Volume 5 Red Chapter 36 Mobile Phones
Nottingham Forest have left Istanbul and the media battle between England and Turkey has only just begun. Besiktas' fans partyed all night outside Forest's hotel after the game was revealed by Donn to the English media after the game. These off-the-field gimmicks have always been very popular with the media.
The English media accused the Turkish fans of being unqualified, and that this method of disrupting the rest of the opposition players was too subordinate. Of course, there were also English media critics of Besiktas's poor discipline at home, with debris always thrown from the stands during the game, and no real action by the police to stop this unsportsmanlike spirit.
These are all things that are well documented, as evidenced by the fact that Besiktas fans have been partying all night under the hotel, making noise and disturbing the Forest team, as evidenced by photos provided by the Forest team.
It seems that the Turkish media is only saddled with infamy.
But they quickly found weapons to fight back.
There are photos of the scene that when Tang En walked out of the coach's seat and was about to direct the game, he picked up a red mobile phone from the ground and threw the mobile phone back to the coach's seat, and it is estimated that he directly took possession of it in the end.
Then add to the controversial red card that sent Zagrem off the stands, and the Turkish media blamed Toney. Don is a thief, pun intended, pointing out that not only did Donn steal a mobile phone, but he also stole the victory from the Inonu Stadium that should have belonged to Besiktas.
With the hype of the media, the mobile phone that Don picked up in the game has also become one of the focuses of attention.
After some media enlarged the photos of the scene several times, they found that this was a red Apple iPhone, and the Apple mobile phone took the opportunity to make a free advertisement.
Some media ran to interview Don and asked him if he really "stole" the fashionable phone. Don shook his head and denied: "No, I'm just keeping it temporarily." I've spoken to the owner of the phone on the phone and promised to give it back to her when she comes to England to watch a game. ”
The reporter noticed that Don used "she" instead of "he", and he asked very gossipy: "A beauty?" ”
Tang En was stunned by the question, and then looked at the other party with the eyes of the alien: "Mr. Reporter, you can know what the other party looks like just by the voice on the phone, but I can't." ”
The reporter also reacted that he was too idiotic to ask. But Don didn't say that it didn't matter if she was beautiful or not, and he keenly sensed that this was a gimmick that could be fried.
When it comes to the story behind this phone, it's really a bit more interesting than a football game.
On the night of the match, Nottingham Forest did not spend the night in a hotel, but instead chose to take a flight back to the UK for the night. Because Don turned off his mobile phone on the pitch, and then went to the plane and didn't let him turn on his mobile phone, until he arrived in London by plane, he remembered to turn it on.
As a result, as soon as I turned on the phone, I received a phone call.
Don hesitated to answer the call, it was not his mobile phone after all, and he patronized the celebration of victory after the game, and forgot about it, but he didn't expect to take it directly to England.
When Don hesitated, the phone rang and disappeared, and it seemed that the other party was impatient to wait and hung up. But before Don could breathe a sigh of relief, the deadly bell rang again.
This time, a somewhat annoyed Don picked up the phone: "Hey......"
"Give me back my phone!" There was a female voice over there, and a little broken English.
Tang En was rushed by these words, but he was happy: "Shouldn't you be polite and use honorifics when you ask for something?" This lady. ”
"Have you ever seen someone use honorifics at a thief, sir!" The female voice pushed back without showing weakness. Although he is not fluent in English, he is very clear about his feelings - anger.
"Hey, dear lady, if this is your phone, then you threw it to me yourself, how can you say that I stole it?"
"I'm ......," the female voice was speechless for a while.
This was indeed thrown down by her own hands, and she wanted to smash Donne, but she didn't expect it to be a little off. And what she didn't expect at that time was that Don would lean over and pick up the phone and throw it back to the coach's seat and keep it for herself!
At that time, she threw her mobile phone because she was carried away by the atmosphere of the scene, and wanted to give the opponent's coach a little color to take a look at and warn him. The people next to her threw coins, lighters, she didn't smoke, naturally she didn't have a lighter, and she never had a coin with her, and the only thing she could throw out was this Apple mobile phone that she had just bought not long ago, so she was excited for a while......
After the game, when she calmed down, she regretted her actions very much. She doesn't feel distressed about throwing other things, this mobile phone was bought with great difficulty, and the iPhone has not officially landed in Turkey at this time...... If you want to buy it and try it, you naturally have to put in several times the effort.
She thought of calling her phone, negotiating, and getting it back. Unexpectedly, the phone was turned off countless times, and the more she dialed, the more angry she became, and when Tang En finally picked up the call, she naturally wouldn't talk to the other party.
"Even if I still came down myself, I don't want to throw it away! It's just that...... Just because of the excitement...... So, if you take it without my permission, you steal! The female voice paused for a moment, and finally came up with a statement.
Don smiled even more. Because he found that the person on the other end of the phone had no combat effectiveness at all, and if he seriously lost, it would be himself. So he said in a mocking tone, "Hey, this lady, you were trying to hit me on the head with this." You know what happens when you get hit on the head with such a big thing, right? ”
There was silence again. This time the silence was a bit long, and it was so long that Don thought that the phone signal was malfunctioning.
"Well...... "I apologize to you for my impulsiveness and recklessness, Mr. Donne...... Now you can give me back your phone! ”
"Ah, though your apology isn't very sincere...... But it doesn't matter, I can accept it. It's just, this lady, I don't think I can give you my phone back right now. Don said with a grin.
"Why? I've apologized, what else are you going to do! The low voice of apology just now was driven away by this scream.
Don held his phone away from his ears, and the boos and roars of the 20,000 crazy Turkish fans at the Inonu Stadium didn't deaf his ears, but this time it was really fatal.
"Hmm...... Because I'm in England, this lady. ”
As soon as he spoke, there was silence for the third time. After a while, the woman said, "You can send it to me by courier." ”
Don shook his head like a rattle: "No. Your apology just now is so insincere, I can return your phone, but I don't want to be tricked. I'm a man who likes to be sincere, and your apology isn't sincere enough. ”
"You just said an acceptable ......," the woman protested.
"I've changed my mind again." Don looked a scoundrel. "I need an apology that is sincere enough to consider giving the phone back to you."
Seeing that there was no silence over there, Donn said, "Well, isn't there still an away game for Besiktas?" On November 6th, since you are a fan of Besiktas, you will come to watch the game away, right? ”
Don said this and waited for a while, but there was still no sound on the other side, which really made people wonder if there was no one on the other end of the phone for a long time.
"You come to Nottingham, call this phone, we meet before the game, you apologize in person, I'll give you the phone. I promise there won't be any media then, what do you think of the idea? As for why he didn't choose after the game, Don was afraid that after Besiktas lost, there would be any variables, and it was not appropriate for the two to meet. Just put it before the game, and then even if Forest won by eight goals against Besiktas, he would only have to cheer and celebrate his team's victory, regardless of whether he would be embarrassed to meet a Besiktas fan.
"Good...... bar. Finally, the voice came from the other end of the line, albeit reluctantly. I'm definitely going to cheer on the team anyway...... But I want you to keep your promise, Mr. Donn. ”
Tang En nodded: "Men are all talking, and those who don't talk are not men." ”
This woman was so weak that Don couldn't even raise the interest in continuing to fight with her. If you change someone, as long as you bite the bullet and ask Don En to go to Turkey by express, Don has no problem, if he doesn't pay it back, he will really illegally occupy other people's property.
After solving the problem of the mobile phone, Don En didn't put this matter at ease, anyway, when she called, she would go to see her and return the phone by the way. There were still two weeks before the start of the second round of the Champions Cup group stage, and Tang En was afraid that the phone would run out of power in the middle, so he turned off the phone and threw it at home.
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Due to the unexpected appearance of the little thing called the mobile phone, everyone's attention to the game of the Forest team shifted from the game itself to the gossip off the field. Few people cared about the outcome of the game – except for the Forest fans themselves.
Only the Nottingham Evening Post was published by Pierce. Bruce slashed and wrote a review praising Donn's side for navigating a winless streak and fighting with their players, responding to all the boring people who had been waiting to see Forest's jokes with an away victory. Considering the frenzy of the opponent's home atmosphere, it is not easy to get these three points. It also proves the strength of the Forest team from another side.
As a result, Donn's team did not give Bruce face and lost again in the league.
Returning to England, the Forest team has rotated all their players in the league, and the continuous competition has made many people feel tired and their form is not very stable. In the end, in this strong conversation, the Forest team lost 0:1 away to Liverpool. The Liverpudlians have finally breathed a bad breath in their hearts. Don was also a little upset, but he couldn't help it. The team has been fighting continuously, the opponents are all strong teams, there is no respite, and he must sacrifice the immediate interests with rotation to ensure the long-term interests in the future. This result was something he had been mentally prepared for before he went to Liverpool.
However, the media in England did not fall into the trap of defeat in this game, ridiculing and attacking their hated Tony. Dawn. It's not that they've suddenly become benevolent, but there's something far bigger than Donne's bad luck at hand – at a time when most of England's mainstream media was hyping up the stuff about England's European Championship qualifiers.
English football was very lively during this time, except for the "scandal" of Nottingham Forest breaking out of the players fighting. In the European Championship qualifiers on October 17, England lost 1:2 away to Russia, McLaren's team has been forced to a dead end, whether they can finally qualify, the fate is no longer in their own hands, but depends on the face of others. Before this game, Ashley also broke out. The "scandal" of Yang chatting naked with people on the Internet, coupled with the background of the away loss, caused an uproar in public opinion. When his team was facing a life-and-death battle, the players in the team chatted with women naked on the Internet before the game...... This is unacceptable.
Good thing Ashley. Young is no longer in the Forest team, otherwise it would be overcrowded outside the Wilford training base again......
However, compared with the fights and naked chats of teammates, the dilemma that the England team is facing the dilemma of not being able to get out of the line is the real biggest scandal.
McLaren has been under tremendous pressure during this time, perhaps Ashley. Young, an uncompetitive boy, can share a little of the anger of the English, but in the end, it is because of his incompetence as a manager.
In the first half of the year, when the team was in crisis, he finally remembered Beckham, who had performed well at Real Madrid, and recalled him to the team. Beckham was abandoned by McClaren again after helping England through the storm with three assists in two games.
In the match with Russia, McLaren called Beckham into the team and went with him to Moscow. However, he was not given enough time to come on in the final eight minutes, when England were already behind and the team was in disarray, and a Beckham went up to no avail. Beckham is not a god either, and can only watch the team lose this battle of life and death. The next time he returned to the club, he was injured in training and could only be reduced to a guest in several consecutive games.
This made Don angry. His point of view was that I have no problem with you using my players to play for my country, because my players also want to play for my country. But you took my guy to Moscow, thousands of miles away, and gave him only eight minutes to save the whole team, and my players flew back and forth for more than ten hours to go back and forth to two places for those eight minutes, and they were tired from the journey, and they got injured when they came back from training, which was obviously caused by fatigue. In such a situation, who should I talk to? If you don't trust my people and don't want to use them, then you just don't bring them, and you can also let Beckham rest and rest, you took them for a few days and tossed them around, and only let him play for eight minutes, what do you think of my players?
Donn blasted McLaren in the media at the time, but McLaren wisely chose to remain silent, he had just lost a crucial game, and it was inappropriate to say anything at this time, and he had to let time deal with everything. said to the public that he was concentrating on preparing for the last real life-and-death battle, and did not want to be disturbed by the media.
Donn said: "Prepare for the fart, the FA is not as important as starting to prepare for the selection of a successor.
In fact, don't look at Donn's fierce rhetoric in the media, and the emotional bombardment that McLaren buried England, in fact, he secretly rejoiced in his heart. Because McLaren's clumsy performance proved that his previous tireless crusade was correct, prescient, and definitely not as simple as a simple personal vendetta. This time, there will be no people who say that Don is too annoying, chasing after a person and biting fiercely. Because the whole country is going on with a verbal and written attack on McLaren.
As for whether England was really buried, Don was not interested. He doesn't have any affection for the country at all, and his feelings for football in this country are not much better. England will be buried if they are buried, anyway, if McClaren is allowed to lead the team, the shit will be transported to the finals, and it will only be a loss to a bigger person.
Donn can be indifferent to the fate of the England team, but the English players in his squad are bound to suffer.
George. Wood was also brought to Moscow, but he was even more pitiful than David Beckham, the midfielder, who was always taciturn and unlikable in the national team, did not get even a second of playing time. Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard crowded the middle of England's midfield, with no George at all. Wood's chance to play.
George. The reason Wood has no chance in the England team is widely regarded as being less comprehensive than Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard, and Wood, who knows nothing but defending, is not as competitive as a two-man team.
Done dismissed that view, but he is not the England manager now and can do nothing but scold McClaren in the media.
If England really can't even qualify in the end, Done will only regret that David Beckham will not be able to play in the last international tournament of his career, and George. Wood couldn't be known to more people in the world.
The national team has little to do with him, and scolding McClaren in the media can only be a pastime in the end, and the results of the club team are his lifeblood. If England don't qualify, the English players in his squad can easily enjoy a holiday next summer.
Two consecutive league defeats, and the ensuing "devil's schedule", are the things that make Don really need to have a headache and a lot of effort.
(To be continued)