champion godfather

Chapter 1051 There is only one Tony Twain (seriously asking for a monthly pass~)

There is no need to repeat the situation before the last battle, because it is no different from those before the important games in history.The only difference is that most of the fans who came to watch the game today did not wear Forest team jerseys with a certain player's number and name printed on them, but wore red or white commemorative T-shirts.

As early as Tang En held a press conference to announce that he would definitely retire after the season, this kind of commemorative T-shirts had been placed in Nottingham Forest's souvenir shop.There are two colors of red and white. The front looks like a Nottingham Forest jersey, but there are two numbers on the back.The upper "12" represents the 12 years that Tang En has coached the Forest team, and the lower "12" represents the twelve championships that Tang En has led the Forest team to win.On the two "12" is Tony Twain's name.

Almost every fan who passed in front of the camera turned their backs to show the two "12" and Tony Twain's name on their backs, and then gave a thumbs up.

As a reporter, Pierce Bruce wore such a T-shirt to report the game live.

While the fans were queuing up outside the arena, Twain's team was warming up inside.

The two teams warmed up a bit early today, because the final round of the league had to kick off at the same time, and the Forest Club also prepared a small farewell ceremony for Tang En, which would be held before the kick off.We can only move the warm-up time forward.

The fans who entered the stadium first were busy looking for Tang En's figure below in the stands, but they failed to do so.Because Tang En was held back by Evan Dougherty at the door of the locker room, and he didn't come out at all.

"Tony, you only have 15 minutes in the locker room." Evan reminded Dunn, lest he forget the time when he was talking. "We must kick off at the specified time, otherwise we will be punished. You must know that this game is very sensitive..."

Tang En waved his hand impatiently, why is Evan such a mother-in-law today? "I see, isn't it just a battle for the league championship? It makes our home team look like a supporting role."

Evan chuckled.In the eyes of many people, today's Forest team is indeed a supporting role.In his heart, the Forest team is also a supporting role, and Manchester United is also a supporting role. The real protagonist is only the man in front of him.

Faintly hearing the live broadcast outside reminding that the warm-up time is coming to an end, Evan said goodbye to Tang En, turned and left.

And Tang En went back to the locker room and waited for the players to come back, before giving some final instructions.Evan was worried that 15 minutes would not be enough for him to say, but now Twain is no longer the Twain who liked to give eloquent and impassioned speeches more than ten years ago. He has nothing to say, and 15 minutes is too much for him.

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When the players of the two teams who were warming up outside began to exit, the big screen on the Crimson Stadium removed the team logos of the two teams and the time display, and went black.

At this time, there are not many empty seats in the stands.The number of fans outside the square gradually decreased as the number of people entering the stadium increased, and some people who did not have tickets went to a nearby tavern early, waiting to watch the live TV broadcast.

After the last Forest players left the stadium and entered the tunnel, the stands were basically full, and there were not many fans in sight at the entrances.The big screen, which had been black since just now, flickered for a moment, and then a word appeared on the pitch-black background.

"HE" (he).

Then the white words slowly faded and disappeared, blending into the pitch-black background.

The picture flickered again and gradually brightened, and the silhouette of Tony Twain appeared on the screen.

There was a burst of loud cheers from the stands.

The picture faded out again, and then Tony Twain and Evan Dalgety appeared on the screen. The two of them were holding hands in the middle of the screen, and there were documents spread out on the table below.This is a photo of Tang En and the club when they renewed their contract for the first time.

After the screen faded out, a sentence was typed on the black background:

"It was the most correct signing in the history of the club."

This sentence drew another round of cheers and applause from the scene.

When the fans looked up at the two large screens at both ends of the field, the staff were dribbling trophies into the cleared field. Silver crowns were shining one after another, and trophies of different shapes were carefully lifted out and placed carefully. Place in the sod in the middle circle.

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In the locker room at this time, Tang En was telling his players the purpose of the game.

"Did the words I said yesterday deceive you?" Tang En leaned over and asked.

The players sitting around him shook their heads.

Seeing this answer, Tang En laughed. "Good, listen guys. It's just a regular league game for us, but for our opponents, who are under a lot of pressure, it's a game we can't afford to lose. Don't raise your hands high, let the water go? Never! I don't want to say extra words, you are all professional players, I just hope that when you enter the field, you can look up at the sentence on the wall."

After talking about this, Tang En repeated the tactical arrangement arranged last night.He makes sure every player on the field knows what to do.

"Our tactics are nothing new. Our old opponents should have already studied them thoroughly. But whether we can stop them is another matter..."

Dunn spread his hands.

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This clip of Twain leading the team to win every championship is being played on the big screen.

From the first League Cup to the last European Cup, there is a piece of every trophy.

"...Even if it's climbing! We have to climb up!" On the screen was a field of green grass. The players of the Forest team were sitting around the ground, and Tang En squatted in the middle.Look carefully, many players are very unfamiliar, and many of them have almost forgotten their names now, and Twain in the camera is also very young.This is the picture before the penalty shootout in the 2004 League Cup final. At that time, many players in the team left the team after the Forest team was promoted to the Super League. "There is no difference between losing on the last step and losing on the first step. They are both losers! You must win! You must win!" Tang En clenched his fists and roared in the picture. His appearance not only infected the picture The Forest players in the game also infected the audience 15 years later.

Cheers and applause continued for a long time.

But the scenes that make them more excited are yet to come.

The screen flickered, and at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, the UEFA Champions League flag fluttered in the wind.The next second was the scene where Albertini broke AC Milan's goal with a fallen leaf ball.The forest in the stands seemed to the fans as if they were there, cheering along with the ball.Some of them even shouted Albertini's name: "Demy! Demy!!"

There is one regret in this game.Because Tang En didn't want to be special, he always claimed that this was just an ordinary league.So there is no such thing as the previous finals, where tickets will be sent to old friends before the game.I don't know if those people will come...

Someone in the stands elbowed his companions: "Hey, they're calling you, Demi."

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"...There is nothing unusual about Nottingham Forest's tactics. George Wood and Chen Jian must be their midfield pivots. You need to press close to them. Our midfielders must dare to press forward and execute fierce strikes in the midfield. Pressing, we can’t give them too much space and time to get the ball. As long as we can force them into a scramble, our winning rate will greatly increase.”

In Manchester United's locker room, Mourinho is analyzing Forest's tactics and arranging countermeasures.

Different from the joyful atmosphere outside, the air in the visiting team's locker room was so heavy that it almost froze.Everyone was listening to the head coach's words quietly, for fear of missing a word.

Regardless of their appearance, this game is really important to Manchester United.This season, they lost in both the Champions League and the FA Cup, and only the league can still compete for honors.This last game is really not to be missed, otherwise this season will really be nothing.

They didn't know whether to say they were lucky or not.

The opponent in the last round of the league is Nottingham Forest, which is definitely not a weak team.But they have completed their goals for this season ahead of schedule, and now they should have nothing to desire.

But this is Tony Twain's farewell performance again... Can his team allow their mood to be spoiled by a defeat?

Mourinho doesn't know what his players are thinking inside, he just repeats the tactics to be used in today's game over and over again, and at the same time he decompresses the players, telling them not to think so much and keep a normal mind , Just treat it as an ordinary league game.

To be honest, Mourinho himself didn't believe it when he said this, this would be an ordinary league.Even if it is not related to the issue of ownership of the league championship, there is another reason.

In Tony Twain's last game, although he was in the locker room, he could guess what was going on outside.There will be a ceremony specially prepared for Tang En in a while.His players have already received a request from the Forest Club. They hope to cooperate with them and line up at the exit to welcome Twain on the field.

What a great battle!I think there was no welcome queue like this in the last game before Ferguson retired...

His team agreed to such a request, but he would not applaud Twain in the queue to welcome him on the field.Want him to line up to pay tribute to Tang En?Unless he is dead!

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When the two teams finished their pre-match preparations and walked out of the locker room early, the big screen above the stands was still playing a documentary about Twain.

This time it was the 2006 Champions League final.In that game, Nottingham Forest, who lost one player in the first 8 minutes, led by one goal until the No.706 minute. In the end, due to a significant decline in physical fitness, Barcelona scored two goals in a row and lost the championship trophy.That game was a heavy blow to Tang En and his young forest team.

The content on the big screen this time has never appeared on any public media before.

That was the video of Twain furious in the locker room after the game.

"...the shame mark of the loser? The silver medal for shit!?" If a piece of content is broadcast on the public media, it will definitely be silenced, and all you can hear is the constant "beep beep beep "Are.But the version played at the Crimson Stadium is the original version, with absolutely no masked words and no noise reduction.This is the real Tang En.

"There is only one champion, what do you do with the silver medal? Sell it for money!? Go out and laugh and serve as a foil to those winners? Make their champion look more brilliant? Sell yourself like a prostitute?! No! Barcelona is not very good Is it? Let them play by themselves!!"

Then the screen changed, Tang En stretched out his arms in front of many reporters, and raised three fingers. "This is the third Champions League trophy in Nottingham Forest's history, thank you!"

In the next second, Tang En came to the stage with a gloomy face to receive the silver medal, then walked down and walked straight to the entrance of the corridor, where he hung the silver medal in his hand around the neck of a small caddy.After doing all this, he walked into the corridor and disappeared in front of the public regardless of the eyes of everyone present.

Seeing him doing this, not only did the fans in the Crimson Stadium not feel that their head coach was impolite and demeanor, but they erupted into even louder cheers, and some people applauded and stomped their feet to applaud Tang En's actions.

They just like such a rampant and unruly Tony Twain. If they were a gentleman, they would only be booed.Nottingham is already rich in those who defy authority and personality, from Robin Hood to Brian Clough, they are all their pride.Tony Twain was no exception.No one would be surprised by what Twain did. Such a head coach is the best head coach in their minds.

Without such an aura of contempt for the authority of the world, how could it be possible to win twelve championship trophies in his 12-year coaching career?

Some people think he is arrogant?That must be the loser who hates him!
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Amidst the cheers, the players from both sides came out, but they didn't play directly, but lined up in two teams on both sides of the corridor, waiting for the protagonist to come out.

The big screen in the stands went black again, and a sentence slowly appeared on it:

"Let's welcome—"

The fans who saw this sentence shouted in unison: "Your Majesty the King!!!"

In the roar of "Your Majesty the King", Tang En walked out of the corridor.

He saw the players on both sides waiting in line for him, and he also saw the club president Evan Dalgety who was growing behind the row of championship trophies in the middle circle.Of course, he also saw the slogans and portraits hanging in the Robin Hood stands.

He raised his hand and waved to everyone.Passed through the applause of the players on both sides, and stopped until they reached the trophy in the middle circle.

The black screen and text on the big screen were gone, replaced by Tony Twain's "coronation ceremony" after successfully defending the European Champions Cup and returning to the city stadium.In the picture, he is wearing a red and white royal cloak, holding high the crown, facing the star-studded stadium stands-those flickering lights come from the camera's flash.

Evan Dalgety handed the wireless microphone in his hand to Dun En, pulled him behind the trophy, and then backed out.

Reporters swarmed to form three rows in front of the trophy.The first column is lying on the ground, holding the camera in its arms.The second row got down on one knee and held the camera.The third column stood behind the first two columns, busy setting up tripods.

When they finished their busy work, there was a continuous sound of pressing the shutter.

From the perspective of the reporters, especially those lying down, twelve trophies of different sizes and shapes were placed in front of Tang En, which really had a suffocating aura.

Wait for the reporters to finish taking pictures.Tang En raised the microphone, and seeing his action, no one reminded him of anything, and the scene gradually fell silent.Before the mountain roared and the tsunami, the wave after wave of cheers gradually disappeared, and finally disappeared completely.Everyone was waiting to hear what Dunn had to say.

Tang En thought that he had seen countless big scenes, and today's scene would not let him do anything.But when he was just about to open his mouth, he realized that he was a little choked up.

He quickly shut his mouth, he didn't want these 6 people to hear his crying voice, that would be really embarrassing and embarrassing.

But he still didn't escape, and the well-developed TV broadcast immediately cut a close-up of Tang En's face.His moist eye sockets were exposed in front of everyone.

Seeing him like this, another burst of shouts erupted from the stands: "Stay here, Your Majesty!"

Hearing such shouts, Tang En just waved his hands to signal them to be quiet.When the scene became quiet again, he also stabilized his emotions and said into the microphone: "Thank you..."

Just saying this sentence, the voice became a little uncontrollable.

Only then did Tang En realize that he was so nostalgic for everything here that he couldn't even say "goodbye".

This time Tang En choked up again, and no one made any other sounds, they were all waiting quietly.

Tang En lowered his head and remained silent for a while, finally controlling his emotions again.

He coughed and said, "Thank you, thank you."

In response, countless arms were waving at him from the stands.

At some point, the song "Time_to_say_goodbye" (time to say goodbye) sung by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli, the song that had bid farewell to Albertini, was played on the radio.

When the song played, someone in the stands wiped the corner of his eye.He remembered the past that happened many years ago.

"It's time to say goodbye, Tony..." He sighed.

"I am proud and proud that I have coached this team for 12 years. I am proud and proud that I have only coached Nottingham Forest in my life. It is not me who made Nottingham Forest, but you. It's me." Tang En stretched out his hand to the fans in the stands and the players standing aside.

applause.

"Today is the last game, I hope you can enjoy it..." Here, he paused.

Everyone thought he was going to say "enjoy the game, enjoy the football".

But Tang En turned his head and looked to the other side. He easily found Mourinho behind the crowd.His old adversary was expressionless.

"... I hope you can enjoy the victory of the game to the fullest."

Tang En looked at Mourinho and smiled.

As soon as these words came out, the expression on Mourinho's face really changed, and he was no longer as calm and calm as before.

Tang En, who had molested his old rival, was in a good mood, and the feeling of parting was no longer sad.

Tang En raised his hand again and waved it around.

"Nine and ten minutes later, let's say goodbye! Bye, guys!"

After saying this, Tang En put down the microphone and continued to stand in the middle circle and waved.Cheers erupted from the stands again, and the players of the Forest team stood aside, watching their leader enjoy such cheers alone, and they also applauded.Gareth Bell even whistled.They now feel that they are full of motivation and fighting spirit, and they can't wait to start the game immediately, and then rush to tear Manchester United to pieces.

The ownership of the league championship?
That's none of our business!We just want to send off the greatest leader in the history of Nottingham Forest with a victory!

You are the embodiment of victory, the voice of champions.In this last match, only victory can match you, boss.

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Twain had already exited the arena, the twelve championship trophies were being moved back to the honor room by the staff, the reporters were returning to their respective posts, the players from both sides were re-entering the arena, and the cheers from the stands gradually died down.

This line of words was printed on the two large screens:

There is only one Tony Twain!

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PS, this is Tony Twain's farewell ceremony. It is different from the retirement of those players I wrote before. It is not too sad, but there is something else in my heart...

Tang En is finally leaving, and it is estimated that the book will be "complete" in a few more chapters.

So please allow me to ask for monthly tickets and rewards~~hehe~!

(End of this chapter)