Ian McDonald, the old guard at Wilford training base, turned on the radio before the game started, turned on the volume to the maximum, and sat in the guard room and listened to the game with peace of mind. At this time, the players who were selected for the team's roster were all at the city stadium, and those who were not selected were at home or some other place. The training base was quiet, with only commentary sounds coming from the guard room.

He still remembers the smile and promise that Tony Donn gave him in the morning: "You'll hear us scored goals one by one on the radio." This made him look forward to it.

Shortly after the game began, he heard the news of goals scored one after another from the radio. But this was not the Forest's goal, but the away team West Ham. After only half an hour of the game, his favorite team was filled with three goals by West Ham.

He sat in a daze on the chair, unable to believe the sound he heard.

"Jermain Defoe, Defoe, shot! The ball entered! What a beautiful raid!"

"Diffusa got the ball outside the penalty area... He suddenly started, it passed! Will it be 2:0? Yes! Jermaine Deif, he scored twice! West Ham led Nottingham Forest 2:0!"

"Unbelievable! Unbelievable!! A volley from the outside of the penalty area! From Joe Cole! It's hard to believe that he is only twenty-one years old! He is the treasure of the future of English football! This is West Ham's third goal in this game. They have completely controlled the game. The Forest team has no chance! 3:0, the game ends early!"

End early? You bastard commentator, what are you talking about? The game only started thirty minutes, and we still have sixty minutes to get back! MacDonald never trusted acting head coach Tony Donn so much. At this moment, he believes that this man can fulfill his promise.

He waved his fists at the radio, as if he was standing in the stands of the city stadium and demonstrating to the visiting team with his companions. Since he was the gatekeeper of the training base, he has not been to the city stadium for some years.

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The city stadium was almost overwhelmed by booing. Don Eun was very familiar with the booing. When he opened his eyes and saw the world three days ago, these booings were around him. The booing from home fans, the object of venting his dissatisfaction was not the visiting West Ham, but the home team Nottingham Forest.

In one corner of the court, a group of players wearing West Ham United jerseys surrounded their captains, celebrating the goal and their third goal in the game.

Des Walker sat next to Don't hold his head in annoyed. He arranged the game from pre-match preparations to tactics. Don't say he believed in him and wanted to use victory to repay the head coach's trust in him. Unexpectedly, the first half was not over, but he got a slaughter.

The 0:3 score on the electronic scoreboard was red and bloody. The middle finger raised to the coach's seat looked like a dense towering tree in the Sherwood Forest in the northeast of Nottingham. What made the home team fans angry was not only the score, but also the performance of the players on the field.

Tang En saw it clearly off the court. If he was a hardcore fan of the Forests, facing such a thirty minutes of the first half, he could only use swear words and middle fingers to express his feelings. He even suspected that the eleven people on the court had not had a good sleep like him. Did they go out to visit prostitutes collectively tonight? These bastards! He frowned and gritted his teeth.

What Don Neng didn't know was that at this time, a camera pointed at him on the sidelines and placed his facial expression in close-up shots on the broadcast screen. The person in charge of commenting on this game was John Motson, a famous English BBC football commentator who commented on the last league of the Forest. He was famous for his sharp and passionate commentary style. He just praised the goal of the young captain of West Ham Joe`Cole with a series of praise, which was also West Ham United's third goal in this game. He even came to the conclusion: "This game is over! Although the Forest has a very brilliant history, they are now lingering at Joe Cole's feet like pitiful people, worried about the next wave of offensives that will come again! Look at such a Forest team and look at their red jerseys, which is really heartbreaking!"

"Coach Tony Donn seems to be quite dissatisfied with the team's performance. So please come up with something! Don't always frown on the coach's seat. Do you have a toothache? In fact, in this game, we only saw his assistant coach Des Walker frequently get up to command the game. Who is the head coach? But who expects a rookie Xinding who just stepped down from the player position to command a Class A team to defeat a super team? Before the game, people's doubts about the lack of acting head coaching for Forest team are not groundless. Tony Donn has not brought any changes to the team so far, and he is even worse than his predecessor Paul Hart. It is said that Coach Ton took office because Paul Hart strongly recommended to Chairman Dogerty. What I want to say is that Paul, you have always had a very accurate vision of the players, but you still need to improve in terms of looking at the coach!"

If Don En heard that he was so belittled, he would have arguing with the famous commentator on the spot... But now he has no intention of considering how others evaluate him. He must change the decline on the field. He knows that West Ham is very powerful, just by looking at the names of these people, you will know how powerful they are. But this is not the reason why the Forests should fail.

There is only one reason for failure, that is, we are not doing well enough!

Tang En muttered this sentence in a low voice.

Walker turned his head toward him, and he seemed to hear it, but he didn't hear it clearly. "What?" he asked.

"Nothing." Tang En shook his head.

"Tony, you have to think of a way, it won't work." Walker put his mouth to Donn's ear and whispered to him. "Bowyer made up his mind to watch the show. I think he wouldn't want to lose this game!"

"You said it right. That old man really thought so. But now I can't do anything about it."

Walker was disappointed with Donne's answer. The head coach could not do such a thing: when he lost control of something, it was often the end.

"Do you think our defensive players can defend Joe Cole, Lee`Bowyer, Di`Canio and Jermain`Defoe?"

Walker shook his head and to be honest, his team really cannot compete with such a super team. Listen to the names of these people, they are either veteran stars who have been famous for a long time or rookies in England.

"And, do you think that with our forwards, the forwards can cross the defense of Michael`Carrick, Ian`Pearce, Tamos`Repka, David`James and score?"

Walker continued to shake his head. This defense line was at the national team level. James was England's goalkeeper, Thomas Repka was a member of the Czech national team. Carrick transferred to Manchester United in the summer three years later. In the whole first half, the two main strikers of the Forest team had only three shots. The ball they shot even made James not have the chance to warm up.

West Ham United easily controlled the rhythm of the game with a group of talented players in their team and took over the ball possession on the court. Forest team could only follow the football they played back and forth, consuming physical strength and fighting spirit in this meaningless running. Although West Ham was doing very badly in the Premier League, he scored 16 points in the 21st round of the first half of the season, ranking last in the league. However, he could still show off his might and vent his depression of being bullied.

Just as the game started, West Ham United took the lead in the seventeen minutes. The young forward Jermain Defoe, who was extremely fast, easily broke through the clumsy defense line of the Forest and brought the team the first goal. Five minutes later, Defoe made a comeback and scored twice with his speed. Seeing this rookie who was later selected for the England team, Tang En felt like time and space were intertwined. He knew the achievements of this young man in the future. What made Tang En feel powerless was that there were many geniuses and strong men in this West Ham United team today. It was really hard for his Forest team to play against such an opponent.

Watching the West Ham players strolling on the court, Joe Cole performed in front of a few away fans, passing the ball with heels and passing people. Listening to the laughter coming from the West Ham fans' stands and booing in the stands from time to time, Don Eun had an illusion: Whose home court is this?

This situation made him very angry. Although he was not personally passed by Joe Cole and others on the court, he still felt that he was insulted. Because he was the head coach of this team, his team was bullied on the court and the head coach was responsible, which was the same as when he was bullied himself.

Michael Dawson is the hardest player of the Forests so far, but he is unable to stop West Ham's tide offensive alone. He is not responsible for three goals conceded, but the team is too bad overall. After watching these 30 minutes of the game, Donn decided to hand over the captain's armband to the young man when he next game. Since the 21-year-old Joe Cole can be the captain of the "Harm Gang" (the nickname of West Ham United), why is the 19-year-old Michael Dawson not good? A genius full of fighting spirit and emerged from the Forest youth training system, who is more suitable to lead the current team than him?

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The north stand near the Trent River in the City Stadium is the main stand for Forest fans. There is a row of corridors enclosed with glass windows on the top floor. There are two old but neat seats and two TVs. This is the private room of the City Stadium. Compared with the private room of the rich teams, the private room of the Forest can only be described as cold.

In such a bad game, naturally no one would sit here to watch the football. Now there are only two people in the private room. Instead of sitting on the chair, they chose to stand in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window and looking at the stadium.

They are the chairman of the team, Niger Doggetti and his son Evan Doggetti.

Evan Doggetty glanced at the TV in the corner and turned her eyes to the stadium. "Is this the team you love, the Nottingham Forest team that once had infinite glory?" His tone was obvious ridiculous, completely different from the polite Kenny that Donn saw that day.

He said this to his father. Old Dogette didn't care about his son's ridicule to him, and said his own words. He kept lightening his head when he spoke. "During the break, you go to the locker room with me, and I need to let you meet the players."

Evan knew that his words were ignored by his father again, "But I don't think there is any need for this, and now is not a good time for everyone to meet." He still advised, hoping that his father would give up his plan to meet with those players and coaches.

Niger Doggetti did not answer his son's words, but was just very dedicated to watching the game.

Seeing his father's appearance, Evan had to shrugge and sigh. He had no interest in the boring and one-sided game on the court. He simply sat down, crossed his legs, drank the coke provided by the court, and looked at his place boredly.

This simple box, a simple court, a poor game, an unattractive team... I really don't understand why my father likes such a team and is willing to invest tens of millions of pounds for her - he has never invested so much money in his son.

When he was watching football in the NBA, he was a fan of the Chicago Bulls and then a fan of the Los Angeles Lakers. In the past year, he had signs of becoming the San Antonio Spurs FANS, although his home and company were in Houston. The only reason for frequently changing teams is that the previous team lacks enough charitable stars and champions. In his opinion, it is difficult to understand and incredible to like teams that are not famous, have no stars, and even hang out in the fifth-level league. Can they get any pleasure and benefits from their obsession with such teams? Can't enjoy the wonderful performances brought by stars, and there are no championship trophys after summer as a happy memory, and no brilliant record makes them talk about it after dinner...

He looked at the dense heads under his feet and in the stands opposite, and countless pairs of arms stretched out and waving. Such a bad game was filled with all the seats. He shook his head gently.

What are the tens of thousands of people like my father trying to do? Every weekend afternoon, I just sit in the simplified stadium stands and waste my time and grow old little by little. It's so sad.

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What puzzled Motson was that after Donn had finished talking to Walker, he had no expression at all. Even Walker, who was very active before, seemed to stick his butt to the seat. The two of them just looked at the court quietly, saying nothing, and doing nothing.

This is strange. Are they not in a hurry to see their team losing like this? Aren’t they angry? They always have to show some emotion, right? But no. The close-up shot swept over Donn and Walker’s faces. The two of them looked at the stadium in a daze, without even frowning.

Motson, who felt embarrassed, had to mutter, "Did they run out of Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum?"

West Ham United head coach Glenn Rhode is very satisfied with his team's performance. The unbearable season in the first half of the season seemed to have been left behind by these young men. He and Tony Donn have the same coaching experience. They were all drawn from the youth team to rescue because of their predecessor's poor record. In the match between the two coaches, he had the upper hand. This was his first game, and the start was very good. He believed that as long as the team played at the level of today's first half in the second half of the season, relegation would not be a problem.

He stood on the sidelines and began to consider the next Premier League game with confidence.

Done glanced at Rhode, who was standing on the sidelines to command the game, with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his face, looking elegant. He knew this person, and he knew him before coming. He later became the head coach of Newcastle, but before becoming the head coach of Newcastle, he was the director of the Magpies Youth Army. After Sones was dismissed for poor record, he took over. Sitting in "the most attractive position in the world", but his performance was not very good. What made him a little luck than his ex is that when he had poor performance, he had the team facing a large-scale injury as an excuse, and the team supported him. But in the end he resigned. Because his performance was so poor, his team even set a record of Newcastle's failure to score at home since 1951 - a record of consecutive home goals: 500 minutes.

Because Donn knew Rhodes’ experience, he knew that Rhodes had nothing to be afraid of. West Ham played well now and had nothing to do with that gentleman-like coach. It was just because they had a group of talented players.

Regardless of the players on the court, we only need to look at the people sitting on the bench in West Ham to know the strength of this team: England's 2002 World Cup international Trevor Sinclair; Mali international, who later became a famous La Liga scorer, helped Sevilla win the UEFA Cup twice, and became the hero of the La Liga double championship in 2006-07. Look at these names, and then look at the team's ranking after the end of the season: third from the bottom, they were relegated.

After the team was massacred by Everton 0:5 and Blackburn 1:7, the coach claimed that the team's poor performance was not his responsibility, but because his ex, Redknapp, bought the person he had bought was too bad. But his poor level was not a "fallacy" drawn by one or two people wearing tinted glasses. The entire English media never stopped criticizing and questioning him. Judging from the first half that Donn observed, he was firmly convinced.

Tang En shrugged. He had found a way to deal with this team. But now is not the time to adjust. Anyway, there are only five minutes before the halftime break. When he arrives in the locker room, he will beat these players who have not woken up.

He suddenly heard a very harsh and clear boo from behind him, and the booed sounded a series of scoldings. He felt very strange. It was quiet behind him before, so why did it suddenly become lively?

He turned around to see the source of the sound, and saw Michael and others who were grimacing at him in the stand behind him in the stands. The gauze on the man's head was so conspicuous...

"Get back to your youth team! This is an adult team, not where children like you should come. Go back to your mommy and act cute! Hahaha!!"

"Oh-oh--" The people around him followed suit. Most of them laughed at him in the bar that day, and some of them were very strange, but they must be in the same group as Michael and the others.

Walker was also attracted by the scolding behind him. He stood up and shouted at the people: "Michael, what are you doing?!"

Michael ignored Walker and turned his head: "Des, you better not interfere. This is a personal grudge between us and the head coach."

"Private grudges? The personal grudges between you groups of people and one person?" Walker snorted.

"Okay, don't pay attention to them." Done pulled Walker down.

"Tony, what's going on? I remember you never had conflicts or quarrels with anyone. And Michael is also a loyal Forest fan, why do they hate you so much?"

"It's nothing. I threw the leader's face in Burns' bar, and then fought with him - it was over for a short time. I knocked him to the ground with one punch, and then called the fat man on the left 'Fat Pig'." Tang En said lightly, Walker opened his mouth so much that he could swallow a ball. In his impression, Tang En hated drinking, smoking, and never got angry with others, let alone hitting people directly. What's wrong?

Tang En knew Walker was surprised, and anyone who knew him would be surprised when he heard the above words. "I will explain it to you in the future. Now let's watch the football first, and I'll find a way to deal with them."

Walker looked back at Michael and others who were still making noise in the stands behind, and then watched the game with peace of mind.

There is a characteristic of England stadiums. The coaching seats are rarely placed in the blank space between the stadium and the stands. Unlike most stadiums we know, their coaching seats are set in the stands, surrounded by seats for ordinary fans, and the players' passages are separated from both sides to serve as coaching seats and benches. Unless the game is directed, the coaches are all sitting in the stands. The Forest's home court was not like this before. Their coaching seats are under the stands, on the sidelines, and even the ball.

The level of the field is still low - the coach's seat seems to be a hole dug on the sidelines, with a cement roof covering it to shade the sun and rain. Later, because of the 1996 English European Championships, it was converted into most British stadiums, and the coach's seat and the fan stands were very close. This brought the fans closer together, with both pros and cons. Done is now enduring the "disadvantages". Michael and others, who were sitting behind the coach's seat, kept humiliating him with booing and various curses, challenging his endurance.

Even the team's substitute players couldn't help but stand up and stare at them several times, and Tang En still watched the game without looking back.

"You coward, a coward! Have you seen it? I'm scolding you, scolding your whole family! If you have the ability, come and punch me again! Where did you have the courage to beat me? A waste! You bastard! A bitch! A bastard! Fucking bastard!" Michael cursed loudly, even attracting the TV broadcasting camera.

So he danced and scolded in the upper stage, and the scene of Donn sitting in a seat less than three meters below him entered the TV of countless people. Burns, who was helping in his bar, also saw this scene. A sound of applauding Michael rang out in the bar, and Burns looked at the room and could only shake his head gently.

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Maybe it was like Michael and the others scolded, Tang En was a "extremely coward" and "coward" and didn't even dare to fight back. His performance disappointed many players. To be honest, Michael's scolding was too ugly, and even the players he knew from the fan leader could not listen. But Coach Tang En still sat in his seat and didn't even move, as if he couldn't hear the scolding of those people at all.

Motson was excited when he saw this scene on the sidelines. "I discovered an interesting phenomenon. As long as coach Tony Donn appears, the most exciting moment is definitely not on the court, but the range of ten yards around his coach's seat. Now there is some commotion behind his coach's seat. It seems that fans are saying something to him. Judging from their emotional excitement, it will not be good things. I think tomorrow night's Match`of`the`Day program, we can invite lip experts to interpret what they are saying. If West Ham beats his opponent 3-0 away, there is no point in reporting because they deserve to win. However, this sideline's emergencies deserve our attention."

The game time passed by minute by minute, and the on-field format was still unfavorable to Nottingham Forest, but West Ham also slowed down his offense after leading three goals. They would rather leisurely fall down on the field than kick the football forward. Perhaps the players, like the head coach, have begun to consider the next Premier League game.

The scolding behind the home team's coaching seat has not stopped. Many players even had to take the initiative to ask to go to the sidelines to warm up and escape the embarrassing bench. Don Eun did not make any statement about their request, Walker could only sigh and let all the substitutes warm up. The bench was immediately empty, leaving only members of the coaching staff.

Des Walker looked at Tang En with some concern. He felt that Tang En had always been something wrong. His face seemed to be very bad, and it was as gloomy as the weather two days ago.

When he moved his eyes down, he saw Tang En's hands clenched into fists. Because he tried too hard, his knuckles even turned white...

The referee's whistle gave everyone a relief, and the uncomfortable first half ended.

Done was the first to stand up and walk down the coaching seat, leaving the fans who were still insulting him behind, and walked into the passage first. Walker glared at Michael and the others, then stood on the sidelines to comfort the players who came off the court, patted this, patted that, shook his head, and sighed. It was normal for them to lose three goals with the super team.
Chapter completed!