Godfather Of Champions

If the Premier League is divided into factions according to Chinese habits, Tony Dunn and Stuart Pierce are obviously in the same trench. Because they are all the descendants and apprentices of Brian Clough, and belong to the "Clauf School."

Stuart Pierce is a well-known tough guy in English football. He even got such a nickname because of his tough style and character-"Madman". This nickname has accompanied him through almost his entire career. The English media once described him as having a "heart of an oak tree", which is known for its hard wood.

Why is Pierce mentioned in the match against Manchester City?

Although the head coach of Manchester City is still Kevin Keegan, Dunn knows in his heart that after this year, Keegan will be dismissed, and the person who will take over this position will be his assistant coach, Keegan’s most respected Stuya Te Pierce. And not only Dunn pays attention to this person, the local media in Nottingham also pays attention to him.

Because Pierce was and is still the **** of Nottingham Forest fans. Played for the Forest for twelve years, played 522 games and scored 88 goals. As a left back, this data is terrifying.

Tony Dunn currently has no one in the Forest team that can achieve Pierce's current status and influence in the hearts of Forest team fans, which is exchanged for time and loyalty. When the Forest team fell into the First Division in 1992, all the other players, including Keane, left the team, but Pierce stayed. At that time, Manchester United and other big players hoped to recruit him, but he refused. With these invitations, the legendary captain led the Forest team back to the Premier League after a season. This story is comparable to Batistuta's experience in Florence, but Pierce is not as famous as Batistuta in the world.

Dunn had met Pierce with him. It was in Burns's bar in the first half of the year, at the reception to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Forest Team winning the European Champions Cup, but at the time they just had a brief chat. Sentence, no in-depth discussion. Even though the contact is not deep, Dunn can roughly understand what kind of person Pierce is. Even when drinking and chatting, this person's eyes are very firm, and there is rarely a moment of wandering. If he talks to you, he will look at you instead of looking at the ceiling and looking down at the toes.

Not much contact, but Dunn is very fond of this person, perhaps because of his sincere attitude.

This game is not the first time Pierce has returned to the City Stadium after leaving the Forest. When he was still a player in Manchester City, Manchester City was relegated to the First Division (now the British Championship). He used to be an away City Stadium and was also relegated to the challenge. Nottingham Forest. Before the game began, Pierce stood on the sidelines and bowed to the Forest team fans in the stands. When the game started, he still relentlessly defended the Forest team players, but he received the most applause from home fans.

Four years later, Pierce once again set foot on the turf of the City Stadium, but this time he has taken off his jersey and put on a suit.

The game has not yet started. Players from both sides are taking pictures from the sidelines. Dunn is standing in front of the coaching bench and watching the reporters gather on the coaching bench of the visiting team. Their focus is only one person, not the head coach Kevin Keegan, but Stuart Pierce sitting next to him.

The fans of the Forest team in the stands put out a huge slogan, "Welcome home, lunatic!"

An opponent can enjoy the highest treatment than this.

Dunn was attracted by such a scene. He doesn't know if he will work for the forest team for a lifetime, maybe not...Who knows the future? If you leave this team and return to this stadium as your opponent, can you see this slogan-"Welcome home, Tony"?

It doesn't look like a league that everyone wants to win, but a commemorative match for someone to go home.

There were cheers from the stands, they called Pierce's name. Faced with such enthusiastic Forest team fans, Pierce also had to step out of Manchester City’s coaching bench, walked under the stands where the Forest team fans were most concentrated, bowed and waved to them, and then he received greater cheers and applause. .

Even Dunn’s supporters like Fat John and Thin Bill stood in the front row of the crowd, applauding Pierce with tears in their eyes. Seeing this man reminds them of the old days, when they were with Michael, excited football, and drunk happily. They were both very young. There is no husband’s responsibility, and there is no need to worry about football hooligans hurting their children...

Pierce walked from the visiting team's bench to the home team's bench and waved to pay tribute to the fans. Like the fans, there are also his most precious memories here. He didn't expect that he would get such a welcome when he came back again, with tears in his eyes. This is a rare moment of tenderness before the game.

After paying tribute to the fans, Pierce turned and saw Dunn standing next to him. He walked over and extended his hand to Dunn. After all, the two of them are a little affectionate, and Dunn did not refuse the other's request for a handshake.

Just shaking hands, no one spoke. After shaking, Pierce turned back to the Manchester City coaching bench and sat down next to Keegan. Dunn saw Keegan turning his head and saying something to Pierce, but he couldn't hear it.

The interaction between Pierce and the fans is an episode before the game. When the game officially begins, fans of the Forest team will not give them applause because Manchester City is Pierce’s retired team. Like Tony Dunn, Forest fans have distinct likes and dislikes!

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Manchester City is a team that is no less famous in China than the traditional Premier League giants. Although many Chinese fans do not know the past and current situation of this club, it does not prevent everyone from being familiar with its name, because Chinese player Sun Jihai is in Play in this team.

Dunn knows a little bit about this team, which is also related to Sun Jihai. Of course, after coming here, he knows more. This time it is not out of interest, but the job requires him to know more about his future opponent.

An old habit, understanding a team starts with their head coach. Kevin Keegan is not a successful coach if he is judged by Dunn's standards. Maybe the Newcastle fans will not agree with Dunn's evaluation, and other people who like Keegan also do not agree, but Dunn insists on that. What is a "success coach"? Can a head coach who can't lead the team to honor be considered successful?

In addition to the familiar name of the coach, there are now several players in this Manchester City team that Dunn is more familiar with-the forward Robbie Fowler (Robbie_Fowler) who started the game, and the right forward Sean Wright-Phillips. Danny Mills (Shaun_Wright-Phillips), the main defender of England in the Japan-South Korea World Cup, Danny Mills (Danny_Mills), also a member of the England national team of the Japan-South Korea World Cup, later became famous as one of the eight persons involved in the **** case in the Premier League Trevor Sinclair (Trevor_Sinclair), England goalkeeper David James (David_James), Steve McManaman (Steve_McManaman) who has played for Liverpool and Real Madrid, former French international, and also played for many giants. Niklas Anelka...Look at these names, just reading them can scare many people.

Of course, there is also Sun Jihai, the Chinese player Dunn is most familiar with, who is also on the Manchester City starting list.

Since the start of the season, Manchester City has only achieved one win, one draw and two losses. For Manchester City, which has players with these scary names, ranking tenth is not an acceptable ranking. News rumors that the club is already about to move, planning to find the former Southampton coach Strachan to replace Keegan. Although Dunn understands that Keegan took the initiative to resign in April of the following year, he cannot deny that if he wins Manchester City, he will be the last straw to crush the camel...

The poor defense of Manchester City last season made them suffer. So since the beginning of the season, Keegan has been committed to transforming the defense. Dunn and Distin are the key players, but the performance of these two people is good and bad. , Not stable at all.

Sun Jihai's defensive performance does not seem to be outstanding on offense, and the main midfielder Button is injured and missed.

Dunn carefully studied the current Manchester City team, defense is still the team's biggest loophole. Needless to say on the offensive side, Arneca has scored three goals in four rounds of the league. Sean Wright-Phillips firmly occupies the position of the team’s main right midfielder. This was once considered in the Nottingham Forest youth team. The little man with no future has attracted the attention of countless giants. With the addition of the experienced "God" Fowler, McMaraman, who partnered with Fowler in Liverpool, such an attack lineup, at least in terms of reputation, completely overwhelmed the Forest team.

After the last round of the game with Arsenal, Dunn believes that the current Premier League team will pay more attention to the Forest team, and Keegan will probably not underestimate this opponent in the Forest team's home court. The heart of underestimating the enemy will definitely put away a lot.

Dunn’s tactic is to clamp Anelka and Fowler on defense, and then use his wing attack to suppress Wright Phillips and McMaraman. Goals will be the key word in this game. Since coach Keegan is so concerned about Manchester City's poor defense, Dunn made his belief in reforming the defense stronger...

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