Chapter Ninety-Five: Are You Ready?

On the last night before the final, Don didn't get a good night's sleep, he had a dream.

Everything in the dream was in a trance, he only knew that there were many people around him, most of those people's faces were blurred, he couldn't hear the voices clearly, there was a lot of noise around, everyone was talking, but he couldn't hear what was being said.

The scene was a bit chaotic, the lights flickered and flickered, and the white light kept coming on and off.

Although he couldn't see the faces of these people clearly, and he couldn't hear their voices clearly, he knew that these people were laughing, looking at him with a grin, and talking with a grin. There were a lot of people around him, and those people were watching him.

In the dream, Don was a little confused, he wanted to open his mouth to ask, but found that he couldn't make any sound when he opened his mouth.

- What's going on? Who are you? Where am I?

These were the questions he wanted to ask.

Before he could figure it out, he found himself flying, and then plunged into darkness, and suddenly felt cold, wet up and down, and there was no dry place.

He was awakened.

When I got up, I found that I was in a cold sweat on my back, no wonder I felt damp and cold.

The central air conditioner in the room made a low buzzing sound, proving that it had been working. Donn grabbed the watch on the bedside table, and it was half past six in the morning. He wanted to lie down and continue to sleep, but when he thought of the sweat on his body, he didn't feel sleepy.

The pajamas on his body were all damp, and it was uncomfortable to lie down, so Don En simply got up and went to take a shower.

He was still thinking about that dream when he took a shower. Originally, he couldn't see it in his dreams, and after waking up, he didn't have a deep impression, he only remembered that there were many people, and it was cold and damp.

In the hot shower, he suddenly hit a spirit.

That scene shouldn't be a losing ball and jumping into the sea in front of a lot of media, right?

This dream is so unlucky! He opened the bathroom door and spat three mouthfuls outside.

Don, who had taken a shower, was dry, but refreshed. I can't sleep at all if I want to.

He simply sat down on the couch by the window and began to read his tactical notes.

This thick notebook records all kinds of tactics, the Forest's team, the opponent's, and the strengths and weaknesses of these tactics, and how to deal with them...... and so on. This was brought to him by Don, and he learned it for his own use.

The latest page now chronicles the tactics used by AC Milan in the league and in this Champions League. Even though he could already recite it backwards, Don still took it out and looked at it. Kill time.

He didn't look long and put it down again, and the dream made him a little concerned.

Regarding dreams, Don heard the phrase "think about it during the day, dream about it at night" when he was very young. That is to say, dreams are usually image reactions to something that is most important during the day. But he hadn't repeatedly thought about jumping into the sea these days, he had almost forgotten about it, and if it wasn't for a dream, he might not have remembered it.

Later, after he grew up. I also heard that dreams are prophecies of something in the future. Some people often feel that this situation and this scene are familiar when they experience something, perhaps in a dream of one night.

Could it be that this dream is a sign that the final will fail?

Donn put down his notes and looked up at the faintly lit sky outside the window.

He believed in fate, but not in these ethereal dream prophecies.

After figuring out what the dream was all about, Don let go of the matter instead. Dig your head back into the tactical notes.

He had already thought of a solution to this dream.

Because there was no training on the morning of the final, most of the players got up late. Tang En had already finished breakfast when he saw them coming out of the elevator one after another.

Someone yawned when he greeted Don.

"Good morning...... Ahhh

Donn looked in good spirits, and Chris Rac yelled in his loud voice in the dining room, "Haven't you woken up yet?" Take a look. You don't have as much spirit as the manager! It's not okay to go to the finals like this, cheer me up! ”

Don stood next to his assistant and smiled.

After everyone had gone in to eat, Don turned to Chrillak and Don beside him and said, "It looks like they're all relaxed, which is a good thing." ”

"Just don't overdo it. Chris Rac said with a frown.

This is not the first time he has reached the Champions Cup final with the team, but it seems that he is more nervous than his junior brother Tang on the side.

Maybe that defeat last season was too memorable and had an indelible impact on him?

Who knows.

Don laughed, "I think you're a little too nervous, David." Take it easy. Do you have any plans for the morning? ”

I didn't expect Don to ask this question, the two topics jumped too quickly. Chrislak didn't react, he was stunned for a moment before shaking his head: "There's no arrangement." ”

"Do you want the three of us to go out shopping?"

"It's not a woman, what kind of shopping......" Chris Rac vetoed the proposal.

After breakfast, it is free time, and most of the players choose to stay in the hotel, play billiards, table tennis, and use this entertainment to spend time, waiting for lunch and lunch break. After their lunch break, they had a brief dinner. It will depart for the finals venue. Get ready for the decisive battle to come.

In order to calm the nervous Chrislack, Don sat with him in the hotel café. I asked for two cups of coffee and chatted casually while watching the players next to me play billiards.

Tang didn't show up here, and Don didn't know where he went, so he didn't care about Don's private life.

Donn and Chris Lak talked a lot, starting with their time together on the youth team, talking about the Forest's failure to promote and then surpassing success a year later when they were least favored. There are some things that I think are good memories when I talk about them now.

Don has to thank Chrislak for chatting with him at this time, helping him reorganize his memories of the past few years and make him remember some of the things before.

This played a big role in his determination to win this Champions Cup.

For those who have nothing to do, the time before the final is always slow, but for those who want to play early, it can be considered fast......

Finish lunch. The lively cafés and entertainment rooms were quiet again, and there were far fewer reporters wandering in and out of the lobby. It's lunch break and the Nottingham Forest players are all sleeping, and Chris Rak and Don are back in their rooms after making sure everyone is back in their rooms.

In order to play at night, they have to recharge their batteries.

At the same time, the same is true in the AC Milan hotel, where it is the news media that cannot rest at this time. They have to make all the preparations for the night's game. For example, prepare two sets of post-match reporting plans - plan A is to win, and plan B is to lose.

Pierce. Bruce frowned in his room, facing the blank document on his open laptop. It's easy to say that you won, it's nothing more than a compliment, report on everyone in the Forest team, focus on the heroes who won, and arrange on-site interviews. Then, as a Forest fan, he used emotional strokes to describe the feelings after the victory, which Bruce is best at, and it only takes fifteen minutes to write about him after the game.

What to do if you lose?

In fact, it is not impossible to lose the game, such as the much-anticipated Tony. Donn jumps into the sea. But the Nottingham Evening Post, where he works, did not win the print press rights to cover the event. This made the boss of the Corriere della Sera a little dissatisfied - he originally thought that with the long-term cooperation between this newspaper and Donne, the exclusive reporting rights of the print media would not be left to others, but he didn't expect Donn to hand over all this matter to Billy. Wooks to do it, and Wooks chooses business partners naturally not to look at friendship. It's about who pays the most money. In this way, The Sun, which paid the most, became the exclusive reporter.

Corriere della Sera will not be able to report on this sensational event, and if they lose, they will be in a very embarrassing situation - after Donn promised that he would jump into the sea if he loses, the usual and losing reports can no longer attract everyone's attention, and perhaps except for the Nottingham Forest fans, people all over Europe and the world will want to see this young and famous, proud madman coach make a fool of himself.

There's nothing more refreshing than leaving a big talker speechless.

Bruce thought about it for a long time and didn't know how to prepare for Plan B after the loss. He leaned back in his chair and sighed as he looked up at the ceiling.

At this time, most of the other ...... No, it's all the media preparing Plan B with high morale, right?

"Tony the Chicken in the Soup. Don'n", "Please Jump into the Sea", "Lose and Shame", "Jump or Not Jump? It's a problem", "The sea is cold, Don is miserable", "Look at his bad luck! 》……

Titles like this, Bruce uses his brain a little, and a lot of them jump out. Everyone is very interested in the fact that Don is going to make a fool of himself, and falling into the well is perhaps the most common type of human inferiority, right?

He was a staunch Nottingham Forest fan from before he decided to become a sports journalist. He was born in Nottingham. Grew up in Nottingham, in addition to supporting Nottingham Forest. He couldn't figure out which team he was going to be cheering for.

He certainly didn't want to see Forest lose, and if he was a fan, he wouldn't even think about the idea of losing. But who told him to be a journalist now?

It is customary to prepare two sets of plans before the final, and he must abide by them.

After thinking about it for a long time, Bruce still didn't know how to start, and finally he thought of the idea that Donn had told him on the phone.

At the time, it sounded more like Done's angry words, but now...... After Bruce chewed through those words, he suddenly realized that it might be best to be a special one in the overwhelming "Donn Jumping into the Sea".

He typed this line on the document:

Nottingham Forest loses and loses, we have nothing to say!!

After typing, he enlarged the line, and then sent an e-mail to the editor-in-chief.

Fifteen minutes later, he received a call from the editor-in-chief.

", Bruce!" On the phone, the editor-in-chief growls angrily, forcing Bruce to move the phone away from his ear. Still, the voice was clearly audible.

"Is this what you've been thinking about for days? I've left you a whole page, I trust you so much, you're going to give me a whole thing? What is this! How your teacher at journalism school taught you! ”

Bruce simply put the phone directly on the table, as if it were hands-free.

After the editor-in-chief finished venting his anger, he picked it up and said, "Well, I didn't tell you my intentions in detail, it was my mistake." But I'm definitely not perfunctory. It's the best I can come up with after much deliberation. ”

"What's the the best solution? A whole page blank, except for this title! "The editor-in-chief is still on a rampage.

So Bruce's phone became "hands-free" again.

Waiting once again for the editor-in-chief to finish, Bruce continued: "Remember our headline after the Forest reached the final? It was the best phase of land sales. ”

As soon as he said this, there was no sound over there, and it was obvious that the editor-in-chief was also thinking about the connection between this and that matter.

"Sometimes, I think it's not always good to say too much, and when we finish everything, it's not necessarily what the reader wants to see. If...... I mean, if Forest does lose. I don't think there are some things that we don't need to tell our readers, and if someone is nagging in their ears at this time, it will only bore them. So I think it's better to come up with a title like this and say nothing. There are emotions, and they themselves will vent their ...... And. When the time comes, there will be overwhelming criticism and condemnation, and we will not be able to take advantage of it, so it is better to be unconventional and attract more attention......"

After he said that. After waiting for a while, there was laughter over there.

"I remember that young boy who had just come here to work and was full of news reports. I still remember the 'conscientious editor' who deleted all the profanity after getting Donn's article. Hey, I've got Pierce, where have you been from the past? Now you will also talk in front of me to attract attention? ”

Bruce blushed when he said this, of course, none of this was his intention, but if he wanted to survive in this world, he would definitely do a lot of things that he didn't want.

"But you're not a bad idea. I used it! If it didn't work. I won't spare you! ”

Bruce countered: "Do you want Forest to lose? ”

"Ah...... This one...... Well, we're all praying that damn whimsy of yours never appears on the side of tomorrow's trumpet. ”

After hanging up the phone, Bruce breathed a sigh of relief, and felt a sense of ease in getting the job done. He also hoped that such a brilliant idea would never become a reality, whether it was a wound that would not appear tomorrow.

But if you do lose, it's no wonder that the title is vicious in terms of content and form.

If you do lose, even I won't forgive you, Tony......

I had very little dinner in the afternoon. The players were rushed to the car. They will depart for the pitch for a pre-match warm-up. At this time. It's already in the game.

In the car, everyone's expressions gradually became serious, and everyone knew that the time for the final had come. Not many people are still in the mood to joke.

The moment of relaxation ends here.

The team's hotel, located close to the stadium and with traffic control on the roads between them, made it to the Olympic Stadium in Athens, the venue for the final, on time without any obstacles.

Countless fans from both sides have gathered here, and while they wait to enter the stadium, they give a round of applause and cheers to the approaching team bus – of course, the AC Milan fans give the Forest bus boos and middle fingers.

"It's hilarious. Don saw the following scene in the car and commented casually. "Big scene......" He thought of the huge advertisement that Yao Ming had set up in the city of Houston before joining the Houston Rockets.

Let's make a big splash together!

This advertising slogan is really flavorful to read at this time, and it makes people's blood boil.

Big scene, hey!

He saw the crowds outside, but he didn't feel nervous at all. When it comes to Chris Lack's performance this morning, even Donn can't say why he can be so calm and why he can still smile and joke with people in the face of such an important game of his life.

Maybe it's all fate, he was born to be born for this kind of big scene.

He likes to be noticed, he likes to be in the limelight, the more people the better, and the bigger the storm, the better.

To put it bluntly, he went crazy alone.

As the car was about to pull into the dedicated parking lot, Donn stood up, turned to look at the players sitting in the back, everyone knew he had something to say again, they took off their headphones, stopped chatting with people, looked away from the phone screen, and looked at their manager.

Pleased with the players' reactions, Donn tilted his head and smiled and said, "See what's going on outside?" ”

Everyone nodded.

"It's a big scene, are you ready?"