In fact, in order to celebrate the completion of the new stadium at Nottingham Forest, as early as half a year ago, the Forest Club had made such an agreement with the English FA - after the completion of the new stadium, the England national team and Nottingham Forest were invited to a friendly match. Tang En knew about this, but now that he had changed his identity, he forgot about it.

The match against England is just one part of the celebrations, which will include a parade of Forest's jerseys, an honour display and a gathering of veterans over the past 100 years...... Wait a minute. Very grand one for the celebration.

When Donn was still around, he would be one of the main characters. Now that he has left the Forest team, these things naturally have nothing to do with him, although he has led more than half of the honours in the club's history.

Now that he is back in Nottingham, he is not excited at all. He doesn't know what Nottingham Forest fans will think of his departure. He has not disclosed the truth of his resignation in the media, because he doesn't want to completely tear his face with Evan, and it is not a personal grudge, but just a disagreement with the concept. On the other hand, this is not a big deal, this is a resignation, and there is no need to make a storm in the city.

But ordinary fans must not think so. In their hearts, Tony. Don is the face of Nottingham Forest, and now that this spokesperson is gone, their sky is falling. There will definitely be people who don't forgive him, and Don has self-knowledge in his heart.

He only smiled bitterly now - why did such a match be arranged in the first place? Fate really plays tricks on people.

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"Match against England?" John looked at Bill.

Burns' Forest Bar is back alive as the new season approaches. There are more and more people who come here to drink and chat, and it looks like business is booming.

"You forgot, too?" Beal looked at his old friend with some excitement, "To celebrate the completion of the new stadium, the game was between us and the England national team. ”

"It's kind of interesting." John replied noncommittally.

"Isn't that interesting? It's so much fun! Bill clenched his fists and waved, "I've got to give Tony some color and see!" ”

"You're still complaining about that?" John thought Bill was boring. It's been more than a month ago, and I still can't forget it. "Tony must have a hard time."

"I don't care what he wants!" Bill screamed, a bit like a hysterical woman. "! That's a naked betrayal! ”

His statement was agreed by some people around him, who echoed it. John opened his mouth and finally decided to leave them alone. He picked up his glass and walked over to the bar, placing it on Kenny. In front of Burns. "One more drink, Kenny."

Burns silently poured him a full wine.

"The honor Tony once brought to the city they have forgotten, even if it was more than a month ago." John muttered.

"If someone likes him, naturally someone hates him. This is as true today as it will be in the future. Burns smiled like a philosopher.

"I kind of didn't want to watch that game anymore. I can't accept the fact that people who had been unconditionally supporting him before were now scolding him. I think Tony must be very sad. "John wasn't in a good mood.

"So you're going more." Burns persuaded. "You have to let him know that there are still people who understand him."

"Ahem." Fat John coughed, "Actually, when I first learned the news, I was much angrier than the thin man. At that time, the thin man persuaded me to come. But how did it come to this now? ”

"Because of Tony's 'indifference' towards Nottingham Forest, right?" Burns continued to wipe his glasses that he couldn't finish in a hundred years, and said casually.

John was stunned for a moment, then remembered. Since his resignation, Tony has never mentioned the name "Nottingham Forest" on any occasion. It's as if this team has never been seen in his eleven years of coaching. Perhaps it is this "indifferent" attitude that angers people like Bill.

But John thought better. It's not that Tony is indifferent, it's that he has a complicated mood. He has been in charge of this team for eleven years, how could he have forgotten it? But he can't just talk about the team after he leaves, that would put a lot of pressure on the new coach and be detrimental to the new team's re-entry path. He wants to use silence to try to weaken the huge influence he has left on this team. Those players were brought up by Done, and as long as he says something in the newspapers, even if he is no longer at Wilford, the players will definitely put his words first, in that case, Martin. How does O'Neill's job work?

Unfortunately, not everyone understands this.

He looked back at the people who were still debating what slogan to make to mock Donn during the game, and another doubt came to his heart, which had been in his mind for many days, and he had not known the answer.

I knew today, Tony, why did you leave in the first place? What's the trouble you can't solve? Eleven years of ups and downs and heart attacks have passed, why can't this twelfth year pass?

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"Some say Tony's resignation was because of and Allen. Adams's contradictions, but I would say they didn't always have contradictions? Why are you quitting now? Don't those people in suits never think about us fans? ”

He was fine and walked away. What about Nottingham Forest? He was happy when his grades fell? ”

"I know he has a struggle, but I don't think it's enough to support his decision to resign. Compared to other clubs, he has more power. ”

"If he had to go, he could choose to wait another season. Why leave when we just won the Treble? I can't describe how I felt. It's like being laughed at by someone and then the same person gives me two slaps right away......"

Until now, the post-80s Shaolin abbot station is related to Tony. Under the news that Donne's contract with the club will not be renewed when it expires, there are also fans who have left messages one after another to express their opinions. For Donn, most of them were messages that made him unhappy.

This may be the scene that Nottingham Forest would like to see. They held a press conference in advance and took the initiative to announce that they had failed to renew their contract with Donne, and they also had the idea of turning passive into active. In this way, everyone will obviously think that the main responsibility lies with Donn, who has been hiding it, and Nottingham Forest is like an innocent girl who has been bullied and can only cry about her experience in this way.

Anyway, Donne's image has always been bad, and if he hadn't sided with those people, few people would have liked him. Before, everyone supported him because everyone was in the same trench, but now that they are not in the same trench, it is inevitable that they will not be able to see each other horizontally.

Forcing away the crime of the meritorious coach, Evan and Allen don't want to bear it. In that case, let's just let the man with a bad image carry it - he is leaving, we have given him the best contract in England now, but he does not appreciate it, and is bent on leaving.

Such a decision is incomprehensible to ordinary people, but who let Tony. Don isn't an ordinary person, is he? His thoughts must be different from ordinary people, and if you take the general standard to measure the words and deeds of this strange person, you will come to the conclusion that he is a madman. This is why Don is called a "madman" and a "coach with the surname Ge". He was destined not to be understood by most people.

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Nottingham Forest have five warm-up games scheduled for the summer, with England caught in the middle, the first game since the opening of the new stadium. Originally, this purely game-like game was not taken seriously, England could not have trained for this game for days, it was all a makeshift team, and even the squad in the World Cup could not be put together, such a game was worthless for preparing for the new season.

But all of a sudden, because Nottingham Forest changed managers, because of Toney. Done became England's new manager. The game became a highlight-eyed match.

Media outlets gathered in Clifton, southwest of Nottingham Forest, to cover the game. Evan must have had a good laugh because of Tony. As a result of Donn, Nottingham Forest's new stadium has received another free promotion, and it has worked even better than the ones he has deliberately arranged.

Martin. O'Neill, Nottingham Forest's new manager, has his own ideas for this game. In the previous two warm-up games, the team's performance was not good, with one loss and one draw, and they have not won yet. There are already skeptical voices in the local media. He's desperate to take the pressure off with a win in this match. England don't play at full strength, so a game like this can boost the team's confidence.

There was another reason why O'Neill felt he had to win this game – England's manager was Toney. Dawn. This is the first and perhaps last head-to-head meeting between the old and new Nottingham Forest managers, and O'Neill must use this victory to make those who are obsessed with his predecessor forget about Toney. Donne's name.

He's been in charge of Forest for almost a month now and is discovering Tony more and more. How much of an impact Donn has had on this team. It's a great way to beat Donn's team, to tell the media, to tell the players – I'm your boss now.

"It's just a casual game, but the boss is preparing so seriously...... "O'Neill talks about tactics above, but the people listening below are a little absent-minded.

"It's always good to be serious."

"If you get too serious, you'll be nervous."

The players are whispering.

"If the leader is there, I guess more than half of them will be on the youth team, and then tell them to play casually."

Someone immediately put a finger to his lips and motioned for the person who said it to shut up. "Chief" is a word that no one wants to mention. They manage Martin. O'Neill calls "boss", not "boss". At Nottingham Forest, only a special manager can be called 'the head', Tony. Donn is such a special manager. But in today's Nottingham Forest, Tony. Don is a name that is forbidden to mention. No one has imposed that they have to, it's just an unspoken rule of the locker room.

O'Neill heard a whisper from below, and he looked up at the player.

The sound died out immediately.

O'Neill didn't go into the source of the sound, and he continued to explain the tactics.

The players were quiet for a while, then continued to bite their ears together.

"Hey, you say...... If the leader comes back, what will the fans do to him? I've heard a lot of people resent him......"

"Don't you complain?"

"Me? Cough...... At first, it was a little, but now, I want to open it...... Players can transfer, why can't coaches? ”

"You're saying it reluctantly."

"Shut up."

"I think so...... Actually, I don't know what the boss thinks, anyway, I have mixed feelings when I see him again. I still don't get used to my boss's set. No one in the locker room said something out loud to us, so we didn't feel comfortable......"

"I don't care what you think, I miss it. I'm happy to see him again. Maybe I'll give him a hug too. "It was Pepe who said this.

"Ahem, do you think the boss still has a chance to come back to coach?" Bell asked the question suddenly. The sound disappeared all at once.

Some pretended not to hear, others looked at Bell with very interesting eyes. Bell shrugged: "Okay, just when I didn't ask." ”

While his teammates were whispering, only Wood was not involved, and he kept looking at O'Neal as if he was listening attentively to his tactics.

But in fact, his heart is turning upside down. He was tempted not to listen to the discussions, but that's how the sound got into his ears and brought back memories of that person.

He sent himself home, persuaded him to go to school in the car, and was childish more like a child than himself. The first time he met his mother, it aroused a sense of crisis in his heart, as if he would lose his mother one day in the future. When he didn't have any hope, he opened a window for himself and left a note for him to come to. When he experienced his first failure, he was about to give up, but he grabbed his collar and told him not to give up, not to admit defeat, otherwise he would only be a gangster for the rest of his life......

If someone is going to give George. Wood writes a biography, and I'm afraid that two-thirds of the time is devoted to the name of that person. That man was just his coach, but he had a better place in his heart than his father. Wood hasn't enjoyed a day of fatherly love from Tony. In Donn, he vaguely realized it.

He wasn't quite sure why the man wanted to leave, because that person never let anyone else touch his inner world. Wood was going to stay with the Forest, and he was going to prove that the man was wrong to leave, or that he was guarding something.

Just thinking about it, he didn't listen to what the manager just said. Anyway, his task must be the same - intercept the opponent's attack, erect a midfield barrier, protect his teammates, and if necessary, he can participate in the attack himself.

O'Neal's use of him is no different from Donn's. It's not that O'Neill doesn't have a level, it's just that Don has taken Wood's role almost to the extreme. If it is to change again, it can only make Wood completely abandon defense and focus on offense. But no coach would agree to do that, because Wood's defensive talent is the biggest waste of all, and it's shameful to waste it.

O'Neill looked at Wood, who was listening carefully to him, and felt a little relieved. At the very least, the captain is doing well, and as long as the captain is still on his side, the dressing room will not be too messy.

In fact, the person he was most worried about at first was George. Wood, the outside world knows the relationship between Wood and Donne, and some media describe the two of them as "father and son". He was worried that Donn was gone, and Wood would follow the transfer. In that case, the future of the team will be bleak.

Thankfully, Wood didn't leave and signed a new contract with the club.

As long as Wood is there and the others go or stay, O'Neill doesn't care.

After talking about tactics, O'Neill was going to say something else.

"In this game, I want to see a win."

After he finished speaking, there was silence below. The players finally set their sights on him.

There is any meaning in these eyes. O'Neill looked at them, "I know it's an inconsequential exhibition game. But I want you to understand one thing – no matter what kind of competition it is, you have to prepare for it with a win. You're a championship team, a team looking for wins. That's it. ”

Everyone looked back again.

They muttered to themselves: How can it be so similar to what the leader said......

(To be continued)