Godfather Of Champions

"Well, anyway, Tony Dunn has left football. Now is the time for us to look away from him." In the BBC's "Today's Tournament" program, three guests talked about the previous time. Said so during the major event in the altar. They all unanimously ranked Dunn's retirement as the second place in this year's major sports events in England. The first place is naturally the England team won the world championship.

This sentence also represents an attitude of the media. After more than a month of hype, the new season is about to begin. A retired head coach, even if he is a champion coach, cannot attract more attention. What's more, if Dunn no longer coaches the team, then there is no point in hyping him. Without football, Tony Dunn is nothing, and the media don't have to buy him.

Dunn was so happy. Shania naturally has to work, while Tang En is at ease to take the children at home. Fortunately, Teresa, the most difficult baby to bring, was spent in the orphanage. Dunn, a big man, is not too difficult to take now. Dunn has no experience of being a father, but he always remembered one sentence to make his children happy.

A person who is almost fifty years old is still like a urchin in front of the child. He plays with Teresa all the time, doing everything possible to make her happy. For a time, only Teresa is the focus of his life. As for football? He had long been thrown out of the sky.

And in order for Teresa to adapt to this unfamiliar country and lifestyle as soon as possible, he often takes her out shopping, or sits in a bar in Burns. Of course, alcohol is not allowed, and Teresa is also designated as a "non-smoking area" by him, and the fans are not allowed to smoke. When he was no longer busy with work, he finally had more time to come to the bar to chat with the old man from the past. Everyone wanted him to come every day. What does it mean to stop smoking? Teresa is very popular with everyone. Although she is only an adopted daughter, who cares about that? My father doesn't care, what do outsiders care about?

This is the happy life of Dunn after his retirement.

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"Which team are you most optimistic about to win in the new season?" Lineker asked two guests on the show.

"Liverpool." Alan Hansen replied without hesitation.

"reason?"

"Does this need a reason? I am their fan... Well, I'm kidding. I just hope Liverpool can win the championship, but calmly, I think Arsenal and Manchester United have the most hope to win the championship..."

Lineker turned his attention to another guest, Mark Lawrenson.

"Ahem." Lawrence replied, clearing his throat, "I'm optimistic about Chelsea..."

"So what about the team that can qualify for the Champions League next season?"

This time the two people's opinions are surprisingly consistent: "Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea."

Lineker suddenly asked: "There is no Nottingham Forest?"

Alan Hansen and Mark Laurensen shook their heads together: "No."

Lawrence also added: “It’s not easy for them to hold the qualifications of the European League in their hands.”

The European League is the previous UEFA Cup, which was later restructured, and its full name is the "UEFA Europa League". After the reform of the European League, some adjustments have been made to the competition system and qualifications. The runner-up of the previous national cups is allowed to participate in the UEFA Cup. If the cup winner is eligible to participate in the Champions League, the runner-up will replace the champion in the UEFA Cup. Now this approach does not work. For those small and medium clubs who want to find a breakthrough in the Cup and enter European competitions, the threshold has been raised.

Nottingham Forest has lost the Champions League qualification for two consecutive seasons and can only participate in the European League.

In fact, for many clubs, even if they can participate in the European League, it is a very commendable result. It happened that Nottingham Forest only showed off in Europe's top competitions a few years ago, but now it can only participate in the European League, which is really "degraded". After all, the influence and benefits of the European League cannot be compared with the Champions League.

And there is one thing that has an impact on Nottingham Forest's performance, and it has long been not a vague rumors, but a solid fact-Evan Daggerty has always wanted to sell Nottingham Forest. How can a club chairman who has no intention of continuing to run the club lead the club forward? Up to now, nottingham Forest’s head coach change is just like watching the lights, so much so that the media have ridiculed the door of the Nottingham Forest head coach’s office as a “revolving door”.

On the one hand, the reason why it has not been sold is the decline in performance and the decrease in market influence. After all, Nottingham is not a big city such as Manchester, Liverpool and London. A small place is destined to have small development prospects. In this case, the possibility of attracting foreign consortia is very low; on the other hand, the price is always inconsistent. The buyer, Evan Daugherty, thought that the price was too low for him to accept. So it's been so stiff for two years. Before and at the end of each season, I heard that Daugherty would sell the club, but he never sold it. The fans were disgusted by his lack of loyalty. At first, they were angry, but now they have become a joke. They only saw Evan Daugherty as a jumping clown. The Robin Hood stand at Crimson Stadium has banners scolding Evan Daugherty all the year round. It has become a scene here. Every time the game is broadcast, many close-ups are given there.

Fortunately, there are still European competitions to participate in every year. In the past few years it was the Champions League, and in the past two years it was the European League. The business will not fall to the point of unsustainable. It’s just that the results of the competition are not very satisfying. The head coach has been changed continuously, and the tactics can’t be agreed to be implemented. Today, a new coach comes with a new set of tactics. Tomorrow the new coach will get out and practice for half a season. His new tactics were abandoned, so everyone had to start all over again...

So back and forth, if you can get any good results, it is really bullying no one in the Premier League.

Once the team loses the strength and motivation to win, then such a team will inevitably be unable to keep people.

Michael Dawson, the central defender who was considered a good deal by Evan at the beginning, has been injured since he bought it back, and eventually retired due to injuries at the age of 34; David Bentley left Nottingham Forest, he brought a transfer fee of 12 million pounds to the team, he went to Blackburn; Adriano Mork was unwilling to leave the club, but this kind of decision is not in his hands. Both the agent and the club chairman hope that he will leave because he can sell for 18 million pounds and the agent can also draw money from it, so in the end he went to Arsenal...

For the fans of Nottingham Forest, the four seasons after Dunn left were four seasons of darkness. The team didn't say anything, but also watched the former heroes leave one by one every summer. It's like going back to the beginning of this century, when Nottingham Forest was ups and downs in the lower league.

At that time they missed Brian Clough, and they said, "If Clough was still there, it would not have made things so bad." Who do they miss now? Of course it is Tony Dunn, but Dunn has retired.

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"The goal of the club in the new season is the European Champions Cup? Ha! Be realistic, Mr. Chairman!" In Burns' bar, fans from nearby are discussing the future of the team in the new season. When it comes to the club’s chairman, Evan Daugherty, everyone’s tone is full of sarcasm.

"It's great that we can guarantee to participate in the European League!"

"Although I think it's always good to be ambitious... But this sentence doesn't work for Daggerty. Even if the team's performance can improve, it will only increase his bargaining chip to sell the club. ..."

Dunn turned a deaf ear to the heated discussion on the other side of the bar, and took his daughter Teresa to sit aside, making Teresa a little boring.

"Theresa, dad tell you a joke!"

Teresa nodded.

"It's very hot in summer. Two bananas were on the road. Suddenly the banana in front said:'It's so hot, I want to take off my clothes.' After he said, he took off his clothes, and then the banana at the back fell over. Now! Hahahaha!" After talking, Dunn lay on the table with his stomach in his hands and laughed. "Isn't it funny?"

Teresa, who was opposite, twitched her mouth and tried very hard to make herself laugh, but after a few attempts, she really couldn’t do such a difficult thing. So she said to Dunn aggrievedly: "Dad, I can't laugh..."

This time it was Kenny Burns, who was next to him, laughing.

Dunn felt embarrassed: "Okay... I know this joke is a bit difficult for you to understand..." He scratched his head, turned to look at the barkeeper who suddenly appeared, and quickly opened the topic, "Why don't you go? Wiped the cup?"

Burns put a glass of freshly squeezed juice in front of Teresa: "I invite you, Teresa."

"Thank you Uncle Kenny." Teresa's English has improved very quickly, and the speed at which children accept new things is always unexpected to adults. Now she can understand part of English, and she can also talk in simple English.

Taking this opportunity, Burns sat down next to Dunn: "They all hope you can come back..." He pointed to the group of fans opposite, and the discussion was still very lively. "But they dare not say it in front of you."

Dunn looked at Teresa who was sucking the juice opposite, "I have retired."

"Jordan can come back three times after retiring three times." Burns just smiled.

Dunn looked at him, but he didn't find any strange expressions. As if he was just talking casually.

Burns took away the empty glass on the table, got up and walked slowly behind the bar. Dunn looked at him from behind. This man used to be a famous villain in English football. He was a daunting big figure for all his opponents. Legend has it that whenever he participates in a game, there will be an extra "Boy" in the nearby hospital. Ensko". He used his dentures to demonstrate against the then-European football player Kevin Keegan before the 1980 Champions Cup final. Keegan was scared to death. In the subsequent finals, Keegan barely even touched the ball. However, the Hamburg team eventually lost that game and became the defending champion of Nottingham Forest. After retiring, he runs a bar here, which can make the big guys in the football hooligans obediently obedient, and it is somewhat inseparable from his reputation. But now he has gray hair and a rickets on his back. He doesn't look like the butcher who once feared everyone on the court.

Such a man later became an ordinary middle-aged uncle who sits behind the bar every day and wipes the glasses, and now he becomes an ordinary old man who sits behind the bar every day and wipes the glasses.

Dunn turned his head and looked at his daughter, and found that her daughter was also looking at him, and said timidly: "I can't finish drinking, Dad..."

Dunn stretched out his hand and touched her head: "Just forget it if you can't finish it. We should go back, Teresa."

After speaking, he got off his seat and went to hold Teresa's hand.

Teresa jumped down, took her father's hand, and the two walked out.

"Goodbye, guys." Dunn waved to the fans who were still discussing.

When everyone discovered that he was leaving, they stopped discussing and turned their attention to him. It seemed that there was something to say, but no one said it. In the end, only Fatty John shouted when Dunn was about to go out, "Are you coming tomorrow, Tony!"

Dunn looked back at him: "It's hard to say, I don't come here every day, I always bring Teresa here, I'm afraid she will learn badly, haha!"

Dunn stopped talking, laughed, waved open the door and left.

Tony Dunn never accepts old age, but perhaps in the eyes of these people, Dunn, who is slowly walking out with his daughter, is already considered an old man.

He is less than fifty years old and is not old physically. But his heart was old, and the beating heart of the nuclear power champion slowed down and calmed down slowly. Now that he has all the championships he should have won, what else can stimulate him? No, not at all. He did not make sense to come back again, dragging a body with a risk of heart disease to satisfy the audience's desires.

Maybe for him this is what he always wanted. He had planned it a long time ago. After winning the World Cup, he will retreat bravely and leave a most glorious back to the world. His always glorious image will not be discredited, and people do not have to lament the "hero's end".

But for the audience, the most dazzling protagonist star has come to a curtain call. What else is so good about this drama? Those Uranus superstars at the final curtain call of the concert will always be called back by enthusiastic fans, a few more songs, another curtain call, and then called to the stage, repeated several times, it shows how popular they are.

It's a pity that they couldn't run in front of Dun En and shout "Come back, Tony! Sing us another song!"

"I want Tony to live a happy life and be in good health. Now he has a daughter again, which is supposed to be the case. But why do I still prefer the guy who jumps and spits at the fourth official on the sidelines?"

Slim Bill murmured.

"I like it too..." someone murmured beside him.

Bill glanced, it was John. The two looked at each other and both laughed again.

"Why come back? The forest team is messed up. Is coming back to ruin the reputation of your champion godfather? Or don't come back..."

The two shook their heads at the same time. (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, authors are supported, and genuine reading is supported!)

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