Godfather Of Champions

Chapter 6: Three goals behind

Ian McDonald, the old guard at the Vilford training base, turned on the radio before the game began, turned the volume on to the maximum, and sat in the guard room to listen to the game at ease. At this time, the players selected to the team's squad are all in the city stadium, and those who are not selected are all at home or elsewhere. The training base was quiet, only the commentary voice from the guard room.

He still remembers the smile and promise Tony Dunn gave him this morning: "You will hear the news of our goals one by one on the radio." This made him full of expectations.

Soon after the game started, he really heard the news of one goal after another on the radio. But this is not the Forest team's goal, but the visiting team West Ham's. The game lasted only half an hour, and his favorite team was poured three goals by the guest West Ham.

He sat on the chair in a daze, unable to believe what he heard.

"Jermaine Defoe, Defoe, shooting! Goal! What a beautiful raid!"

"Defoe took the ball outside the penalty area... he suddenly started, too! Will it be 2:0? Yes! Jermaine Defoe, he scored twice! West Ham leads Nottingham Forest 2:0!"

"Unbelievable! Unbelievable! A volley outside the penalty zone! From Joe Cole! It's hard to believe that he is only 21 years old! He is the treasure of the future of English football! This is West Ham's third game in this game. Goals, they completely control the game, the Forest team has no chance! 3:0, the game ended early!"

an early closure? You **** commentator, what are you talking about? The game only started 30 minutes, and we still have 60 minutes to come back! McDonald has never trusted the acting head coach Tony Dunn so much. At this moment, he believes that this man can fulfill his promise.

He shook his fist at the radio, as if he was also standing in the stands of the city stadium and demonstrating to the visiting team with his companions. Since working as the gatekeeper of the training base, he has not been to the city stadium for some years.

The City Stadium was almost overwhelmed by boos. Dunn couldn't be more familiar with this boo. When he opened his eyes and saw the world three days ago, it was these boos that surrounded his ears. Boos from the home team fans, the object of venting their dissatisfaction is not the visiting team West Ham, but the home team Nottingham Forest.

In a corner of the stadium, a group of players wearing West Ham United jerseys surrounded their captain, celebrating the goal and celebrating their third goal of the game.

Des Walker sat beside Dunn holding his head in annoyance. He arranged the game from the pre-match preparation to the tactics. Dunn said that he believed him. He wanted to return the trust of the head coach with victory. Unexpectedly, the first half was not over yet, but what I got was a massacre.

The 0:3 score on the electronic scoreboard is red and dripping with blood. The **** raised to the coach's bench is like a dense towering tree in the Sherwood Forest northeast of Nottingham. It was not only the score that made the home team fans angry, but also the performance of the players on the field.

Dunn can see clearly off the court. If he is a **** fan of the Forest team, he can only use swear words and the **** to express his feelings in the 30 minutes of the first half. He even suspected that the eleven people on the court did not sleep well like himself. Did they go out to prostitutes at night? These bastards! He frowned, gritted his teeth thinking.

What Dunn didn't know was that at this time, a camera on the opposite side of the field pointed at him and put his facial expression on the broadcast screen in a close-up shot. The person in charge of this game is the famous English BBC football commentator John Mortensen who commented on the forest team's last league game. He is famous for his sharp and passionate commentary style. He just praised the goal of the young West Ham captain Joe Cole (Joe`Cole) with a series of exaggerated words. This was also West Ham's third goal in this game. He even came to the conclusion: "This game is over! Although the Forest team has a very glorious history, they are now lingering at the feet of Joe Cole like a poor worm, worrying about when they will come again. The next offensive to come! Look at such a forest team, look at the red jerseys on them, this is really heartbreaking!"

"Coach Tony Dunn also seems to be quite dissatisfied with the team's performance. So please come up with something! Don't always frown on the coach's bench, do you have a toothache? In fact, this game we only Seeing his assistant coach Des Walker frequently get up to direct the game, who is the head coach? But who expects a rookie newcomer who has just retired from the position of a player to be able to command the first-class team to defeat a super team Before the game, people’s doubts about the inadequacy of the forest team’s acting head coach were not groundless. Tony Dunn has still not brought the slightest change to the team so far, and he is not even as good as his predecessor Paul Hart-it is said that Dunn The coach took office because Paul Hart recommended to Chairman Daugherty. What I want to say is that Paul has always been very accurate in looking at players, but there is still room for improvement in terms of coaching!"

If Dunn heard that he was so degraded, I wonder if he would quarrel with this famous narrator on the spot... But now he has no intention of thinking about how others would evaluate him. He must change the decline on the court. He knew that West Ham was very good, just by looking at the names of these people, he knew how good they were. But this is not the reason why the Forest team should fail.

There is only one reason for failure, and that is that we have not done well enough!

Dunn muttered these words in a low voice.

Walker turned his head to him, he seemed to hear it, but he didn't hear it clearly. "What?" he asked.

"Nothing." Dunn shook his head.

"Tony, you have to think of a way, you can't go on like this." Walker put his mouth in Dunn's ear and whispered to him. "Boyer made up his mind to watch the show, I think he would like to lose this game!"

"You are right, that old man really thought so. But now I can't help it."

Walker was disappointed by Dunn's answer. The coach can't do something like this: When he loses control of one thing, it is often the end.

"Do you think our defensive players can defend Joe Cole, Lee`Bowyer, Di Canio and Jermain`Defoe?"

Walker shook his head, and to be honest, his team really can't compete with such a super team. Listen to the names of these people, either they are veteran players who have been famous for a long time, or they are rookies all over England.

"Also, do you think that our forwards and midfielders can pass through Carrick (Michael`Carrick), Ian`Pearce, Thomas Repka (Tamos`Repka), David James ( David`James) defense and then score?"

Walker continued to shook his head. This line of defense is at the national team level. James is the England national goal. Thomas Repka is a member of the Czech national team. Carrick also moved to Manchester United in the summer three years later. The two main forwards of the Forest team only had three shots in the first half, and the shots they shot even gave James no chance to warm up.

With a group of talented players in their team, West Ham easily controlled the rhythm of the game and took over possession of the ball on the field. The Forest team could only run back and forth with the football they played, and was consumed in this meaningless running. Physical strength and fighting spirit. Don't look at West Ham's miserable mix in the Premier League, only scored 16 points in the 21st round of the first half of the season, ranking first in the league. But in front of a first-class team, you can still play awe-inspiring and vent the depression of being bullied.

West Ham United took the lead just seventeen minutes into the game, and the extremely fast young forward Jermaine Defoe easily broke through the awkward defense of the Forest team and brought the team's first goal. Five minutes later, Defoe made a comeback and once again used speed to break through the defense and score twice. Watching this rookie, who was later selected for the England team, showed himself **** the court, Dunn had a feeling of time and space. He knows the achievements of this young man in the future. What makes Dunn feel very powerless is that there is no shortage of geniuses and strongmen in this West Ham United today. It is really hard for his forest team to play against such an opponent.

Watching West Ham players walking around the court passing the ball around, Joe Cole even performed a heel pass in front of the few away fans. Listening to the laughter from the West Ham fan stands and the boos from other stands, Dunn had an illusion: Whose home is this?

This situation made him very angry. Although he was not personally seen by Joe Cole and others over and over again on the court, he still felt that he was insulted. Because he is the head coach of this team, the responsibility of his team being bullied on the court must be the head coach, which is the same as being bullied himself.

Michael Dawson is the forest team's hardest player so far, but he alone can't stop West Ham's tide of offensive. He was not very responsible for the three goals conceded, because the team as a whole was too bad. After watching the 30-odd minutes of the game, Dunn decided to hand over the captain's armband to the young man when he next game. Since 21-year-old Joe Cole can be the captain of the "Hammer Gang" (the nickname of West Ham United), why can't the 19-year-old Michael Dawson? A genius full of fighting spirit and coming out of the forest youth training system, who else is more suitable to lead the current team?

The North Stand at the City Stadium near the Trent River is the main stand for Forest Football fans. The top floor has a long corridor enclosed by glass windows. There are two old but neat seats and two TV sets. The box in the city stadium. Compared with the stadium boxes of those giants, the home box of the Forest team can only be described as shabby.

In such a bad game, naturally no one will sit here and watch the game. Now there are only two people in the box. Instead of sitting on chairs, they chose a standing posture-standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass windows and looking at the stadium.

They are the chairman of this team Nigel Dogatti and his son Evan Dogatti.

Evan Daggerty glanced at the TV in the corner, then cast his gaze on the court. "This is the team you love, the Nottingham Forest team that once had infinite glory?" His tone was markedly taunting, completely different from the polite Kenny that Dunn saw that day.

He said this to his father. Old Dougherty didn't care about his son's ridicule of him, he said his own words, and he kept his head light when he spoke. "You and I go to the locker room during the intermission. I need to let you meet the players."

Evan knew that his words were ignored by his father again. "But I don't think it is necessary. Moreover, it is not a good time for everyone to meet." He still persuaded him, hoping that his father would dismiss him from meeting the players and coaches collectively. intend.

Nigel Daugherty did not answer his son's words, just watched the game very much.

Seeing his father's appearance, Evan shrugged and sighed. He has no interest in the boring and one-sided game on the court. He simply sat down, raised Erlang's legs, drank the Coke provided on the court, and looked at the place boredly.

This humble box, humble court, inferior competition, unattractive team... I really don’t understand why my father likes this team and is willing to invest tens of millions of pounds for her-he can I have never invested so much money in my son.

When he watched in the NBA, he was first a fan of the Chicago Bulls and then a fan of the Los Angeles Lakers. In the past year, he showed signs of becoming a fan of the San Antonio Spurs, even though his home and company are both in Houston. The only reason for frequent change of favorite teams is that the last team lacked stars and champions with sufficient appeal. In his opinion, it is incomprehensible and unbelievable to like teams that are not well-known, have no stars, and even mess around in the fifth-level league. Can they get any pleasure and benefit from the fascination with this kind of team? Can't enjoy the wonderful performances brought by the stars. There is no championship trophy one after another as a happy memory of the whole summer. There is no brilliant record for them to talk about after a meal...

He looked at the densely packed heads at his feet and on the opposite stand, as well as countless pairs of arms that stretched out and waved. Such a bad game was full of seats. He shook his head slightly.

What are these thousands of people like my father picture? Every weekend afternoon, I just sit in the rudimentary stadium stands to waste time and get old. It's sad.

What puzzled Mortensen was that Dunn didn't say anything at all after speaking with Walker. Even Walker, who was very active before, seemed to stick his **** to the seat. The two of them just watched the court quietly, saying nothing or doing nothing.

This is very strange, are they not in a hurry to see their team lose so badly? Are they not angry? They have to show some emotions, right? but none. The close-up shot swept across the faces of Dunn and Walker. The two men looked at the stadium dreamily without frowning.

Feeling shameless, Mortensen had to mumble: "Did they run out of Madame Tussauds?"

West Ham United coach Glenn Rod is very satisfied with the performance of his team. The misfortune of the first half of the season seems to have been left behind by these boys. He and Tony Dunn have the same coaching experience, and both of them were transferred from the youth team because of the poor record of their predecessors. In the contest between the two coaches, he prevailed. This is the first game he coached. It started well. He believes that as long as the team can play at the level of today's first half in the second half of the season, relegation will not be a problem.

He stood on the sidelines, confidently thinking about the next Premier League game.

Dunn glanced at Rod, who was standing on the sidelines directing the game, with a white face and a pair of gold glasses, looking handsome. He knew this person, he knew him before he came. This person later became the head coach of Newcastle, but before becoming the head coach of Newcastle, he was the head of the Magpies Youth Army. After Souness was fired because of his poor record, he replaced him. Sitting in "the most attractive position in the world", but the results are not very good, he is a little better luck than the predecessor is that when he does not perform well, he still has the team facing extensive injuries As an excuse, the team supports him. But in the end he resigned because the results were so bad, and his team created a historical record for Newcastle since 1951-the record of not scoring consecutive home games: 500 minutes.

Dunn knows Rod's experience, so he understands Rod has nothing to fear. West Ham is playing well now and has nothing to do with that gentleman-like coach. Just because they have a group of talented players.

Regardless of the players on the field, we only need to look at the people on the West Ham bench to know the strength of this team: England 2002 World Cup international Trevor Sinclair; Mali international, which later became famous in La Liga The shooter, who helped Sevilla win the UEFA Cup twice, became the hero of the La Liga double in the 06-07 season, Kanoute. Look at these names, and then look at the team's ranking after the end of the season: third from the bottom, they are relegated.

After the team was slaughtered by Everton 0:5 and Blackburn 1:7, the head coach claimed that the team’s poor performance was not his responsibility, but because his predecessor Redknapp bought too much. poor. But his poor level is not a "fallacy" drawn by one or two people wearing colored glasses. The entire English media has never stopped criticizing and questioning him. Judging from the first half of Dun En's observation, he also firmly believed in this.

Dunn shrugged, he has found a way to deal with this team. But now is not the time to adjust. Anyway, it is only five minutes before the intermission. When he gets to the locker room, he has to beat and beat the players who have not woken up.

He suddenly heard a very piercing and clear hiss from behind him, followed by a series of curses. He thought it was weird. It was quiet behind him before. Why did it suddenly become lively?

He looked back at the source of the sound, only to see Michael and others in the stands behind him who made faces at him than his middle finger. The gauze on that person's head is so conspicuous...

"Go back to your youth team! This is the adult team, not the place where children like you should come. Come back to mommy and act like a baby! Wow haha!!"

"Oh-oh -" the people around him roared. Most of these people laughed at him in the bar that day, and there were others who were strangers, but they must be in the same group as Michael.

Walker was also attracted by the scolding from behind. He stood up and shouted at those people: "Michael, what are you doing?!"

Michael ignored Walker and turned his head: "Des, you better not interfere. This is a personal grievance between us and Mr. Coach."

"Private grievances? Private grievances between a group of you and one person?" Walker hummed.

"Okay, ignore them." Dunn took Walker down.

"Tony, what's the matter? I remember you never had conflicts or quarrels with anyone. And Michael is also a loyal Forest fan, why do they hate you so much?"

"It's nothing, I splashed that leader's face in the Burns bar, and then I had a fight with him-it was over very briefly, I knocked him to the ground with a punch, and then I took care of the fat man on the left. It's called'fat pig'." Dunn said lightly, and Walker heard his mouth open so that he could swallow a ball. In his impression, Dunn hated drinking and smoking, and would never get angry with others, let alone hit people directly. What's wrong?

Dunn knew Walker was surprised, anyone who knew him would be surprised when he heard those words above. "I'll explain to you later, now we watch the ball first, I have found a way to deal with them."

Walker looked back at Michael and the others who were still making noise in the back stands, and then watched the ball at ease.

There is a characteristic of English stadiums. The coach seats are rarely located in the blank area between the stadium and the stands. Unlike most stadiums we know, their coach seats are set in the stands, surrounded by ordinary fans. Seats, both sides of the player aisle are separated for coach seats and bench seats. Unless directing the game, the coaches are all sitting in the stands. The forest team’s home city stadium was not like this before. Their coach’s bench was under the stands, on the sidelines, and even lower than the level of the stadium—the coach’s bench was like a pit dug on the sidelines, covered with a concrete roof to protect against rain . Later, because of the English European Championship in 1996, it was converted into most British stadiums, where the coaching seat and the fan stand were very close. This shortens the distance between the fans, which has pros and cons. Dunn was now suffering from the "bad" side. Sitting behind the coaching bench, Michael and the others kept humiliating him with boos and various curses and challenging his endurance.

Even the team's substitute players couldn't help standing up several times and looking back at them. Dunn still watched the ball without looking back.

"You coward, out-and-out coward! Have you seen it? I'm scolding you and your whole family! If you have the ability, come and punch me again! Where did your courage to beat me back then? Waste! You bastard! Son of a bitch! Fuck asshole!" Michael cursed loudly and even attracted the televised scene.

So he danced and yelled at the top of the stands, and the picture of Dun En sitting on his chest less than three meters below him entered the TV of countless people. Burns, who helped in his own bar, also saw this scene. There was a voice applauding for Michael in the bar, and Burns looked at a room of people's heads and could only shook his head slightly.

Maybe like Michael and the others scolded, Dunn is an "out-and-out coward" and "coward", and he doesn't even dare to fight back. His performance has disappointed many players. To be honest, Michael's scolding is too ugly, even players who know this fan leader can't listen. But Coach Dunn was still sitting in his seat, and didn't move a bit, as if he couldn't hear the scolding of those people.

Mortensen was excited again when he saw this scene on the sidelines. "I found an interesting phenomenon. As long as Coach Tony Dunn is on the field, the most exciting moment is definitely not on the court, but within ten yards of his coaching bench. Now there is some commotion behind his coaching bench, it seems Some fans are saying something to him, and seeing how emotional they are, it won’t be a good thing anyway. I think tomorrow night’s "Match`of`the`Day" program, we can invite lip language experts Explain what they are talking about. If West Ham beat their opponents 3-0 in this game, there is nothing worth reporting because they deserve to win. It is the unexpected incident that deserves our attention."

The time of the game passed by one minute and one second, and the form of the field was still unfavorable for Nottingham Forest, but West Ham also slowed down the pace of offensive after taking a three-goal lead. Kicked before. Maybe the players, like the coach, are thinking about the next Premier League game.

The scolding behind the head team's coaching bench has not ceased, and many players even have to actively request to go to the sidelines to warm up and escape the embarrassing bench. Dunn did not make any expression to their request, Walker could only sigh and let all the substitute players warm up. Suddenly the bench was half empty, leaving only the coaching staff.

Des Walker looked at Dun En with some worry. He felt that something was wrong with Dun En. His complexion seemed very ugly, as gloomy as the weather the previous two days.

When he looked down, he saw Dun En's hands clenched into fists tightly, and his knuckles even turned white because of too much force...

The referee's whistle gave everyone a relief, and the uncomfortable first half ended.

Dunn was the first to stand up and walk off the coaching bench, leaving behind the fans who were still insulting him, and walked into the passage first. Walker glared at Michael and the others, then stood on the sidelines to comfort the players who came off the court, patted this, patted that, shook his head, and sighed. It is normal to tell them to lose three goals against the super team.

Anyway, we are a first-class team...

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