Chapter 4 After Retirement
"Well, no matter what, Tony Don has left the football world. Now it's time for us to look away from him." In BBC's "Today's Event", the three guests said this when talking about major events in football some time ago. They all unanimously ranked Don't retirement as the second place in major events in England's sports this year, and the first place was naturally the England team won the world championship.
This sentence also represents an attitude of the media. After more than a month of hype, the new season is about to begin. A retired head coach, even if he is the champion coach, cannot attract more attention. What's more, if Tang En no longer coaches the team, then there is no point in hyping him. Without football, Tony Tang En is nothing, and the media don't have to buy him account.
Tang En was so happy. Naturally, Shanniya still had to work, while Tang En was at home to take care of her children. Fortunately, Teresa spent the most difficult baby years in the welfare home, and it was not too difficult for Tang En to raise a man now. Tang En has no experience as a father, but he always remembers one thing to make the child happy.
A person who is almost fifty years old is still like a naughty boy in front of his children. He plays with Teresa all day long and tries every means to make her happy. For a moment, Teresa is the only focus of his life. As for football, he has long been thrown out of the sky.
Moreover, in order to make Teresa adapt to this strange country and lifestyle as soon as possible, he often takes her out shopping or sit in the bar in Burns. Of course, alcohol is not allowed, and Teresa is also marked as a "no smoking area" by him, and those fans are not allowed to smoke. When he is no longer busy with work, he finally has more time to come to the bar to chat with the old friend. Everyone wants him to come every day, what is it that's not allowed to smoke? Teresa is very popular with everyone, although she is just an adopted daughter. But who cares about those? Other father doesn't care, what do outsiders care about?
This is Tang En's happy life after retirement.
"Which team do you most like to win the championship in the new season?" Leinker asked the two guests on the show.
"Liverpool." Alan Hansen replied without hesitation.
"reason?"
"Does this need a reason? I'm their fan... OK, I'm just kidding. I just hope Liverpool can win the championship, but calmly analyze it, I think Arsenal and Manchester United have the most hope of winning the championship..."
Reinkell turned his attention to another guest, Mark Laurenson.
"Ahem. " Laurenson replied in a clear throat, "I'm optimistic about Chelsea..."
"So what about the team that can be qualified for the Champions League next season?"
The two people's opinions were surprisingly consistent this time: "Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea."
Leinker suddenly asked: "There is no Nottingham Forest?"
Alan Hansen and Mark Laurenson shook their heads together: "No."
Laurenson also added: "It will be difficult for them to be able to qualify for the European League in their hands."
The UEFA Cup was the former League Cup, but later it was restructured, with the full name "UEFA European League". The reformed UEFA League made some adjustments to the competition system and qualifications. The runner-up in the Cup in the past was allowed to participate in the League Cup. If the cup champion was qualified to participate in the Championship Cup, the runner-up would replace the champion to participate in the League Cup. Now this approach does not work. For small and medium-sized clubs who want to seek breakthroughs in the Cup and enter European competitions, the threshold has been raised.
Nottingham Forest has lost the qualification to participate in the Champions League for two consecutive seasons and can only participate in the European League.
In fact, for many clubs, even if they can participate in the European League, it is a very commendable result. But Nottingham Forest only showed off its strength in Europe's top events a few years ago. Now they can only participate in the European League, which really makes people feel "degenerate". After all, the influence and benefits of the European League are really incomparable to the Champions League.
And there is something that has a great impact on Nottingham Forest's performance, and it has long been not a illusory rumor, but a conclusive fact - Evan Dogette has always wanted to sell Nottingham Forest. How could a club chairman who has no intention of continuing to operate lead the club to move forward? Until now, the change of Nottingham Forest's head coach is like a quick look. So far, the media satirized that the door of Nottingham Forest's head coach's office had long been changed to a "revolving door".
The reason for not selling the land is that the results are declining, the market influence is reduced, and there is no one to care about it. Nottingham is not a big city like Manchester, Liverpool and London, and small places are destined to have small development prospects. Since this is the case, the possibility of attracting foreign consortiums is very low; on the other hand, the price is always unanimous, and occasionally there are buyers. Evan Dogette thinks that the price is too low and he cannot accept it. So he has been dead for two years, every time Before and at the end of the season, I heard that Doggetti wanted to sell the club at the end of the season, but I never sold it. The fans were disgusted by his lack of loyalty behavior. They were angry at first, but now they have become jokes. They only regarded Evan Doggetti as a jumping clown. The Robin Hood on the Crimson Stadium had banners and slogans scolding Evan Doggetti all year round. It has become a scene here. Every time the game was broadcast, there were many close-up shots there.
Fortunately, there are still European competitions every year. In the past few years, it was the Champions League, and in the past two years, it was the European League, and the operation was not unsustainable. But the competitive results are not very satisfactory, and the head coaches have been replaced continuously. People are panic. The tactics cannot be agreed to be implemented, so a new coach will come today. A new coach will be brought out tomorrow. After practicing the new tactics for half a season, they will be abandoned, so everyone will start over again...
If you can get any good results in this way, it will really bully the Premier League.
Once the team loses the strength and motivation to win the championship, such a team will inevitably be unable to retain people.
Michael Dawson, the central defender who was originally considered a good deal by Evan, has been injured since he bought it and eventually retired due to injury at the age of 34; David Bentley left Nottingham Forest, and he brought the team a transfer fee of 12 million pounds, and he went to Blackburn; Adriano Mock was not willing to leave the club. But the decision of such a thing was not in his hands. Whether it was the agent or the club chairman, he hoped that he would leave because he could sell 18 million pounds and the agent could also take a commission, so he eventually went to Arsenal...
For Nottingham Forest fans, the four seasons after Donn left were dark for four seasons. The team not only gained nothing, but also watched the former heroes leave one after another every summer. It was like returning to the beginning of this century. Nottingham Forest's days of ups and downs in the low-level league.
At that time, they missed Brian Clauve, and they said, "If Clauve was still there, things would not have been so bad." Who do they miss now? Of course it was Tony Donn, but unfortunately Donn has retired.
"The goal of the club in the new season is actually the European Champions League? Ha! Be realistic, Mr. Chairman!" In Burns' bar, fans from nearby are enthusiastically discussing the future of the team in the new season. When it comes to club president Evan Dogerty, everyone's tone is ridiculous.
"It would be great if we can guarantee that we can participate in the European League!"
"Although I think it's always good to have ambitions... but this sentence doesn't work for Dogette. Even if the team's performance improves, it's just adding to his bargaining chips to sell the club..."
Tang En turned a deaf ear to the fierce discussion on the other side of the bar. He pulled his daughter Teresa and sat aside, making Teresa, who was a little bored.
"Tresa, Dad tell you a joke!"
Teresa nodded.
"It's hot in the hot summer, the weather is very hot. Two bananas are on the way. Suddenly the banana in front said, "It's so hot, I'm going to take off my clothes. " After that, he took off his clothes. Then the banana behind fell down! Hahahaha!" After that, Tang En lay on the table with his stomach holding his stomach and laughing. "Isn't it funny?"
Teresa, opposite, pulled the corners of her mouth, trying very hard to make herself laugh, but she tried several times and couldn't do such a difficult thing, so she said to Tang En a little aggrievedly: "Dad. I can't laugh..."
This time it was Kenny Burns next to him and laughed.
Tang En felt very embarrassed: "Okay... I know this joke is a bit difficult for you to understand..." He scratched his head, turned around and looked at the bar owner who suddenly appeared, and quickly opened up the topic, "Why don't you wipe the cup?"
Burns put a glass of freshly squeezed juice in his hand in front of Teresa: "I'll treat you, Teresa."
"Thank you, Uncle Kenny." Teresa's English has improved rapidly, and the speed of children accepting new things is always unexpected for adults. Now she can understand some of the English and can also use simple English to talk.
Taking this opportunity, Burns sat down next to Donn: "They all hope you can come back..." He pointed to the group of fans opposite him, and the discussion was still very lively. "But they dare not say it in front of you."
Tang En looked at Teresa, who was sucking juice opposite. “I’m retired.”
"Jordan has retired three times and can come back three times." Burns just smiled.
Tang En looked at him, but didn't find any strange expressions in it. It seemed as if he was just talking casually.
Burns took away the empty cup on the table, got up and walked slowly to the bar. Donn looked at his back from behind. This man was once a famous villain in English football and a big man who was terrified by all opponents. Legend has it that in any game he participated, there would be an "Burnsco" in nearby hospitals. He once demonstrated against the then European footballer Kevin Keegan before the final of the 1980 Champions League, which scared Keegan to his complete state.
No. In the subsequent finals, Keegan basically never even encountered the ball, and Hamburg eventually lost that game. The defending champion of Nottingham Forest. �
Such a man later became an ordinary middle-aged uncle who sat behind the bar every day to wipe the glass, and now he has become an ordinary old man who sits behind the bar every day to wipe the glass.
Tang En turned around and looked at his daughter. He found that his daughter was also looking at him. He said timidly: "I can't finish drinking, dad..."
Tang En reached out and touched her head: "Forget it if you can't finish drinking. We should go back, Teresa."
After saying that, he got off the seat and took Teresa's hand.
Teresa jumped down, held her father's hand, and the two walked out.
"Goodbye, guys." Tang En waved to the group of fans who were still discussing heatedly.
Everyone stopped discussing when they found out that he was leaving, and they all turned their eyes to him, as if they had something to say, but no one said it. In the end, only Fatty John shouted when Tang En was about to go out: "Are you coming tomorrow, Tony!"
Tang En looked back at him: "This is not sure. I don't come here every day. I always bring Teresa here. I'm afraid she will learn bad things, haha!"
Tang En didn't say much, laughed loudly, waved his hand and opened the door and left.
Tony Tang En never accepts old age, but perhaps in the eyes of these people, Tang En, who is slowly walking out with his daughter, is already considered an old man.
He is less than fifty years old and his body is not old. But his heart is old, and the beating heart of a nuclear-powered champion slowed down and slowly calmed down. Now he has won all the championships he deserves, what else can stimulate him? No, no at all. He really has no reason to come back again, dragging a body with a hidden danger of heart disease to satisfy the audience's desires.
Perhaps this is what he always wanted for him. He had planned it long ago. After winning the World Cup, he retired bravely and left the most glorious back for the world. His glorious image has always been not discredited, and people don’t have to sigh at the "end of heroes".
But for the audience, the most dazzling protagonist star has passed away. What else is there to watch in this drama? Those superstars of the superstars will always be called back by fanatical fans at the end of the concert, and then a few songs on the court, and then a few more times to show how popular they are.
It's a pity that they couldn't run to Don Eun to yell at him, "Come back, Tony! Sing another song for us!"
"I hope Tony lives a happy life and is healthy. Now he has a daughter again, which should be more like this. But why do I still prefer the guy who jumps and jumps on the sidelines and spits at the fourth official?"
Skinny Bill murmured.
"I like it too..." someone murmured beside him.
Bill glanced at it and it was John. The two of them looked at each other and laughed again.
"What are you doing when you come back? This mess of the Forest team has ruined its reputation as the godfather of the championship? It's better not to come back..."
Chapter completed!