champion godfather

Chapter 823 Volume [-] Crimson Two Same Leaves

Although Tony Twain didn't really take off his pants, he was indeed checked by the two supervisors.His whole body was turned over to prove that he did not bring any communication equipment, and the battery of his mobile phone was removed in front of his face.While unloading the battery, Tang En suddenly had a flash of inspiration.He thought that next time, he might just ask someone to buy him a counterfeit mobile phone in China, which can still be used after removing the battery. He must make those foreigners who don’t understand anything careless!

Tang En was amused by his own thought.

The two supervisors next to him had dark faces.

"It seems that you are in a good mood, Mr. Tang En, are you not worried about the competition at all?" One of them beat around the bush and wanted to pick on Tang En.

"I don't need to worry about the winner." Tang En shrugged, "Is the inspection finished?"

"Okay, no problem, you can go to the stage." The two made a gesture.They will not follow Twain to the stands, their seats are in the boxes, and the Nottingham Forest Club treats them well.

Tang En turned around and left without even saying "goodbye".

The two supervisors are still resentful about how they were treated.

"After the game, let's see if you are still rampant!"

They said viciously to Tang En's back.

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There were more and more fans in the stands, and various songs and shouts rang out over the city stadium.

Tony Twain climbed up the steps and walked to a stand.

"Hey guys!" he greeted the fans standing in front, their backs turned.

"Forest Forest! Nottingham Forest!!" The group turned around after singing the last line, and the fat man in the lead laughed: "Look who's coming, guys! You poor fellow sent to the stands—Tony! Welcome to Robin Hood Stand!"

Fat John gave Tony Twain a warm bear hug, the warmth almost made Tang En breathless.

After John finished hugging, the others came up one by one to hug him and welcome him.

After taking off his suit, wearing a red Forest team jersey and a scarf around his neck, he looks like an ordinary fan. It is not easy to find out once he enters the crowd of fans.

"Tony, what's the matter with the stadium?" Skinny Bill pointed to the stadium below the stands.

Tang En glanced at it, then laughed.Isaacson did a good job. From the visual point of view, it is exactly the same as Wilford's No. [-] training ground.

"Are all our turf maintenance workers sleeping? How can we play on such a field?"

Someone in the crowd echoed.

Tang En chuckled: "It looks shocking, right? After a while, the game will be interesting!"

"Ah - you did it on purpose!" Bill reacted, pointing at Tang En and said, "You scoundrel!"

"Bad guy! Bad guy! Tony is a bad guy!" The fans next to him immediately followed up and shouted slogans, just like they were cheering for the team during the game.

"My little gift for Barcelona, ​​hope they like it."

A group of people burst into laughter.

"However, our people are not used to such a venue..." Some people still have doubts.

"Ha! What do you think we are doing during the closed training for a week?" This time it was not Dunn's turn to explain his doubts, so John laughed first.He has figured it out.

Tang En looked at the excited look of a group of fans, stood aside and smiled without saying a word.To be honest, it's really a pity that I can't stand on the sidelines and see Mr. Guardiola's expression when he saw this stadium at a close distance...

After everyone finished laughing, he asked: "The club didn't tell me the exact location, it just said to sit with you. So... where is my location?"

John pointed to the middle, "Central! Among us."

"very good!"

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Chris Lack's loud voice rang in the locker room of the home team: "Warm up! Warm up! Full warm up! Remember the field conditions of this game, you must warm up more seriously than any previous game! You can Get shoveled by your opponent on the field, but I don’t want you to run and sprain your ankle! Think about what you have been doing for a week, how can something like that happen to you?”

Chris Lack was walking around the locker room, but everyone just thought he was background music.Someone else was asking Don: "Where will the boss be at the game?"

"North Stand." Tang replied.

The North Stand is also what Fatty John called the "Robin Hood Stand". It is the area where Nottingham Forest's most die-hard and fanatical fans gather. Every club's home stadium will have such a stand, some are the North Stand, and some are the South Stand.The North Stand of the City Stadium is next to the River Trent, which is across the river from Maid Lane, home of their cross-city rivals Notts County.

"There, the boss must be like a fish in water."

"Hey, that's right. He is Nottingham Forest's number one fanatical die-hard fan!"

Tang had such a feeling—the agitated atmosphere just now because of Chris Lak's constant noise, slowly eased down after knowing Tony's location.The head coach is indeed the backbone of a team. No matter how good the assistant coach is, he can't take away the light of the head coach...

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The first team to come out to warm up was the Barcelona team. Twain could tell from the boos that rang out from the scene.So he got up from his seat, stood up and looked down.

He really wants to see the wonderful expressions of the Barcelona players when they look at this field. This is his little bit of bad taste...

The Barcelona players ran out of the tunnel, and then stopped in unison when they stepped on the first foot of the court, and then looked at the court in front of them with puzzled faces, and some of them even wanted to turn around and go back.

"What are they thinking? I bet they must be thinking - it's strange, did we run to the wrong course!" Sitting in a corner of the stands, a 50-year-old man in his 60s was laughing. "It was obviously not like this when I got used to the venue yesterday! Hahahaha——"

Glenn Shelvey patted Thompson Isaacson's thigh and almost fell to the ground.And Isaacson was also overjoyed to admire the masterpiece they worked hard all night.

Guardiola and members of the coaching staff followed the players out, only to find them standing on the sidelines, not warming up on the pitch.

Guardiola's assistant, Vilanova, his assistant coach at Barcelona's second-team team, was surprised and asked: "What are you doing? Why aren't you warming up?"

"Coach, this place..." Puyol stood up as the captain to negotiate with the coaches on behalf of the team.

"What happened to the venue?"

"It doesn't feel the same as yesterday..." Professional players are very sensitive to the field. Although the training field yesterday was also bad, it is still not as good as today's.

Guardiola didn't listen to what they said, but went on the field to step on it himself, and he had the right to speak after experiencing it for himself.

He frowned after only a few steps.

"Damn it!" he cursed in a low voice.

"Josep, what's the matter?" The second assistant coach Eusebio (an assistant of the former head coach Rijkaard, not the famous Portuguese player "Black Panther" Eusebio) noticed his strangeness and stepped forward to ask road.

"They changed the turf, and the field has been treated specially." Guardiola glanced up at the home team's coaching bench, and found that there was no one there. Then he remembered that Tony Twain was suspended for this game. If he wanted to find it, he should go to Find it in the stands.

Eusebio was a little surprised: "There is such a thing? Wasn't it normal when we came to adapt to the venue yesterday?"

"Maybe they changed it after we left after our warmup...overnight."

Eusebio was shocked by Tony Twain's shamelessness: "How could he do this!"

Just at this time, Nottingham Forest also came out to warm up. Eusebio saw Tang En who was always inseparable from Tang En at a glance. He rushed up and asked face to face: "Mr. Coach, would you like to explain what's going on in your stadium?" ?”

Tang looked confused: "Catalan? Spanish? Please speak English."

After seeing Don's reaction, Eusebio realized that he didn't speak the lingua franca in a moment of excitement, but jumped directly into his native dialect.He had no choice but to readjust his emotions, pointing to the turf of different colors on the field angrily and asked in English: "It's such a bad turf, our players stepped on it. It's uneven. Where is this a field for football matches? Don't you want anything?" Did you say that?"

Tang suddenly realized: "Oh, the city stadium has been maintaining the previously used turf recently, so it has been replaced..."

"Should we just replace this patch of turf?" Eusebio was furious when he heard Don say that.

"Small club, finances are tight, and there is no spare good turf. I'm really sorry." Tang bowed slightly, with a low profile, so that the people in Barcelona couldn't lose their temper...

In fact, what he said were all Dunn's prepared answers to Barcelona's questioning.Tang En expected that this kind of surprise before and after the turf would definitely arouse some people's ideas, so he prepared the corresponding answer in advance, so it would be foolproof at that time.

Also, Nottingham Forest did notify UEFA a few days in advance that they were going to maintain the turf.Changing the turf is a very normal thing, so UEFA didn't take it seriously, nodded and agreed: "You guys change it!"

As a result, Barcelona was stunned by the replacement of the strongest stadium in history that UEFA did not expect.

Even the two UEFA supervisors who are used to seeing the world were stunned for a long time when they saw this stadium.They thought they had arrived at Mead Lane on the other side of the river—a Premier League club that has been playing in the European Champions Cup for a long time. It has just won two Champions Leagues and a league championship in the past few years. How can it be so bad? ...to make people speechless.

Eusebio wanted to say something, but was stopped by Guardiola.

"We have been overshadowed by them, so there is nothing to say. It is impossible to change the site back. Since they insist on maintaining the turf, it means that they have taken everything into consideration."

Eusebio is very upset: "We can respond to UEFA..."

Tang pricked up his ears suddenly: "UEFA?"

This is really a sensitive moment. One week before the game, the English media insisted on the close relationship between Barcelona and UEFA, and repeated hype, insisting on proving that UEFA has a shady scene, and that Barcelona's home victory was given by UEFA. .Anyway, it is not a matter of a day or two for UEFA to be unhappy with English football, and the English media don't even give face to their own people, how can it be possible to give UEFA face?So "UEFA" has almost become a forbidden word at this time.As long as UEFA is mentioned in Barcelona, ​​​​it will arouse other people's associations...

Eusebio turned back to him angrily and said, "Don't you understand Catalan?"

Tang just gave him the half-hearted oriental smile and said nothing.

Eusebio really has nothing to do with such a group of shameless people. He can only follow Guardiola away and avoid Don.

"It's useless to file a complaint with UEFA. The game is about to start. UEFA will reschedule the game because of something like the turf? And this stadium is not impossible to play... we can only let our own players be careful. But after the game, we will report the status of the city stadium to the fourth official." Guardiola looked helpless.He had been thinking about what tactics Tony Twain would formulate when he returned to the home court this week when he was unable to direct the game, but he never expected that Tony Twain would play such a hand against the rules.

Making a fuss on the field, planning carefully before and after, without any omissions, really "do whatever it takes to win"...

But on such a bad field, my team can't perform well, can your team perform well?
Just when he felt that the game might not be as bad as people thought, Guardiola suddenly remembered that Nottingham Forest was closed for training a week before the game, and even canceled the regular press conference at the expense of offending the local media in the country, so no one knew what are they doing...

Maybe, could it be... They are training on a training ground with similar conditions to this one?
When Guardiola woke up suddenly, he realized that his back was covered in sweat, cold sweat.

This Tony Twain!

He clenched his fist unconsciously.

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When the assistant coach was arguing with Don, the Barcelona players next to him were whispering together.Some people ran to ask Piqué, because he was the only one of these people who had the experience of playing football with Tony Twain in public.

Piqué can only honestly say: "He is such a person... In order to achieve his goal, he can use all methods..."

"Wow, doesn't it feel bad to play under him?" Someone exclaimed.

When Piqué heard them commenting on Tony Twain, he grumbled wryly, "It's okay..."

Then he looked at the empty Nottingham Forest coaching bench.He could imagine how the Nottingham Forest players would feel - it must be great!
Because when he was still at Nottingham Forest, whenever the boss made such a move against the enemy, it always resonated with everyone.

"We do everything that makes the opponent uncomfortable, that can make us profitable."

This is what the boss once said, and it is a bit embarrassing to recall it in this scene at this moment.Because he has become the "adversary" in that sentence.

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"Warm up!" Vilanova shouted from the sidelines, urging the players to warm up. "But be careful, don't get hurt, this place is terrible, don't get hurt!"

When he shouted this, all the Barcelona players who were warming up on the field became shy.Because no one wants to withdraw from the game due to warm-up injuries before the game, especially those stars who have been placed in the starting list...

On the contrary, when the Nottingham Forest players set foot on the pitch, they all showed a hint of surprise on their faces.

They feel very familiar, too familiar... because this court feels exactly the same as the No. [-] training ground!
"Did they move No. [-] here?" Akinfeev even bent down and took off his gloves to touch the turf to feel the real touch.

"I trained on it for a week, and I suddenly felt very friendly... Hey, look at the Barcelona players, haha!" Pepe suddenly pointed to the opposite side and laughed.

Everyone looked at his hand and laughed too.The Barcelona players seemed to be warming up in a minefield, standing on tiptoe as if wishing they could fly so they wouldn't have to suffer from such a bad field.

"Look at them, I think we will win this game!" Lennon shouted excitedly from the side.

George Wood was pouring cold water on him: "Don't underestimate the enemy."

"Okay, guys! Chatting time is over!" Chris Lack's loud voice chased from the locker room to the court, and a group of people ran up one after another.As if to purposely annoy Barcelona, ​​they are different from the stiff movements of their opponents. Their steps are powerful, their bodies are agile and flexible, and their fighting spirit is high.Walking on the uneven court like walking on the ground.

This is the result of their two training sessions per day for a week at the cost of three injuries.

This is the real home field - no one in the world can adapt to the turf of the current city stadium except them.

Philosophers like to say: There are no two identical leaves in the world.

The Nottingham Forest players will refute him this evening: No, there are indeed two identical leaves in the world, one at Welford and one at the City Stadium.

(End of this chapter)