After the game, the Portuguese media gave Tony Don such a title. The English, however, were delighted, they liked the title and accepted it on Donn's behalf.

“…… I'm sure Benfica will remember Tony Towne for a long time to come."

Back in England, the hype about Balle continued, and Donn decided to keep an eye on it, but not too much to interfere with. He believed that Bell himself must have a clear idea of what to do and what not to do if he wanted to succeed. He knew Bale, a young player who liked to play with his brain, who could play with his brain on the pitch and who must know how to deal with the things that came one after another off the pitch......

Not to mention that he also has a good father.

Due to the continuous tough battles, the Forest team physical trainer reminded the Donn players that their physical consumption is extremely high in a short period of time, and injuries are prone to occur in this situation.

Don certainly knows this, too.

So in the 12th round of the English League on November 5, Forest sent a second lineup. All but George Wood, goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar and striker Nicolas Anelka were rotated.

Wes Morgani and Matthew Epson formed a centre-back pairing, with young Gareth Bale at left and Chinese Sun Jihai at right-back, Chris Cummons on the left, Darren Lennon a year older than Gareth Bale on the right, captain Albertini and George Wood at centre-back, and Nicolas Anelka and Bendtner up front.

Among them, Sun Jihai's appearance in Haiti made the Chinese media very excited. The day before the game, Tang released the team list in advance, and the Chinese media flocked to it.

Although this is an away game for the Forest team, there are still many yellow-skinned and black-headed Chinese who have arrived.

With the resurgence of the Forest team in the Champions League, it has also attracted more and more attention from the East, Sun Jihai has not had too many opportunities to play since joining the team, because the team has good results, and there is no need for Don to change the stable lineup. So Sun Jihai can only play as a substitute for Zim Bonda.

This time, Sun Jihai stimulated Chinese fans to pay attention to the Forest team. The popularity of the Forest team in China is rising......

In fact, Don is also very helpless. When he bought Sun Jihai, he said that Sun Jihai was not a substitute, but who would have thought that the team would play so well at the beginning of the season, and he had no reason to change the team's main lineup. So he could only play in the domestic cup and some unimportant leagues. Fortunately, so far, Sun Jihai has not had any conflict with Tang En because of the lack of games, he still trains hard every day, waiting for the opportunity. In addition, he has a good relationship with other teammates, everyone likes this Chinese very much, and the atmosphere of the team is very good. Even Anelka, who is said to be very scary to the outside world, didn't find it difficult to get along with, which may be one of the reasons why he stayed in the forest team with peace of mind.

In this game, the Forest team challenged Birmingham away from home, and the opponent was not strong, and Don sent such a lineup somewhat lightly.

However, if he could have known the result of another league game in advance, he would have regretted it. And I'd rather send all the main forces to win this game.

In the last round of the league, Forest was in the media spotlight because it was a contest between the second and first teams in the league. In this round of the league, the media that followed them went to Manchester, and Nottingham Forest and Birmingham City played against each other, and no one cared about them except for the supporters of the two teams.

Because in Manchester, there's a big battle going on.

Mourinho and Alex Ferguson.

It was a game that was a hundred times more intense than Chelsea and Forest. It's not exciting, but it's intense.

The referee showed seven yellow cards in the game, three for Manchester United and one for Chelsea. Alan Smith, Cristiano Ronaldo, Fletcher, Didier Drogba, Paolo Ferreira, William Garris, Makelele.

Manchester United took the lead in the 31st minute with Fletcher netting. Then the game entered the stage where the players of both sides kept fouling and eating cards.

Martin Taylor, who was in charge of commentating the game, said: "...... It's also a high-profile game. The animosity between Chelsea and Manchester United is clearly more than the land against Forest. The battle between the two sides is still in football. And in this game, the focus of the Chelsea and Manchester United players is on each other's feet......"

“…… So far, there hasn't been a single red card, and the referee has shown mercy! ”

No one would have thought the 1-0 game would have been a good one, except for the backing of both teams, and Manchester United had the last laugh against Chelsea as they defended the dignity of the old powerhouse and former dominant.

Meanwhile, in Birmingham. Forest were dragged into a stalemate by the hosts, who scored a goal but were also conceded by their opponents. The two sides were 1:1 and the match ended in a draw.

Originally, Donn was in a good mood and played away games with an almost full bench lineup. He hasn't lost yet and he's ready to give a good look at the players in the dressing room.

This time. Chris Lak ripped off the earphones in his ears with a gloomy face as he watched another match on the radio – Manchester United vs Chelsea.

'Chelsea lost.' He told Donn.

Hearing this, Tang En was also stunned for a moment, and then turned around and cursed. If there is one word to describe his mood at this moment, it is regret.

Why didn't we win Birmingham away from home! Now we're tied with Chelsea, and we've got a game in hand! I...... Depend on!

Chris Rac watched as he turned his back to him and clenched his fists tightly. Tony? ”

When Don turned back to the ground, he was back to normal: "It's okay, it's just a little regretful."

"We didn't expect ...... either," Chrislak said with a wry smile.

"I have to call and ask the Portuguese how he can lose!"

Hearing Donn's angry words, Chris Rac laughed out loud.

"Forget it, the game is over. It's useless to say anything. When I go back to the dressing room, I still have to praise the players for their performance." Donn cocked up the collar of his coat to fend off the cold wind of the Birmingham night, then walked to the home team's dugout and shook hands with the Birmingham head coach who was waiting there.

The fact that Forest didn't win this game is that they missed a great opportunity to catch up with Chelsea, and what kind of impact it will have in the long run, no one knows.

With Chelsea losing to Manchester United and Forest drawing with Birmingham, the gap has now narrowed to just two. Chelsea have 28 points after 12 league games, while Forest are close behind with 26 points with a game in hand.

The third-place team in the league has not been expected by many people, except for Tony Donn.

After Chelsea and Nottingham Forest, the third-place team is called Wigan Athletic.

The team, who lost to Nottingham Forest in their first league game, then relied on the tenacity and perseverance of the grassroots team to win seven, draw two and lose two in 12 league games – they have played one game less than the Forest side – with 23 points, beating Manchester United with 21 points and Arsenal with 20 points.

The media exclaimed that Wigan Athletic were replicating last season's Nottingham Woodland's "dark horse miracle".

Now that it was Nottingham Forest, the media pulled Donn out again and wanted him to talk about his views on Wigan Athletic. Donn didn't give the media much face, saying, "You go and go over what I said at the press conference after the first round of the season, and do it all over again. I said it two and a half months ago, and I don't want to repeat it now."

He's still reeling from the fact that he didn't win Birmingham away from home.

After the match against Birmingham, the league was suspended to make way for the national team. The Forest team has also had a number of players called up to their respective national teams, and from a certain point of view, the number of players in a team's local national team can also show the strength of this team, although the club's head coach is always unhappy that so many of his men go their separate ways on national team match days.

Wilford's first-team training base suddenly became empty.

Don still came to the training base early in the morning, but he didn't go in.

"The team doesn't train today, Tony." Seeing Don standing in the doorway, old Ian was a little strange.

Don turned his head to look at the old man and laughed. He suddenly felt that this scene was similar to when he first came here.

"I know, Ian. I'll wait here for Evan."

"Mr. President...... Where are you going to participate in any activities? ”

"Well, a commercial promotion." Tang En refers to the agreement between them and the partner company sI, and Tang En, as the image spokesperson of the Fm series of games, must advertise each Fm game of the company for the duration of the contract. Today they are going to participate in the Fm06 event.

"Tony, you're busy right now." Ian laughed.