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Chapter 29 The True Legend (1)

The word "legendary" has been used inflated, but he is a real "legendary".

——Arthur Wenger (Arsenal head coach) said.

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On the A52, Mercedes-Benz was a 2001 red Ford Focus. There were four men sitting in the car, three of whom were excited and only one was chattering and complaining endlessly.

"Kenny, I have a question to ask you. Is your bar closed today?"

Burns shrugged: "I am the boss, not the bartender, and I don't have to stay there all the time."

Donn rolled his eyes, then turned his head to look at Walker sitting next to Burns: "Why are you here too?"

Walker just giggled and didn't answer. He and Burns sat in the back seats, so excited that they were like star-chasers who went to enjoy a star concert.

Looking at the stupid look of these two people, Tang En turned back and looked at the front of the car and shouted: "This is so unfair. The boss invited me and Bowyer. Why do you two have to come with you too?"

"Don't be so stingy, Tony. I think the boss must also like to see us see him."

"Yes, it's more lively."

Don Eun didn't know what to say, so he sighed and said to Boye who was driving, "Play a song and listen to it."

Bower pressed the play button of the car audio, but the music coming from it scared Tang En. It was really "jump". If it weren't for wearing a seat belt, Tang En's head would definitely hit the roof of the car.

Because what came out of the speaker was the shouts of a group of fans, just like he heard during the game.

“Is this music?”

The two people in the back row burst into laughter, and Tang En was so laughed that they stopped talking. He found that he had a very obvious "generation gap" with these three people. The three of them seemed to have a tacit understanding together. They knew a lot of things that Tang En didn't know, such as "Hero" and this "Music".

After the fans shouted, the music finally rang out, but after listening to the first sentence, Don Eun was stunned again - this was the song he often heard on the court, Nottingham Forest's team song "We've`got`the`whole`world`in`our`hands".

"This is not a fan's..." he asked in confusion.

Bowy shook his head: "What you hear now is what we sing ourselves."

"And I," Burns added from the back.

"This was recorded by all the Forest players in the studio at that time." Walker further introduced to Donn. "At the beginning, it was a TV show that invited them - I was not on the Forest yet - and sang the song on the show, and then it was made into a record and released."

"The sales are pretty good." Bower said proudly. Then he hummed the tune of the song, and the sound became louder and louder, and Burns and Walker joined the chorus.

The car drove past the street sign marked "Derby" amid the proud singing of men.

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Brian Clauve. This name is very strange to Tang En, who traveled from China. But it is the most unique name for the entire English football world. Even if he retired long ago, he still maintains enough influence in this circle. He can accuse players and coaches he doesn't like, and big names like Sir Ferguson are scolded by him and dare not retaliate. To put it in a movie line, it is - I am not in the world, but there are my legends in the world.

Since entering the football world, this name has appeared in people's sight again and again with various miracles. As a player, he set the fastest 200 goals in England. He played 296 games for Middlesbrough and Sunderland, scoring 267 goals, including 204 goals in Middlesbrough and 63 goals in Sunderland 74 games. This is a goal efficiency that is terrifying in modern times. However, his player career was very short. He retired due to injury at the age of 29 and took up the coaching position.

It was the head coach who really made him famous all over the world and became a generation of "football godfather".

Derby County, which just lost to Donne, is currently only ranked 21st in the second-tier England league, and is still in a financial crisis. But although they are so down and out of here, they were once glorious. Their most glorious years are called the "Brian Clauve era". You can tell who was the head coach of the team at that time by listening to this name.

In the 1965/67 season, Cloff became the head coach of the team. He spent two years leading the derby in the English League Two (equivalent to the current English League One) to become the English League Two Championship, and then won the English League One Championship in the 71/72 season. The next season his team reached the European Champions League semi-finals, but unfortunately they lost to Juventus, who was said to have bribed the referee.

Next he left the team and moved to Nottingham Forest, creating a brand new "forest dynasty" that dominated England and European football. The Derby team at that time became the League One champion again in the 74/75 season because of the solid foundation laid by Clauve, but they lost to Spain's overlord Real Madrid the following year.

As for Clauve's achievements after becoming the head coach of the Forests, there is no need to describe them anymore. Anyone who has a little understanding of the British football and European football in the late 1970s and early 1980s will know that the main color of that period was red, because the two teams that dominated the European football world at that time were both red jerseys, one was Liverpool and the other was Clauve's Nottingham Forest.

If it is memorable only because of his results, then Clouve is no different from most head coaches. But in fact, he is the most special of all head coaches in English football history, and his personality is comparable to Bill Shankly, the greatest leader in Liverpool history.

Tang En deeply agrees with this. Just look at the performance of the three men around him. He thinks this is very similar to his previous experience in school. A good class teacher will make his students miss him long after graduation, and the attitude he mentioned is definitely respectful. On the contrary, the incompetent class teacher will only make students curse and laugh at him in the future.

Clauve is the kind of very, very excellent class teacher.

Just getting the best coach in February once made Tang En feel complacent for a long time. But he seemed to face an ant in front of Clauve, just a tiny speck of dust under Clauve's feet.

Today, he is facing the most unique coach in English football history. Looking at the street scene that is gradually becoming lively outside the window, he suddenly felt an extraordinary feeling from the bottom of his heart - I was not going to have afternoon tea with an old man who retired from his coaching position, but to go to a pilgrimage to meet an emperor who founded the Forest Dynasty.

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After retirement, Lao Shuai's home is no longer in the downtown area of ​​Derby. He bought a small farm-like manor in the northwest suburbs of Derby. He hung alone outside the city, with only a narrow and difficult-to-leaf forest path connected to the bustling world.

The car was bumpy on this road. It almost made Tang Endan feel motion sick. He never thought that such a great head coach would live in such a place. Look at the dirt road under the wheels. It is estimated that on rainy days, it will be even more muddy and difficult to walk here.

"Here." Bowyer suddenly said that Tang En found a red brick building in the low woods ahead, no different from the brick building he saw anywhere in this country. This place was too inconspicuous, and Tang En was a little disappointed.

As soon as he got out of the car, he heard a barking dog. Then he saw a golden sheepdog rushing out of the yard and pounced on him.

"Wow!" Tang En blocked his face with his hands and shouted. He was really afraid of dogs...

But the shepherd just put his front paws on his shoulder, then stuck out his tongue, and whimpered to lick his face.

The three people next to him laughed when they saw Tang En's embarrassing look. "Hi! Tony, it just wants to be intimate with you." Walker smiled.

At this time, an old but somewhat sharp and loud voice came from the yard.

"It seems Sam likes you very much, boy."

Hearing this voice, except for Tang En, who was "intimate" by the dog, the other three stopped laughing and stood respectfully.

An old man walked out of the yard slowly, looked at the three people standing by the car, and muttered, "It's really a hell... I only prepared two meals of tea sets for guests. Walker, what brand of juice do you like?"

Hearing this, Walker was stunned: "Boss, I'm already an adult..."

The two people next to them lowered their heads and tried hard to hold back their laughter. Finally, they ran out of their mouths.

The old man ignored Walker's complaint and turned his head to look at Burns. "You haven't become more handsome after so many years, Kenny."

Burns smiled awkwardly: "Boss, you know... I don't like plastic surgery." When Burns was a player, his head coach announced publicly that Kenny Burns was the ugliest player he signed.

Hearing this answer, the old man smiled. Then he looked at Tang En who was still "intimately" with the dog and exclaimed: "I didn't expect you to like Sam so much." He whistled, and the big dog immediately let go of poor Tang En and ran back to his master.

Tang En struggled to wipe off the saliva from his face, and then he saw clearly the old man standing in front of him.

His face was haggard, his eyes were swollen, and his eyelids were drooping, as if he hadn't woken up. Is this the legendary coach Brian Clauve who was famous in European football back then? Don't think reality is indeed far from dreams...

"Do you feel very disappointed?" Clauve's words scared Done. The old man guessed it right.

"Oh, are you going to reevaluate me now?" Clauve continued,

Tang En shrugged: "Evaluating others is the job of the personnel department..." Facing this old man with sharp eyes, he felt that he didn't know what to say for the first time. It seemed that his premonition was correct on the way he came.

"Wrong, boy. What do you think the head coach does?"

"Lead the team to win..."

"That's just part of the work," Clauve waved, "Come in, I think the cookies should be baked, let's chat while having tea. I love the play you played at the FA Cup halftime."

Bowy deliberately dragged it to the end, and whispered to Don Eun when he came up, "The boss likes you very much, but he has such a personality, don't take it to heart."

Tang En nodded: "I like this personality."

Bowy smiled: “We like it very much, too.
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