That night, Don Eun lost insomnia again. Since he came to Nottingham, he has been insomnia for three consecutive nights. The first two times were due to some panic caused by unpredictability about the future, but this time, the insomnia had nothing to do with those boring things. When this night passed, he would face the first professional game he really coached.

An ordinary fan who used to be able to watch other people's football games excitedly in front of TV, a poor otaku who can only vent his passion for football through computer games, and a pathetic virgin who has no chance to be a woman and can only place all his spirit on football. He actually has the opportunity to stand on the professional football field and direct professional players who usually look amazing and awesome. Enjoy the cheers like tsunamis on the scene, and accept interviews from many media after the game. No matter what he says, it will have an influence in the public...

To Tang En's eyes, such a thing seemed to be dreaming. This was not FM or CM. This was a miracle that really happened to him! When he thought of tomorrow's game, he was so nervous that he couldn't sleep. He just widened his eyes, stared at the ceiling, and then fantasized about how he would show himself tomorrow.

He didn't know what time he fell asleep, but he knew that he didn't have enough sleep. Since he got up, he has been yawning, dressing, washing, and eating breakfast. He was still yelling on the way to the training base.

This is the third time that Ian McDonald, the goalkeeper of Wilford training base, was surprised to see the team's head coach early in the morning: "Tony..." He opened his mouth and Don interrupted him.

"I know that the competition will take place in the afternoon and there will be no training in the morning. I just want to start my work from now on, can't it be possible—heh—!" Tang En yawned again.

"Uh, of course." MacDonald came out and opened the iron door.

When Donn passed by him, he heard him say, "Good luck, Tony." So he stopped and looked back at MacDonald.

The old man with gray hair had a stable source of income - benefits provided by the government after retirement, but he still came here to work, insisting on a symbolic salary of one hundred pounds. After the club was in an economic crisis, he didn't even take that one hundred pounds anymore. He did this just because he loved the club and the team, so he regarded working in the club as glory. He was polite to everyone, always with respect to the players and coaches who came in and out of here every day, and the Mr. Chairman who occasionally appeared. Even if the team performed poorly, no one had ever heard his complaints and sighs.

McDonald was frightened by Tang En's current eyes. Although Tony Tang En used to be taciturn, he was gentle to everyone. He always looked at your face politely, then lowered his head to say hello, and then turned around and left. How could he be like now... staring at you with a very hot and uneasy look?

MacDonald didn't know that when he was in China, Tang En was despised because he always looked at others with such "very impolite" eyes. But Tang En never thought of changing his virtues.

Just when McDonn was a little uneasy when Donn was staring, Donnn suddenly grinned: "Ian, do you like victory?"

Is Kaiserslautern awesome? The team won the A-League championship in the first year of the first league in the second league. Clauve's team did this twenty years ago. They were promoted to the A-League with the third place in the second league (the highest-level league in England at that time, equivalent to the current Premier League), and then began a legend that dominated the English football world. In the first season of the first league in the first season, Forest became the champion of the league with a 25 win, fourteen draws and only three losses (at that time, the world football was still a two-point system, and they won two points, draw one game and one point, and lost zero points).

The English football and European football overlords in the 1970s belonged to Liverpool. At that time, the only team qualified to challenge Liverpool, the only team that could defeat Liverpool three times in a year was the same red Nottingham Forest. After successfully winning the First Division Championship, Forest defeated the defending champion Liverpool in the first game of the Champions League in the following season. In the end, they defeated the big dark horse Sweden Malmo coached by Horton and became the king of Europe that season. In the 1979-1980 season, Forest successfully defended the European champion. This time they defeated the German Hamburg team with the European footballer of that year and the number one scorer of England's team Kevin Keegan.

During this period, what is even more amazing is that from the 0:0 draw with West Bromwich on November 26, 1977, until the 0:2 loss to Liverpool on December 9, 1978, Claufe's Forest set a record of 42 consecutive unbeaten in the top league in England. This record was not broken until the New Century twenty-six years later by Wenger's Arsenal forty-nine unbeaten.

Of course, history is always brilliant, especially the birthplace of modern football like Britain. It is not surprising that there is a glorious history. Compared with the glorious past, the current situation of Forests and Nords can only be described as "heartache". Nords faced economic crises many times, and even experienced the dark years of being entrusted in the early stage of the new century. The last consortium and a FA Cup match with Chelsea saved the team. Before that game, Chelsea agreed to take out all the ticket revenue to Nords to save the world's oldest football club. Forests are better than their city rivals, but the team's past history is too brilliant. Fans will always have hallucinations about the fact that the past is brilliant and now is down, thinking that they should achieve the same results as in the past, rather than being content with the low-level league and falling like Nords.

Today, the Forest team seems to be inconvenient when facing West Ham. You should know that West Ham's historical achievements are far less high than those of the Forest team.

This is a game in the third round of the FA Cup in England. It was not originally planned for live broadcasts, but because the current situation of the participating teams is not very good and they are in urgent need of a victory, the BBC chose to broadcast live. They believe that this game has enough hot spots. Tony Donn is of course one of the hot spots, because he has just become the first head coach in English football history to be hurt by the players of our team in the game.

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The weather today is good, and the sun is so bright that it makes people feel that it is winter, which is completely opposite to the rainy weather the previous two days. When Tang En got off the team bus, he saw the bright sunshine outside and couldn't help but squint his eyes, a little dazzling.

As the head coach, he was the second one to jump out of the car. The first assistant coach Des Walker was warmly welcomed by the fans who shouted Walker's name and applauded him. Walker played for many years in Nottingham Forest and was one of the witnesses of Nottingham's last glory. It is understandable that he was respected among the fans.

But when Tangen's feet just landed on the ground, he was greeted with a harsh boo. He looked up and found that the person who led the boo was familiar with him - the middle-aged people who had confronted him head-on in Burns Bar. He could recognize it at a glance because their leader had a piece of gauze on his forehead, which looked funny and very eye-catching.

Walker obviously didn't expect the head coach to face such a situation. He stood there a little at a loss. As at a loss as he was the player Michael Dawson who was about to get off the car. He stuck out of the car door with one foot and heard the sudden booing sound hanging in the air. He looked up at the fans in amazement, and he thought he had been booed.

It was still Don Eun who reached out and pulled him out of the car, and saw the team's new hope, and the booed abruptly. Then an embarrassing split occurred among the fans - Michael Dawson is the team's future hope and is very popular among the fans. Such a player must and should receive cheers and applause when he appears. But the person who pulled him was the acting head coach Don Eun who had just booed. If he cheered, would he be considered a compliment to Don Eun?

Tang En was very satisfied with the performance of the fans, and he knew it would be like this. He patted Dawson on the shoulder and signaled him to go to the locker room. The fans saw that Dawson had finally left Tang En, and were ready to boo to Tang En who was still in front of the car door. At this time, Tang En got into the car and pulled down another man Andy Red, a young talent like Dawson and the same team hope star. They had just put their hands in their mouths and had to put them down.

Tang En grinned smugly at the awkward facial expressions of the people.

Red beside him was a little surprised. It was the first time he saw the head coach so enthusiastically take them out of the car, "Boss, why are you laughing at?"

Don Eun looked at the fans next to him and said to him: "It's nothing, I think maybe we can win."

This time he did not leave Red again, and the two walked into the narrow passage leading to the locker room together. The fans put their fingers next to their mouths several times but couldn't boo.

"This cunning fox!" Michael, who led the lead, put down his hand in annoyance and punched the iron railing in front.

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Tang En's performance in the past two days is somewhat abnormal. Strictly speaking, it has been the last four days. It has been abnormal since he was knocked to the ground by David Johnson in the game on January 1, and it is completely different from the taciturn and gloomy Tony Tang En. The players are very worried about this. I wonder if the brain nerves are damaged and if there will be any terrible sequelae, such as dementia, forgetfulness, schizophrenia...

So in the locker room, the person who talked about their tactics was not the head coach, but Des Walker, one of the assistant coaches. No one found it strange. However, the old man Yian Bowyer, who said nothing but the gloomy old man next to him seemed more alternative. He usually did these things, but now he has become the job of a younger generation Walker. The fool can see that Bowyer was very disappointed after being promoted from Tony Don to the youth team to the first team head coach.

This is also normal. Although Bowyer has worked in the team for quite a long time, he is already fifty-one years old this year, and is the largest in the coaching staff. He has also played for Forest twice, making Forest win the European Champions League main player. But he has little intersection with Tony Donn. Donn has been following Paul Hart before, leading the youth team to train and play. After Paul Hart became the first team head coach, he became the head of the youth team. Ian Bowyer has always been the assistant coach of the first team, and he has assisted many coaches, Bryan Crowf's successor Frank Clark, Frank Clark's successor Stuart Pierce, Pierce's successor Dave Bassett, Long Atkinson, David Pratt, Paul Hart. There is no name for Tony Donn here.

Although the two were in the same club, they were not in the same training ground. The training base of the youth team and the first team were separated by an alley less than five meters wide, but it seemed to be half apart from Nottingham City. The taciturn Tony Tangen was not enthusiastic about various social and party activities. He and Bowyer had almost no communication. At most, they would nod and greet each other when they met the training base, and then walked away.

Now in the locker room, there is such an atmosphere that looks like a stranger. Tony Donn's right-hand assistant Des Walker is arranging the next game for the players, while another assistant coach, Ian Bowyer, sits by the wall and watches the fun.

What about the real protagonist Tony Don?

He is not in the locker room, he is in the bathroom.

In addition to the two bathrooms in the locker room, there are ten toilets of different sizes in the city court. Most of them are open to fans. There are two rest corridors outside the VIP private room. The smallest one is for the home team staff. The home team coach can smoke a cigarette here to relieve the pressure before the game.

Tang En is doing this now.

He felt that he was not so nervous after a morning. But when he saw the jerseys and shoes placed in advance by the staff in the locker room, his heart began to jump up irresistibly. So he found an excuse to throw everything to Walker and slipped here himself.

The staff-only bathroom is in a very remote corner below the main stand of the stadium, and few people come here. Through a glass window outside the bathroom, you can also see the stadium, the shiny green turf in the sun, and the stands that are gradually filled with fans.

Tang En habitually took out the cigarette from his pocket, and reached out to grab it for a while before he remembered that Tony Tang En did not smoke or drink.

He mumbled and leaned back against the wall.
Chapter completed!