Godfather Of Champions

After the league champion Arsenal defeated the cup champion Liverpool and won the Charity Shield, the countdown to the English Premier League in the 2018-2019 season officially entered.

In the new season, everyone's attention is on the four traditional Premier League superpowers. Manchester United and Arsenal are still receiving the most attention. No one talks about the world championship that England has just won, not to mention why Tony Dunn decided to retire.

Dunn, who often took his daughter out to go shopping, was surrounded by fans asking for a photo and autograph after being recognized by the fans. No media heard about it to harass him. Dunn doesn't like the media, but he really likes dealing with fans. Especially the fans with Nottingham, because this is his home field, every fan here is like a friend.

Of course it wasn't a moment that didn't make Dunn feel embarrassed. For example, when fans often greet him, they still have to ask: "Are you coming back, Tony?"

Dunn knew what they meant by asking. Now Nottingham Forest is in a mess. Everyone hopes that a powerful role will come out to save the team. After thinking about it, only Tony Dunn can convince them.

In the face of such enthusiastic fans, Dunn was unwilling to make them sad and disappointed, but on the other hand, it was difficult for him to take back what he said. He could only shake his head and smile helplessly: "I don't know, who knows what will happen in the future?" So prevarication.

Later, Dunn received a call from John Mortensen: "Tony, are you interested in coming to BBC 5?"

Like CCTV5, BBC5 is a dedicated sports station. The England national team's games are all broadcast on BBC 5. In each of the World Cup and European Cup competitions, Dunn has briefly signed BBC 5 stations as a guest commentator. But since he became the head coach of the England team, the two sides have never cooperated like this again.

"Go to BBC5?" Dunn was a little strange, but he immediately understood. Last year, the BBC had the last laugh in the battle with broadcasting organizations such as Sky TV and Independent TV, and bought a part of the live broadcast rights of Premier League matches. They were recruiting troops everywhere, and Dunn, a very popular commentator among the audience, naturally wanted to recruit through Mortensen's relationship with him.

"Well, explain the Premier League for the new season. Are you interested?"

"Ah, John...I haven't had enough rest yet." Dunn shook his head and refused. "I have just retired for two months. How could it be possible that the rest time I have saved over the past ten years will come in two months?"

"It's a pity..." Mortensen knows Dunn's temper. If he doesn't want to, then you're just wasting saliva if you say more. He only regrets that he has lost such an interesting commentary in the Premier League in the new season.

The day after Mortensen called, Martin Taylor also called. It was the same thing as Mortensen, asking him to join Sky TV's new season's Premier League commentary. Although Taylor retired a long time ago, he has worked for Sky TV for more than 20 years. Even after retiring, he still considers Sky TV. It is reasonable to come out to recruit for Sky TV this time.

But... Dunn still refused. The reason is the same: I haven't rested enough.

In fact, he knows very well that if he wants to continue working after leaving the position of head coach, then going to the TV station is a good choice. However, at present, on the one hand he likes this kind of leisurely life, on the other hand he has to take care of Teresa. His daughter has just arrived in the UK for more than half a month. How could he leave her to go to work? Shania works outside, so he can be a "house wife" now. Anyway, the family is not short of money for a while, so there is no need to rush out to make money to support the family.

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The new season of the Premier League kicked off on August 17, the opening match was Manchester United vs. the newly promoted Wolves. Manchester United finally won at home 2:0 easily.

The next day, the Premier League was fully rolled out. Nottingham Forest also ushered in their first opponent of the new season-Everton at home.

Despite the poor performance of the Forest team, the ticket revenue before the new season is still considerable. 38,000 sets of season tickets have been sold, not much different from previous seasons. During the most glorious period of Nottingham Forest, due to the small capacity of the city stadium itself, the season ticket sales figures at that time are now of little reference value. Although 38,000 sets are more than 10,000 less than Manchester United’s 55,000 sets, considering the size of the city itself, it is already quite remarkable to be able to achieve such results.

From the small to the big, the management of Nottingham Forest has no problems, so Evan also has the capital to bargain with those consortia.

From the season ticket sales, we can also see how **** the fans of Nottingham Forest are. No matter how dissatisfied with the club's senior management, they still choose to support the team. But there are also people who explain why they are so keen on buying season tickets: "Just as every home game spends thirty-five pounds to scold Evan Doggetty."

This statement has quite a market among Forest team fans, who formed a radical fan group called "Evan of Dog Day". Among the slogans insulting Evan Daugherty in the Robin Hood stands, this group accounted for the majority.

After having lunch cooked by Dunn himself, Dunn looked at Teresa who was sitting on the ground playing with dolls and asked: "Terissa, will Dad take you out for fun this afternoon?"

"Okay." Teresa stopped what she was holding and looked up at Dunn. She has very few objections, very well-behaved.

"Daddy will take you to the game, okay?" Dunn took out two tickets from behind like a magic trick and shook in front of Teresa's eyes.

Teresa tilted her head for a moment, and realized what her father had said about a "ball game", then she nodded again: "Okay."

Dunn was overjoyed and quickly picked up Teresa and gave her a hard kiss on her pink cheek.

"Let's go now!" He carried Teresa out and got in the car, and drove to the Crimson Stadium southwest of Nottingham.

In fact, Dunn didn't really want to take his daughter out to watch the game, but he himself wanted to go to the scene to watch the game, but he couldn't leave his daughter alone at home. That would be too dangerous. So they simply brought it out together and let her experience the atmosphere of a football match. Maybe Teresa will still like football in the future? Her mother doesn't like football, so let her like it. Then it will be 2:1 at home and he will win.

As a coach who has coached in Nottingham Forest for eleven years, even if he was not a Forest fan before, he is already the hardest Forest fan. Those hard-core fans have an affection for the Forest team. Isn't he himself? No matter how disappointed he is with the current Forest team, and whether he is still the coach of the Forest team, even during his four years as a national team coach, he bought the season tickets for the Forest team every season.

In fact, he has never really seen a ball in the home stands of the Forest team as an ordinary fan. When he can watch the ball in the stands, there are generally two kinds of situations: the first is that when he was still the head coach of the Forest team, he was penalized into the stands for colliding against referees and attacking the FA; the other was It was after he became the head coach of the England team that he came to observe the performance of the England international in the Forest team. In short, they have nothing to do with an "ordinary fan".

The so-called watching as an "normal fan" means that he does not analyze the tactics of the two sides when watching the game, is not allowed to find their loopholes, and does not think about how to correct these problems during the intermission or the next game... …Anyway, it’s right to free your mind from the head coaching mode.

Tang En felt very happy when he thought that he could put aside those heavy burdens, humming a little song while driving.

Teresa, sitting in the passenger seat with a seat belt, is a bit like a doll. She turned to look at her father, I am afraid she still can't understand why he is so happy. Because it stands to reason to go out to play, she should be the happiest person.

After arriving at the court, Dunn was not in a hurry. He put on his sunglasses first, then buttoned himself a baseball cap, then raised the collar, and also put on a pair of toad sunglasses for Teresa. Half of his face was covered, and she also put on a millinery, and took a closer look. After confirming that it was impossible to be recognized at a glance, he opened the car door, hugged Teresa into the crowd, and walked towards the court. .

Following the crowd, Dunn looked up at the outer wall of the huge Crimson Stadium. It was the first time he had this leisure to slowly appreciate the appearance of this new stadium. He used to have a dedicated channel-the national team coach came here to watch the game, and he would certainly not let him line up with ordinary fans.

From this point of view, the stadium that took six years and caused frequent changes to the team is really magnificent... No wonder Evan has the confidence to call him "the top stadium in the world". Just looking at the outer wall is magnificent, and you can imagine the feeling of playing inside. It's a pity... Such an excellent course has witnessed the rundown of Nottingham Forest in one season.

Dunn sighed slightly, then turned to look at the fans around him.

The new season is about to begin, no matter how the Forest team performed last season, they are still full of hope. For them, the top of the club and the team are separate. Many people are talking about today's game enthusiastically. For example, how will George Wood play, whether Aaron Mitchell will score...

A group of people talked happily, but not so much, it turned to the head coach.

"MacAllister can't do it at all...Look at what coach the club hired? How can it be that anyone can be the head coach of a team that has won five European Cups?"

"That's right. I don't think anyone can manage the dressing room of the Forest team except Tony Dunn..."

"Unfortunately, Tony is retired... Retire before he is fifty years old..."

"If he could come back again..."

"Yeah yeah!"

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Teresa, who was held by Dunn, suddenly leaned over to Dunn's ear and said to him, "Dad, are they calling you?"

Dunn suddenly felt embarrassed. It's been two months, and he hasn't introduced Teresa to his previous career. On the one hand, he feels that Teresa is still young and may not be able to understand what the "football coach" does; on the other hand, he has retired, so there is no need to mention what he did before.

And I always took Teresa to Kenny’s bar some time ago. Fat John’s group of people always screamed "Tony" and "Tony". Teresa also remembered the word thoroughly. She was still young and didn’t know. There are tens of thousands of people called "Tony" in this world, and I thought that only his father was called "Tony".

"Uh...no, they are talking about another'Tony'." Dunn was unwilling to explain more here because he was afraid that he would be recognized by the person next to him. Because of his guilty conscience, he pulled down the brim of his hat again. "Let's go in, Teresa."

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After holding his daughter step by step up the steps and finally entering the interior of this behemoth, Dunn was not in a hurry to find his own deeds. He stood at the entrance, with a clear view of the situation in front and below. Opposite is a full-filled stand, and the players on both sides are warming up in the green field below. The fans of the two teams have successively gathered in their own phalanx and are competing with each other.

Dun En is not unfamiliar with such a scene, but from another angle, when standing here to watch it, it still makes him feel a little excited-this is football!

Teresa, who was held in her arms by Dunn, suddenly stretched out her hands and covered her ears. For her, this stadium is too noisy... You must know that Schalke 04's home fans once created a According to a record, the decibels of their shouts at a certain period of time have exceeded the noise of jet aircraft taking off. The Crimson Stadium is not far behind.

Fortunately, Dunn had already prepared, and took out a fluffy earphone for Teresa to wear, and the noise was suddenly reduced.

"Let's go, baby." Dunn patted Teresa's little cheek lightly, hugged her and walked down.

Surrounding fans constantly responded to the call of the home broadcast, stood up and sang loudly, expressing "welcome" to Everton fans who came from afar. Dunn just buried her head in looking for his seat, but Teresa was lying on his shoulders, very curious about these, and she was no longer as scared as she was when she just came in, instead she looked around and looked around, showing off a curious baby.

After finding his seat, Dunn sat down very low-key, and did not stand up like the people around him chanting "Everton die".

In fact, the stadium is really not a good place to bring children to play, because it is full of all kinds of swear words, which can easily make children learn bad. Dunn remembers that when he was still a Chinese fan, there was a picture that was widely circulated on the Internet. It was a picture of a child fan wearing an English jersey in the stands. He raised his **** to the camera and looked at the child’s mouth. Type, clearly cursing "FUCK".

But anyway, Teresa still doesn't understand the incomprehensible Nottingham accent slang.

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When the players entered the field, every starter of the Nottingham Forest team received enthusiastic cheers from the home fans. Even Dunn yelled with the people around him after a low key for a while-on the one hand, because of being infected by the atmosphere at the time, on the other hand everyone stood up and shouted "St. George!" You were steady instead. Sitting in a chair, that is the biggest "not low-key".

Seeing Wood's back in the stands, Dunn was quite relieved and proud. This kid is already the leader of the team, and he is faintly domineering.

Unexpectedly, Teresa recognized Wood, because Dunn once took her to visit Sophia and Wood's family after returning to England. She pointed to the back of Wood on the court and exclaimed in excitement: "Brother! Brother!"

Fortunately, everyone was a hundred times more excited than her at this time, and no one noticed the strangeness of this little girl, but it surprised Dunn-only seeing Wood, now you can recognize it by just looking at the back. , Teresa has a great memory!

Focusing on the court again, the players on both sides have already played. Standing in line on both sides of the referee, let the media take pictures. Dunn glanced around and found that most of this Nottingham Forest was strangers to him.

Strange is not to say that he doesn't know what those people are called or where they are playing.

Rather, his knowledge of these people is limited to knowing their names and where they are playing.

Think about it ten years ago. Those people, even if they were a substitute, felt that he knew and knew them as if they were family members. When they stand together, it is a whole, a piece of red with the words "Nottingham Forest" on it.

Now?

They stood there, but only eleven unrelated individuals. George Wood, Mario Balotelli, Gareth Bale, Nkulu, Joe Matoke, Chris Cohen... They stood there one by one, but they couldn't form a team.

The fans around are still chanting: "Forest Forest! Nottingham Forest!!!"

I just don’t know how many of these shouts have entered the ears of those people... (To be continued, if you want to know what is going on, please visit www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)

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