Godfather Of Champions

Chapter 9: The referee is the protagonist (on)

"We've`got`the`whole`world`in`our`hands!" The singing is still echoing over the city court, and the players of the Forest team have the feeling of playing at home again: they are surrounded by people who support them. , Their every action can get unreserved applause from fans. Yes, that's how it feels, they haven't felt it for a while.

come on! Come on more! We will never get bored!

Amidst the cheering of the fans, the Forest team launched a continuous offensive towards West Ham United's goal. For a while, James's goal was rumbling. It seems that the Forest team can score a goal with a random shot.

Glenn Rod glanced back at the bench, and he found backup center back Gary Brin still in his seat.

"Damn! Why are you still here, Brin? Didn't I ask you to warm up?"

Gary Brin is confused. When did the head coach let himself warm up? But he knew that this was not the time to argue with the frustrated Rhode, he quickly took off the jacket he put on him and jumped off the bench.

The changes on the West Ham United bench also attracted Dunn's attention. The person who warmed up was a little face, so he turned his head and asked Walker: "Dess, who is the person going to warm up?"

Walker watched for a while, then told Dunn: "Gary Brin, the Irish international, a central defender with excellent air defense capabilities."

"It seems that our opponent has given up the game." Dunn laughed, "Change into a central back...Does the five-back want to stop our attack? Call Jess back, I think he should too Enough to warm up."

Walker got up and walked to the forest team warm-up area, shouting loudly for Ian Jess to return.

West Ham United wanted to defend, which actually fits Dunn's wish. If Rhode has the courage to let the team press it out, Dunn will probably find it difficult. But the opponent has to defend, this game is simple. Isn't it just intensive defense? He believes that as the game progresses, West Ham players will change their mentality from disdain to anxious, their foot movements will gradually increase, and the number of fouls will increase. There will be no shortage of set shots you can get.

The 31-year-old former Scotland international Ian Jess has a beautiful free kick skill. Selected for the Scottish team eighteen times and scored two goals. In the positioning kick drill the day before the game, Dunn witnessed the old guy's free kick level from the sidelines, and he could score six out of ten!

He doesn't need more. In this game, he can use a free kick to pose a threat to West Ham. Let West Ham know that it is useless to defend.

Taking advantage of Walker’s time to call Jess, Dunn looked at the stadium. On the side close to him was Andy Reid, while West Ham United’s activities on this side were quite famous. Former genius midfielder Lee Bowyer. Looking at this West Ham player with a long face and short hair, he suddenly realized that West Ham still has a weakness for him to use.

Bowyer made his debut in Charlton, but became completely famous in Leeds United.

In the 01-02 season, Leeds United is known as the Youth Guards. They eliminated the powerful AC Milan in the European Champions Cup and reached the semi-finals. The main players in the team are mostly young players, 21-year-old Jonathan Woodgate, 22-year-old Harry Cowell, 21-year-old Paul Robinson, 22-year-old Rio Ferdinand , Ian Hart, 23, Alan Smith, 20, Mark Viduka, 25, Danny Mills, 24, Robbie, 21 Keane, twenty-six-year-old Robbie Fowler... those star-shining names, they were all very young at the time. Later, due to the economic crisis in Leeds, these players went their separate ways. By the way, Aaron`Lennon, who later became a rookie of the England national team, was still in the youth team of Leeds United at the time and was only fourteen years old.

Bowyer had just transferred to West Ham during the winter break this season, and this was his first game on behalf of the team.

Dunn doesn't deny that Bowyer is a genius, but the character flaws of this genius... are a little serious. Everyone knows that he is a bad boy in England, and there are even media publicly calling Bowyer a "scum". Most of the famous scandals in English football in recent years bear his name.

For example, in the case of the assault of an Asian youth with Woodgate, he was exempted from prosecution in the final compensation of 170,000 pounds; the UEFA Cup stepped on the opponent's player Gerardo's face, and the Spanish media commented after the game that he "almost trampled Gerardo's eyes out" , Was banned by UEFA for six games; insulting his girlfriend is a monkey, because his girlfriend is half of Indian ancestry, he said "I don't want my child to return to the ancestors", suspected of racial discrimination; **** of a girl case, there is no final conclusion, but He and Dyer were among the suspects; they fought with his teammate Dyer in the game, and were sent off by the referee. This incident was recorded in the history of the Premier League...

Several things happened after 2003. This made it clear to Dunn that Bowyer's inferiority was deeply ingrained, from the depths of his heart and soul. It was definitely not an impulse, and it would not be eliminated. As long as you make good use of this, you can push West Ham into the abyss of failure.

The fourth official held up the substitution sign on the sidelines, and West Ham was the first to make the adjustment. Rhodes was replaced by central defender Gary; Brin, and he replaced the ineffective Di Canio. A very common substitution adjustment that an ordinary fool can guess.

Taking advantage of this moment, Dunn pulled Andy Reid near the sideline: "Andy, watch Bowyer." He pointed to the bad boy who was facing away from them not far away.

"I watched him the entire game, boss."

"No, no, I mean another way. As long as Bowyer takes the ball, you will continue to harass him with small movements. You can use fouls when necessary. But be careful of the scale and don't be sent off. A word or two is stimulated. It's okay. Anyway... irritate him and make him lose his composure. The rest... do you know how to do it?"

Reid looked at Dunn in surprise: "The former coach Tony Dunn never allowed us to do this kind of thing!"

"Before you were a child and a youth player. Now you are a professional player and an adult!" Dunn casually found an excuse. "Do you know what the highest pursuit of professional players is?"

"Uh... more goals?"

"It's a victory!" Dunn roared, "Football that can't win is a failure! Okay, now in the name of victory, let me get rid of the scumbag Bowyer!" He slapped Reed hard, He pushed onto the court.

Reid looked back at Dun En hesitantly, but Dun En made a wipe of his neck. A cold sweat suddenly broke out behind him-is this really the Tony Dunn coach he is familiar with?

"Don't worry about so much, Andy! Victory, victory!" Dunn's voice rang from behind.

"Okay, boss. I listen to you..." Reed replied.

Dunn turned back to the coaching bench and found that Jace was already taking off his jacket.

"Jace, you play on Pope's side. It's yours to have the set ball. Give me the ball into their goal!" Dunn smashed his fist hard.

The veteran Jace nodded: "Don't worry, boss. You won't be disappointed."

"Hey. I know you never let people down. Go up and **** them!" Dunn encouraged Jace and pushed him to the sidelines. The fourth official raised the sign of substitution again, on the 16th. Get off Gen Pope, get on Ian Jess on the 22nd.

"The two teams made adjustments at the same time. Rod replaced a defender, while Dunn replaced a midfielder to continue to strengthen the attack. It seems that he has only one requirement for this game-victory! Ian Jay S, the Scottish international, played 18 times and scored two goals. He is good at free kicks and is Scotland’s chief set-kick expert. I believe that all the next free kicks of the Forest team will be taken by him!"

"Tony, what did you talk to Reid just now? I think he seems a little confused." Walker is really careful and can observe these details. Dunn thinks he will become an excellent assistant coach.

"Nothing, I asked him to irritate Bowyer as much as possible."

Walker laughed: "This is a great idea! Tony Dunn couldn't think of it before."

Dunn knew that there was still a period of time, he had to face this kind of surprise compared with the previous situation. He touched the back of his head: "Thank God, my head is open... Desi, how long will it be until the end of the game?"

"Not counting injury time, there are still twenty-four minutes."

"There is half of the second half, two goals. Hmm... Dess, don't you think we are much quieter behind us?" Dunn asked suddenly.

Walker glanced back, then smiled. In fact, there is no difference between being quiet and not being quiet when sitting on the coach's bench. The fans are all around you. Both of them must keep their heads very close to hear what the other is saying. Dunn’s "quiet" means that all the previous insults disappeared. Walker looked back and saw that Michael, who was taking the lead in cursing, was now working hard with his guys to cheer on the forest team players. They stretched out their arms and shouted " "Forest" looks much better than when he pointed the **** to Dun En.

Walker turned around and said to Dunn, "Tony, I think even if he invites someone from a bar to drink in the evening, he will be willing."

Both sides made their own adjustments, which were quickly reflected in the game. But the most striking thing is not these two adjustments, but the "confrontation" between Andy Reid and Lee Bowyer. Dunn felt that it would be more vivid to replace "confrontation" with "conflict".

Reid followed his instructions very obediently. Dunn recalled that when he was in the youth team, Reid listened very much to his own words, because he was the one who dug him out. The youth team of the forest team, with countless people in the youth team, can stand out from the crowd, but there are very few people who play for the forest first team that they love. Reid is only twenty years old this year. Although he is an Irishman born in Dublin, he has received football training with the Forest team since he was a child.

Just now Bowyer got the ball, Reid rushed up, pulled and pushed, and even though the referee blew his whistle in time for a foul, Bowyer was still upset.

Dunn carefully observed Bowyer's expression changes below. This yellow-haired boy is a typical football hooligan when he is on the street and drinks a little wine. Reid hadn't done enough, Bowyer was obviously suppressing his anger.

He played for Leeds for six and a half seasons. At first, he was radiant and starred, and then he was surrounded by endless scandals, coupled with his own injuries, and his condition plummeted. Only last season did Leeds rise again, helping the team defeat AC Milan and enter the Champions League semi-finals. He chose to move to West Ham United this season, hoping to start over in a new environment and prove to the world that the genius Bowyer is not dead.

But a pity...

If you do not die, I will die. Dunn said in his heart.

In the history that Dunn knows well, Bowyer only played for West Ham for a short half-season in 2003, making ten appearances, which is one of the few. After that, he moved to Newcastle on a free transfer, and then it was not good. I don't know if it has a direct relationship with this game... In short, the genius bad boy Lee Bowyer, who was once high hopes and disappointed many times, has completely fallen, and is no longer as brave as he was.

Joe Cole has been completely frozen, facing the desperate defense of the Forest team, he flinched. After all, it is only an FA Cup. They will have a more important Premier League game 11 days later. If they are kicked in this game, it will undoubtedly cast a shadow on the team's relegation road. For some balls, you can let go, and you can hide.

So West Ham shifted its focus to Lee Bowyer on the other side of the court in the counterattack. They hope that this former genius can help the team get rid of the current embarrassing situation. They just picked the wrong opponent and day.

For the third time in a row! Reid blocked Bowyer's breakthrough with a foul, and the price he paid for it was only a verbal warning from the referee. And Bowyer's face grew ugly.

In the subsequent attack, Bowyer received a pass from Joe Cole and should have chosen to pass to Defoe, who was in a better position, to let the latter break through. After taking a few steps with him, he fired a depressing anti-aircraft gun.

"In fact, the goal of Bowyer's shot was the roof of the city stadium!" Mortensen sneered mercilessly. The Forest team performed abnormally in the first half and he mocked the Forest team. Now it's West Ham's turn.

Tang En clenched his fist and slammed it: "It's done!"

The Forest fans in the stands began to make up songs to mock Bowyer's shot: "Lee Bowyer is an excellent rugby player! He kicked the ball into the sky! Oh yeah!"

After understanding the meaning of the lyrics, Dunn laughed happily. The England fans must be the most talented and best in the world. He likes this environment.

Seeing Bowyer shooting the ball into the sky, Rod waved his hand in annoyance, while Defoe on the court was a little dissatisfied. He shouted at Bowyer: "Hey! I'm here! Not in the sky!"

"I'll take care of you to die!" Bowyer responded unfriendly to his teammates, then turned and ran away.

Defoe behind him was very aggrieved and shrugged to Joe Cole. The young captain obviously had no way to restrain this rebellious new teammate. He could only shook his head, helpless.

In Dunn’s plan, Reed should have angered Bowyer, Bowyer tried to retaliate, and then Reed fell to the ground exaggeratedly. The referee gave Reid a yellow card and Bowyer a red card. This is a very good plan to make the opponent one less person, one less offensive point, and a great loss of morale.

Unexpectedly, the situation on the court suddenly changed, completely beyond his expectations.

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