Everyone seemed to be lost in thought, and Don looked at the empty wine glass before coming back to his senses: "Where did we just go?" ”

"The essence of professional football." Walker prompted.

"Good, the essence of professional football. Victory. Donn took a sip of the half glass of wine that Walker had in front of him, and Burns saw the empty glasses on the table, and simply got up to get the wine for the spirited drunkard.

"Well, you're right, Tony. But why can't beautiful attacking football win and win championships? Walker has a different opinion.

Don nodded: "Okay, let me convince you with the facts. Take the most typical World Cup as an example, we count from far to near, and forget about those that are too old. Since 1970, when the Brazilian national team was so gorgeous and powerful, what team has won the championship? Germany in 1974, were they a good team? When did the Germans look good at playing football, and the attack was over? It was the Dutch team that played well, attacking and defending, creating a whole new genre, the great Michels, the great Cruyff, the great Holland, and the result? They are the runners-up. In 1978, the Netherlands, who still insisted on attacking and defending, were still runners-up, and they lost to the hosts Argentina, can you say that Argentina played more beautifully than the Netherlands? Continue, Italy in 1982, Italy and the Germans, they won the championship with a concrete-like defense and a kid who used to play match-fixing, did they play well? After that World Cup, did everyone say that Italy was the epitome of attacking football? No. 1986…… Uh, it's a weird World Cup. ”

Donn had his reasons for saying that, and Walker would have agreed. Because this World Cup in Mexico has unbearable memories for England, Maradona's hand of God and five people in a row are indelible shame for England. No matter how high Maradona's status is in the eyes of the Chinese or people in other countries, in the eyes of many Englishmen, he is a liar.

“…… That championship was Maradona's alone, not Argentina's. Let's go back in time, the 1990 World Cup, the runner-up Argentina, the champion Germany, penalty kicks, penalty kicks...... That's all I remember. What does it mean? Is the representative of offensive football a penalty kick? Don scoffed. Brazil 1994, the four-time champions, what are they called in their country? 'The ugliest and most conservative national team in the history of Brazilian football', Pereira has never been an attacking manager, Santana is the godfather of samba football. But what was the result of that World Cup? He brought back the World Cup, which had been lost for twenty-four years, for Brazil. No matter how ugly and dreary the final is, he is a champion coach! His status is unassailable, and that says it all, people only recognize champions. Next came 1998, and could France have won the title without Zinedine Zidane? Apparently not. But was Zidane the most elegant and beautiful team in that French team? Ronaldo and the Brazilians won't agree. Moreover, the French team was able to enter the final, and it had nothing to do with Zidane. The next year in 2002...... "Don saw Walker's face excited, his mouth slightly open, and he stopped talking. "What do you want to say?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to remind you that Brazil won the championship in the end, 3R, offensive football!" Walker has finally found strong evidence to refute Donn's "fallacies". "Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Robert; Carlos, Cafu. You look at the names of these people and the football they play. ”

Don smiled, and laughed heartily. Burns walked over with two large glasses of beer and asked Walker strangely, "What's wrong with Tony?" ”

Walker shrugged: "I don't know, I just told him that the winner of the 2002 World Cup was Brazil, who played attacking football. ”

Burns smiled and gave Walker the wine, and placed another glass in front of Donn. "Are you arguing about this?"

Don stopped smiling at the sight of the beer, he sat up and raised his glass, and drank a fifth of the glass in one go. Wiping the foam from his mouth, Donn decided to teach Des a good lesson, and he got to the point.

"You're right, Brazil was very strong that year, and the attacking squad was the second in the world, and no one dared to say that they were the first. The 3R is a great attacking tactic, perfect with the Brazilian wings in peak form. Their reward was the glittering trophy. Ronaldo even broke the six-goal curse, which seems to be even more proof of the popularity of attacking football. ”

Walker nodded, smiling at Don's rebuttal.

"But...... Do you know how Brazil's eighteen goals were scored in that World Cup? ”

This stunned Walker, he didn't care about any of this. At that time, he was patronizing and cheering for the England team.

"I'll tell you, there are seventy per cent of the balls that have not been passed more than five times before they go in the goal. This is a very reasonable number of times, and too much is too cumbersome, and it may delay the fighter. "Seventy percent is what Don Hen Hu said, but it's probably not much. After that World Cup, Donn read a professional football magazine that analyzed the Brazilian team's attacking style in detail, and the article cited this data analyzed by a British football research institute, and he couldn't remember the specific content, but he believed that he was not wrong.

"What does that mean?"

"What does this mean?! Oh, my God...... This is the quintessential example of modern football! An attack of more than five feet is too wordy...... Inefficient and useless. Isn't that fancy football all about more possession, more passing? Brazil showed us that football doesn't have to keep the ball at their feet all the time, and there is no need for more passes. In that World Cup, Brazil did not have the advantage of possession. Brazil's goal in the 1970 World Cup final was a classic, but it didn't apply to all other games, to all other teams. It was a special goal that came in a special situation. "Donn has always been dismissive of Argentina's 2006 World Cup goal of 24 consecutive passes, and no matter how highly the outside world rated the goal, he also insisted on his opinion: passing more to score only shows that the team's offensive efficiency is too low." You kick your foot 50 times in a row, showing off the players' beautiful footwork and excellent running position in the middle, not letting the opponent touch the ball once, and then shooting into the opponent's goal, 1:0. And what about my team? In the period when you have 50 consecutive inverted feet, score a goal every five inverted feet, 10:0. Which do you think is better? ”

Walker was stopped by Donn's question, and he opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer. In fact, the answer is very simple, fools know to choose the latter, but Walker just can't accept Donn's theory, no matter how he listens to it, he can't say what is wrong.

"You think Brazil is offensive and I think so too. But this attacking football is different from our usual offensive football, Scolari's Brazilian team is actually very different from traditional samba football, more European, more modern, more direct, and more deadly. Modern football is all about efficiency, because it is always switching between attack and defense at a high speed, and the tempo is faster. It is inevitable that possession of the ball for long periods of time and inverted feet are not in line with the requirements of modern football. Donn would have liked to give the two examples of why Brazil's Kaka has been called a "modern striker" and Rui; What is the difference between Costa and Riquelme's "ancient typical front midfielder". However, at this time, Kaka was still playing in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Europeans knew almost nothing about him, and it was too abrupt to use him as an example.

'More time on the ball and passing means more mistakes. The tactical tone of modern football is to minimize one's own mistakes and force the opponent to make them. We snatch the opponent's ball through tight defense, and from the moment we start to control the ball, it means that the opponent may also use the same method to grab it back anytime and anywhere, so it is the most economical way to send the ball into the opponent's door after three passes and two downs, and it is also the most realistic and efficient tactic. Moving on to the effects of alcohol, Donn, a "ticket buddy," taught two true pros a lesson in modern football tactics.

"You...... Are you saying that possession is useless? Walker asked, surprised.

Donn followed Walker's words and brought out his "uselessness of ball control" and discernment. 'I think extra possession is really useless. Possession just lasted until we scored. The five-foot pass is very ideal, too much is a waste of time and efficiency, my ideal football is simple, practical, direct and efficient football. This is the football that can bring the most victory. The way to kick from the back to the opposition and then let someone kick back to their back, and then the opponent counter-attacks and scored the ball is very stupid and ridiculous. Donn came up with a post on the internet that featured tactical boards for various national boards, with drawings of the team's passing patterns and routes. Of course, this is an exaggeration, but it is a true reflection of the tactical style of those national teams. Looking at the blackboard is all messy and twisting passing routes, Don laughs the most. And that picture belongs to the Brazilian team that he admires very much.

Later, this team, known as the most powerful team on the planet, was called by Pereira himself as the Brazilian team that "led world football for 30 years", with Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Adrignano, Kaka, known as the strongest in history, stronger than the 3R attack combination "Magic Quartet" The favorites to win the championship, did not even enter the semi-finals, and returned home with a "shameful surname".

Another Argentina, which scored 24 consecutive passing goals in the group stage, has Riquelme, who is known as the only "classical striker" in today's football, and has n successors of "Maradona", but their results are the same as Brazil, stopping in the quarterfinals. The attacking football team suffered a complete defeat at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, with Italy winning the tournament with a more consistent, efficient and defensively better team.

"I have to repeat, maybe the fans will really like to see the 'air relay' that doesn't land 50 times in a row, but I don't like it. I just like to put the ball in the opponent's goal and win the game. Until then I don't care how the goal went in, or how the game was won. As the saying goes: what ends well is good. ”

When Don finished speaking, he began to drink with his head down. He just said that his mouth was dry.

Walker recovered from the shock: "Tony...... I've always felt like you're thinking too extremely, and you've completely thrown the ball in the garbage......"

'No, no, no, I didn't throw it in the garbage, I just thought that if we didn't win, we had to play differently. As we can see from our last two games, too much control of the ball does not bring us wins and goals. The ultimate goal of a football game is to win, and the ultimate goal of an attack is to score goals. Why are people putting the cart before the horse? Blindly emphasizing good possession, beautiful scenes, they think they can score goals in this way? It's ridiculous, the goal has a high chance surname. Eighty per cent possession does not mean eight goals. My football is simple, put aside the clutter and go straight to the result. Dees, I think Forest's training needs to change and we should focus more on how we score goals rather than how we keep the ball. ”

Burns was silent and thoughtful.

'I'm the manager of the Forest team and I have to take responsibility for the results of this team. If it's just a neutral game, I'm sure everybody likes to see the two sides go back and forth, playing attacking football, and I like it too. But what if there is a game for Forest? What would you like to see? Didn't Forest win? As long as you win, everything else is not a problem. ”

As Don was talking, there was a sudden commotion at the door, and a group of fans who came to drink and chat poured in. Don looked back and found that it was Michael's gang who had come in. He said to Walker: "Look, Michael, they're staunch opponents of me, and if you're not sure if what I've just said is correct, we can go and ask them what they think of what I said." ”

After saying that, Don picked up his wine glass and greeted him.

The fat man next to Michael was the first to see Donn, and he cried out, "Hey, has our head coach resigned as a bartender?" This shout immediately focused everyone's eyes on Don.

Donn was thankful to the fat man, because that was exactly what he wanted. But you still have to be mean in your mouth. "I drank this wine myself, fatty."

The fat man pouted, "What do you want to do?" When he said this, the people next to him became vigilant.

"Alright, man, I'm not here to quarrel or fight with you today." Don looked at the group of guarded people and waved his hand. "It's just that I have a question and would like to hear your answer."

"Why are we answering your question?" The fat man pushed back.

"Whatever you don't answer, I asked. As a fan, what kind of games do you prefer to see? ”

The group of people looked at each other, wondering why Don was asking. "Of course it's a good game!" Someone answered.

"What do you mean by a good game?" Not knowing where the voice was coming from, Don just stared at Michael and asked aloud.

"More goals, more beautiful combinations, fancy dribbles!" The voice replied in a loud voice.

Walker shrugged and shook his head at Burns.

"And what if you can't win?" Donn asked aloud.

The voice fell silent.

So Donn turned to the others and asked, "What if you can't win the beautiful and flashy football you like?" Do you guys still like it? You go to the stadium every weekend to cheer on the team, for what? ”

"Because we love football, we support Forest!" The fat man spoke, and his words were echoed by quite a few people.

Don said disdainfully: "Then why do you have to boo the team you support when the team's results were not good some time ago?" ”

"Why can't you boo? Because you guys don't get good grades! The fat man pointed at Don and said, he must have been holding this sentence in his heart for a long time. Again, he has the support of everyone.

Burns looked at the question and answer, and a smile appeared on his face. Apparently those people had fallen into the pit that Don had dug before, but they didn't know it.

"But you said that you supported the team, and you didn't say that the team didn't have a good result. England's fan tradition is loyal! ”

Everyone who asked this sentence was speechless.

"That'...... For glory, for our own glory! "The fat man finally came up with a reason.

"Glory?" Don glared at the fat man and asked, "What a good word." Then I ask you, where does the glory come from? Falling from the sky? ”

The fat man was completely speechless by the question. He wasn't stupid, he knew why Don asked that, he had already fallen into his trap.

"I tell you, where the glory comes from!" Like directing the game in the middle of the court, Donn shouted, "Glory comes from victory!" Rely on the champion! There is no glory for the losing team, and there is no glory for the fans who support it. Only victory, only victory can bring you glory! ”

Walker said to Burns, "Tony drank too much. ”

Burns nodded in agreement.

Don En did drink high, he had a lot of words today, and he also wanted to say these words so that more people could listen to them. In the past, when he drank in a Chengdu bar, he would be ridiculed by those people no matter what he said, and then he would naturally be a chaotic brawl when he drank high......

Now that he's standing here, he hopes that what he's saying will be recognized.

"You love the Forest, I have no doubt. But I also know that no one will love unconditionally a team that will only lose, lose and lose again! I hate defeat and I want my team to be a winner after every game! Only then will there be fucking glory! Glory is not something that comes every day, it takes the team to exchange it for victory! ”

After yelling, Don took a breath, and then he asked, "Now tell me, what kind of games do you guys like?" ”

Michael, the lead, finally spoke, "What the fuck are you talking nonsense, Mr. Donne?" Of course we love to win, we love the team to go back to the Premier League after this season, we like to be the damn league champion next season, we are the king of Europe next season! ”

Don looked at the former "enemy" and smiled, "It seems that our heroes see the same thing, Michael." Then he opened his arms and shouted to the crowd, "That's right! Victory, Champion! I love this kind of football and as long as I lead the team, I ask the team to play this kind of football. All for the victory, all for the championship! A team that can't win is a bad team, and a manager who can't lead a team to win is simply ...... Fucking sucks! ”

"That's right!" Someone jumped onto the table with a wine glass in hand, raised his arms high above and shouted, "I fucking love wins and championships, too!" His words were met with an enthusiastic response from all.

Don struck while the iron was hot and raised his glass. "I've got everyone's wine tonight. Cheers to victory! ”

"For victory!"

"Oh oh! For victory! ”

"For - fuck - victory - !!"

"Dry-to-!!"

The bar seemed to be the scene of a howling party, and everyone held their glasses high, and the wine in the glasses reflected the excited hysterical faces.

Seeing Donn's back with his arms outstretched as if he was going to hug the whole bar in, Walker shook his head lightly: "Ian told me that Tony is a master at stirring up the atmosphere in the locker room. But I don't think he's right, Tony is a master of setting the mood whenever and wherever he is. ”

"Agreed." Burns raised his glass and touched Walker, "I love that slogan." Cheers to victory. ”

"Cheers!"

The drunkards are still howling "victory" and partying with alcohol. Don turned and walked back.

Walker raised his hand in surrender first: "I'm convinced, Tony." I support your tactics and build a team to win as you want it to be. ”

Donn smiled and turned to look at Burns.

"Tony. Well, you know ...... I'm a staunch Forest fan. A loyal Forest fan wouldn't want to see his team lose, right? ”

"I know your answer. Kenny, Des, thank you. ”

"Don't rejoice too soon, Tony. If your team is still losing in a row and slumping, I'm sure everyone in the room won't mind throwing you out on the street. Kenny laughed.

"Hehe, I'm not going to give you that chance."

Burns punched Donn in the chest, "Good job, Tony." ”

There are no other superfluous words, Don feels an old player, and the expectations of old fans are heavy.

'I will, I hope next season we can be in the Super League. When the time comes, I'll invite all of you to drink. ”

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