champion godfather

Chapter 54 Hodge's Glory

British football hooligans, even those who have never watched football matches, will know a thing or two. Together with the fog in London and the blooming British pubs, they have become a symbol of this country.Tang En's understanding of football hooligans is not much more than that of ordinary people.When in China, it is almost impossible to meet a real football hooligan - someone who thinks football hooligans are cool, swears, shakes their fists and then yells "I want his leg" during the game Obviously not football hooligans.

What should a real football hooligan look like?

Tang En was not in the mood to think about such boring questions.After a decent night at Burns' bar, he woke up the next morning with the same problem: five rounds to go before the end of the league, and he had to find a way to improve his team's ranking , so that he can choose a weaker opponent in the playoffs.

He circled the dates of the five matchdays with a red pen on the wall calendar to remind himself that these are five final matches.

He is sure that he is as ready as the team to win the remaining four games and then fully prepare for the promotion play-offs.After three play-off games, they will become a newly promoted team to participate in the Super League next season.Then he will use his vacation to go back to China, visit his parents secretly, and learn how the life of that "Twain" in China is doing now.

This is Tang En's entire plan for the future.

Tang En's plan got off to a bad start.In a 32-round make-up match of the league on April 0, the Forest team lost away to the third-ranked Sheffield United. Although they only lost one goal-1:[-], a loss is a loss. Oh, three points missing, and the forest team lost a good chance to catch up with the Wolves, because before they played one game less than the Wolves, they were only two points behind...

Even though the game was going on, Tang En was furious at the score on the sidelines.But in the locker room after the game he accepted defeat - so what?Lost all lost - away against a third-ranked team, losing just one goal is already a very good result.Twain convinced himself from another angle: In case his team only finished sixth at the end of the season, it was inevitable that they would have to play against Sheffield United again, and this match would be considered as accumulation for the next two games. Experience, examine opponents.

But the players will not have a holiday to enjoy.In the locker room, Tang En announced that the day off after the game would be cancelled. After returning to Nottingham, the whole team started training to prepare for the next round away game against Reading, which is the fourth-ranked team.

Despite the loss, Twain's team still won the support of the fans when they returned to Nottingham.

On the second day's training ground, many fans gathered around. In addition to those groups of old faces, Twain also saw such a group of people: they sang the Forest team's team song and encouraged the players to train.The sound was loud and attracted Tang En's attention.What made Tang En quite amusing was that these fans spontaneously divided into two distinct groups.

The party with the largest number is obviously a group. They know each other and have a unified leader.Tang En found the leader from the crowd without any difficulty.

He wore a red jumper and a Forest team scarf around his neck to prove his identity.The people around him wore clothes of different colors and styles, but these people had one thing in common—there must be a red scarf from the Forest team around their necks.

Originally, the sky was not beautiful today, and it was drizzling. Tang En thought that there would be fewer fans watching the team's training from the sidelines of the training field than usual, but he never expected that there would be such a group of fanatical supporters.This group of fanatics quickly attracted the security guards at the forest team's Wilford training base. They rushed to surround these people and watched them vigilantly.

After coaching the Forest team for nearly half a season, it was the first time Twain saw such a scene.

Now any fool can guess who these people gathered outside the training base to cheer for the team loudly.

Seeing this group of people standing in the rain singing and cheering for the team, Dunn couldn't connect them with the football hooligans who were fighting.

They look like any normal football fan.

It's hard to imagine that such a group of people could be the notorious "football hooligans", is there something wrong?
They worked hard to cheer for the team on the sidelines, but the players didn't seem to appreciate it. Some people looked at them with eyes full of obvious disgust.Even Mr. Good Mr. Walker regards them as air.

At the end of the training, the players intentionally left from the side away from the barbed wire. No one went up to meet the fans' autograph request. Those poor fans looked very disappointed when they saw that the players had no intention of coming over.No one of Hodge's men intends to sign anything, they seem to just support the team.

The team's reaction was beyond Tang En's expectations. It seemed that he was the only one who didn't know how powerful these guys were.

Glancing at the group of people who were singing farewell to the team outside the training ground, he followed the players and turned around to leave.

Although he has been in this country for almost half a year, he found that he still doesn't know much about many things here.It didn't feel right.

(End of this chapter)