Godfather Of Champions

On February 9th, in the thirty-first round of the League of Nations, Nottingham Forest played against Crystal Palace (Crystal`Palace). In the opening four minutes, the young captain of the Forest team, Michael Dawson, used a corner kick to score the first goal. The atmosphere of the city stadium was ignited from the beginning.

Then in the 59th minute, Marlon Heilwood scored a goal to seal the victory. In the 75th minute, Crystal Palace scored a face-saving goal by Andrew Johnson (Andrew`Johnson). This man later moved to Everton after failing to surpass the Crystal Palace in the 0506 season, and then immediately became Toffee's top scorer. At one point, there was hope for the Premier League Golden Boot. But in this game he had few chances under Dawson's defense.

Nottingham Forest, which defeated Crystal Palace 2:1, scored two consecutive victories. As the gap in the upper half of the league standings is not big, the Forest team jumped to sixth place. They scored with Norwich and again won by a net. The advantage of the ball puts the opponent under him.

The sixth in the league is a very morale-boosting ranking, because according to the English Football Association's promotion and relegation regulations, the first and second ranked leagues can be directly promoted to the Premier League, and the third to sixth are eligible to participate in the play-offs. , To determine the last place to be promoted to the Premier League.

The 32nd round of the Nottingham Forest match was postponed to April 16, which gave the team a chance to rest and adjust. Dunn continued to implement his tactical thinking of "less possession of the ball, faster pass" in training. Everyone has seen the results, and no one has any objections.

On February 22nd, in the 33rd round of the League, Nottingham played against Stoke`City at home. This game left a very deep impression on Dunn, and also left a wonderful afternoon memory to the 31,000 home fans.

From the moment the referee's kick-off whistle sounded, the game fell completely into the rhythm of the Forest team.

Marlon Heilwood became the biggest contributor to the Forest team in this game. After the game, he won the best of the game. Throughout February, his performance was stable and he was also elected the best player of the league in this month. In the thirteenth minute, Heilwood received a cross from Andy Reid and stabbed the ball into the gate of Stoke City, kicking off the forest team massacre.

In the twenty-fourth and twenty-eight minutes, Heilwood scored two goals in four minutes, completing his hat-trick in this game.

The City Stadium is full of cheers for the 23-year-old England shooter. Even Dunn didn't expect the game to start so smoothly. His fast offensive style completely stunned Stoke City and turned his head.

He thought that Heilwood, who had completed the hat trick, would take a break, but he did not expect that he scored again in the last minute of the first half!

When Heilwood scored, Dunn suddenly felt that his seat was shaking. He turned his head to see the people on the bench and coach's bench all jumping up, and Walker was silly at him.

"4:0! Heilwood is unstoppable. This is his seven goals in three consecutive games! The Forest team is also unstoppable. After five rounds of embarrassing situations, they have come to a big reversal, three consecutive victories!"

Stoke City completely lost their fighting spirit. Just eight minutes into the second half, David Johnson was the icing on the cake and the Forest led by five goals.

At this time, Dunn's opponent changed into a very strange number and face-in fact, Dunn looked strange to everyone, the difference was that he had heard some people's names. The person who came up this time even had a strange name-Chris Commons (Kris`Commons).

This may be the only trouble that Stoke City has brought to the Forest team. After Commons came on the field, he was very active on the wing. His breakthrough and cross made Michael Dawson no longer dare to press on and attack. Commons was attacking the left side, and Forest right back Thompson was surprised by him and couldn't find North. If it weren't for Stoke's strikers who had no intention of fighting, maybe they would have scored.

Seeing the danger, Dunn made adjustments. He replaced Williams and let Cash, who performed well against Wimbledon, used Cash's excellent offense to suppress the assists of Cummons. Sure enough, Commons soon had to give up the offense and return to defense.

The crisis was lifted and the game was back under the control of the Forest team. There was no suspense for the rest of the time.

In the 85th minute, Ian Jess used a direct free kick to set the score at 6-0 for the team. The city stadium is in a frenzy.

Fans of such a hearty game have rarely seen them in the past few years, and Dunn has regained their previous self-esteem and confidence. This game also put Stoke City into the abyss of relegation. At the end of the 33rd round, they only accumulated 28 points and ranked second from the bottom. Before this game, they were still fourth from the bottom. The League One requires that the last three players in the league be reduced to the second division.

After embracing and celebrating with the players, Dunn stood on the sidelines, he was not as excited as the first victory. He knew that three consecutive victories were just the beginning, far from the end.

The Stoke City players bowed their heads and hurriedly left. Dunn noticed that the second half was replaced by a kid, No. 24 Cammons. He bit his lip tightly, and there seemed to be tears in his eyes. He doesn't know if this kid played for the first team for the first time. Perhaps this fiasco will leave him with an indelible memory, but experiencing failure may be a good thing for him.

This kid is very good, but unfortunately not in the Forest team... Andy Reid lacks a good enough supplement. In case of bad form or injury, who should start the Forest team's midfielder on the left?

Entering March, the breath of spring is getting stronger and stronger, and the Nottingham Forest seems to have awakened from the cold winter. New branches are drawn from the trunks and tender shoots are emerging from the branches. Their progress continued.

On March 1, the Forest team challenged Watford away. Before this game, Watford ranked eighth in the league and was only three points away from the Forest. After this game, the Forest continued to consolidate their fifth position in the league, while Watford slipped to twelfth in the league.

1:0! The Forest team scored a valuable three-pointer in the away game, although the process did not seem so convincing. Because the home team takes the initiative from start to finish in the game, it seems to be a replica of the previous Forest team's fight against Stoke. But Dunn's book to the team before this game was to defend and fight back. He succeeded. Andy Reid's long shot in the 68th minute silenced the Vicarage`road`Stadium.

In this game, the Forest team only had four shots, two of which were within the frame and one goal. For most of the rest of the time, they were pressed in their own half and defended the opponent's *like offensive hard.

John Mortensen, who was in charge of broadcasting and explaining the game, mentioned more than once in the game, "Does this forest team still have three consecutive victories, and the forest team that swept Stoke City with six goals in the last league round?"

After Reid scored, Dunn has been looking solemn, and Walker and Bowyer are also worried that the team's gate will be broken by the other at any time. Fortunately, the defense line led by Dawson withstood all the offensives, and luck also helped a little bit. In the end, the Forest team, which was criticized by Mortensen, won four consecutive victories.

No matter how embarrassed on the court, these people can relax on the way back to Nottingham.

On March 5, it was another away game. The Forest team beat Gillingham 4-1 at Priestfield. The performance of the Forest team in this game continued to surprise everyone. It was also on the away game. They were different from the previous performance. In this game, they raised the banner of offense at the beginning, and then in the ninth, nineteenth, forty-eighth, Goals were scored in 52 minutes. The four **** are completed by four people, they are David Johnson, Marlon Heilwood, Andy Reid and Gareth Williams.

The home team only scored a consolation goal in 82 minutes.

The morale of the five-game winning streak of the Forest team is high, although their ranking has dropped to seventh due to the previous lack of competition and the excellent performance of other teams, but it did not affect the mood of the Foresters. Now everyone believes that the team can participate in the promotion play-offs at the end of the season. If you are lucky, you might be able to promote directly.

Photos of Dunn conducting the game and participating in the press conference after the game have appeared in various newspapers many times, and he was named the best coach of the League of Nations in February. Almost all England now know that the Forest has a best coach who has been knocked out by his own players.

This is the first personal honor Dunn has won. Standing on the coach bench at the City Stadium holding champagne, he asked the Evening Post reporter who came to interview him to take a photo of him.

He fulfilled his agreement with the president of the Evening Post and accepted their interview at the most suitable moment.

The person in charge of interviewing Dunn was James Robson, the top reporter of the Evening Post. In addition to a photojournalist, he also had an "acquaintance" of Dunn—Pierce Bruce, the tender and gentleman. intern reporter. Obviously he came to learn from Robson and accumulate experience. He is not the protagonist of this interview.

In addition to the recent five-game winning streak, the biggest focus of the interview was on why the previous Tony Dunn was so different from the current Tony Dunn.

Dunn had been prepared for this problem a long time ago, so he called Professor Constantine, who hadn’t played for a while, to the City Stadium in advance. Several people sat on the coach’s bench and listened to this famous old man in British academic circles. Speaking freely, he talked about Dunn from one by one mysterious rumors.

James Robson and others have listened to many interesting stories, from India, from the United States, from Spain, and even somewhere in remote Africa... But they did not get "what caused Tony Dunn to change so much" "The best answer. Later, the reporter could only attribute everything to "the mysterious natural phenomenon that science cannot currently explain" and "that accidental impact."

Dunn watched the other party write these in the small notebook, he was very satisfied. I went to Constantine to prevent this move. It's just that he didn't expect that what he was looking for was still an authority, and his words had weight. Just now I introduced Constantine to the three reporters, and Dunn knew from the look they looked at the old man.

The interview was very successful, and Dunn was also satisfied. Recently, there have been many happy events. The chairman is also very happy with the team's performance and has repeatedly promised him that he will be the team's head coach next season. He became more determined to be a football coach.

Three reporters were sent away, and Constantine returned to the stadium.

Dunn stood on the side of the grassy field, looking at the empty red stands. Three cleaners were cleaning the stands. In the distance, there was a turf maintenance worker trimming the turf to keep it level. They are preparing for the next round of the League Forest team against Greensby.

The sun is good, and it's warm on people.

"Professor. Do you know?"

"Ok?"

"My previous wish...just to be a youth team coach, like Paul, is interested in training young players."

The old professor sat on the coach bench behind Dunn, raised his legs, and felt what it was like to be a head coach.

"For a lifetime until death, someone may not find out what they are really good at, what they really like, what they really should do. I'm much luckier than those people." Dunn turned around and looked at Constantine's gaze. Smiling and asked: "How do you feel?"

"Ah... the field of vision is not as good as above..." Constantine shrugged, "I don't quite understand why I can see the whole picture by sitting here. I was sitting in the box for the first few games. local."

"In fact, there will be blind spots in any case with your eyes." Dunn pointed to his head. "The overall view of the head coach is here. If you are smart enough, there are no blind spots here. Just like you put those tedious data , The formula is the same in your head."

Constantine squinted at Dunn, who was standing in the sun for a while, and then nodded: "Tony, you really are the best person to sit in this position." He stood up and gave up the head coach seat.

Looking at the rows of seats in front of him, Dunn smiled: "Yes. I like this position. I was born to sit here."

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