Chapter 31: The Glory of Hodge (I)

Even those who have never watched football will know a thing or two about the football hooligans in Britain, and along with the fog of London and the blooming English pubs everywhere, they have become a national icon. Donn doesn't know much more about football hooligans than the average person. When you are in China, you will hardly come into contact with a real football hooligan - those who think football hooligans are cool, swear a few words and shake their fists, and then follow others to yell "I want his leg" during the game are obviously not football hooligans.

What should a real football hooligan look like?

Don didn't have the heart to think about such a boring question. After a decent night at Burns' pub, he woke up the next morning with the same problem: with five rounds to go, he had to find a way to move up the table so he could pick a weaker opponent in the play-offs.

He circled the dates of the five games with a red pen on the calendar, reminding himself that these were five decisive battles.

He is confident that he has everything in place like the team to win the remaining four games and then go all out for the promotion play-offs. After three play-off games, they will be a promoted team for next season's Super League. Then he would take advantage of the vacation to go back to China to secretly visit his parents, and by the way, find out how the "Donne" in China is living now.

That's all Donn has planned for the future.

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Donn's plan got off to a bad start. Forest lost to third-placed Sheffield United in a 32-game league match on April 16, and although they only lost by one goal - 0:1, a loss is a loss, three points less, and it also deprived Forest of a good chance to catch up with Wolves, who had played one game less than Wolves and were only two points behind......

Although during the game, Donn was furious at the score from the sidelines. But in the dressing room after the game, he still accepted defeat – what if he didn't? Losing all - away from home against a third-placed team, losing by just one goal is already a good result. Donn convinced himself from another angle: if his team finished sixth at the end of the season, it was inevitable that they would have to play Sheffield United in third, and this game would be considered to be a game to gain experience and examine the opponent in the next two games.

But the players don't have any holidays to enjoy. In the dressing room, Donn announced the cancellation of the day off after the game and returned to Nottingham to start training with the squad ready for the next round away to Reading, which is the fourth-placed team.

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Despite the defeat, Donne's side returned to Nottingham with support.

The next day, there were many fans on the sidelines of the training ground, and in addition to the old faces in groups, Donn also saw such a group of people: they sang the team song of the Forest team and encouraged the players to train. The sound was loud and caught Donn's attention. What amused Donn was that these fans spontaneously divided into two distinct groups.

The larger side is clearly a group, they know each other and have a unified leadership. Don had no trouble finding the leader from the crowd.

He wore a red jumper and a Forest scarf around his neck to prove his identity. The people around him wore different colors and styles, but they had one thing in common - they had a red scarf around their necks.

Today, the sky was not beautiful and there was a drizzle, and Don thought that there would be fewer fans watching the team practice on the sidelines of the training ground than in the past, but he did not expect such a group of enthusiastic supporters to come. The group of fanatics quickly attracted the security guards at Forest's Wilford training base, who rushed to gather around them, keeping an eye on them vigilantly.

In nearly half a season in charge of Forest, Donn saw such a scene for the first time.

Now a fool can guess who these people gathered outside the training base to cheer loudly for the team.

Watching the group stand in the rain and sing and cheer on the team, Don couldn't connect them to the football hooligans who were fighting.

They look no different from any regular fan.

It's hard to imagine that such a group of people could be notorious "football hooligans", is there something wrong with it?

They cheered on the team on the sidelines, but the players didn't seem to appreciate it, and some looked at them with obvious disgust. Even Mr. Yes, Walker, treats them as air.

At the end of the session, the players deliberately left the side away from the barbed wire, and none of them went up to meet the fans' autograph requests, and the poor fans looked disappointed when they saw that the players had no intention of coming. None of Hodge's men were going to ask for autographs or anything, and they seemed to be simply supporting the team.

The team's reaction surprised Donn, and it seemed that he was the only one who didn't know how good these guys were.

Glancing at the group of people who were singing goodbye to the team outside the training ground, he also turned away with the players.

Although he had been in this country for almost half a year, he found that he still knew a lot about it. It doesn't feel good.

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