Godfather Of Champions

The disastrous defeat to Liverpool seemed to be just a small setback, because in the next fourth round of the English League Cup, Nottingham Forest won the game by an absolute advantage. They eliminated the League One in the away game (previously the League Two). ) Team Colchester.

On November 14th, in the thirteenth round of the league, Nottingham Forest defeated Middlesbrough 2-1 at home and maintained a complete victory in the clash with McLaren.

From an outsider's point of view, the Forest Team has no problems at all now, and is moving on the right path.

However, in the 14th round of the league on November 20, the Forest team lost to Tottenham Hotspur 0:1 away.

The bad luck is not over yet. On November 25th, at the Love Song Stadium in Villarreal, Spain, in the third round of the UEFA Cup group stage, Nottingham Forest lost 0-2. In front of Argentine midfielder Roman Riquelme, George Wood was really like a kid who made his debut, completely helpless. Wood always felt awkward when defending Riquelme. The change in the rhythm of the Argentine made him puzzled. He didn't know how to defend and was very helpless.

Later, Albertini went to help Wood, but there was no way to organize an attack. Nottingham Forest's four midfielders were held by Riquelme alone. After the game, the Spanish media gave Riquelme a high score of nine points. He fully deserved this score, while George Wood was given a three-point low score. The media commented that this young man was completely unfit in the game. Knowing what he should do, the forest team's failure is directly related to his poor performance.

After the game, the reporters were overwhelmingly suspicious of Wood. Dunn dismissed him with the phrase "I never make any public comments on my players after the game."

In fact, to put it bluntly-if we win, it’s okay to hear what I say. If I’m happy, you’re happy too. But if I lose, I'm sorry. If I criticize my players, I will close the locker room door and whisper, why should I tell you reporters?

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On the day of the end of the game, the Forest team took the flight back overnight to prepare for the league three days later.

On the plane flying back to England from Spain, Dunn paid special attention to Wood. This kid seemed very silent, and he didn't talk too much at ordinary times. At this time, he was simply dumb.

Although they lost a UEFA Cup group stage, it was an away game after all, and the situation was not so serious that they could not appear in the group stage after losing this game. Their next group match will be against the weak Belgrade Partisans at home, as long as they are tied, they can qualify.

Everyone knows this psychologically, so other players returned to normal after a brief period of depression at the end of the game. Even young players have a better understanding of football than George Wood. From the beginning of their training to now, they have encountered more than one failure, and they have also learned how to face this situation. For a failure of this level, you don't need to be sad and depressed for a few days, just a few hours, and I sleep and find that life and the world have not changed so terribly.

They are doing their own things on the plane, chatting, listening to music, watching movies, sleeping and resting...it's no different from any away game.

Only the idiot Wood is still affected by the failure.

Dunn turned his head and looked at it several times, and found that Wood's face was stern, and his brows furrowed-he kept this expression since the final whistle blew. At that time, everyone was in a bad mood and their expressions were similar. Now he is the only one who looks a little different.

Dunn looked around, then got up from his seat, walked to Wood's seat, and patted Albertini on the shoulder: "Demi."

The Italian knew what the coach was going to do, and he got up and changed seats with Dunn. He sat next to assistant coach David Chris Luck, and Dunn sat next to Wood.

Wood was completely immersed in his self-space, not noticing that someone had changed around him. Dunn woke him up: "George."

Wood looked sideways at him.

"Have you called your mother?"

He nodded.

"Hmm..." Dunn adjusted his sitting posture, rested his head on the back of the seat, and closed his eyes for a false sleep. "Did you talk about this game?"

He couldn't see Wood's expressions and movements. After a while he heard Wood's deep voice: "Yes."

"What did your mother say?"

"She said... I played well."

The corner of Dun En's mouth raised a smile, and Sophia would never question her son's abilities, and would never speak ill of his son.

"Look, someone compliments you. What are you worrying about frowning?"

"Mom..."

"Do you want to say that you think your mother is lying to you?" Dunn blocked what George Wood was about to say in his throat.

Wood froze for a moment, then shook his head: "No."

Dunn smiled and opened his eyes: "George, you only played for a few years? Do you know how long that Argentine played? Your mother didn't lie to you. She said that you played well because she was better than those brain-dead reporters. Knowing you better, you played very well in this game. We lost not because of your bad performance, but because of Riquelme, that number 10 was too good. The problem is that simple." He shrugged.

Wood looked at Dunn and didn't speak, but Dunn fully understood what he meant. He nodded: "Yes, don't make this matter so complicated. There are hundreds of thousands of professional players in the world. , There are always people who are strong and some are weak. Some people were strong in the past and are weak now, and some are weak now and strong in the future. Riquelme is strong now, and you are weak now..."

"But, I'm not reconciled..." Wood suddenly interrupted Dunn's endless talk.

Dunn, who was interrupted, was not upset at all. Instead, he looked at Wood and asked: "What did you just say, I didn't catch it."

"I said..." Wood gritted his teeth and said, "Even if he is better than me, I won't be reconciled to losing to him."

Dunn grinned silently, he found that he was worthy of being a person whom he valued, his temperament and his original self resembled...

"I understand, I fully understand what you think. It's useless to just sit here and sulking if I'm not willing to lose to him. George, remember the first time I went to the youth team to watch your game?"

Wood nodded. He shoveled Eastwood's leg that day, and his performance couldn't be worse. He thought that his way of making money from football was the end. He didn't expect to be scolded by the man in front of him in the locker room, which made him persevere again, and finally got a first team contract by his own efforts.

"Your performance in that game was really... horrible." Dunn shook his head and recalled, "At that time, you had only received systematic training for more than two months. You didn't know what to do on the court, thinking of a fool."

In order not to disturb the others, Dunn lowered his voice and said.

"Then...the FA Youth Cup with the Arsenal youth team, do you remember?"

Wood continued to nod.

"You successfully defended the opponent's midfielder core and made him suffer in front of you. Do you know the origin of that guy who retreats and retreats under your eyes?"

This time Wood shook his head.

"He won the World Junior Football Championship only half a year ago, the best player in that game. In other words, he was the best player in the world at that age. But he has no chance of being seen by you. No."

Facing Dunn's compliment, the expression on Wood's face remained unchanged.

"Later you got the opportunity to represent the forest first team. Think about that game... I still remember your debut. It was impressive and perfect." Dunn closed his eyes and said intoxicated. exaggeration. When Ribery succeeded in the English League, he was not as excited as he was when he watched Wood rise to fame. Because Dunn knew that Ribery would be successful, even if he was not in the Forest, he would go to Marseille in one year, and after two years he would become the best player in Ligue 1, and then he would be taken to the World Cup in Germany by Domenech and he would become famous in World War I... …

It was like watching a suspenseful movie, everyone else watched it with gusto, only Dunn himself knew the result, so he became a little dull.

George Wood is different. Dunn has never heard of this name before, and there is no such a figure in international football. After his soft heart let Wood enter the youth team for training, he didn't know whether this kid could finally be played. What a fame. It is the ignorance of the future that caused this suspense. When Dunn saw the dazzling George Wood in the game between the Forest and Reading, a huge sense of accomplishment instantly filled his heart, and he could almost win the League Cup with his own hands. Be compared.

This is true. There is no player trained on his own advance memory to take advantage of it. In a sense, George Wood’s success represents Tony Dunn’s success.

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