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Chapter 120 Volume [-] Nottingham Sky Meets Millwall Again

The match between Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace is over. With Rebrov's resurrection, the home team beat their opponents 2:1, widening the score gap between them and the relegation zone.

After the game, almost all the media in Nottingham reported the game. All the players of the Forest team became heroes, especially Rebrov, who was praised by the media.The media praised him for becoming a Premier League player again and regaining his former form.

And what about Tony Twain who directed all of this?The picture of him having a one-on-one conversation with Rebrov on the court at halftime has long made headlines.After the game, the reporters interviewed Rebrov, who was elected the best player of the game for the first time, and asked him what coach Tang En said to him during the intermission.

Rebrov smiled and said: "Nothing, he just made me step back and let me play for myself. I saw a completely different world."

"...This is Tony Twain, who has the ability to turn decay into magic. During the game, the TV commentator said he was a magician, and I totally agree with that. Look at the Forest team at Collymore, and then look at Tony Twain's Forest team is still the same people, but the team is completely different. We scored the crucial three points and restored morale. Listen to the cheers in the city stadium, Nottingham Forest is slowly waking up Come!"

The moving tram was shaking slightly, the interior of the car was empty, and a few old people were dozing off with their eyes squinted.Trams pass through the suburbs of Nottingham, and the horns of cars are hardly heard outside, and even pedestrians are rare.It was Sunday morning, and Tang En was sitting on the tram bound for the small town of Hocknall, outside the car was the quiet countryside.He looked outside and then inside. A passenger across from him held up a newspaper that went on sale this morning and read it intently.The side facing Tang En has his own photo and a large caption:
"Tony Twain is back!"

Seeing this scene, Tang En laughed lightly, which sounded like "Superman Returns".He's back on the headlines again, it's nice to be admired and noticed...

On this quiet morning, the empty tram was completely different from the roaring and tsunami-like atmosphere at the City Stadium yesterday.Dunn leaned his head against the window, closed his eyes and recollected the past game.

I'm back again, and this time I won't leave easily.

With a crisp jingle bell, the shaking of the tram stopped.When Tang En opened his eyes, he saw the church steeple on the hillside, and he had arrived at his destination.

Jumped off the tram and stretched.Tang En walked towards the church.

Since Xia Tian came once, he has not been here for some time.Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye, and he is no longer the unemployed coach Tony Twain who was at a loss and couldn't see the way forward.

Because of Gavin, he decided to stay in the forest team, waiting for the opportunity to return to the coaching bench of the city stadium.Now he's back and led the team to win again, so he's back here again.

For him, the cemetery behind the gray brick church is the starting point of another journey. When he is about to stride forward, he should come back here to reconfirm the direction.

Although it may seem close, there is a distance uphill from the tram stop to the church.Tang En bought a bouquet of lilies in a deserted little flower shop on the side of the street, held it in his hand and thought about it, then asked the shopkeeper for another card, took out a pen and wrote on it:

——To Nottingham Forest's most loyal fan and George Wood's eternal supporter: Gavin Bernard.

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There was a group of children playing football on the green in front of the church, some of them wearing red Forest jerseys.They yelled and scrambled for a ball.When someone shoots a soccer ball between two piles of clothes, they imitate the celebrations of the stars.

Tang En often played like this when he was a child.But they are not on such a good lawn, but on the dam used to dry grain in their hometown. They take schoolbags, bricks, broken shoes, clothes, baskets... In short, everything that can be moved is used as a goal, and a group of children are on it Chasing a broken ball, from Tang En's current point of view, even the best "star" in the group when he was a child was actually miserable, but everyone had fun.Next to the dam is a pond for raising ducks, and people often accidentally kick a football into the lake.He played the ball very badly, but Tang En, who was good at water, was always the one who went to the lake to catch the ball.

When he was in high school, he went to a boarding middle school in the city. There were no simple dams or ponds, and there were special courts, but Tang En no longer played football. He only watched others play from the sidelines.Until now, he is used to standing on the sidelines and watching others play football, and has found a completely different sense of fun and accomplishment from playing football in person.

Tang En stayed beside these lovely children for a while before continuing to move forward. He bypassed the deserted church and turned into the forest path.

The cemetery is even colder than the church. It is surrounded by dense forests, and the temperature seems to be a degree or two lower than outside.Tang En wrapped his coat tightly and walked straight to Gavin's grave.

He was a little surprised when he saw a bouquet of lilies in front of the tombstone.The fresh petals are still dripping with water, and the person who put it here has obviously just left.Tang En looked up and looked around the cemetery, but there was no one.

He looked down and noticed that there was also a card in the bouquet, so he picked it up.There is only one sentence above:

to Gavin.

It wasn't signed, and Gavin's name was misspelled.Looking at the crooked handwriting, which was not as good as that of a primary school student, Tang En smiled.

He set the bouquet down again, carefully arranging his own bouquet beside it.After finishing this, he took out a cigarette from his coat pocket, ready to take a sip.The fire was all fired, but he stared blankly at the jumping flames, then took out the cigarette in his mouth and inserted it back into the cigarette case.

He just forgot that there was a child beside him.

So he squatted down again, looking at the line of small characters under the tombstone.

When Michael said to him in the bar, "Tony, I won't go to the game tomorrow. I won't go in the future", his face was calm, as if he was talking about someone who had nothing to do with him.At that time, Tang En thought that his heart must be dead, even... He no longer loves football, but hates football.Because football took away his favorite son.

When Michael told him that he was going to the United States that day, Twain's thoughts were strengthened. He hated football and wanted to escape from football.

But when he saw the small words at the bottom of the tombstone, all the impressions Michael had left on him were overturned in an instant.

He loves his son so much, and he loves football so much.He must bury this love deep in his heart, and then add a lock, never touch it again, no matter it is others or himself.

Tang En swept away a dead leaf that had fallen in front of the tombstone, then stood up, turned and left this unremarkable little tombstone.

The Forest team will resume training in the afternoon.Three days later, on December [-], in London, on the south bank of the River Thames, Newdon Stadium, where they will challenge their opponents in the quarter-finals of the League Cup - Millwall.

That was a match that Twain absolutely couldn't lose!

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Tang En, who returned to the club's training ground in the afternoon, went to the reserve team before the team's training.On the sidelines of the reserve team's training field, he saw that Gareth Taylor, and the other party also saw him. From the look in his eyes, he seemed to be a little bit dissatisfied with his young head coach.

But it doesn't matter...you can't accept it, kid.I just want you to score goals for me.

He waved to Taylor, and the reserve coach called the big man down.

Tang En looked at Taylor who was standing in front of him, who was slightly taller than him, then turned around and prepared to leave. "follow me."

Taylor didn't move: "Where are you going?"

Tang En's body turned halfway, he turned his head to look at Taylor, turned back again, and stretched out two fingers: "I'm not in a good mood right now, so I'll give you two options: one, follow me, don't ask anything ; Two, you stay here until the winter transfer market opens. Make your own choice."

After speaking, Tang En never looked at the stunned big man again, turned around and left.

Taylor didn't expect Dunn to go so resolutely, and he froze there for a moment.The coach of the reserve team patted him lightly: "Aren't you following up?"

Taylor, who woke up like a dream, trotted after him, and then silently followed behind Tang En. The two walked to the sidelines of the first-team training field. At this time, the players were already on the field ready to warm up.

Tang En stopped on the sidelines, while Taylor ran to the training ground very consciously, never daring to ask this sullen head coach a word.

The players were not surprised that Taylor returned to the team. Now that there is a shortage of strikers, it is only natural that Taylor, who has been scoring goals in the reserve team, will come back.

Walker saw Tang En standing on the sidelines with his lips tightly pursed, and walked over.

"Des, look at his training performance, if possible, put him in the team squad. We play 451, defensive counterattack, he is an important figure. Let the team practice this formation and tactics in these two days." See Walker came over, Dunn said to him.

Walker nodded. Seeing that Tang En was not in a good mood, he walked back.When he returned to the training ground, he blew the whistle in his mouth, and then shouted: "Okay, guys! Start training, don't think that you will have a better life if you win the ball! Get nervous for me, from now on you guys You have to pay the price for the debt you owed in the previous four months! Repay it desperately!!"

Hearing Walker's shout, and looking at the jumping players, a slight smile appeared on Dunn's face.

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In fact, with Nottingham Forest's poor performance in the league, it is really surprising that they were able to make it all the way to the quarter-finals of the League Cup. Collymore is not useless, at least Twain would like to thank him for leading The team persisted to this point.

Originally, a week ago, when the Forest team had just changed coaches, the odds offered by the major bookmakers for this game were quite unfavorable to the visiting team Nottingham Forest.But after Tang En led his team to win the Crystal Palace and came back perfectly, the bookmaker immediately adjusted the odds.

Among them, the odds offered by William` Hill, the leading betting company in the UK, are the most representative.

Although the Forest team won a game, many people are optimistic about him again, but considering their away game and the team's new coach, the situation is unstable, and they only slightly increased the odds of the visiting team's victory.

The Forest team's odds for an away win have changed from [-] to [-] to [-] to [-].

Tang En doesn't gamble, and he doesn't like to gamble either.But from the betting odds that have been perfectly integrated into British football, it is still possible to get a general understanding of the current situation.To put it bluntly, although the team has just won, there are still not many people who are optimistic that they can beat Millwall away.By the way, the odds offered by the major bookmakers for Nottingham Forest to win the League Cup are a bit higher than their current opponent, Millwall.

What does high odds mean?It means that bookmakers and the general public are not optimistic about them.

For example, in a game where the home team is Manchester United and the away team is a heavily indebted amateur team that can't even pay for the hotel, the odds for the home team to win are [-] to [-], while the odds for the away team to win are One pays eleven.The odds of the former are low because Manchester United is too strong, and there is almost no suspense in winning. The bookmaker offers this kind of odds in order not to lose money. Everyone knows that this result is easy to come by. Pounds, only earn ten quid.Although the earning is small, the most important thing is stability and no compensation.And the odds of the latter are high, although you can get [-] pounds if you win [-] pounds, but the probability of this outcome is too low.So a team with high odds means that it is not favored.

This Carabao Cup quarter-final is actually the least attractive of the four games. What's the point of a match between two teams from England's second tier?Two of the other three games were Premier League teams fighting each other, and one game was played by the much-loved and beautifully played Arsenal team.

Who will be paying attention to this quarter-final except their respective fans?

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A cup of black tea exuding an attractive aroma was placed on the table by the window.Outside the window was cloudy, the sky was gloomy, and it looked like it was going to rain at any moment.But this does not affect the enjoyment of this cup of tea in the slightest, holding the newspaper in hand, leaning on the sofa with Erlang legs raised, and concentrating on reading the newspaper.If the weather is fine, it is really a wonderful afternoon tea time.

He put down the newspaper, stretched himself, then reclined on the sofa, picked up the black tea and turned his head to look out the window.Leisurely like an ordinary traveler, and the noisy lobby where he is, and the people who are busy walking around him are two completely different parallel spaces.

For the head coach of Nottingham Forest, Tony Twain, this was a rare leisure time before the game.

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