Godfather Of Champions

The match against Argentina is considered the most important warm-up match before the European Cup, because it is the strongest among many warm-up opponents. In the end, England defeated Argentina 2-0 at their home court, and Tony Dunn’s team still hasn’t lost.

After the game, many English media were touting Dunn's team's achievements. Many English fans cheered even more. For many years, England has finally produced an excellent head coach. Now they don't need to envy Scotland anymore.

Seeing such reports, Dunn wanted to laugh very much. He himself was a genuine Chinese. In the end, the Englishman still has to look up in front of the Scots in terms of coaching.

At the end of the match with Argentina, Dunn continued to prepare for the European Cup. He and his assistants were collecting information on opponents in the European Cup group stage, and information on potential opponents. The progress of this work is a bit slow, his coaching team is not as good as the one in the forest team, not that they are not up to the level, but that they are not used to doing this kind of thing.

In addition, the national team information is not as easy to collect as the club, especially the national team intelligence in Eastern Europe. After the expansion of the European Cup, there are eight more teams, and there are also many more national teams that did not often appear in the top European football competitions in the past. They are very mysterious for an island team like England. However, the appearance of such a team in the European Cup finals also increases the possibility of upset and makes the game more suspenseful.

"We can't ignore them because they are unfamiliar and weak. We must know their tactics and styles, past records, who are the threatening players on the team... If you don't figure these out, I can't be at ease." Explaining to the coaching staff why he values ​​the intelligence research of those underdogs so much. "You can't guarantee that they won't get out of the group and show up in front of us. If we don't know anything about them, we will be the one who is unlucky then. I don't want to see this happen."

For all fans, the opening of a large tournament like the European Cup always makes them look forward to it. With excitement, they began to plan how to arrange their time during the European Cup so that they would not miss every wonderful game. They talked with friends about which stars will make a blockbuster in the European Cup and which stars will become famous. Amidst anxiety, expecting that the team he supports can win the championship trophy, defeat all powerful enemies, and trample their corpses under their feet.

They will buy boxes of beer, coffee, and snacks in advance and keep them at home. Concentrate the saved annual leave to this period and settle down your wife, girlfriend and children. In the next month, only let football accompany you.

How happy it is to be a fan...

Being a head coach, these days, there is no such romantic feeling at all. They really need to settle down with their wives and children or girlfriends, and they can only let football accompany them. Because when they are busy and dim, home is just a symbol for them.

Shania returned to her home in the UK to accompany her husband, but Dunn didn't have much time to go home. More often, he would spend time with his coaches and study opponents with them. At the same time, pay close attention to the status of the internationals. If someone is injured, someone will call the club to ask about the player's injury to decide whether to call in a substitute. Just after the match with Argentina, Dunn also called several major international clubs, hoping that they could fully consider the importance of the European Cup to England, put the country as the priority, and minimize the need for the England international to play in the team. Time, on the one hand, avoids the possibility of their injury, on the other hand, Dunn does not hope that what he will end up with is a batch of exhausted international footballers.

As the head coach, Dunn needs to be in front of the public frequently, and he will be watched by the media wherever he goes, as if he saw a talking gorilla.

He has to answer those idiotic questions often. For example, will XX be called into the national team? Is there a contradiction between XX and XX? The chairman of the XX club is very dissatisfied with the national team not calling XX, what do you think? Mr. So-and-so thinks that his team has played too many games this season. His players have been injured in the national team but the club is responsible for paying for the treatment. The national team doesn't pay the club. Why? What do you think of this remark? This is the strongest national team in history. Are you confident to win the championship?

During this period of time, Dunn was in a bad mood and had a bad temper. Almost every time I met with reporters, I couldn't help but have a fight. The media are happy to publish such news, and harassment of Dunn seems to have become a common method used by all English media to attract attention. The Chief Executive Officer of the Football Association of England, Sean Barclays, has had a headache recently, which was caused by Dunn and the media.

You bastards, can't you just stop!

Deep down in Mr. Barclay's heart, he moaned feebly.

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On April 16, it was the 34th round of the English Premier League. Nottingham Forest challenged Newcastle to relegation. This game is related to the fate of the two teams next season. The Forest team needs to qualify for the Champions League so that they can make more money. They are currently ranked sixth, six points away from fourth place Liverpool. , They need to desperately grab points in the next five rounds to avoid playing the UEFA Cup. Newcastle needs to stay in the Premier League to avoid relegation. Today they are on the edge of the relegation zone and may fall at any time.

This is a life and death game. So from the beginning, they entered a fierce competition. The two sides were in constant contact with each other, their movements were rough, and their mouths were not clean.

As the core of the team, George Wood has naturally become the focus of his opponents. Whether offensive or defensive, the Forest team needs to use Wood to control the rhythm. He is the "metronome" of the team.

Today, he can't just get the ball and pass it out like before, and leave all the offense to his partner. He now needs to control the ball, then observe the situation on the field and decide how to attack. As a result, the football stays at his feet for a long time, which will give opponents a chance.

Wood was brought down six times in the first half of the game. No matter how strong his body is, he can't stop his opponent's defensive action like cutting a tree... The red jerseys have changed color, and Chris Lak yelled from the sidelines. , As long as Newcastle fouled Wood, he would roar at the fourth official. It's like Tony Dunn possessed.

But such a rant is of no avail, because his people are also using the same method against Newcastle players.

The fourth official knew very well what this game meant for the two teams. He was not easy to interfere with these actions. As long as there was nothing wrong, he would just open one eye.

The scene in the second half did not improve, and even more and more grudge. The players on both sides didn't put goals first, but they were thinking about the other side.

Wood was very angry. The opponents' non-stop fouls made him unable to play the entire game. All his energy must be devoted to dealing with those fouls.

However, he has not hit anyone so far, which is a big improvement. His temper finally became less hot when he was thirty years old...

In the 73rd minute, George Wood was shoveled to the ground once by his opponent. This time he did not get up as quickly as the eleven times before, but lay on the ground without moving.

Chris Lack was still blaming his opponent for his despicable behavior, and the expression on the face of his assistant Eastwood was no longer right.

Wood did not roll painfully on the ground, nor did he weakly raise his hand to signal that he was going to be replaced. He just lay on the ground quietly, as if he was asleep.

The closest teammate to him is Gago, he rushed to see what happened, but was startled by Wood's expression.

The captain, who is known for his sturdiness, was lying on the ground with his right toe in his hand, his face was pale, his brows were twisted together, and his face was sweaty.

But he gritted his teeth without saying a word.

"George!" Gago called him.

Wood did not answer him.

Gago knew it was broken. He quickly got up to make a stretcher and substitution gesture to the field.

"It's terrible..." Eastwood murmured after seeing Gago's gesture. Fleming had already hurried up with the stretcher.

Chris Lak stopped spitting at the fourth official, which is meaningless now. Because Wood is already injured...

Fleming rushed to the side of Wood, took a quick glance, then took off the shoe on his right foot and began to check.

After seeing Fleming going up, Chris Luck quickly turned around and gestured to himself for substitution. His heart jumped—George Wood had never been injured, and he had never been replaced by an injury...

A bad idea came to him.

George Wood was finally replaced by John Bostock. He was carried down on a stretcher. This is probably the first time he has been treated like this. Lying on the stretcher, he was a little dumbfounded, injured and carried off the court. He was no stranger to this scene, but when it happened to him for the first time, he still couldn't accept it.

The media always thought he was a steel warrior, and he himself thought so too, but he did not expect the steel warrior to rust when he was thirty years old...

The TV commentator didn't know what to say when facing this scene. He was silent for a long time and felt that it would be impossible not to say something before he said: "...George and George Wood are injured and leave the field. It seems that he cannot participate in this. It's a game... It's really an unexpected scene, that George Wood, who has never been hurt, is actually injured... Let's see what happened just now..."

Newcastle's Spanish left-back Jose Enrique rushed up from the side and shoveled Wood. It seemed that this collision was not intense, but Enrique twisted his body naturally after the tackle. Wood's right foot was caught between Enrique's legs and he cut it like this... as a supporting foot. The right foot has received all the energy. If it is not injured, Wood should be pulled to the laboratory for anatomy.

As the patron saint of England, "St. George", the fans of Newcastle stopped cheering and booing after seeing Wood leaving the field after being injured. Enrique was desperately explaining to the referee and the forest team players who came up. : "I didn't mean it, I really didn't mean it..."

Is it useful to explain this at this time?

The referee gave Enrique a red card!

Chris Lak glared at the fourth official: "If you interfered earlier, this would not happen! Now I can only pray that George's injuries are not serious, otherwise..." He and the fourth official thought of Tony at the same time. . Dunn's angry face.

Chris Luck dropped the fourth official and turned and ran to the other side. He had to go and see how Wood was going.

Fleming faced his questioning gaze and shook his head: "It's not so good, David."

"How bad is it?" Chris Lak's heart sank.

"It seems to be broken..."

Chris Lak only heard a "boom" in his mind.

At the crucial moment in the fight for the Champions League ticket, the captain and core fractured, which meant that the next four rounds of the game could not be played. He can almost foresee his fate after the end of the season. Evan Daggerty is not a patient club chairman.

This season with empty hands and no championships, the Champions League is his last straw.

It looks like he is about to start planning what to do next season...

He has one more thought, and that is...what about the England team?

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Dunn only heard the news of George Wood's injury after this round of the league because he and Walker did not watch the game in Newcastle, but went to Manchester.

When the news reached Dunn's ears, he still didn't believe it, thinking he had heard it wrong, or Walker was joking: "Are you sure it was George Wood who was injured? Isn't it just any other George?"

Walker shook his head: "Which George is there in England?"

"How was the injury?" Dunn didn't ask "How was the injury" first, because he felt that even if Wood was injured, it shouldn't be a big problem. At most, he was bleeding, but he was more interested in how he was injured.

"I was shoveled down by the opposing defender and the supporting foot was injured."

Dunn tried to reproduce the scene in his mind, but felt awkward no matter how he thought, so he asked casually: "How is the injury?"

"Broken big toe of right foot."

Dunn cast a surprised look on Walker's face, as if he heard the Martian invasion of the earth.

"It's true, I just talked to Fleming on the phone." Walker can understand why Dunn made such an expression. At first he and Dunn were similar.

Dunn moved his eyes away and cast aimlessly at other places, never stopping.

"FUCK!" he scolded suddenly. "Fuck! What a **** bitch!"

He was crazy, and swear words kept coming out of his mouth. Fortunately, there was no one in the room except Walker, otherwise others would be surprised by this. But the old partner Walker was familiar with Dunn's temper, not too surprised.

"I **** called the Premier League coaches before, hoping they don’t arrange for some of the killing tactics against the international team... The group of **** in Newcastle put my words on their ears? Kinnear (Newcastle coach) that old **** doesn’t know What does George Wood mean to England? Our main core big toe is broken! This is not a **** cold!"

Dunn was circling around in the hotel room, waving his arms excitedly and shouting.

Walker was also refused to persuade him to calm down. He knew that Dunn was under a lot of pressure and had a bad temper, so he took this opportunity to let him vent, maybe it would be good.

After scolding all those who should be scolded, Dunn slowly calmed down, and he asked: "How long will Fleming say?"

"...Three months." Walker hesitated when he said, he was worried that Dunn would be swearing again.

This time it was okay. Dunn was just stunned after hearing the deadline, but he was "fucking" without opening his mouth. His eyes crossed Walker, like the blue sky outside the window.

Three months later, the European Cup is over and the day lily is cold... (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)

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