The match against Argentina is considered the most important warm-up game before the European Championships, as it is the strongest of the many warm-up opponents. In the end, England won 2-0 at their home stadium against Argentina, Toney. Done's side are still undefeated.

After the game, many English media touted the results achieved by Donne's team. Many English fans cheered, how many years have passed, England has finally produced an excellent manager, and now they don't have to envy Scotland anymore.

Seeing such a report, Don wanted to laugh in his heart, he himself was a real Chinese. At the end of the day, the Englishman still has to hold his head up in front of the Scots when it comes to coaching.

After the match against Argentina, Donn continued to prepare for the European Championships, and he and his assistants were gathering information on the opponents in the group stage of the European Championship, as well as the potential opponents. It's been a bit slow, and his coaching staff isn't as good as they were at Forest, not that they're not up to par, it's that they're not used to doing that.

In addition, information on national teams is not as easy to collect as for clubs, especially those from Eastern Europe. After the expansion of the European Championship, there are eight more teams, and there are many more national teams that have not often appeared in the top competitions of European football in the past, and they are very mysterious to island teams like England. However, the appearance of such a team in the European Championship finals also increases the possibility of an upset and makes the game more suspenseful.

'You can't ignore them because they don't know how they are, we have to know what tactics and styles they're good at, what they've done, who are the players in the squad who are dangerous...... I can't feel at ease if I don't figure this out. Donn explained to the coaching staff why he values intelligence research for the underdogs. You can't guarantee that they won't come out of their group and show up in front of us. If we don't know anything about them, then we will be the ones who will be unlucky. I don't want that to happen. ”

For all fans, the opening of a major event like the European Championship is always something they look forward to. It was with excitement that they began to plan how they would manage their time during the European Championship so that they would not miss every exciting game and talk to their friends about which stars would make it to the top and which would make it to the next level. In the trepidation, the team they support will lift the championship trophy, defeat all the strong opponents, and trample their corpses under their feet.

They buy crates of beer, coffee, and snacks in advance and keep them at home. Concentrate the annual leave you have saved during this period and settle your wife, girlfriend and children. For the next month, just let football accompany you.

What a blessing it is to be a fan......

As a head coach, there is no such romantic feeling at all. They do need to settle their wives, children or girlfriends, and they can only let football accompany them. Because when they are busy in the dark, home is just a symbol for them.

Shania returned home to England to spend time with her husband, but Donn didn't have much time to go home, and more often than not, he spent time with his coaches and studied opponents with them. At the same time, keep a close eye on the status of the internationals, and if someone is injured, someone will call the club to ask about the player's injury to decide if a substitute is needed. Just after the match with Argentina, Donn also called several big international clubs, hoping that they could fully consider the importance of the European Championship to England, put the country first, and minimize the time for England internationals in the team to play, on the one hand, to avoid the possibility of their injuries, on the other hand, Donn does not want to end up with a group of exhausted internationals.

As head coach, Donn needs to be in public a lot and be watched by the media wherever he goes, as if he had seen a talking gorilla.

He also had to answer idiotic questions often. For example, will so-and-so be called up to the national team? Is there a contradiction between so-and-so and so-and-so? The chairman of the so-and-so club is very dissatisfied with the fact that the national team has not called up so-and-so, what do you think? Mr. XX thinks that his team has played too many games this season, his players are injured in the national team but the club is responsible for paying for treatment, and the national team does not pay the club salaries, why, what do you think of this statement? This is the strongest national team in history, do you have the confidence to win the championship?

During this time, Don was in a bad mood and had a bad temper. Almost every time I meet a reporter, I can't help but have a fight of words. The media are happy to publish such news, and it seems that disturbing Donn has become a common means of attracting attention in the media throughout England. Shawn, CEO of the English FA. Barclays has had some migraines lately, all of which have been tossed up by Donn and the media.

You bastards, can't you stop!

In the depths of Mr. Barclay's heart, he groaned feebly.

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April 16 is the 34th round of the English Premier League, Nottingham Forest away to Newcastle, who are fighting for relegation. The fate of the two teams is at stake next season, with Forest needing to qualify for the Champions League in order to make more money, while they are currently sixth, six points clear of fourth-placed Liverpool, and will need to fight for points in the next five rounds to avoid a UEFA Cup trip. Newcastle, on the other hand, need to stay in the Premier League to avoid relegation, and now they are on the edge of the relegation zone and could fall at any moment.

It's a life-or-death game. So from the very beginning, it entered a fierce competition, the two sides were in constant physical contact, their movements were rough, and their mouths were not unclean.

George as the heart of the team. Naturally, Wood became the target of his opponent's attention. Forest, both offensively and defensively, needs Wood to control the tempo, who is the team's "metronome".

Now he can't just get the ball and pass it out like he used to and give the attack to his partner. He now needs to keep the ball and then look at the situation on the pitch and decide how to attack. In this way, the football stays at his feet for a long time, and the opponents will have a chance to take advantage of it.

Wood was brought down six times in the first half, and no matter how strong his body was, he couldn't stop the opponent's defensive movements like cutting down trees...... The red jerseys all changed colour and Chris Rac was yelling at the sidelines as soon as Newcastle fouled Wood and barked at the fourth official. It's like Tony. Donn possessed.

But that kind of rant didn't help, because his men were doing the same with the Newcastle players.

The fourth official knows very well what this game means for both teams, and he can't interfere with these actions, as long as nothing happens, he will turn a blind eye.

The scene in the second half still did not improve, and even became more and more vindictive. Players on both sides did not put the goal first, but were preoccupied with who would bring down the opposing team.

Wood was annoyed that the opponent's incessant fouls kept him from playing the whole game, and he focused all his energy on dealing with those foulers.

However, he has not hit anyone so far, which is a big improvement. His temper finally became less fiery when he was thirty years old......

Seventy-third minute, George. Wood was tackled to the ground once, and this time he didn't get up as quickly as he did eleven times before, but lay on the ground and didn't move.

Chris Rac was still loudly scolding his opponent for his despicable behavior, and the expression on his assistant Eastwood next to him was already out of order.

Wood didn't roll on the ground in pain, nor did he raise his hand feebly to signal to be replaced. He just lay quietly on the ground, as if he were asleep.

His closest teammate was Gargo, who rushed up to see what was going on, only to be taken aback by Wood's expression.

The captain, who was known for his strength, was lying on the ground, his hand pinching the tip of his right foot, his face pale, his brows wrung together, and his face covered with sweat.

But he gritted his teeth and didn't say a word.

"George!" Gago, called him.

Wood didn't answer him.

Gago's knowledge was broken. He hurriedly got up and made stretchers and substitution gestures to the field.

"That's terrible......" Eastwood muttered at the sight of Gago's gesture. Fleming had already run briskly up with the stretcher.

Chrislak stopped spitting at the Fourth Officer, something like that made no sense now. Because Wood is already injured......

Fleming rushed to Wood's side, glanced at it quickly, then removed the shoe from his right foot and began to examine it.

When Chris Rac saw Fleming go up, he quickly turned around and gestured to himself. His heart jumped—George. Wood has never been injured and has never been substituted for injury......

A bad thought crossed his mind.

George. Wood was eventually killed by John. Bostok came off on a stretcher, probably the first time he had received such treatment. Lying on the stretcher, he was a little stunned, and he was injured and carried off the court, such a scene was no stranger to him, but when it happened to him for the first time, he still couldn't accept it.

The media always thought that he was an Iron Warrior, and he himself thought so, but he didn't expect that at the age of thirty, the Iron Warrior would rust......

The TV commentator didn't know what to say in the face of this scene, he was silent for a long time and felt that it was really impossible not to say something before he spoke: "...... George, George. Wood went off injured and it looked like he wouldn't be able to play...... It was an unexpected scene, the George who never got hurt. Wood was injured...... Let's take a look at what just happened......"

Newcastle's Spanish left-back Jose. Enrique rushed up from the flank and tackled Wood. It didn't look like the collision was intense, but after the tackle, Enrique's body twisted naturally, and Wood's right foot just sank between Enrique's legs, and he cut it like that...... The right foot, which was the support foot, was receiving all the energy, and if he wasn't injured, Wood would have been dragged to the lab for an autopsy.

As the patron saint of England, the 'St George', the Newcastle fans also stopped cheering and booing after seeing Wood leave the pitch injured, and Enrique was desperately trying to explain to the referee and the Forest players who rushed up: "I didn't mean it, I really didn't mean it......"

Is it useful to explain these at this point?

The referee pulled out a red card to Enrique!

Chrislak glared at the fourth official: "If you had intervened earlier, this would not have happened!" Now we can only pray that George's injuries are not serious, otherwise ......" both he and the fourth officer thought of Tony at the same time. Donn's angry face.

Chris Rac threw down the fourth officer and turned and ran to the other side, he had to go see how Wood was doing.

Fleming met his inquiring gaze and shook his head, "It's not good, David. ”

"How bad is it?" Chris Lack's heart sank.

"It looks like a broken ......"

Chrislak only heard a "boom" in his head.

At the crucial moment in the fight for a ticket to the Champions Cup, the captain and core suffered a fracture, which meant that the next four rounds could not be played. He could almost already foresee his fate at the end of the season. Evan. Dogetty is not a patient club president.

This season, he was empty-handed and did not win any championships, and the Champions Cup was his last straw.

Looks like he's going to start planning for next season......

He still has one more thought, and that is...... What about the England team?

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Done didn't hear about George until after this round of the league. Wood's injury news came as he and Walker didn't watch the game at Newcastle and went to Manchester.

When the news reached Donn's ears, he didn't believe it, thinking he had misheard, or that Walker was joking: "You're sure it's George." Wood injured? Not just what other George? ”

Walker shook his head: "Which George is still in the England team?" ”

"How did you get hurt?" Donn didn't ask "how the injury was" first, because he thought that even if Wood was injured, it shouldn't be a big problem, at most he would be bleeding, and he was more interested in how he was injured.

"I was tackled by the opposing defender and injured my support foot."

Don tried to recreate the scene in his mind, but it felt awkward to think about it, so he casually asked, "How's the injury?" ”

"Fractured big toe of right foot."

Donn cast a surprised look on Walker's face, as if he had heard the Martians invade Earth.

"It's true, I just spoke to Fleming on the phone." Walker could understand why Don made that expression. At first, he was similar to Donn.

Don looked away, aimlessly elsewhere, never stopping.

“**！” He scolded suddenly. "Fuck! What a fucking bitch! ”

He went crazy and swear words kept coming out of his mouth. Luckily, there was no one else in the room but Walker, otherwise everyone else would have been surprised. However, his old partner Walker was familiar with Donn's temper, and he was not too surprised.

"I made a call to the Premier League coaches and asked them to do less of the tactics against the internationals...... The bastards in Newcastle are turning a deaf ear to my words? Kinnear (Newcastle manager): That old bastard doesn't know George. What does Wood mean to England? Our workhorse core big toe is broken! It's not a fucking cold! ”

Don circled around the hotel room, waving his arms excitedly and shouting insults.

Walker was also not advised to calm down, he knew that Don was under pressure and had a bad temper, so he took this opportunity to let him vent, maybe it would be beneficial.

After scolding all the people who should be scolded, Don slowly calmed down, and he asked, "How long does Fleming say it will be okay?" ”

“…… Trimester. Walker hesitated, fearing that Donn would be scolded again.

Fortunately this time, Don was just stunned when he heard this deadline, but he didn't open his mouth to say "fuck". His gaze went over Walker, and his head was like the blue sky outside the window.

Three months later, the European Championship is long over, and the daylilies are cold......

(To be continued)