champion godfather

Chapter 1014 Will Yakumo come back lightly, Tony?

"...Freddy Eastwood, once the legendary striker of Nottingham Forest, is now the acting head coach. At this moment, he is using actual actions to prove the predictions of the media in advance-the first game under the leadership of Coach Eastwood The game was lost. Nottingham Forest has lost four games in a row....Now the team is in a panic. It is said that Balotelli has officially submitted a transfer application to the club and hopes to leave. Rumors about George Wood's retirement have also been No clarification from him himself..."

Kenny Burns' Forest Bar is very lively at night, and nearby Forest fans will gather here after a day's work to talk about the recent events of the Forest team.If the forest team has a good performance, there will be cheers at this time. Everyone will raise their eyebrows and hold a glass of beer. They are really happy and return with a lot of fun.If the Forest team loses the game, there must be a lot of mourning in the bar. Everyone is sighing, complaining about their bad luck, or complaining about a player's poor performance in the game, or making a guest appearance as the head coach and criticizing the football team. The team's tactics are wrong.

But whether you win or lose, the atmosphere here is very hot.

Tonight was different.

It was so quiet that he could even hear clearly what was said on the TV.

Faced with the news broadcast on TV, the most reaction of the fans is nothing more than a sigh.

What else could they do?

Wood is not in good condition because his mother is critically ill. Can they still scold Wood?Eastwood is the team's legendary shooter, but he lacks experience as a coach, and the responsibility should not be borne by him alone.It seems that only the chairman of the club is worthy of scolding, but they have long been tired of scolding over the years. No matter how fierce they scold here, they can't shake Evan Dalgety's position. What's the point other than wasting saliva?
Thinking of such a situation, everyone lost their interest in talking, and more than 20 old men could only bury their heads in drinking one cup after another in the bar.

"Is there no way to save our team!" A young man couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere and suddenly stood up and shouted.

The companion next to him looked up at him, then continued to drink with his head down, or simply stared at the TV screen in a daze.

This question has been asked countless times in the past four years, and the result?

But today this young man seems to have come prepared.He stood up and found that no one responded to him, so he turned his gaze to the bar on the other side.Then he picked up the wine glass, pushed away the companion standing beside him, and staggered over.

Tang En was drinking fruit juice at the bar, chatting with Kenny Burns in a low voice.Shania and Teresa are still in the United States now, and he doesn't want to stay in a huge villa all day by himself. Except for the hospital, he spends his other time in this bar.

But he is no longer the head coach of the team, and he deliberately keeps a little distance from John and the others, and does not get involved in their circle. He only comes to chat with Kenny. If John and Bill want to find him, they come alone and do not Will not pull him to their side.

When everyone is talking, they will carefully avoid a topic-the head coach of the Forest team.

Today, however, such a drunk young man rushed to Tang En and put the wine glass heavily in front of him.Then he turned his head and stared at Tang En: "T...Tony!"

Tang En turned his head to look at the uninvited guest.

"Come back!" the young man shouted. "come back!"

John got up quickly to stop the impulsive young man who drank too much. "Joseph, you..."

"Come back and lead Nottingham Forest!" There were tears in the eyes of this excited young man. "Come back and bring us..." Before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly tilted his body and slid off the high stool—he was already drunk.

Only then did Fat John rush to Tang En's side and helped the young man up. "Joseph talks too much when he's drunk!" He explained to Tang En, and then pushed Joseph back to the seat over there.

"He didn't say 'Joseph talks nonsense when he's drunk'." Kenny Burns said beside him.

Dunn didn't express any dissatisfaction with Burns' actions. He looked at the backs of John and the young man. They returned to the fans. It seemed that not many people blamed Joseph for his impulsiveness. Turning towards myself, wanting to observe my own reaction.

Tang En thought that they must not be able to see anything, because his face was expressionless.

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Eastwood didn't expect to have such a guest in the evening.He sent his wife, Serim, to take the children upstairs to bed, and left the living room with him and this late-night visitor.

"I've thought about it for a long time. Although I've retired, I'm still paying attention to football and Nottingham Forest. I think I might be able to help you a little bit, Freddie." Twain, who was sitting across from him, looked at East. Wood said.

Eastwood smiled bitterly: "You come back to coach the team, that is the biggest help to me... Well, I know this request is a bit unrealistic. In fact, I don't think I am suitable to be a head coach... You know what, boss .Before the first game I led the team to play, I even forgot to tell the players the starting lineup. It was Jimmy who reminded me, so I didn’t make a joke. Now that I think about it, I was really inferior at that time..."

His mood was a little depressed.As a head coach, he made such a big ugliness in front of the players, which has become a psychological shadow for him in recent days.

Dunn laughed: "What are you, Freddie? During my first game coaching the first team, I was knocked unconscious by my own players, and I left the coaching bench in full view and went home. After the game I became the laughing stock of England, went to the pub to entertain myself and was laughed at. Don't take such small things to heart, the manager's job is actually very simple, if you can lead the team to win, even if you never Arranging the starting roster can become part of your legendary personality."

"Here comes the problem, boss. I just don't know how to lead the team to win. You know when I watch them play, I wish I could go up and help them score and win. But as a coach, I I don't know what to do..." Eastwood was very depressed.Such emotions were rare in the optimistic gypsy.

"You are inexperienced, and..." Tang En suddenly thought of a question, "There is no one around you who can help you well." He was also a rookie at the beginning, but he had old Ian and Walker. He had a lot of experience as a player, and after many years of honing in the grassroots coaches of the Forest team, and after being trained by many head coaches, it was Tang En's turn to reap the rewards.However, looking back at the current Forest team, personnel are in chaos. Excellent coaches have been lost and poached by other clubs. An excellent coach like Chris Lack was dismissed just because of a slightly unsatisfactory performance. Evan didn't even let him stay. Forest team.

Although Eastwood has also been a coach for four years, the gap between the Manager and the Coach in England is too far.

Eastwood didn't want to keep the topic on himself, he asked suddenly: "Come to me at such a late hour, and you have explained something, boss."

"whats the matter?"

"You can't leave Nottingham Forest in your heart."

Twain glanced at Eastwood: "Of course I can't let it go. I'm a die-hard Forest team fan. I've bought all season tickets."

"It's better to come back if you can't let go." Eastwood looked into Tang En's eyes and said this sentence.

"I'm retired, Freddie..."

"No one stipulates that you can't come back after retirement."

"I still want to accompany my daughter..."

"Aren't you in England now, and your daughter is in America?"

Tang En shook his head: "Let's not talk about this anymore. If you have anything you don't understand when you are coaching, you can ask me. I will tell you my experience without reservation..."

But today, Eastwood seemed to be specifically against Tang En, and he raised another question that was difficult to answer: "George is the core of the team. If his condition does not recover, the team's performance will not be stable. You Is there any way, boss?"

Tang En was speechless.He knew why Wood was out of form, but such a thing was something he couldn't solve.As long as Sophia's condition does not improve for a day, Wood's condition will not improve.

This is not a problem that can be solved by techniques and tactics, nor is it even something that a head coach can do.

As soon as he mentioned Wood, Dunn would think of what Wood said to him that day in the backyard of the hospital: "If you want me not to retire, come back."

Are they agreed upon?How could someone let me come back when they saw me?
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In fact, when Twain was England's head coach, not many people would say this to him, but when he retired and was at home, he was immediately targeted.He can say that he is retired, but others may not understand it that way.

For example, he received a call from Tang Jing the next day. The content of the call made him feel like a thunderbolt hit his mind on a sunny day.

The Chinese Football Association contacted him through Tang Jing, and even wanted him to coach the Chinese national team!

"I'm just passing on a message, Mr. Tang En."

"You can reject them directly, just say that you can't contact me." Tang En didn't want to get involved with the Chinese Football Association, because of his bad reputation...

"I'm also Chinese after all. To be honest, I think it would be interesting if you coached the Chinese national team..." Tang Jing on the other end of the phone was obviously smiling.

"That can't be done. I don't want to lose my guarantee at the end of the year." Tang En refused very simply. The onlookers found it interesting.

It was true that Tang Jing had sent the message. Once Tang En refused, she didn't try to persuade him. She readily agreed to reply to the Football Association.The reason, of course, is that Tang En hasn't rested enough and doesn't want to come out to coach again.

It's just that some Chinese media learned from Tang Jing that the Chinese Football Association actually went to Tang En and wanted him to coach.At that time, the media mocked the Football Association's overreach, except that it didn't say "take a picture of yourself in the urine", but the meaning is almost the same as this.In China, the only government organization that can freely criticize and does not have to take responsibility is probably the Chinese Football Association. Although FIFA stipulates that the football associations in each country must be non-governmental organizations, but China’s national conditions are special, and the Football Association is a government unit.

The matter of the Chinese Football Association finding Tang En to coach was over with Tang En, but he did not expect that there would be a lot of trouble in China, surrounding whether the Chinese Football Association should find Tang En to coach, whether Tang En should come A series of issues such as coaching in China have been hotly discussed in the media and on the Internet.Some people think that a high-level football coach like Tang En should be invited to come, otherwise Chinese football will be stagnant and will never improve; some people think that it is useless to invite the best famous coach to come based on the virtues of the Chinese Football Association. If Tang En really comes Instead, it ruined his reputation; some people claimed that the leaders of the Chinese Football Association have lost their minds again. They don't want to invite Tony Twain. Can they control it?Don't say that they want to decentralize power, it is absolutely impossible, unless the Chinese men's football team wins the World Cup... But this has become an endless loop, and it is meaningless.

In fact, it was Tang Jing who deliberately leaked this news, she just wanted the Football Association to make a fool of herself again.Chinese football has not improved for so many years. The leaders of the Football Association and the General Administration of Sports have changed one after another, but each leader only considers his own black hat. No one has ever considered football as a sport. Chinese football It can only stand still, or even regress slightly.She has quit the media circle long ago, and concentrates on being a wife, husband and son in the UK, but she is also angry when talking about Chinese football, and she speaks lightly, so she can only vent her dissatisfaction in this way.

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Tang En didn't care about the turmoil in China after he rejected the Football Association's invitation. His mind was still on the Forest team.

Eastwood said that the biggest help was that Tang En came back to coach the Forest team, and he himself would still be that coach.But this was obviously impossible, Dunn helped Eastwood in another way.He and Eastwood worked together to study the current problems encountered by the Forest team and find solutions.

Dunn told Eastwood that if both Wood and Balotelli were unreliable, they should be decisively removed from the starting lineup and replaced with second-tier players from the youth team and the reserve team. The first team has more fighting spirit. Now the forest team is not having technical and tactical problems. At least the biggest problem is not this, but fighting spirit and psychology.

He was fully committed to helping Eastwood, but he didn't notice the way Eastwood looked at him, and he didn't think about whether it was appropriate for him as a retired person to interfere in other people's work. He just hoped that the performance of the Forest team Be better and don't worry so many fans like him.

After Eastwood replaced half of the first-team lineup at Twain's words, the downward trend was indeed stopped in the second game. Relying on tenacious defense and overall combat in the away game, they drew 0:0 against the mighty Manchester United.Although the scene was ugly and there was no offense at all, they did not continue to lose after all, and they were still facing the mighty Manchester United, which was even more commendable. So after the result came out, many media were very surprised—— -Before the game they predicted that Forest would be humiliated by Manchester United at Old Trafford, just like Liverpool.

Neither Wood nor Balotelli were in the starting XI in that game, and Wood was not replaced until the last 10 minutes.This also gave a lot of opportunities for the media to turn over old accounts. They dug up the conflict between Wood and Eastwood and used it for hype. They analyzed that after Eastwood came to power, he would suppress Wood. There are rumors that Wood will retire, so it seems that the rumors will soon become reality...

Of course, these are all nonsense. Eastwood is not the kind of person who avenges personal revenge. Besides, he and Wood have nothing to do with each other long ago. What's more, it was Twain's idea not to let Wood start. Twain didn't even want to give it a minute. Wood, I want him to be completely calm and calm. Eastwood thinks that if he wants to keep Wood in shape, he should go up and kick him.

But this time the media are really crowed...

Just when the team had just stopped their four-game losing streak and returned to Nottingham from Manchester with confidence, Wood, who was traveling with the team, received a call from the hospital.

His mother is dying.

(End of this chapter)