champion godfather

Chapter 46 The Good Mr. Koppel
The next day, Tang En led the team to the away game.

There are 36 rounds of the League One. Because of the loss in the last game, the Forest team is now in seventh place, but they are only four points away from the third place. The situation has not yet reached the end of the mountain.The scolding from the media was still in his ears, and Twain turned a deaf ear to it. But contrary to himself, he would even read to the players after training the comments about the Forest team in the newspaper published that day. Of course, he only picked the bad ones.

Walker didn't understand, and Twain told him that he knew it before the game.

Brighton is their opponent for this game, and before that the team ranked fourth from the bottom of the league, just one point away from the relegation zone.They desperately need a win.

Maybe others will think that for the Forest team, this is a tough battle, away from the team that needs to be relegated, even those rich teams cannot say they will win.But Twain thinks his team can do it.

If you think that Tang En spends all his time on a woman these days, you are very wrong.He has carefully studied the results of Brighton's previous eleven rounds, three draws, four losses and four wins, and the results of these three games are separated, and it is rare to win several consecutive games, which shows that this team is very good. unstable.They won at home in the last round of the league, but this does not mean that this team has a high home winning percentage. So far this season, they have only won five games and scored 23 goals in 28 home games. [-] goals conceded.

No matter from any point, Tang En did not believe that his team should lose to such a team.But he learned how to behave. He described Brighton as terrible, saying that the away game was difficult, and the Forest team would face a strong challenge from Brighton, so he had to be more cautious.In an interview, he said that Brighton can definitely get a satisfactory ranking at the end of the season, and also said that he was a fan of Steve `Coppell when he was a child. There must be a bright future under the leadership of...

Actually?Dunn had never seen this man play a game at all, and he didn't even know that there was such a number one figure in the history of Manchester United - he was not a die-hard Manchester United fan.As for whether the previous Tony Twain had ever seen this person play football, it was not clear.Former England and Manchester United star Steve Koppel retired due to injury at the age of 1983 in 28, during one of the darkest years in United's history, when United were still playing The Second Division is struggling.The winger scored 390 goals in six appearances for United and seven goals in 72 appearances for England.At his finest, he was United's and England's only option on the right.

As for the achievements of the head coach, the most glorious moment of this man was to lead Crystal Palace to the FA Cup final in the 1990/89 season in 90, but they lost to their former club Manchester United in the end. The third place in the English First Division (the highest level in England at the time), this is also the best result in the history of Crystal Palace.

Although Manchester United can be regarded as the most successful team in England's history after the "Red Army" Liverpool, the results of the excellent players from this excellent team going out to coach are often terrible.Manchester United has a tradition of producing great players, but not the soil for producing great managers... It's really strange, they have the greatest manager in English football in the last 20 years, Sir Alex Ferguson, but the coach's disciples Not very competitive, even his assistant did not perform very well when coaching the team alone.In 1998, Kidd, who had assisted Sir Alex Ferguson for seven years, tried to coach the team independently for the first time, but after 44 games, he was dismissed by Black. The senior management was dismissed.The most recent is the Portuguese Queiroz. The experience of coaching Real Madrid may be a season that he and Real Madrid fans will never want to recall. The first five-game losing streak in the century-old history of Real Madrid was born in the hands of this gentleman.

When Twain crossed over, former Manchester United captain Roy Keane was coaching Sunderland, and he was very hopeful of being promoted to the Super League. I don't know if this Irishman can change this embarrassing history.

Tang En's bluff was to make Koppel and his team think that the Forest team was afraid of them, so he has been keeping a low profile since the start of the expedition.As long as the media asked about their plans for this game, Twain would say, "If I can score one point in such a difficult away game, I will be very satisfied."

Then in the hotel room, Tang En took the reports of the local media in Brighton and read them to Walker one by one.

"Brighton is full of confidence and can't lose a single point on the road to relegation!"

"Look at this again - Koppel is not afraid of the best coaches... tsk tsk!"

Walker sat on the sofa and asked Dunn, "What do you think? Even the media in Nottingham thought our match was going to be a bad one."

"This is the situation I like to see the most, Des. I wish the whole world would look down on us...Walker, now you know why I did that after training?" Dunn said "do that" means Read the bad news in the newspaper to the players, and every time the players hear bad things about them from the reporters and the media, they get angry.

Walker nodded with a smile: "You are too bad, Tony."

"If you are a good person in this world, you usually end up with nothing good." The good person card should be given to the opponent's head coach. After defeating him, he shook his hand and said to him: "You are really a good person, Coach Koppel .” In order to strengthen the tone, you can also repeat the word “good guy” until the other party’s eyes are filled with tears.

In Brighton, the Westin Stadium, which can accommodate 7000 people, was packed.The color of Brighton's home jersey was blue and white. Upon first glance, Twain thought he had arrived at Argentina's home court, but there were a lot fewer people, but the fans were no less imposing than the crazy South Americans.

"It's only 7000 people. There's nothing to be afraid of." Amidst the deafening din, Tang En muttered and entered the locker room. The players were already geared up and waiting for him to give an order.

"You have been looked down upon by them, they have devalued you to nothing, and the whole world does not believe that you can win." Tang En shook the newspaper in his hand, "Tell me, guys, what are you going to do?"

Dawson stood up first, and he yelled, "Go beat 'em!" and everyone stood up and yelled like that.

"Very good..." Dunn, Walker, and Bowyer all laughed.

Nine and 10 minutes later, the final whistle of the game finally blew. Pierce Bruce, an intern reporter from the Nottingham Evening Post who followed the team to an away interview, shook his head slightly: "It's another game with a satisfactory result, but the process Thrilling game..."

Brighton fans have a hundred reasons to be dissatisfied with the score of this game, because their team may have a hundred reasons to win this game, but the result is that the visiting Nottingham Forest took three points.

1:0, the Forest team won!David Johnson, the Jamaican, scored a three-pointer for the team with a supplementary shot in the No. 16 minute of the game.

Once he wins, Twain won't have to pretend to be a grandson in front of the media. He will be very proud in the post-match press conference.There were very few answers, and the enunciation was still very vague, so vague that many reporters couldn't hear clearly when they listened carefully.Only a few more words were added in response to Pierce Bruce's question.

Of the two head coaches, one was unwilling to cooperate, and the other was a little frustrated because of the loss, so he didn't talk much.The press conference ended hastily after only 10 minutes. The media were a little dissatisfied, but what can be done?People don't want to say it, and you can't force them to say it...

When saying goodbye, Tang En suddenly went up and grabbed Koppel's hand, and he was finally able to say the words that had been brewing for two days.

"You're a good man, good luck to you, Mr. Koppel. Good man!" He shook his hand vigorously.After saying this, leaving behind the confused Steve Koppel, he turned around and disappeared from everyone's sight.

The Forest team, which won this game, has returned to the promotion team and is sixth in the league. If this term is maintained until the end of the league, they can be guaranteed to qualify for the promotion playoffs.For the rookie coach Tony Twain who took over halfway through the league, this could not have been a better result.So he said after the game that Koppel was a good guy. When he needed victory and three-pointers the most, the coach immediately gave it with both hands. What is it if he is not a good guy?
And the result of this game once again proved that a good kick may not necessarily make an excellent head coach. There is no direct relationship between the level of playing and the level of coaching, at least in Old Trafford , "Famous generals" and "famous marshals" can never be equated.

(End of this chapter)