Chapter 32: The Millwall Visitor (1)
On April 21, the 44th round of the league. Nottingham Forests hosted Burnley at home.
"There are three rounds left in the league, and the ranking of the top six in the standings has changed after the last round of the league. Since Reading, ranked fourth, lost to the Forest with a goal at home, they have been overtaken by Wolves and dropped to fifth. The points from fourth to sixth are seventy-one, seventy and sixty-nine. Look at these points! It really makes people look forward to the remaining three rounds of leagues! After two consecutive away games, Tony Donn and his team returned to the city stadium. After ninety minutes, what will the score on the electronic scoreboard be?"
Ninety minutes later, Tang En stood on the sidelines with a polite handshake with the visiting team head coach, and showed a bright smile on his face. Above him, the electronic scoreboard at the top of the stands froze the final score of the half-game: 2:0. International practice, the home team is in front and the away team is in the back.
Nottingham Forest won the second consecutive victory, although the teams ranked in the signatures won, the standings did not change, and did not hurt Don't feel good about him because his team had already locked in the play-offs two rounds ahead of schedule.
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On April 26, the 45th round of the league, the penultimate round. Nottingham challenged Rotherham`United away.
Rotherham is very similar to Forests' opponent Bonnley in the last round. Both are ranked in the middle, with no worries about relegation and no hope of upgrading. They lack sufficient fighting spirit for the last few rounds of the league. Perhaps these players are now full of their minds on vacation, or use the summer transfer period to treat better teams. Such a team is an opponent of Nottingham Forest, which is like a boy who delivers pizza and takeout.
The Hungry Forests played a beautiful 2:0 away game with Rotherham, the team's top scorer, Malone Halewood, increased his league goals this season to twenty-four, and his forward partner David Johnson also scored his own 20th goal.
The final stage of the league was quite perfect for Don En, and now there is only one opponent left...
He turned his eyes to the calendar. Eight days later, there was a line of small words under the red circle of May 4, which was their opponent's name - Millwall.
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May 4, 2:57 pm. City Stadium
A lively lion raised its front paws and roared, as the fans swung their hands, it seemed as if they would jump off the blue flag at any time and bit its prey.
About 100 fans of the visiting team gathered outside the stadium and slowly headed towards the city stadium. Most ordinary forest fans consciously took a detour when they saw this blue square, so that they had no obstacles along the way.
Of course, there are also those who are not afraid of death. On both sides of the Millwall fans passing by, there were about a hundred fans wearing Red Forest jerseys shouting and making many insulting gestures to those Millwall fans. Millwall fans used words and gestures to counterattack in the square, but the two sides did not rush up and fight into a group.
Because there were a large number of British policemen wearing bright yellow vests separated by these two groups of fans. They were fully armed and stared at the fans on both sides with vigilance.
For the city of Nottingham, today is the weakest security and the most stressful time of the year. Because Millwall fans are here.
Millwall is a club that is rare in the world, and fans are more famous than the team itself. As a small team located in south London, they do not have many achievements and honors worth showing off, nor are they big-name stars. But they have the strongest fan group in the UK and even the world.
Millwall has the most notorious football hooligan in the UK.
At a crossroads, the group of Lions stopped, and the police surrounded them in the middle, and they needed to wait for the Forest Team bus to pass. Even if they stopped, they were still scolding the forest fans on the periphery.
Three car whistles sounded in front of him, and a red bus slowly drove into the sight of these people.
Suddenly, the blue Millwall fans threw down the Forest fans on the outside and pointed the insulting finger at the Forest players sitting in the car. Some people were even excited to lean over and find bricks to smash the car. At this time, the two rows of policemen around them played their due role - trying to push the fans who wanted to cross the line back.
Although the sound insulation performance of the bus with closed windows is very good, Tang En could still hear the sounds made by the Millwall fans outside. Their mouths were pursed, and they saw the sound of "F", "fuck" and kept raising their middle fingers, with a hideous face. It was the first time that Tang En saw such a vicious fan. He felt that they were not watching the ball, but coming to find trouble and fight.
In order to fight against Millwall fans, the forest fans who gathered together also began to fight back with swearing, which attracted Don't have the attention of him. He easily found the familiar face in the crowd - Mark Hodge.
This middle-aged man, who usually looks a little polite, has a red neck because of blood congestion, looks ferocious, and roars at the other party with gritted teeth, like an angry bulldog.
"Football Hooligan..." Don whispered the words Walker told him that night in the bar.
Walker beside him noticed that Donn had noticed the situation outside. He looked at it and obviously got used to it. "Tony, this is all childhood medicine now. When you arrive at the stadium later, I will be sure that you will be very eye-opening when the game begins."
Tang En looked at him.
"We need to yell when we communicate like this." Walker smiled, comparing the distance between the two with his hands. "And yelling in his ears."
While speaking, the bus had already driven away from this intersection full of suppressed violent emotions and turned to the team's dedicated parking lot. Tang En turned back and could only see a few flying flags and blurred red and blue figures. The singing of the forest fans disappeared, and Tang En knew that the group of people must have scolded each other again.
Chapter completed!