champion godfather

Chapter 1002
"Well, anyway, Tony Twain has left the football world. Now it's time for us to look away from him." In the BBC's "Today's Events" program, three guests talked about the football world some time ago. Say so when there is a major event in the altar.They all unanimously listed Tang En's retirement as the No.2 of the major sports events in England this year, and the No.1 was naturally the England team winning 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 start. A retired head coach, even if he is a champion coach, cannot attract more attention.What's more, if Twain no longer coached the team, it would be meaningless to hype him. Apart from football, Tony Twain is nothing, and the media don't have to buy him.

Tang En was so happy.Shania naturally had to work, and Tang En could take care of the children at home.Fortunately, Teresa spent the most difficult babyhood in the orphanage, so it's not too difficult for Tang En, an old man, to take care of her now.Tang En has no experience as a father, but he always remembers one sentence, to make the child happy.

A man who is almost 50 years old still looks like a naughty boy in front of his children. He plays with Teresa all day long and does everything possible to make her happy. For a while, Teresa is the only focus of his life. As for football?He has long been thrown out of the sky.

And in order to help Teresa adapt to this strange country and way of life as soon as possible, he often took her out for shopping, or to sit in Burns' bar.Of course, alcohol is not allowed, and Teresa has been designated as a "no-smoking area" by him, and those fans are not allowed to smoke.After he was no longer busy with work, he finally had more time to come to the bar to chat with his former buddies. Everyone was eager for him to come every day. What is it like not to smoke?Teresa is very popular with everyone, although she is only an adopted daughter, but who cares about that?People's fathers don't care, what do outsiders care about?
This is Tang En's happy life after retirement.

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

"Liverpool." Alan Hansen replied without hesitation.

"reason?"

"Does it need a reason? I'm a fan of them... well, I'm kidding. I just hope Liverpool can win the title, but calmly analyze, I think Arsenal and Manchester United are the most likely to win the title..."

Lineker turned his attention to another guest, Mark Lawrenson.

"Ahem." Laurence cleared his throat and replied, "I'm optimistic about Chelsea..."

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

This time, the opinions of the two people were surprisingly consistent: "Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea."

Lineker suddenly asked: "No Nottingham Forest?"

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

Lawrenson added: "It's not easy for them to get Europa League qualification in their hands."

The UEFA Europa League is the former UEFA Cup, which was later restructured. The full name is "UEFA Europa League".After the reform, the European League has made some adjustments to the competition system and qualifications. In the past, the runners-up of national cups were allowed to participate in the UEFA Cup. If the cup winner is eligible to participate in the Champions Cup, then the runner-up will replace the champion to participate in the UEFA Cup.Now that doesn't work.For those small and medium-sized clubs who want to seek a breakthrough in the cup and enter the European competition, the threshold has been raised.

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

In fact, for many clubs, even being able to participate in the European League is a commendable achievement.However, Nottingham Forest only showed off its power in the top European competitions a few years ago, but now it can only participate in the European League, which really makes people feel "degenerate".After all, the influence and benefits of the European League cannot be compared with the Champions League.

Moreover, there was one thing that had a considerable impact on Nottingham Forest's performance, and it was not just a rumor, but a solid fact - Evan Dalgety had always wanted to sell Nottingham Forest.How is it possible for a club president who has no intention of continuing to take this club forward?Up to now, changing the head coach of Nottingham Forest is like watching the lights on a horse, so that the media ridiculed that the door of the head coach's office of Nottingham Forest has long been changed to a "revolving door".

The reason why it has not been sold is that on the one hand, the performance has declined, the market influence has decreased, and no one cares about it.After all, Nottingham is not a big city like Manchester, Liverpool, or London. A small place is doomed to have little development prospects. In this case, the possibility of attracting foreign consortiums is very low; The buyer, Evan Dougherty, felt that the price was too low for him to accept.So it's been like this for two years. Before each season, in the game, and at the end of the season, I heard that Dalgety was going to sell the club, but he always failed to sell.Fans were disgusted by his lack of loyalty, outraged at first, and now laughing, seeing Evan Dalgetty as a buffoon.Banners scolding Evan Daugherty hang on the Robin Hood stands of the Crimson Stadium all year round, and it has become a scene here. Every time a game is broadcast, there will be a lot of close-up shots there.

Fortunately, there are European competitions to participate in every year, the Champions Cup in the past few years, and the European League in the past two years.It’s just that the athletic performance is not very satisfactory. The head coach has been changed continuously, people are in panic, and the tactics can’t be agreed to be implemented. Today, a new coach brings a new set of tactics. Tomorrow, the new coach is gone. The new tactic was abandoned, so everyone had to start all over again...

After going back and forth like this, if you can still get any good results, it will really bully no one in the Premier League.

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

Michael Dawson, the central defender who was considered a good deal by Evan at the beginning, has been injured continuously since he bought it back, and finally retired due to injury at the age of 34; David Bentley left Nottingham Forest, He brought a transfer fee of 200 million pounds to the team, and he went to Blackburn; Adriano Mock is not willing to leave the club, but this kind of decision is not in his hands, whether it is an agent Even the chairman of the club wants him to leave, because he can be sold for 800 million pounds, and the agent can also get a cut of it, so he finally went to Arsenal...

For the fans of Nottingham Forest, the four seasons after Twain left were dark four seasons.Not to mention that the team got nothing, and watched the former heroes leave one by one every summer.It's like returning to the early days of this century, when Nottingham Forest was ups and downs in the low-level leagues.

They were thinking about Brian Clough back then, and they said, "If Clough was still around, it wouldn't have gotten this bad." Who are they thinking about now?Of course it was Tony Twain, but it's a pity that Twain has already retired.

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

"It would be nice if we could guarantee a place in the Europa League!"

"Although I think it's always good to be ambitious...But this sentence doesn't work when it comes to Dalgety. Even if the team's performance can improve, it's just an increase in his bargaining chips to sell the club. ..."

Tang En turned a deaf ear to the heated discussion on the other side of the bar, and sat beside his daughter Teresa, making fun of the boring Teresa.

"Teresa, Daddy will tell you a joke!"

Teresa nodded.

"It was a very hot summer day. Two bananas were on the road. Suddenly, the banana in front said, 'It's so hot, I want to take off my clothes.' After saying that, he took off his clothes, and the banana behind fell down. Hahahaha!" After speaking, Tang En lay down on the table with his stomach in his hands and laughed loudly. "Isn't it funny?"

Teresa on the opposite side twitched the corners of her mouth, trying very hard to make herself laugh, but she couldn't do such a difficult thing after trying a few times, so she said to Tang En with some grievances: "Dad, I can't laugh..."

This time it was Kenny Burns' turn to laugh out loud.

Tang En felt very embarrassed: "Okay... I know this joke is a bit difficult for you to understand..." He scratched his head, turned around and looked at the bar owner who suddenly appeared, and quickly changed the subject, "Why don't you go Wipe the glass?"

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 rapidly, and the speed at which children accept new things is always unexpected to adults.Today, she can already understand part of English, and can also speak in simple English.

Taking this opportunity, Burns sat down beside Tang En: "They all hope that 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 to your face."

Tang En looked at Teresa who was sipping juice on the opposite side, "I've already retired."

"Jordan retired three times and can come back three times." Burns just smiled.

Tang En looked at him, but didn't notice any strange expression.As if he was just talking casually.

Burns put away the empty cup on the table, got up and walked slowly behind the bar.Tang En looked at his back from behind. This man was once a well-known villain in English football, and he was a big man who made all his opponents fearful. It is said that whenever he participated in a game, there would be an extra "Boss" in the nearby hospital. Ensco".He once used dentures to demonstrate to Kevin Keegan, the then European Footballer of the Year, before the 1980 Champions League final, scaring Keegan out of shape. In the ensuing final, Keegan basically didn't even touch the ball. However, the Hamburg team eventually lost that game and became the defending champion of Nottingham Forest.After retiring, he ran a bar here, and he was able to make the big boys among the football hooligans obedient, which is somewhat inseparable from his reputation.But now he is full of white hair, and his back is a little bent. No matter what he looks like, he doesn't look like the butcher who was once feared on the court.

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

Tang En turned his head and looked at his daughter, who was also looking at him, and said timidly, "I can't finish it, Dad..."

Tang En stretched out his hand and patted her head: "It's fine if you can't finish the drink. We should go back, Teresa."

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

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

"Goodbye, guys." Tang En waved to the group of fans who were still discussing enthusiastically.

When everyone realized that he was leaving, they stopped discussing and turned their eyes to him. They seemed to have something to say, but no one said it.In the end, only Fat John shouted when Tang En was about to leave the house: "Are you coming tomorrow, Tony!"

Tang En looked back at him: "It's not certain, I don't come here every day, I always bring Teresa here, I'm afraid she will imitate the bad, haha!"

Tang En didn't say any more, he laughed loudly, opened the door with his hand and left.

Tony Twain never obeyed his old age, but perhaps in the eyes of these people, Twain who walked out slowly with his daughter was already considered an old man.

He is not yet 50 years old, not physically old.But his heart was already old, and the beating heart of a nuclear-powered champion slowed down and slowly calmed down.Now that he has won all the championships he should have won, what else can stimulate him?No, not at all.There is really no reason for him to come back again, dragging a body with heart disease risks to satisfy the desire of the audience.

Maybe for him that's what he's always wanted.He planned it long ago. After winning the World Cup, he retreated bravely and left the most glorious back for the world. His glorious image all the time will not be discredited, and people don't have to lament the "end of the hero".

But for the audience, the most dazzling star has come to an end, what else is there to watch in this drama?At the last curtain call of the concert, those Uranus superstars will always be called back by enthusiastic fans. They will play a few songs on the stage, then call the curtain call, and then be called to the stage again. Repeat several times to show how popular they are.

It's a pity they couldn't run up to Twain and yell at him, "Come back, Tony! Sing us another song!"

"I want Tony to be happy and healthy. Now that he has a daughter, he should be even more so. But why do I still prefer that guy who is jumping and spitting at the fourth official?"

Thin Bill murmured.

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

Bill took a look. It was John.The two looked at each other and laughed again.

"Why do you come back? The forest team is a mess, come back and ruin your reputation as the champion godfather? It's better not to come back..."

The two shook their heads at the same time.

(End of this chapter)