the opportunity to rewrite the record is to succeed, it must defeat the creator of this record!"

He had just finished shouting and saw two groups of fans who were also wearing red jerseys but were walking by his side. Arsenal fans sang songs supporting Arsenal, while fans of Nottingham Forest sang them for New song written by Tony Dunn.

The cameraman's lens closely followed the two groups of people, and it seemed that they could see the appearance of the game in a while.

The stands were full for a long time, and the news media almost squeezed a circle outside the stadium. Everyone was looking forward to how the two opponents who were pulled together by the hand of fate would perform in such a fateful duel.

Arsenal and Nottingham Forest have a deep connection, because two of the founders of Arsenal are players from Nottingham Forest. Arsenal didn't even have their own jerseys when they first started, and the two founders went to the Forest Club to borrow a batch of jerseys and footballs, which was considered to have pulled up their own team.

But the subsequent development of the two teams can be described as very different. Arsenal relied on Chapman to create their dynasty in the 1930s, and since then embarked on a path of wealth. What about Nottingham Forest? It has never been considered a giant, at best a veteran team, and it has only become a household name because of the Clough era. Economy, influence, strength... No matter how you compare it, the Forest team looks like poor country relatives in front of Arsenal, although it was this poor relative who helped them when Arsenal was out of milk.

In front of Arsenal, what can still keep the Foresters self-esteem may be the two silver shining Champions League trophies and the 42 consecutive undefeated England top league records.

But now... the Champions League trophy is something in the future, it's unclear which year and month it will go. But the forty-two game record has been tied by Arsenal, and the day the record was broken was promoted by the media as if it were today.

The glory of the past is gradually leaving them, and now the Forest Team starts from the beginning...

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