Ahead of the Nottingham Forest vs Norwich City game, the media rushed to report the news:

Karl, host of Sky TV's "Football Those Things ......". Spike appeared on last night's show as a bald head. It has been confirmed in and Tony. Spike, who loses Donn's bet, shaves his hair. Cal. Mr. Spike becomes the second to be with Tony. The first public figure lost in Donn's bet was Mark who lost the beard. Laurenson, whose beard hasn't grown until now......

It's ugly for Spike, of course, but it's a good thing for Sky. Because they can use this opportunity to further promote the show's reputation. So before the show, they went around promoting Carl. Spike will appear in a "brand new look" later on the show. The show that day set a new high in ratings.

Don didn't forget to rub salt in his wounds, mocking Spike in his column: "He should be thankful that he had to make this bet with me in the first place, and I heard that their ratings have skyrocketed, and that's all due to me." I think Sky TV should seriously consider giving me a dividend. ”

In the dressing room away from home, Forest's players celebrated Ibisevic's twentieth season goal. However, he did not start this game.

The starting line-up was known to the media a day before, Tony. Don wants to do rotation, which is nothing to hide.

The striker who started in place of Ibisevic was not Eastwood or Abang Lajo, but the young youngster Aaron. Mitchel. It was his first official start for Nottingham Forest.

Such an arrangement is not unexpected. After all, Nottingham Forest will face tough rivals Barcelona at home next week, and there is no need to field the strongest squad against an opponent like Norwich.

Aron. Mitchel may consider this day to be the most memorable day of his career, as he never imagined he would be able to start the league as part of Nottingham Forest so quickly when he was still a centre-back.

But Don didn't take any special care of the lucky boy. What he said to the whole team, that's what he had to say to this kid.

"I wonder if you'll feel like you're going to feel a foot deep and a shallow foot when you walk on the court in a while?"

The players burst into laughter. They have been training on that terrible training ground for half a week, with three injuries on the first day, Eastwood among them, but fortunately they did enough to warm up and not have any major injuries. In order to hurry up, Donn even rushed to the away game on the morning of the game, and he was ready to give up this league for the sake of the Champions League.

'Norwich's turf is certainly not as good as the Camp Nou, but it's certainly much better than our training ground. Don't forget all the memories of your bodies because of this land. Let's be honest, I'm not going to put any pressure on you guys in this game, it doesn't matter if you win or lose. You act as if you're still training on that rotten field, and preserving your body's memory is your only task in this game. ”

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After the game began, the Nottingham Forest players showed a state of surprise to the outside. It's not a question of slow heating or not. The Forest's players were acting rather clumsily, as if they collectively couldn't play.

In terms of the simplest run, it is clear that the football is closer to the players of the Forest team, and under normal circumstances, the goal must have been scored by the Forest team.

However, in this game, the Nottingham Forest players seemed to be unable to run, they were very weak from the start, and they couldn't keep up with the Norwich players in the middle of the run, so they watched the football being taken away by the opponent first.

"I really doubt that the players of the Forest team went out en masse last night, otherwise how can we explain their weak legs?" The narrator also thinks that such a forest team is really a bit ugly.

"The winning ** is not strong, the body is not right. Tony. What did Don train for three days of closed training? ”

"Only God Knows......"

Aron. Mitchel was substituted after 65 minutes of starting, and his own individual performance was not ideal due to the team's inexplicable "slump" on the field. His good header and foot skills were not brought into play, on the contrary, due to his slightly thin body, he also fell behind in the physical confrontation with the opposing central defender.

Ibisevic, who was substituted, also did not see any improvement in form. This made the commentators even more incomprehensible - "Why is Nottingham Forest in such bad form from starting on the pitch to coming off the benches?" Did they fall for some kind of witchcraft? ”

In the end, everyone was not in good shape, and they could not find the form of the game on the pitch, as if they could not play, Nottingham Forest lost to Norwich City in an unexpected 0:1 away game, which caused the biggest upset in this round of the league. You must know that before that, Norwich were at the bottom of the table and almost certain to be relegated.

After the game, in the mixed zone, the losing Nottingham Forest players became the target of media pursuit. All the reporters wanted to ask the Forest players the question: "Can you explain your poor performance in this game?" ”

Most of the players, perhaps because they were in a bad mood after losing, refused to answer the questions. Even if a few people answered, they didn't say anything: "We don't think it's okay to say anything like form, but when it comes to the game, there is a problem, so we don't know what went wrong." ”

Well, these players are clearly unwilling to cooperate with the reporters, perhaps because they themselves feel that their performance is too bad to answer such questions. So the reporters moved to the post-match press conference to hear what Donn had to say. As is customary, my own team played such a bad game, Tony. Don must be furious.

But what did they see at the scene?

Tony. Don sat in front of a row of microphones with a smile on his face, chatting about the game that had just ended.

"Football is like that, you can never say we deserve to win because we're strong. Nor can a victory be celebrated in advance before the start of the game. Until the last second, no one knows what the outcome will be. I'm really sorry for the result. ”

Can anyone see the slightest expression of "regret" on his face?

'I'm angry that the team isn't in shape.

Was he really angry? "Laughing and getting angry"?

"Finally, I would like to congratulate Glenn. Mr. Rhodes, his team played a good game. Don stood up and shook hands with Rod next to him with a smug face. The two can be regarded as quite related - Done's debut opponent is West Ham led by this brother. It was at that time that he showed his "big-mouth talent" for the first time at a press conference, not only successfully cursing West Ham to relegation, but also giving himself the first glimpse of where the FA door was heading.

Now, eight years later, Mr. Rhodes has reappeared to Donn after suffering a heart attack and a cerebral thrombosis. This time, however, he was neither West Ham nor Newcastle's caretaker manager, but instead became the manager of promoted Manovich. He led the team to promotion last season and is likely to be back in the Championship this season. At this critical time, being able to defeat the strong enemy Nottingham Forest is naturally a matter of charcoal in the snow.

It's a pity that even so, he could not be the protagonist at the press conference. On the contrary, Donne, who lost, became the focus of attention. If Don hadn't taken the initiative to stand up and shake hands with him and congratulate him, he wouldn't have known how long he would have waited for the attention of the reporters.

Norwich's victory over Nottingham Forest was a big upset after the game, but it was the media that analysed why Nottingham Forest suddenly couldn't find their form. Poor Glenn. Mr. Rhodes......

Some people say that this is the rotation that Donn is making to meet Barcelona, but with the strength of the Forest team, even if he rotates all the times, he will not lose in the face of a team of Norwich's level, right?

Others say the defeat away to Barcelona has had a profound impact on Nottingham Forest, with cracks in their otherwise impregnable dressing room and Tony who can only jump to his feet and curse. Don couldn't control his stars anymore. Now Nottingham Forest is like a plate of sand, after two consecutive defeats, morale has dropped to the bottom, and Barcelona's chance has come.

What's more, Donn's unusual performance in the post-match press conference shows that he has also turned against the club's hierarchy after losing control of the team. He's a broken jar. There are already rumours that once it is said that the loss to Barcelona, Toney. Done will get out of the way from Wilford. Manchester United have privately initialled an agreement with Donn to leave Nottingham Forest to move to Manchester United as soon as he leaves.

These rumors are half-true, some of them do not stand up to scrutiny, and some of them seem to have some truth. The true and the false are mixed together, and readers can't tell the truth of the facts at all. can only be led by the nose by the media.

In response to these media reports, Donn chose to remain silent, and Nottingham Forest also chose to remain silent. It's like a nuclear submarine diving into the deep sea, lurking in the dark, so that the enemy can't figure out their movements or what they're going to do.

The only trouble is that there are also people in the Nottingham Forest fan base who believe these rumours. After all, it was an ugly game, almost in time for their home defeat to Bolton. And Tony. Don uncharacteristically didn't lose his temper, and it's no wonder that some Forest fans want to be crooked.

But from that point of view, Nottingham Forest's secrecy is really good.

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Spread the word about Tony on the outside. At the same time as rumours that Donn was about to leave class, the Nottingham Forest players continued to train on that rotten patch. After a few days of "waste", the site is even worse.

However, this did not make much of a difference to the effectiveness of the training, as Nottingham Forest did not do much ground training, and the focus of the team's training this week was in the sky - long balls and slings.

Attacking players up front are asked to handle the ball as simply as possible and as quickly as possible after taking the ball. Don't think about what a clever match on the ground – in fact, a lot of players did at first, but they gave up on this unrealistic idea when they saw that the ball they were passing couldn't get where they wanted it to go on this kind of field.

To put it bluntly, the only trick to playing on this uneven, uneven grass field is to minimize the contact between the ball and the ground, so golf is king.

If the defenders are marking the ball when they are on the ball, then they must move forward with big feet; When the double back waist switches between attack and defense, it is not a short pass, but a long pass; The wing-backs frequently cross diagonally at a 45-degree angle instead of from the bottom of the ball. Then put a high school striker with a good header in the front, and where the high school striker is, the football will be passed. In addition, the set-piece tactics will be the most important thing in that game, whether it is offensive or defensive. Because Donn knows very well that his tactics may not get more direct shots, and if he wants to score, he will need other means. Set-pieces are the best option.

Nottingham Forest's players won't be too unfamiliar with this style of play, and they won't feel like it's a new thing to come up with on a whim. Because even when the Forest team plays at its best, you can see this kind of "efficiency football", or "ugly football", in their tactics. Otherwise, why do the media keep scolding them?

Nottingham Forest's coaches won't be surprised. Because of Tony. Donn's initial success at Forest relied on efficiency football and the "uselessness of possession". It was only later that he revised his tactics little by little, making the Forest team's style of play richer and better-looking. Only this time Donn took the "uselessness of ball control" to the extreme, and went to a famous extreme - pomo (positions_of_maximum_opportunity), which means "maximum chance position theory", which is the famous set of "British long pass rushing hanging".

Almost all coaches in England know and are familiar with this theory, because it is the theory that Charles, the man who had the greatest influence on English football in the last century. Hughes, who founded and used his role as FA's technical director in the '60s and '90s to promote it, is the main culprit behind the slow development and even regression of the technical style of English football.

This is a classic example of "on paper" in football. The theory is unassailable, but the reality is completely different, and it is not the same thing at all. Why, then, did Don suddenly decide to use such an extreme tactic?

Since POMO has been promoted in England for thirty years and has had a profound impact, there must be its merits, no matter how small. George. Graham's Arsenal enjoyed success in the early nineties, although they played rough football that even Arsenal fans themselves were tired of. But they won the championship and that's where it comes in.

The poor pitch is clearly perfect for the use of long passes. Donn says he can do whatever it takes to win, so it's no big deal to have the "notorious" Pomo briefly resurrected on Nottingham Forest.

The winner will smile even if he is scolded, and the loser will not be happy even if he receives more praise.

There is always only one reason for the Catalan media to slam Donn – he plays ugly football, stenges of utilitarianism, and he is England's biggest football hooligan.

Then Donn will tell them: What are you looking for ugly and utilitarian football? It doesn't matter if you haven't seen it, I'll open your eyes right away!

(To be continued)