Chapter 74 Welcome home, Tony

In fact, the tactics of the English national team are very similar to those of Nottingham Forest. Except that they do not blindly insist on defensive counterattacks, they attacked the wings, flew with both wings, and passed the midfield simply and quickly. The English team's positional combat ability is not very good, and neither Erikson nor McLaren nor Capello completely solved this.

After taking office, Capello tried every means to enrich England's routine playing styles in positional battles, but the effect was limited. Compared with European Latin players, the English players have rough footwork skills. The vigorous development of the Premier League over the years has not changed this fact.

Now that Donn takes over the England team, he is not in a hurry to show England's positional combat capabilities in this game. The easiest and effective way is to let the team re-take the old path - lift high and play, fly both wings together, and combine the side and middle with long shots. This style of play must be not good-looking, but English fans don't care about this. After all, not all English fans also serve as Arsenal fans at the same time.

The advantage of doing this is that the team is familiar with each other and Don Eun is worry-free. With the abilities of these English players now, they may not be able to play too complicated tactics. Nottingham Forest cooperates with each other, even if they change to a head coach, the team's strength has not suffered much loss.

Donn responded to changes in the same situation, and the tactics formulated before the game started made all England players feel very friendly - these are the essence of the training they received since childhood...

There is a big difference between the Crimson Field and the City Stadium. The locker rooms and corridors of the City Stadium are very simple. Although they were decorated once in the 1990s to host the European Cup, nearly twenty years later, it is still very shabby compared to the modern Crimson Field.

Don En pushed open the door to the locker room and walked out. He had to appear on the court earlier than the player.

Walking in the wide and bright corridor, he turned into the hall.

The hall is more than twice as big as the one in the city court. The smooth marble floor is like a mirror. It reflects everything on it. Tang En looked down at himself at his feet, tilted his head and looked at him for a while. Then he turned right and walked into the dedicated corridor for exiting the field.

This corridor is wider than the one that comes out of the locker room. In Tang En's opinion, two Hummer Jeeps can even be used in parallel. From this detail, no wonder Nottingham Forest Club has been plagued by the financial crisis before - building such a good stadium is not a small amount.

The wall on the left side of the corridor is painted with the team logo of Nottingham Forest - a big white oak tree on the red ground color. The wall on the right side has a sentence: In addition to victory, it is also victory!

This was Tang En's suggestion at the time, and he hoped to use this sentence to inspire Forest players. Before every home game, you can see this sentence by turning your head from here, so that they can remember what the tradition of Nottingham Forest is.

Unfortunately, he has left the team, and I don’t know if this sentence will be implemented.

Tang En stopped in the corridor and looked sideways at the words.

There is a sentence above the player corridor at Anfield Stadium: "This is Anfield (this_is_anfield)." This sentence is the creativity of the famous Reds godfather Shankley. He hopes that every team who comes here to understand who they are fighting with, and this is their hell. Nowadays, many Liverpool players have to raise their hands to pat this mark before entering the court to seek good luck. This has almost become a tradition.

The Forests head coach also hopes to use this method to remind his players that pursuing victory is always a tradition in Nottingham Forest, whether in the Clauve era or in the Tony Dun era.

The sound of footsteps rang behind him, and Des Walker walked to Donn and found the words on the wall.

"It really has the 'Tony Don't style'." He smiled.

Tang En ignored him and joked, just turned around and walked to the court outside: "Let's go."

When Tang En had not yet walked out, he could already see the media gathered outside and waited for a long time through the exit. Today, the local media seemed to exceed the number of ordinary friendly matches that should be available. Even if this was a publicity event deliberately arranged by the Forest Club, there were too many.

Of course, Tang En knew who these people were for. He suddenly slowed down and let Des Walker, who was following closely behind, pass by.

Outside. What he can see is countless crazy media, so what else is waiting for him?

His heartbeat suddenly accelerated, making him nervous than playing a Champions League final.

He may not care about the enemy's sarcasm or verbs at him, but he cannot ignore how supporters will treat him now.

But he can't always hide here and go out. So many media are staring at him, and he doesn't want them to see that he has a weak side.

He reorganized the collar of the suit, and the action seemed redundant because his clothes were solely dressed.

Then he stepped out.

When his figure appeared in the field of view of the reporters, the camera flashes had already started working. When he walked out of the corridor and appeared in front of tens of thousands of people, the flashes had been connected into one piece, and the sound of shutters was endless.

Facing the reporter, Tang En was able to remain calm, and he walked towards the home team coach's seat as if nothing had happened.

Des Walker couldn't close his mouth after seeing this scene next door. He really wanted to remind Tony that he went wrong...

Fans who noticed this in the stands also burst into laughter.

"Ahh, what did we see? Tony Donn went to the wrong place! Haha! This is too rare. Did he think he was the head coach of Nottingham Forest?" The commentator in charge of commenting on the game looked like a tone and tone that was afraid of the world.

David Chris Lack, sitting in the home team's coaching seat, saw Donn walking straight over. His face was a little embarrassed. Eastwood continued to observe with interest. He wanted to see how the boss resolved the crisis.

In fact, the moment Tang En turned, he realized that he was going in the wrong direction - he habitually walked towards the home team coach's seat at Nottingham Forest. But he forgot his current identity. But he did not turn around immediately, as it was too obvious, and he continued to move forward. He thought of a countermeasure.

When Martin O'Neal was still far away, Tang En had already stretched out his hand, which was a gesture to shake hands with the other party.

Seeing this, O'Neal also stood up and walked towards Don Eun. The two shook hands in front of the swarming media.

"It turned out to be just a handshake." The commentator was very disappointed.

The laughter disappeared when he saw Donn and O'Neal holding hands together. Perhaps the crowd waiting to watch the fun also thought the result was too boring.

However, the reporters have another idea - is this a formal handover between the two coaches of the new and old Forest teams? They have even designed the lines for both of them:

Don Eun: I've handed over the team to you, don't let me down.

O'Neal: Don't worry, our goal is still the champion!

But the two of them said nothing, just shook hands. Then O'Neal gave up the coaching seat behind him, knowing that Don Eun was not just going to say hello to him alone.

Sure enough, Donn let go of O'Neal's hand and then walked towards assistant coach Chris Lack.

Chris Lack also wanted to shake hands with Donne like O'Neal. Unexpectedly, Donne hugged him.

Donn, who hugged Chris Lack, still didn't say anything, but patted hard on his hand. Then he let go of Chris Lack, who had not yet come back to his senses, and walked towards Eastwood.

Eastwood is not as dull as Chris Lack. He smiled and hugged Donn, and even whispered in Donn's ear: "Good luck, boss."

In this way, Tang En shook hands with everyone on the Nottingham Forest coaching staff one by one, hugged and the media followed the whole process. She took this scene down.

"He looks even more like the landlord than Martin O'Neal. Look at him calmly..." John murmured to himself in the stands.

"He will not be calm in a while!" Bill screamed from the side.

John ignored him and stood in the new stand to applaud Done.

There were not many people like John at the scene. More people booed like Bill.

They obviously cannot forget what Tang En did two months ago.

After Tang En hugged and shook hands with all the Forest coaches, he walked towards the visiting coach's seat surrounded by reporters. At this time, the boos of the fans became more and more intense and obvious.

In this way, Tang En came to his position with a overwhelming boo.

Chris Lack looked at Donn with some concern and looked around. He had imagined the scene of Donn coming back. But he didn't expect that the Forests really dared to love and hate to this extent.

The commentator was also a little lost and murmured: "Listen to these boos, they are all for one person..."

The TV broadcast gave Tang En a very long close-up shot. On the screen, Tang En kept pursing his lips tightly, without looking up at the fans in the stands. His eyes fell in the distance as if they were not focused.

"It's so pitiful. This is the welcome that the King of Land Forest was once received. Ha!" Carl Spike sarcastically in the stands. His program has a topic again tonight.

Some radical fans not only booed Tang En, but also raised their middle fingers at him and cursed.

Tang En's face had no expression. Walker next to him looked at him with a worried look, fearing that his heart would not be able to withstand such stimulation. But Tang En did not fall down suddenly. He stood there, letting the boo sound above his head, and letting the reporters take pictures around him.

"I bet he must regret that he didn't wear sunglasses." Spike glanced at the TV next to him, where a close-up of Don't have a face played.

Tang sighed lightly when he saw this scene in the stands.

The booing continued, and the players waiting in the corridor were ready to play clearly. They gathered together and discussed it.

"What's wrong outside?"

"Who knows?"

"Ahem...that.  It's not because of the boss."

"Shhh? No?" The Forest players were very surprised. The booed him at Tony Donn at the home court of Nottingham Forest. It was comparable to the orbital period of Comet Haier Pop, who visited the Earth only once every three thousand years.

The players of the Forest Team were surprised and the discussion became louder. The English players next to them also heard it clearly. They also became interested, and the two teams that had kept the formation mixed together. It was not their fault. The booing outside was so spectacular.

When the Forest team played at the city stadium, once the stands, which could only accommodate up to 30,000 people, made a collective boo, the momentum could make each visiting team feel huge psychological pressure. Now, if it were the Crimson Field, the capacity of 60,000 people would not only double the boo.

If a team visits here, the booings of 60,000 people were shared by eleven people. Now that these booings are all borne by one person, the pressure can be imagined. These players dare not imagine how long they could last in such a booing if they were themselves.

Tang En still stood motionless in front of the coach's seat.

John looked at the stubborn figure and looked around.   The people who tried their best to booed were a huge majority.    He knew that what he did would not be popular.                                                                                                      

He greeted a few companions who had the same position as him, took out a red cloth from his backpack, handed it to his companion, and pulled the other one by himself.

The two stood apart, pulled a certain distance away, and shook their hands and a banner appeared in the stands.

Welcome home, Tony!

"Hey. John!" Bill looked at his friend with some anger. He did this to destroy his own station.

"Don't worry about me, Bill. You shit, I'll do mine. None of us should interfere with each other." John ignored Bill's threatening gaze and continued to stand in his seat with the banner.

The director who broadcast the TV also noticed the new banner appearing in the stands. Unlike the slogans around that insulted and ridiculed Tang En, this sentence is full of warm greetings and is very eye-catching.

I don’t know if Tang En saw it, but first the camera lens was cut.

"It doesn't seem to be betrayal of everyone." The commentator said after seeing the banner.

"Tony.  " Walker, who noticed the slogan, touched Donn.   Let him see.

Tang En turned his head and saw the slogans raised by John and the others. The corners of his mouth tilted, and there was a clear change in expression on his face for the first time, and this time he smiled.

Then he stopped caring about the reporters surrounding him and turned around and sat back on the coach's seat.

When the players came out of the corridor, the booing at Tang En finally stopped.

Since this is a game to celebrate the opening of the Forests' new stadium, the arrangements for the appearance are also different from those of the general game. The England team played first, followed by the Nottingham Forest players. When each player appears, his name will be heard loudly on the radio, which will arouse enthusiastic response from fans.

Forests fans dedicate their cheers to the Glorious Triple Crown Team. Every Forest player who appeared was deafeningly shouting.

As the captain of the team, George Wood received the most cheers, but he still maintained his coldness and did not respond to the cheers of the fans.
To be continued...