Godfather Of Champions

The term "legendary" has been abused, but he is a true "legend".

——Arthur Wenger (Arsenal coach) said.

Mercedes-Benz on the A52 is a red Ford Focus manufactured in 2001. There are four men in the car. Three of them are elated and only one is complaining endlessly.

"Kenny, I have a question for you. Is your bar closed today?"

Burns shrugged: "I am the boss, not the bartender. I don't have to stay there all the time."

Dunn rolled his eyes, then turned to look at Walker sitting next to Burns: "Why are you here too?"

Walker just smirked and didn't answer. He and Burns were sitting in the back seats, excited like a star-chaser going to a star concert.

Looking at the stupidity of these two people, Dunn turned back and looked at the monster in front of the car and shouted: "This is too unfair. The boss invited me and Bowyer. Why are you two also coming?"

"Don't be so stingy, Tony. I think the boss would like to see us visit him."

"Yes, there are more people."

Dunn didn't know what to say. He sighed and said to Bowyer who was driving, "Let's play a song and listen."

Bowyer pressed the play button of the car stereo, but the music coming out of it scared Dunn. It was a real "jump". If it weren't for wearing a seat belt, Dunn's head would definitely hit the roof.

Because what came out of the stereo was the shouts of a group of fans, just like what he heard in the game.

"This is music?"

The two people in the back row laughed, and Dunn couldn't speak because of their laughter. He found that there was a very obvious "generation gap" between himself and these three people. The three of them seemed to have a tacit understanding together. They knew a lot of things that Dunn didn't know. Such as "head" and this "music".

After the fans’ shouts, the music finally sounded, but only the first sentence was heard, Dunn was stunned again-this is the song he often hears on the court, Nottingham Forest’s team song "We've `got`the`whole`world`in`our`hands".

"This is not for the fans..." he asked suspiciously.

Bowyer shook his head: "What you hear now is our own singing."

"And me." Burns added later.

"This was recorded by all the players of the Forest team in the recording studio." Walker further introduced Dunn, "In the beginning, a TV show invited them-I was not in the Forest team at the time-to go and sang this on the show. The song was then recorded as a record and released."

"Sales are pretty good," Bowyer said proudly. Then he hummed the tune of the song, his voice getting louder and louder, and then Burns and Walker joined the chorus.

The car drove past the road signs marked "Derby" in the proud singing of the men.

Brian Clough. This name is very unfamiliar to Dunn, who has traveled from China. But it is the most distinctive name for the entire English football scene. Even if he retired long ago, he still maintains sufficient influence in this circle. He can blame players and coaches he can't understand at will, and big names such as Sir Ferguson are not afraid to speak back after being scolded by him. To put it in a movie line-I am not in the arena, but there is my legend in the arena.

Since setting foot in football, this name has appeared in people's sight time and time again with various miracles. As a player, he created the fastest record of two hundred goals in England. He represented Middlesbrough and Sunderland in 296 games and scored 267 goals. Among them, he played in Middlesbrough and Sunderland. Fort scored 204 goals in 222 games and 63 goals in 74 games in Sunderland. This is a scoring efficiency that can be called horrible in modern times. However, his playing career was short. He retired at the age of 29 due to an injury and took up the position of coach.

It is the position of the head coach that really made him famous all over the world and became a generation of "godfather of football".

Derby County, which just lost to Dunn, is currently only ranked 21st in the second division of England and is still in a financial crisis. But don't look at them today, they were once beautiful. Their most beautiful years are called the "Brian Clough era." By hearing this name, you will know who was the head coach of that team at that time.

In the 1965/67 season, Clough became the head coach of this team. It took him two years to bring the derby struggling in the second division (equivalent to the current division one) into the championship of the second division, and then in 71/72 Won the League One championship this season. The following season his team reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League, but they lost to Juventus, who was said to have bribed the referee.

Then he left the team and moved to Nottingham Forest, creating a brand new "Forest Dynasty" that dominates England and European football. At that time, the Derby team, because of the solid foundation laid by Clough led the team, became the Champions League again in the 74/75 season, but they lost to Spain's overlord Real Madrid in the European Champions Cup the following year.

As for Clough's achievements after becoming the head coach of the Forest team, there is no need to describe more. Anyone who knows a little about British football and European football in the late 1970s and early 1980s will know that the main color of that period was red, because the two teams that dominated European football at that time were red jerseys, one One is Liverpool and the other is Clough's Nottingham Forest.

If it is only remembered because of his performance, then Clough is no different from most head coaches. But in fact, he is the most special of all the coaches in the history of English football. His charisma is comparable to that of the greatest manager in Liverpool's history, Bill Shankly.

Tang En deeply agrees with this, as long as he looks at the performance of the three men around him, it becomes clear. He felt it was very similar to his previous school experience. A good head teacher will let his students remember him long after graduation, and the attitude of mentioning it will definitely be respectful. On the contrary, the incompetent head teacher will only let the students curse and laugh at him in the future.

Clough is that kind of very, very good head teacher.

Just taking the best coach of February once made Dunn feel complacent for a long time. But in front of Clough, he seemed to face an ant on a high mountain, just a small dust under Clough's feet.

Today, he will face the most individual coach in the history of English football. Looking at the increasingly lively street scene outside the window, he suddenly felt an extraordinary feeling from the bottom of his heart-I did not go to have afternoon tea with an old man who retired from the coaching position, but went to a pilgrimage to meet a man who started a forest dynasty. emperor.

After retiring, the old man's home is no longer in the downtown area of ​​Derby. He bought a small farm-like manor in the northwestern suburbs of Derby. Hanging alone outside the city, there is only a narrow and difficult forest path connected to the prosperous world.

The car is bumpy on this road. Nearly caused Don En to get a car motion sickness. He never thought that such a great head coach would live in such a place. Look at the dirt road under the wheels. It is estimated that it will be even more muddy and difficult to walk on rainy days.

"Here." Bowyer said suddenly. Dunn found a red brick building in the low woods ahead, no different from the brick building he saw anywhere in the country. This place is too unremarkable, and Dunn was a little disappointed.

As soon as I got out of the car, I heard a dog barking. Then he saw a golden shepherd dog rushing out of the yard and pounced directly on him.

"Wow!" Dunn yelled, covering his face with his hands. He is really afraid of dogs...

But the shepherd dog just put his front paws on his shoulders, and then sticks out his tongue, whistling to lick his face.

The three people nearby laughed when they saw Dun En's embarrassed look. "Hi! Tony, it just wants to be affectionate with you." Walker laughed.

At this time, an old but somewhat sharp and loud voice came from the yard.

"It seems Sam likes you very much, kid."

Hearing this voice, except for Don En, who was being "made out" by the dog, the other three people stopped laughing and stood respectfully.

An old man walked out of the yard slowly, looked at the three people standing by the car, and then muttered: "Damn...I only prepared two sets of tea sets for guests. Walker, what brand of juice do you like?"

Hearing this, Walker was silly: "Boss, I'm an adult..."

The two people nearby lowered their heads and laughed desperately, and finally ran out of their mouths.

The old man ignored Walker's complaint and turned to look at Burns. "It's been so many years, and you haven't become more handsome, Kenny."

Burns smiled awkwardly: "Boss, you know... I don't like cosmetic surgery." When Burns was a player, he was publicly announced by his head coach that Kenny Burns was signed by him. The ugliest player under.

Hearing this answer, the old man smiled. Then he looked at Dunn, who was still "making love" with the dog, and exclaimed: "I didn't expect you to like Sam so much too." He whistled, and the big dog immediately let go of poor Dunn and ran back to the owner. Around.

Dunn struggled to wipe the saliva off his face before he could see the old man standing in front of him clearly.

His face was haggard, his eye bags were swollen, and his eyelids were always drooping, as if he was not awake. Is this the legendary coach Brian Clough who was famous in European football? Dunn feels that reality is really far from dream...

"Do you feel disappointed?" Dunn was startled by Clough's words. The old man guessed right.

"Oh, are you going to reassess me now?" Clough continued.

Dunn shrugged: "Evaluating others is the work of the personnel department..." Facing this sharp-eyed old man, for the first time he felt that he didn't know what to say. It seems that his premonition was correct on the way.

"Wrong, kid. What do you think the head coach does?"

"Lead the team to victory..."

"That's just part of the job." Clough beckoned, "Come in, I think the cookies should be already baked, let's have tea and talk. I really like your break in the FA Cup game. The play at the time."

Bowyer deliberately dragged it to the end, and when Dun En came up, he whispered to him: "The boss likes you very much, but he has such a character, don't take it to heart."

Dunn nodded: "I like this character."

Bowyer smiled: "We like it too.

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