Godfather Of Champions

George Wood started in England's game against Andorra and his performance was remarkable. When he was replaced in the 80th minute, England led by two goals and winning the game was no problem. Therefore Capello was relieved to replace him-with him on the field, England's defense is indeed much stronger. It's not just defense that benefits, England's offense is also more threatening because of him, after all, offenses are launched from the midfield. Capello arranged for Wood to be in charge of the defense alone in this game, and everyone else attacked. As for the "three virtues" issue, Capello did not use England's most used 442 formation in this game, instead playing 433. George Wood dragged the defense behind, with Gerrard and Lampard in the front, between the midfielder and the shadow forward. This can maximize their offensive capabilities while not allowing them to be distracted by defense.

However, the core problem of the attack has not been resolved. Gerrard and Lampard are players with very strong offensive ability. They also serve as the core of the offensive organization in their respective clubs, but who is the core in England?

Although in the computer field, dual-core CPUs are more powerful than single-core CPUs, they cannot be understood so simply on the football field. After all, people are not computers, and one more core may cause mutual interference, and in the end no one can perform well. Just like the Brazilian team today, Dunga is having a headache with how Kaka and Ronaldinho coexist on the court.

If Gerrard is the core, then Lampard's performance will be limited; if Lampard is the core, Gerrard will not be able to play his best level.

England's 2-0 victory over Andorra has nothing to do with the excellent performance of Gerrard or Lampard. Both goals were scored by set goals. George Wood's appearance only made England's defense more stable, and his direct contribution to the offense was not much.

After playing this game, England's players will continue to stay in the national team, preparing for the qualifier on September 11. And Capello still has time to make adjustments to the team's lineup tactics.

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The first team did not play, Dunn has been soaking in the reserve team for this period of time, supervising the training and competition of players who do not have the task of national team competition-the reserve league.

Aaron Mitchell is training hard to adapt to the new position of center forward. Progress was very slow at the beginning. After all, he played as a central defender for seven years, and some habits are not so easy to change. The difference between a central defender and a forward is also very big. Changing positions is not as easy as simply changing the name. There is a lot of knowledge in it. Mitchell can only feel it by himself.

Shaheen's progress also made Dunn very gratified. With the help of psychologists and coaches, he is trying not to avoid physical confrontation on the court. At first it was a little daunting, but I finally did it. Dunn has decided to let Shaheen play the League Cup on behalf of the Forest team next month. If Shaheen can successfully return to the level before the injury, the Turkish Football Association should really send a pennant to Dunn and Nottingham Forest.

After the training is over, Dunn sometimes asks Chris Lak and Don to go to the Burns bar for a small gathering and have a drink together-of course, Don only drinks non-alcoholic beverages. Chat with the gang of Fat John and Thin Bill, and then go home with Tang.

Life is very simple.

But if he is not busy or drinking, Dunn will still feel a little lonely when he is not with his friends. The house is not small, most of the time there is no one. Every night before going to bed, to go to the toilet to drain water, he would pass through Shania's room. Sometimes he would suddenly stop and look inside.

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"Hey, Tony. Go for a drink together tonight?" After the training, Chris Lak greeted Dunn warmly. Tang looked at him too.

Unexpectedly this time, Dunn shook his head and refused. "I have something to do, so I won't go. Go yourself."

Chris Lak looked at Tang and just wanted to open his mouth. Tang first said, "In that case, I will go home directly." He was not interested in bars. He used to go only because Dunn was going, so he could chat together. Since Dunn didn't want to go today, then he didn't need to go to the kind of place he didn't like too much.

Chris Lak sighed helplessly: "Okay. If you don't go, what shall I do there alone?"

Dunn chuckled: "You should just go home to accompany your wife, David! If you have children, don't run to the bar all day."

Chris Lak shrugged and walked away. Dunn looked at Tang: "You go back too."

Don nodded. Without asking what Dunn was going to do, he turned and walked away.

What is Dunn going to do? In fact, I still drink, but drink in a different environment. He didn't want to go to Burns's bar today. There were too many acquaintances there. Someone always came up to him with a glass of wine to talk to him, and there was no free moment.

Why did he suddenly decide to drink in another bar? Because he suddenly remembered that tomorrow is his birthday, Tony Dunn’s birthday.

It has been almost five years since he came to the UK and he has never had a birthday. The first year was because he didn’t remember when the owner of this body was born. The memory loss that year was a bit serious, and she couldn’t remember many things. Now he remembers some of them, but still doesn’t remember others, but Those are very long memories, and it's okay if you can't remember them. For the next three years, he knew that Tony Dunn was his birthday on September 9, but he hadn't been too busy. On the one hand, it is someone’s birthday, on the other hand, he is always very busy. When he thinks about birthdays, often time has passed. Over time, I didn't bother to think about boring things like birthdays.

Not everyone takes birthdays very seriously. Dunn remembers that he was not a person who paid much attention to this aspect before. There are still parents at home. When he was studying and working alone, he never gave himself a birthday—he had few friends. It was too silly to buy a cake and blow candles. Remember when and when he was born. There is no need to do so many tricks.

It is estimated that Tang is the same kind of person who does not care about birthdays, because since Tang came to Nottingham, Dunn has never seen him celebrate his birthday once. By the way, Tang's birthday is on August 8th, which has already passed. At the opening of the Olympic Games, Dunn once joked that his birthday party was directed by Zhang Yimou. Tang didn't respond to this and made Dunn feel like he was telling another cold joke.

But this year, Dunn, who didn't care about his birthday so much, thought of birthdays.

Because he suddenly thought of tomorrow, his body will be forty years old...

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Forty years old!

This is a terrible age.

When Dunn was sitting in a bar in downtown Nottingham, he was still thinking about this when he was sitting in a bar that he had never been here before and was drinking himself.

I have never cared about age before, and it can even be said that he has always felt that after crossing over, his age should start from 26, so this year is only 31 years old. There are still many young people of this age in China. Not married at all.

The reality is very cruel. He can feel that his body is slowly getting old. This is a natural law that cannot be stopped and cannot be ignored. Although in football, the media and others still call him "Young Marshal" and call him "young and promising", but football is a special world. Here, 30-year-old players are called "veterans". .

Forty years old, indeed old.

As the Chinese saying goes, if you stand at thirty, you don’t get confused at forty.

He should start a family at the age of thirty, and he is still alone at the age of forty-from now on he must treat himself as a person who has really lived for forty years.

He felt that he should seriously consider "home".

The messy bachelor’s room needs to be cleaned up. You can’t always go to Burns’s bar to eat fast food after work. You can’t accompany yourself for a lifetime with handjobs and phone calls... Most importantly, he is not a celibate, nor is he gay. She is indifferent and has never been hurt by a woman when she was a child. She is not a die-hard member of the "death to death" group, and does not hate society, women and family. Then this heart is always hanging alone without a place, and it will feel uncomfortable in the dead of night.

Recently drank together, Chris Lak always looked at his watch as soon as the time came, and then complained endlessly that he would be entangled by his wife when he went back late. While saying, "There is a woman in the house that is troublesome, and I can't drink it happily", while obediently bid farewell to Dunn, rush home to accompany his wife.

Dunn asked Tang. Does Chris Lak want to stay for a few more drinks, or does he really want to go back with his wife?

Tang thought for a while and shook his head and said he didn't know.

Without a family, it is estimated that it is impossible to experience the taste.

Thinking of family, Dunn felt even more annoyed, and he poured golden alcohol into his mouth.

Because he found his circle of life was pitifully small. In addition to football is football, I used to think it was nothing bad, this is the life he wants. Now when he wanted to find a woman in his circle of life who could live with him, he couldn't find it—99.9% were men.

In fact, Tang is the same as him, but Tang is still young, just twenty-seven years old. His future is very long. He has plenty of time to plan his life and meet the people he likes. For the first time, Dunn felt that he was pressed for time. Ten years will pass in a flash. By that time, I will be fifty years old, over half a hundred... I used to have no idea about this age, but now I think about it and I feel that my back spine is cold.

How can a 40-year-old middle-aged man with a perverse personality and unpleasant temper have a woman he likes?

This is a very lively bar. The lively thing is not that there are a lot of people chatting loudly, but because of the superb music here, young men and women play crazy together. This is not a traditional bar, but a younger and more fashionable bar, similar to a domestic disco.

Dunn found here casually. He didn't like this noisy music. To him, the music was not as good as the singing on the city stadium stands. But he can now turn a deaf ear to these music and noise. He was just sitting in the corner alone, drinking glass after glass. But there are things that bother him. When it bothers him, he will drink until he gets drunk and the troubles will naturally disappear.

His appearance attracted someone from another corner.

"Can I sit here?" A female voice rang in Dun En's ears.

Dunn raised his eyes and looked at the other person. A woman with brown hair and fair skin was sitting in front of him with a glass of wine smiling, her face could not be seen clearly, because he was drunk and dim.

He is no stranger to this kind of opening remarks. On some occasions, he often meets them. They must be very coquettish and **** women. They sit down with a smile, you invite them to have a drink, and then do what they should do...

Dunn wasn't in the mood right now, he didn't come to this strange bar to solve his physical needs. But when he saw the other's brown hair, he hesitated and changed his mind.

"Aren't you already sitting here, miss?"

The woman smiled.

"You are so beautiful, miss." This is a false compliment and an instinctive reflex. Seeing a woman who took the initiative to strike up a conversation, Dunn would say so. Now he couldn't see the other side's appearance at all, on the one hand he drank too much, on the other hand the lights were dim. What caught his eyes was white flowers-the other party's clothes were really scarce.

"What's the matter, beautiful lady?"

"Curious about you, can't you?" the woman smiled.

"It's also a reason." Dunn nodded, then squinted at the other person and asked, "But do you know who I am?"

The woman looked around, and the men and women were still caring under the hot music.

"On such a night, who are you and what does it have to do with the two of us?"

The two looked at each other and smiled, this is a tacit understanding...

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The sound of car engine stalling came from the street outside the house, and after a while, the sound of unlocking the door rang out in the dark house. The door was opened, the light from the street lamp outside shone in, and two elongated figures appeared at the door.

"This is my home, it's a bit messy...but don't mind, ha." Tang En knotted his tongue and pointed to the door of a woman he was hugging. "You know, a single middle-aged man is like this..."

Dunn threw off the leather shoes on his feet and started to touch the dark to turn on the lights.

When he just turned on the light, another familiar voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"Your nightlife is so colorful, Uncle Tony."

Tang En looked back in surprise and found that his little fairy was standing on the stairs at this time, looking down at him coldly, and the charming and fashionable woman he knew in the bar who was still in his arms...

This scene is weird. Dunn thought he had drunk too much, and auditory and visual hallucinations appeared. He looked at Shania, then turned to look at the bar girl who was inexplicable at what had happened suddenly.

He felt that his brain numbed by alcohol was not enough.

"This is...what's going on...huh?" For a long time, such a sentence came out of his mouth.

"It looks like you are doing well alone, so I can rest assured. Goodbye, Uncle Tony. Also, just after zero o'clock, happy birthday." Shania raised a backpack from the room, walked down, and turned her face coldly. The individual waved his hand and walked straight out. The sound of starting the car soon came, and then a white Mercedes-Benz Jeep drove past Dunn's door.

"She, she is..." The woman pointed at Shania who had gone away, somewhat surprised and confused.

The cold wind outside the door whizzed in, and a layer of sweat came out on Dun En's forehead-his wine was already awake.

Shania came back specially from abroad. It's just... why did it become like this?

The woman looked at Dun En with a more surprised and suspicious gaze this time. Dun En realized that he was still holding each other until now, and quickly let go. "Sorry, sorry...I don't know what happened. But it won't work tonight..." As he said, he took out some banknotes from his wallet and handed them to the other party.

The woman's face became cold when she saw Dun En's movement. She stared at Dunn and said in a tone completely different from when she was chatting in the bar: "I think you made a mistake, I am not a prostitute. Mr. Tony Dunn."

After saying this, the woman also turned and left Dun En's house. Like Shania, she drove away.

At this time, Tang, who heard the movement next door, ran over. As soon as he entered the room, he found that only Tang En was standing at the door in the empty home, stupidly like a pillar.

"What happened? Where is Shania?"

Dunn turned to look at him: "You know? Have you met her?"

"As soon as I came back, I saw the light on here. Out of curiosity, I came over and took a look. I didn't expect Shania to come back. I wanted to call you and ask you to come back. But she said she wanted to surprise you. I didn’t let me fight... She came back specially for your birthday, and she also said she would give you a birthday present... By the way, where is she?” As he said, Tang looked around looking for Shania. Shadow.

"Don't look for it, let's go." Tang En sat down on the sofa dejectedly, covering his face with his hands, rubbing hard, he wanted to make himself more sober.

"What happened?" Tang also felt that the atmosphere was not right at this time.

"I don't know." Dunn opened his hands. "In short, I ran out for a drink and brought back a woman. Then I saw Shania. Then Shania went away, and then the woman was at me. I left when I was going to give her money."

Tang looked at Dun En with the eyes of a Martian: "How much did you drink, Tony?"

"I don't know, I didn't count."

Tang sighed and sat down beside Dun En, muttering: "So I hate drinking..."

The two men sat on the sofa in silence. The door was open and the wind from outside came in, making people feel a little cold.

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PS, the morning chapter has been updated. There will be another update at 6:30 in the evening, thank you for your support~

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