There is no need to dwell on the circumstances leading up to the final battle, as it is no different from the events before the big games in history. The only difference is that most of the fans who came to watch the game today were not wearing the Forest jersey with the name of such and such a player's number printed on it, but instead wore red or white commemorative T-shirts.

As early as when Donn held a press conference to announce his retirement after the season, Nottingham Forest's souvenir shop had the commemorative T-shirt on display. It comes in two colours, red and white, and the front looks like the Nottingham Forest jersey, but there are two numbers on the back. The top "12" represents Donn's 12 years at the helm of the Forest team, and the lower "12" represents the 12 championships that Donn has led the Forest team to. On top of these two "12s" is Tony. Donne's name.

Almost every fan who passes by the camera will turn his back to the camera to show the two "12s" and Tony behind them. Donn's name, then a thumbs up.

Pierce, a journalist. Bruce wore such a T-shirt to cover the game live.

While fans lined up outside the stadium, Donn's team was warming up inside.

The two teams warmed up a little early today as the final round of the league had to kick off at the same time, and Forest FC also prepared a small farewell ceremony for Donn, which was to be held before kick-off. I had to move the warm-up time forward.

The fans who entered first were busy in the stands looking for Donn below, but they couldn't do it. Because Don was at the door of the locker room by Evan. Dogeti pulled and didn't come out at all.

"Tony, you've only got fifteen minutes in the locker room." Evan told Donn that he was afraid that he would lose track of time. 'We have to kick off at the allotted time or we will be penalized. You have to know that this game is very sensitive......"

Don waved his hand impatiently, why is Evan so mother-in-law today? "I see, isn't it a league title fight? It makes our home team look like a supporting role. ”

Evan smiled. In the eyes of many, today's Forest team is indeed a supporting role. In his heart, the Forest team is also a supporting role, Manchester United is also a supporting role, and the real protagonist is only the guy in front of him.

Vaguely hearing the live broadcast outside reminding him that the warm-up time was almost over, Evan said goodbye to Don and turned to leave.

Donne, on the other hand, went back to the dressing room and waited for the players to come back before giving a few final words. Evan was worried that fifteen minutes would not be enough for him to say, but now Don is not the Don who liked to make impassioned speeches more than ten years ago, he has nothing to say, fifteen minutes is more than for him.

※※※When the players of the two teams who were warming up outside began to leave the field, the large screen on the Crimson Court removed the emblems of the two teams and the display of the time, and went black.

At this time, there are not many empty seats in the stands. The number of fans outside the square also gradually decreased as the number of attendees increased, and some people who did not have tickets went to the nearby tavern early to wait to watch the live TV.

By the time the last Forest player left the pitch and entered the corridor, the stands were almost full, and there were no more fans in sight at the entrances. The big screen, which had been black since just now, flashed, and then a word appeared on the pitch-black background.

"he" (he).

Then the white words slowly faded away, blending into the pitch black background.

The picture flashed again, slowly brightening, Tony. Don's silhouette appears on the screen.

There was a huge cheer from the stands.

The screen fades out again, and then Tony appears on the screen. Donn and Evan. Dogerty, the two of them held hands in the center of the screen, with the spread out papers on the table below. This is a photo of Donn and the club when he first renewed his contract.

After the picture fades out, a sentence is typed on the black background:

'It's the most correct signing in the club's history.'

This sentence attracted another cheer and applause from the audience.

While the fans were looking up at the two large screens at either end of the stadium, the staff were carrying trophies to the cleared stadium, one after another shining silver crowns, and the trophies of different shapes were carefully lifted out and carefully placed in the turf in the center circle.

In the locker room, Donn was telling his players the purpose of the game.

"Did I lie to you by what I said yesterday?" Donn leaned over and asked.

The players sitting around him shook their heads.

Seeing this answer, Don laughed. "Very good, listen guys. It's just a normal league game for us, but for our opponents they're under a lot of pressure and it's a game we can't afford to lose. Shall we lift up our noble hands and release the water? Never! I don't want to say anything superfluous, you're all professional footballers, I just want you to look up at that sentence on the wall when you come in. ”

After saying this, Don repeated the tactical arrangement that had been laid out last night. He wants to make sure that every player who comes on the pitch knows what he's going to do.

"There's nothing new about our tactics, and old opponents should have studied it thoroughly. But whether there is a way to curb it after thorough research is another matter......"

Don spread his hands.

※※※ The big screen is playing this clip of Don leading the team to win every championship.

From the first League Cup title to the last European Cup, each trophy has a fragment.

“…… Even if it's climbing! We're going to climb up too! "The screen is a green field, with the Forest players sitting around the ground and Donn crouching in the middle. If you look closely, many of the players are very unfamiliar, many of them are almost forgetting their names now, and Don in the camera is also very young. This was before the penalty shoot-out in the 2004 League Cup final, when many of the players left the team after Forest were promoted to the Premier League. "There is no difference between losing at the last step and losing at the first level, both are losers! To win! Be sure to win! Don clenched his fists and roared in the picture, and his appearance not only infected the Forest players in the picture, but also the audience fifteen years later.

Cheers and applause rang out for a long time.

But the scenes that made them even more excited were yet to come.

With a flick of the screen, at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, the UEFA Champions League flag flutters in the wind. The next second was the scene when Albertini scored the AC Milan goal with a falling leaf. The forest in the stands cheered the fans as if they were there. Some of them even shouted Albertini's name: "Demy! Demi!! ”

There is a regret in this game. Because Donn doesn't want to be specialized, he's always claimed that it's just a normal league. So I didn't send tickets to my old friends before the game like in the previous finals. I don't know if those people will come...... A man in the stands touched his companion with his elbow: "Hey, they're calling you, Demy." ”

※※※“…… Nottingham Forest's tactics are nothing unusual. Wood and Chen Jian must be the pivot of their midfield and you need to press them closely. Our midfielders have to dare to press forward, press ferociously in the midfield, and not give them too much space and time to get the ball. As long as we can push them to the ground, our odds of winning will be greatly increased. ”

In United's dressing room, Jose Mourinho is analysing Forest's tactics and laying out countermeasures.

Unlike the joyous atmosphere outside, the air in the visitors' dressing room was so heavy that it almost froze. Everyone was listening quietly to the manager's words, lest they miss a word.

Regardless of what they do, this game is too big for Manchester United. This season has been defeated in both the Champions League and the FA Cup, and only the league can compete for glory. This last game is really not to be lost, otherwise the season will be really nothing.

They don't know whether to call themselves lucky or bad.

The opponent in the last round of the league is Nottingham Forest, which is definitely not considered a weak team. However, they have achieved their goals for the season ahead of schedule, and now they should have no desire or desire.

But this is Tony again. Don's farewell performance...... Can his team allow to be spoiled by a defeat?

Mourinho doesn't know what's going on in his players' minds, he just repeats over and over again the tactics to be used in today's game, and at the same time decompresses the players, telling them not to think so much, to keep their minds normal, and to play as if it were an ordinary league game.

To be honest, Mourinho himself doesn't believe that this will be an ordinary league. Even if it is not related to the question of the ownership of the league championship, there is another reason.

Tony. In Donn's final game, he was in the locker room, but he could guess what was going on outside. There's also a ceremony for Don in a moment. His players have already received a request from the Forest club to cooperate and line up at the exit to welcome Donn.

What a battle! I don't think there was such a welcome queue for Ferguson's last game before he retired...... His team agreed to such a request, but he would not have applauded Donn in the queue. Want him to line up and salute Donn? Unless he's dead!

When both teams finished their pre-match preparations and walked out of the locker room, a documentary about Donn was still playing on the big screen above the stands.

This time it was the 2006 Champions League final. In that game, Nottingham Forest, who had one less man in the opening 18 minutes, still led by one goal until the 76th minute, and finally lost the championship trophy due to the obvious decline in physical fitness, which was scored twice by Barcelona. That game was a big blow for Donn and his young Forest team.

The content on the big screen had never appeared in any public media before.

It was a video of Donn lashing out in the locker room after the game.

“…… A loser's mark of shame? A silver medal for shit!? "If a piece of content is broadcast on the public media, it will definitely be muffled, and all you can hear at that time is a constant "beep". But this version, which is played on Crimson Course, is authentic, with absolutely no masking words and silencing. That's the real Don.

"There is only one champion, what do you do with the silver medal? Sell for money!? Go out and laugh and be a foil to those victors? Make their champions look even more radiant? Laughing and selling yourself like a girl?! Don't go! Isn't Barcelona amazing? Let them play on their own!! ”

Then the picture turned, and Donn stretched out his arm and raised three fingers in front of a crowd of reporters. "This is the third Champions League trophy in Nottingham Forest's history, thank you!"

In the next second, Don came up to the stage to receive the silver medal with a gloomy face, and then walked down and walked straight to the Yongdao crossing, where he hung the silver medal in his hand on the neck of a small caddy. After doing all this, he ignored the eyes of everyone present, walked into the corridor, and disappeared in front of the public.

Seeing him do this, the fans on the Crimson Stadium not only did not feel that their manager was rude and personable, but erupted in even louder cheers, and some people were clapping and stomping their feet, applauding Donn's approach.

They just like such a rampant Tony. Don, I'm afraid I can only be booed if I change a gentleman. Nottingham was already rich in people who had a surname for those who had contempt for authority, from Robin Hood to Brian. Clough is their pride. Tony. Don is no exception. No one will be surprised by what Donn has done, and such a manager is the best manager they can be.

Without this contempt for the authority of the world, how could it have won 12 trophies in 12 years of coaching?

Does anyone think he's arrogant? That must be the loser who hates him!

※※※ In the cheers,The players on both sides played.,But they didn't go directly to the field.,Instead, they lined up in two teams on both sides of the road.,Waiting for the hero to play.。

The big screen in the stands went black again, and a sentence slowly appeared on it:

"Let's welcome—"

The fans who saw this sentence shouted in unison: "Your Majesty the King!! ”

Amid the roar of "His Majesty the King" from the mountains and the tsunami, Don walked out of the corridor.

He saw the players on both sides waiting for him, as well as the club's president, Evan Brown, who was walking behind the championship trophy in the center circle. Dogety. And, of course, he saw the slogans and portraits that hung in the Robin Hood stands.

He raised his hand and waved at everyone. It passed through the applause of the players on both sides and stopped until it reached the trophy in the center circle.

The black screen and text on the big screen are gone, replaced by a return to the City Stadium after successfully defending the European Champions Cup. Donn's "Coronation Ceremony". In the picture, he is draped in a royal coat with red and white edges, holding a crown aloft and facing the star-studded stadium stands, which flicker from the camera's flash.

Evan. Dogetty handed the wireless microphone to Donne, pulled him behind the trophy, and walked out.

Journalists flocked to the trophy in three columns. The first column lies on the ground, holding the camera in his arms. The second column is on one knee with a camera. The third column stands behind the first two columns, busy setting up tripods.

When they finished their work, it was a continuous sound of pressing the shutter.

From the perspective of the reporters, especially those lying down, twelve trophies of different sizes and shapes were placed in front of Donn, and there was really a suffocating momentum.

Wait for the reporters to finish taking pictures. Don raised the microphone, and when he saw his action, no one reminded him of anything at all, and the scene gradually quieted down. Before the tsunami of the mountains roared, wave after wave of cheers gradually disappeared, and finally disappeared completely. Everyone was waiting to hear something from Donn.

Tang En thought that he had seen countless big scenes, and this scene today would not make him do anything. But when he was just about to open his mouth, he found that he was a little choked.

He quickly shut his mouth, he didn't want these 60,000 people to hear his crying voice, it would be really humiliating.

But he still didn't escape, and the developed television broadcast immediately cut a close-up to Donn's face. His moist eyes were thus exposed to everyone.

Seeing him like this, another shout erupted from the stands: "Stay, Your Majesty!" ”

Hearing such shouts, Don just waved his hand and motioned for them to be quiet. When the scene became quiet again, he also stabilized his emotions and said into the microphone: "Thank you......"

As soon as he said this, his voice became a little uncontrollable.

At this time, Don En realized that he was so nostalgic for everything here that he couldn't even say "goodbye".

This time Don choked up again, and no one made any other sound, they all waited quietly.

Don was silent for a moment with his head down, finally controlling his emotions again.

He coughed and said, "Thank you, thank you." ”

In response, countless pairs of arms in the stands waved at him.

At some point, the song that had been played on the live radio to say goodbye to Albertini, Sarah. Brightman and Andre. Bocelli singing "time_to_say_goodbye" (Farewell Moment).

When the song sounded, a man in the stands wiped his eyes. He remembered that time from many years ago.

"It's time to say goodbye, Tony......" he sighed.

"I'm proud and proud to have been in charge of this team for 12 years, and I'm proud and proud to have only managed Nottingham Forest in my life. I didn't make Nottingham Forest, you made me. Donn reached out to the fans in the stands and the players standing on the sidelines.

Applause rang out.

"It's the last game today, I hope you enjoy it to the fullest......" Here he paused.

Everyone thought he was going to say "enjoy the game, enjoy the football".

Donne, however, turned his head to look to the other side, and he easily found Mourinho behind the crowd. His old opponent was expressionless.

“…… I hope you enjoy the game. ”

Don looked at Mourinho and smiled.

As soon as these words came out, the expression on Mourinho's face really changed, and he no longer had the calmness and calmness just now.

Donn, who had flirted with his old rival, was in a good mood, and the feeling of this parting was no longer sad and bitter for him.

Don raised his hand again and waved it around.

"Ninety minutes later, let's say goodbye! Goodbye, guys! ”

After saying this, Don put down the microphone and continued to stand in the center circle and waved. The stands erupted in cheers again, with the Forest players standing aside and watching their leaders enjoy the cheers alone. Gareth. Bell even whistled. They now feel motivated and motivated to start the game and rush to tear United to shreds.

Who does the league title belong to?

What's the business with us! We just wanted to send off the greatest leader in Nottingham Forest's history with a victory!

You are the embodiment of victory, the face of champions. In this last game, only victory can match you, boss.

Donn has retired, the twelve trophies are being moved back to the honor room, the reporters are returning to their posts, the players from both sides are re-entering, and the cheers in the stands are gradually stopping.

On the two big screens, this line of words was typed:

There's only one Tony. Dawn!

(To be continued)