Everyone seemed to be in deep thought. Tang En came to his senses after looking at the empty wine glass: "Where did we just talk about?"

"The nature of professional football." Walker prompted.

"Very good, the essence of professional football. Victory." Donn took half a glass of wine in front of Walker and drank it. Burns saw an empty wine glass on the table and simply stood up to get the excited alcoholic wine.

"Uh, you're right, Tony. But why can't beautiful offensive football win or championship?" Walker had a different opinion.

Don En nodded: "Okay, let me convince you with facts. Take the most typical World Cup as an example. Let's count from the nearest to the nearest, and it's not enough to be too old. Since the extremely gorgeous and powerful Brazilian national team in 1970, which team has won the championship? In 1974, Germany, were they good-looking teams? When did the Germans play football well and the offensive pass? The good-looking team is the Dutch team, with all attacks and defenses, creating a brand new genre, the great Michels, the great Cruyff, the great

The Netherlands, what happened? They were the runner-up. In 1978, the Netherlands, which still insisted on attacking and defending all the way, were the runner-up. They lost to the host Argentina. Can you say that Argentina played more beautifully than the Netherlands? Continue, in 1982, Italy, like the Germans, they won the championship with concrete defense and a kid who once played fake football. Did they play well? After that World Cup, everyone said that Italy was the representative of offensive football? No. 1986...well, this is a strange World Cup."

Donne has his reasons for saying this, and Walker will agree deeply. Because this Mexican World Cup has unbearable memories for the English. Maradona's hand of God and five consecutive people are shameless for the English. No matter how noble Maradona has in the minds of Chinese or other countries, in the eyes of many Englishmen, he is a liar.

"...The champion was Maradona alone, not Argentina. Let's count later. In the 1990 World Cup, runner-up Argentina, champion Germany, penalty kicks and penalty kicks... I only remember these. What can it mean? Is the representative of offensive football a penalty?" Don sneered. "In 1994, what is the Brazilian team that won the four times in their country?'The ugliest and most conservative national team in Brazil's football history', Pereira has never been a head coach who advocates offense, and Santana is the godfather of Samba football. But what was the result of that World Cup? He brought back to Brazil for Brazil. But what was the result of that World Cup?

The World Cup that lost twenty-four years. No matter how ugly and dull the finals were, he was the champion coach! His status was unsightly, which means everything. People only recognize the championship. Next is 1998. If Zidane were not available, would France win the championship? Obviously not. But if Zidane had Zidane that year, was the most elegant and beautiful team? Ronaldo and the Brazilian would not agree. Besides, France was able to enter the finals and had no relationship with Zidane. Next 2002..." Donn saw Walker's face excited, his mouth opened slightly, and he stopped talking. "What do you want to say?"

"Nothing, I just want to remind you that Brazil won the championship in the end, 3R, offensive football!" Walker finally found strong evidence to refute Donn's "fallacies". "Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Robert Carlos, Cafo. Look at the names of these people and the football they play."

Donn smiled, and laughed happily. Burns came over with two large glasses of beer and asked Walker strangely: "What's wrong with Tony?"

Walker shrugged: "I don't know, I just told him that the winner of the 2002 World Cup is Brazil, which plays offensive football."

Burns smiled and gave Walker the other drink before Donn. "Are you arguing about this?"

Seeing the beer, Don Eun stopped smiling. He sat up and raised his glass and drank one fifth of the glass in one breath. Wiping the foam beside his mouth, Don Eun decided to teach Des a good lesson. He said the idea.

"You're right. That Brazil team was very strong. If you want to say the attack lineup is second in the world, no one dares to say that they are the first. The 3R is a very good offensive tactic. With the Brazilian wings at its peak, it's perfect. Their reward is the golden trophy. Ronaldo even broke the curse of six goals, which seems to be a proof of the popularity of offensive football."

Walker nodded and smiled to see how Tangen retorted.

"But... do you know how Brazil scored 18 goals in that World Cup?"

These words made Walker's question stunned. He didn't care about this. He was just shopping for the England team.

"I tell you that 70% of the balls were passed in more than five feet before entering the goal. This is a very reasonable number of times. If you have too many, it will be too cumbersome and may miss the opportunity." The number 70% was said by Don En, but it is probably not much worse. Don En read a professional football magazine after that World Cup and analyzed the attack method of the Brazilian team in detail. The article quoted this data analyzed by a British football research institution. He could not remember the specific content, but he believed that he remembered the "five feet" correctly.

“What does this mean?”

"What does this mean?! Oh my God... This is a typical example of modern football! Attacks with more than five feet are too wordy... Inefficiency and useless. Don't those gorgeous footballs emphasize more ball control and more transmission? The Brazilian team told us with practical actions that there is no need to always control the ball under the feet, and there is no need to have more transmission. The Brazilian team's ball control rate in that World Cup was not superior. The Brazilian team's goal in the 1970 World Cup final was a classic, but it is not suitable for all other games and all other teams. It was a special case that appeared in a special situation.

"Don En always disdained Argentina's goal passed twenty-four consecutively in the 2006 World Cup. No matter how high the outside world's evaluation of the ball was, he also insisted on his own point of view: passing more goals can only mean that the team's offensive efficiency is too low. "You fell down fifty times in a row, showing the players' beautiful footwork and outstanding running positions in the middle, so that the opponent will not touch the ball once, and then shoot beautifully into the opponent's goal, 1:0. What about my team? During the period when you fell down fifty times in a row, you scored one goal every five times, 10:0. Which one do you think is better?"

Walker was stopped by Tang En. He opened his mouth and didn't know how to answer. In fact, the answer was very simple. All fools knew to choose the latter, but Walker just couldn't accept Tang En's theory. No matter how he heard it, he felt something was wrong, but he couldn't say anything wrong.

"You think Brazil is very offensive, and I think so too. But this offensive football is different from the offensive football in our usual sense. Scolari's Brazilian team is actually very different from traditional Samba football, more European, more modern, more direct, and more deadly. Modern football pays attention to efficiency because it always changes offense and defense at high speed and has a faster pace. Continuous long-term ball control and foot-turning actually do not meet the requirements of modern football, which is inevitable." Don N actually wants to give the two examples why Brazil's Kaka is called "modern front midfielder" and what is the difference between "typical front midfielder" such as Rui Costa and Riquelme. However, Kaka is still playing football in Sao Paulo in Brazil at this time. Europeans know almost nothing about him. Using him as an example is too abrupt and useless.

"More time to control the ball and pass the ball means more mistakes. The tactical tone of modern football is to minimize one's own mistakes and force the opponent to make mistakes. We grab the opponent's ball through strict defense. From the beginning of controlling the ball, it means that the opponent may use the same method to grab it back anytime and anywhere. Therefore, it is the most economical and realistic and efficient tactic to send the ball into the opponent's goal with three passes and two strokes." Then the effect of alcohol, Tang En, the "pollmate", taught two real professional players a modern football tactics class.

"You... are you saying that controlling the ball is useless?" Walker asked in surprise.

Following Walker's words, Tang En revealed his "ball control theory is useless" and the disk. "I think the extra ball control is really useless. As long as we keep the ball control until we score a goal, the five-legged pass is very ideal. If you have too many, it is a waste of time and efficiency. My ideal football is simple, practical, direct and efficient football. This is the football that can bring victory. The way of playing from the backcourt to the opponent's goal and then let others kick back to the backcourt, and then the opponent counterattacked the goal is very stupid and ridiculous." Tang En thought of a post on the Internet, which contains the tactical boards of various national boards, and the team's passing methods and routes were painted. Of course, this is exaggerated, but it truly reflects the tactical style of those national teams. Looking at the blackboard, the messy and twisted pass routes, Tang En laughed the happiestly. And that picture belongs to the Brazilian team he admires very much.

Later, this Brazilian team, known as the most powerful team on Earth, was called "thirty years ahead of world football" by Pereira. It has Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Adrignano, and Kaka. It is known as the strongest in history and is stronger than 3R. The attack combination "Magic Four-Square Formation" has a favorite to win the championship without even making the semi-finals.

Another team that scored 24 consecutive goals in the group stage has the only "classical midfielder" Riquelme, known as the only "classical midfielder" in football, and has N successors of "Maradona". Their results are the same as Brazil, and they are stopped in the quarterfinals. The team that held the banner of offensive football was defeated in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and the final winner was Italy, which performed more stably, efficiently and had better defense.

"I have to repeat that maybe fans will like to watch the 'air relay' that has been passing fifty times in a row without landing, but I don't like it. I just like to score the ball into the opponent's goal and win the game. Before that, I don't care how the ball was entered or how the game was won. There is a saying that goes: a good ending is a good thing."

After Tang En finished speaking, he began to drink with his head down. He just said that his mouth was dry.

Walker came back from his shock: "Tony...I always think your thoughts are too extreme. You completely threw the way you controlled the ball into the garbage dump..."

"No, no, no, I didn't throw it into the garbage dump. I just think that if we can't win, we have to play football in a different way. From our last two games, it can be seen that too much control of the ball will not bring us victory and goals. The ultimate goal of football matches is to win, and the ultimate goal of attack is to score goals. Why are people putting the cart before the horse now? Simply emphasizing beautiful ball control and beautiful scenes, they think they can score goals in this way? It's ridiculous, goals are very accidental. Eighty percent of ball control cannot mean that there are eight goals. My football is very simple, put aside those cumbersome things and pursue the results directly. Des, I think the training of the Forest team needs to be changed. We should focus more on how to get the team to score goals, rather than how to control the ball."

Burns was beside him without saying a word, thinking.

"I am the head coach of the Forest team, and I have to be responsible for the results of this team. If it is just a neutral game, I believe everyone likes to watch both sides go back and forth and play offensive football, and I also like it. But what if there is a Forest team game? What do you want to see? Isn't the Forest team winning? As long as you win, everything else is not a problem."

As Tang En was talking, a noise suddenly sounded at the door, and a group of fans came in to drink and chat. Tang En looked back and found that the person who came was "old acquaintances" - Michael and his gang. He said to Walker: "Look, Michael and the others are steadfast opposition to me. If you are not sure if what I said just now is correct, we can ask them what they say to me."

After saying that, Tang En picked up the wine glass and greeted him.

The fat man next to Michael saw Tang En first, and he shouted: "Hey, has our head coach resigned as a bartender?" This shout immediately made everyone's eyes focus on Tang En.

Tang En was very grateful to this fat man because that was exactly the effect he wanted. But he still had to be more mean in his mouth. "I drank this wine myself, fat man."

The fat man curled his lips, "What do you want to do?" When he said this, everyone next to him became alert.

"Okay, man, I'm not here to argue or fight with you today." Tang En waved his hand at these people with a look of alertness. "It's just that I have a question, I hope to hear your answer."

"Why do we want to answer your question?" The fat man pushed back.

"If you don't answer, you will ask. As fans, what kind of games do you prefer to see?"

A group of people looked at each other, wondering why Tang En asked this. "Of course it's a good game!" Someone answered.

"What is a good game?" Because I don't know where the voice came from, Don just stared at Michael and asked loudly.

"More goals, more beautiful cooperation, and fancy extraordinary!" The voice also replied loudly.

Walker behind him shrugged and shook his head at Burns.

"What if I can't win the ball?" Tang En asked loudly.

The voice was silent.

So Don Eun turned around and asked to others, "What if the beautiful and gorgeous football you like can't win? Do you still like it? You go to the stadium every weekend to cheer for the team, why?"

"Because we like football, we support the Forest Team!" The fat man spoke, and his words received a lot of responses.

Tang En said disdainfully: "Then why did you boo the team you supported when the team was not good some time ago?"

"Why can't you shy? Because you have poor grades!" The fat man pointed at Tang En and said, he must have been holding this sentence in his heart for a long time. Similarly, he received everyone's support.

Burns looked at the question and answer and smiled. It was obvious that those people had fallen into the pit dug by Don En, but he didn't know it.

"But you said you supported the team, but you didn't say that the team's performance was not good, so you didn't support it. The English fans tradition is loyal!"

Everyone asked this sentence speechlessly.

"That... is for glory, for our own glory!" The fat man finally came up with a reason.

"Glory?" Tang En glared at the fat man and asked, "What a good word. Then I ask you where the glory comes from? Did it fall from the sky?"

The fat man was completely speechless when asked. He was not stupid. He knew why Tang En asked this, and he had already fallen into his trap.

"I tell you where glory comes from!" Just like commanding a game on the court, Done shouted loudly, "Glory comes from victory! It is manifested by the championship! A failed team has no glory, and the fans who support it cannot say glory. Only victory, only victory can bring you glory!"

Walker said to Burns: "Tony has drunk too much."

Burns nodded in agreement.

Tang En did drink high, and he said a lot today, and he also wanted to say these words so that more people could listen. When he was drinking in a bar in Chengdu, he would be ridiculed by those people no matter what he said. Then, when he was drinking high, he would naturally be a chaotic fight...

Now that he is standing here, he hopes that what he says can be recognized.

"You love the Forest Team, I have no doubts. But I also know that no one will unconditionally love a team that will only lose and lose and then lose! I hate failure, and I hope my team will be a winner after every game! Only in this way can there be fucking glory! Glory is not something you say every day, so the team needs to exchange for victory!"

After yelling, Tang En took a break and then asked, "Tell me now, what kind of game do you like?"

Michael, the leader, finally spoke, "What the hell are you talking about, Mr. Donne? Of course we like to win, we also like the team to return to the Super League after this season. We like to become the damn league champion next season, and we will be the king of Europe next season!"

Tang En smiled at this former "enemy" and said, "It seems that our heroes have similar views, Michael." Then he opened his arms and shouted to the fans of the court, "That's right! Victory, champion! I like this kind of football. As long as I lead the team, I will ask the team to play such football. Everything is for victory, everything is for the championship! A team that cannot win is a bad team, and a head coach who cannot lead the team to win is simply... fucking bad!"

"That's right!" Someone jumped onto the table with a glass of wine, shouting high above, "I also fucking like victory and championship!" His words received enthusiastic responses from everyone.

Tang En struck while the iron was hot and raised his glass. "I'll treat everyone tonight. Cheers for victory!"

"For victory!"

"Oh oh oh! For victory!"

"For-fuck-win-!!"

"cheers!!!"

The bar seemed to have become a howling party scene, and everyone raised the cups in their hands, and the wine in the glass reflected excited hysterical faces.

Seeing Don Eun's back as if he was about to hug the entire bar, Walker shook his head gently: "Yian told me that Tony is a master in mobilizing the atmosphere in the locker room. But I think he is wrong. Tony is a master in mobilizing the atmosphere at any time and anywhere."

"Agree." Burns raised his glass and clinked Walker. "I like this slogan. Cheers for victory."

"cheers!"

The drunkards were still howling "victory" and reveling with the alcohol. Don Eun turned around and walked back.

Walker first raised his hand to surrender: "I'm convinced, Tony. I support your tactics, just build a team for victory as you think."

Don smiled and turned to see Burns.

"Tony. Well, you know...I'm a determined Forest fan. A loyal Forest fan certainly doesn't want to see his team lose, right?"

"I know your answer. Kenny, Des, thank you."

"Don't be too happy too early, Tony. If your team still loses continuously and is in a slump, I believe everyone present doesn't mind taking you off and throwing you on the street." Kenny smiled.

"Hehe, I won't give you such a chance."

Burns punched Donn in the chest: "Fuck it well, Tony."

Without any extra words, Tang En felt how much expectations the old player and the old fans were.

"I will, I hope we can be in the Super League next season. I'll invite all of you to drink at that time."
Chapter completed!