champion godfather

Chapter 95 Volume II Nottingham's Sky Beautiful Tackle
As the team that reached the final play-offs last season, Reading has always been regarded by the Nottingham media as the direct opponent of the Forest team's promotion to the Premier League this season.In the first round, Reading was tied away by Ipswich Town. As long as they beat them in the second round, Forest will be able to widen the point gap with Reading.

But... who would have thought that the Forest team would lose so badly?
"0:3! What a rout!" John Mortensen, who was in charge of explaining the game, commented at the end of the game.I believe he is also very clear about what awaits Stan Collymore, a rookie coach, a week after the game—a typhoon warning!
"The Forest Without Fighting Spirit! "

"Fierce Forest! "

"Collymore Can't Do It!" "

"0:3! "

From the post-match press conference, the media pointed to the team's head coach Stan Collymore.The censure that Dunn once faced, now Collymore has also tasted it.

Everything about Collymore in this game has become the target of media accusations: starting lineup, substitute lineup, on-the-spot command, substitution scheduling, midfield adjustment... As for the other players that Collymore bought in the summer He also performed poorly, which is hardly a big sin-because everyone's attention is still on the most expensive Rebrov.

Rebrov couldn't feel it at all when facing the tall England defenders. It made people miss Hale Wood, who continued to explode in the second half of last season. Goal scored.

"Nottingham Evening Post" even issued such a question: Who drove away our top scorer? !

who is it?Of course, the team coach Collymore.

Faced with overwhelming accusations, Collymore quickly shrugged off all responsibility.He believes that the reason why the team was unable to score goals at home for a long time at Reading and faced the opponent's intensive defense was not because of his tactical mistakes, but because the team lacked a powerful center forward with impact and could compete with tall defenders. .Facing the camera of the TV camera, he said with a stern face: "Before the summer transfer window closes, I will ask the club's board of directors to buy a strong center forward! At that time, I will let you see what the real Forest team is." !"

Evan Dougherty responded positively to Collymore's request.On August 30, three days before the third round, he brought a strong center forward to Collymore - Gareth` Taylor.The 1.8-year-old former Burnley center forward is 85 meters tall and weighs 00 kilograms. He is good at heading. In the second half of the 01-32 season, he was loaned to Burnley from Manchester City (Man` City), scored four goals in [-] games, and then joined the team for free.In the next two seasons, he represented the team in [-] games and scored [-] goals.The numbers are pretty even, with [-] games and [-] goals in both seasons.As a striker of a first-tier team, you can't ask for too much, this result is good enough.

Collymore's words gave the Burnley club the qualification to sit on the ground and raise the price. The value of this big man rose all the way from 20 to 55. Finally, Evan Daugherty brought him to the city stadium to meet the media and fans.

At the press conference and fan meeting, Collymore happily patted Taylor on the shoulder and announced to the media: "I am very happy to get Taylor. He is a great player. With him, we can boom." Rotten doors for all teams in the First Division!"

Blast the gates of all teams?

Mrs. Cardy smiled, and they left the City Stadium contented with three points, leaving Collymore with a score of 1:2 and a mess.

The visiting team Cardiff scored two consecutive cities in the opening 10 minutes, completely ignoring Nottingham Forest.The home team didn't get back a point with Reed's free kick until the No.70 minute of the game, but it didn't help.Collymore sent Rebrov and Taylor up front, and the striker combination, which he had high hopes for, failed to score a goal, which made him humiliated.

Facing the media and fans who had already complained, Collymore found a new excuse-"Taylor has only been in the team for only three days, and he hasn't even had time to practice with the team. The cooperation is not tacit It's normal. But I believe that as long as you give me a little more time, I guarantee you will see a strong Nottingham Forest!"

What a great way to say that!
How wonderful it sounds!
Feeling great pressure from the outside world, Forest and Collymore finally won.They beat Coventry 3:1 away.But to Collymore's embarrassment, his trusted Rebrov and Taylor still failed to score. The first two goals of the Forest team were scored by Andy Reed in the 61th and 77st minutes respectively. The third goal was David Johansen, who came off the bench in the 85th minute and scored in the [-]th minute.Nothing to do with Rebrov and Taylor.

After four rounds of the league, the team's top scorer turned out to be Andy Reed, who played in the left midfielder, and he scored three goals.

The 20-year-old Reid gets a salary of 29 pounds a week, while the [-]-year-old Rebrov's salary is as high as [-] pounds a week, the highest in the team.In terms of salary, Reed is less than one-tenth of Rebrov's, but the number of goals is three times that of the Ukrainian. This is really ironic!
Just when Collymore felt that he could breathe a sigh of relief, on the last day of August, in the fifth round of League One, Nottingham Forest played against Norwich at home.His team was forced to 0:0 by the opponent at home.At the beginning of taking office, he promised the media and fans that he would let them see beautiful offensive football. The implication is that his predecessor's football was not beautiful at all. What about now?
His predecessor Tony Twain's Forest team may not be as good as the current Forest team in terms of player quality, but they were able to beat Stoke City 6-0 at home, while Collymore's team was even worse than the current Forest team. Qidu couldn't win, couldn't even score a single goal.

Rebrov could already clearly hear the boos aimed at him from the stands of the city stadium. Taylor's life was also difficult. With a height of 1.8 meters, he couldn't even score a header.

"Goal!goal!goal!We need goals! "The media are shouting, and the fans are also questioning why a striker combination of 200 million pounds and 50 pounds can't even score a goal.

After five rounds of League One in the 03-04 season, Nottingham Forest, which was considered by the media to be the favorite to advance to the Premier League, had two wins, two losses and one draw, with only seven points, ranking No.12 in the league.This start was worse than Paul Hart's start last season.

"Nottingham Evening Post" conducted a small random survey on the streets of Nottingham, and the fans who believed that the Forest team would return to the Premier League at the end of this season had dropped from 70.00% before the season to 30.00%. 60.00% of fans believe that the reason for this bad situation is the incompetence of the team's head coach Stan Collymore, and even [-]% of the interviewees think that if Collymore continues to coach the team, then By the end of this season, it will be impossible for the Forest team to stay in the first division-people will find the name of Nottingham Forest in the list of participating teams in the second division next season.

Before agreeing to be the head coach of the Forest team, Stan Collymore thought that coaching the team was as simple as scoring goals.But now he's devastated.

As for how to improve the team's performance, he has no plan in mind at all. Maybe he can only play the role of Rebrov and Taylor, who he has high hopes for, to explode quickly and score a goal to save the emergency.

During the preparation period before the season, Collymore threw almost all the training at Des Walker, and he ignored it.Even if he doesn't come to the training ground often, he doesn't know where he has gone. Maybe he is lying in the arms of a certain woman, or maybe he is drunk and throws up in front of the bathroom toilet...

Des Walker was also very helpless about this. He reminded Collymore several times to pay attention to how bad the actions of his head coach would have on the players.But let him say "I am the boss here", and push back.

Looking at the team with low morale due to poor performance, he, the assistant coach, felt that his work was boring.Walker suddenly missed Twain who was in the youth team, and he didn't know how he was doing in the north.

If he was here, he would never let things develop to this point.I really can't figure out why Mr. Chairman wants to dismiss Tang En... Hey, Mr. Chairman sitting high on the second floor, open your eyes and see, is Collymore better than Tang En?Can anyone tell me where he is strong?
While Collymore was being blamed for the team's poor performance, Tang En's youth team won three consecutive victories in the fourth group of the youth league, beating Leicester 4:1 at home and 2 away away. :0 victory over Derby County, 1:0 victory over Walshall at home.In addition, the team also defeated the West Bromwich (West Bromwich) youth team in the first round of the FA Youth Cup on August 2, advancing to the second round.On September 1, they will host the Bradford Youth Team at home.

When Twain was in charge of youth team affairs, he discovered his strengths and weaknesses. Just like in the first team, he was still not good at training players. He might be able to say something in general direction, such as suggesting that a certain player should do more A certain aspect of training, but he was unable to give a detailed and specific training plan.Tang En knew in his heart that this might be a defect that accompanied his entire coaching career.But he didn't intend to work hard to improve his ability in this area. Human energy and time are limited. If you are good at one area, you will not be good at another area. It is not right for Twain who is halfway to become a monk to dream of becoming an all-rounder possible.

His ability to train players is lackluster, but his ability to command the team's game and adjust the mentality of the players puts assistant coach David Chris Luck to shame.This person who started under Paul Hart with him lamented that Tang En was a bit overqualified to lead the youth team here.

"Tony, your stadium is not here." After training one day, he pointed to the training ground of Wilford Training Base under his feet and said to Dunn, "Where should your stadium be..." He pointed to the east again, that It is the direction where the city stadium is located.

"David, you are right, my stadium is there. But not now, I have to wait..." Tang An murmured looking at the twilight sky in the east.

(End of this chapter)