Coaching legend

"Mitchell, how are you? How are you recovering?" George looked at Mitchell, feeling very happy.

George had just met Professor Cook from Burnley Hospital. Professor Cook told George that Mitchell's injury was recovering very well. Mitchell is fully able to train with the ball, which makes George very happy.

Facing Blackburn, George will not be careless at all. Derby, derby, derby has always been a place where upsets happen.

Manchester City can defeat Manchester United, Atletico Madrid can defeat the powerful Real Madrid, and Espanyol can defeat Barcelona. These are not uncommon in derbies.

Besides, Blackburn is a Premier League team and Burnley is a League One team. Although from the situation of their respective leagues, Burnley has the advantage. Burnley is currently sweeping all sides in English League One, while Blackburn's performance in the Premier League is unsatisfactory, but Burnley is still at a disadvantage.

Therefore, George was very cautious when facing Blackburn.

At this time, Burnley's old captain Mitchell returned from injury, which was definitely a tranquilizer for Burnley's defense.

Mitchell stepped hard and smiled very happily. "George, look at it. My foot is almost healed and I can make it to the fourth round of the League Cup against Blackburn Rovers."

Mitchell is a native of Burnley and has been hostile to Blackburn since he was a child. The last victory over Blackburn in the Carabao Cup was a lifetime memory for Mitchell. This time he met Blackburn again, and Mitchell was only happy.

After all, Blackburn is in the Premier League and Burnley is in League One, so it is not easy to meet.

"Mitchell, don't worry. You still have half a month to recover."

"Yeah." Mitchell nodded. "In the past, many clubs in England did not have regular team doctors, and those players would become team doctors after they retired. Maybe it was because of long-term illness. You can almost tell the extent of my injuries by looking at myself."

George laughed, but in his heart he was very moved by Mitchell's words.

English clubs have never paid much attention to team doctors. As Mitchell said, many players openly became the club's team doctors after retiring. These team doctors who are not qualified as doctors will cause many players to miss the best moment of treatment.

And some big clubs, although their team doctors are very formal. But those coaches don't care about the opinions of team doctors at all, which will affect the careers of many players.

This kind of thing is known to everyone in English football, but there are still some English club doctors who do not have medical qualifications.

"Mitchell, we are all waiting for you."

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Fortunately, the fourth round of the League Cup will not start until the fifteenth round of the English League One. This means that Burnley will have to play five more league games before playing against Blackburn.

Although George and Burnley fans are very much looking forward to the match against Blackburn, the league is fundamental. The biggest task this season is still to upgrade, so George attaches great importance to these five games.

Continuing the strength of the first ten games, Burnley's performance in these five games is still extremely brave. Burnley has three wins and two draws in five games.

Especially in the fifteenth round of the English League One, Burnley almost let all the main players off the field to rest. Even the main goalkeeper Jaaskelainen sat on the bench and watched the game. In this game, George really showed his shamelessness. After Robbie Keane was left on the forward line, everyone on the court returned to half-court defense.

It fully demonstrates George's saying, "Even if you can't win a football game, don't lose it." Fortunately, in this game, George faced Reading, the weakest offensive team in English League One, and was lucky to keep a draw.

But no one cared about this game, including Burnley fans and the media. People's eyes are focused on the fourth round of the League Cup between Burnley and Blackburn three days later.

In the League Cup two years ago, Burnley and Blackburn had a great battle. Including the war of words before and after the game, many media enjoyed it. At that time, Burnley was just a League Two team. But now Burnley has become the favorite for promotion to the English League One, and George's reputation is much louder than it was then.

Therefore, as soon as the draw came out, many media were already paying attention to this game.

"Blackburn, I like this opponent. And I have also beaten Blackburn. I am familiar with Blackburn." George replied in a very relaxed manner in front of reporters.

George just talked casually and never thought about getting into a war of words with Blackburn. But Blackburn is different, especially Blackburn head coach Roy Hodgson, who is now under greater pressure.

Less than a day after George spoke, Roy Hodgson was also interviewed. Roy Hodgson criticized George unkindly during the interview. "As a young coach, I think he needs to learn a lot. At this stage, what Coach Levy should do is not to show off. Instead, he should learn with an open mind. Coaching is not that easy. Being a coach is not about playing around. Just talk."

Roy Hodgson persuaded George as if he was standing in the air and looking down. But speaking of it, Hodgson really has such qualifications.

Hodgson has achieved outstanding results in Sweden and Switzerland. From 1985 to 1990, Hodgson coached the Swedish Malmö team, winning two league titles and two cup titles; then he led the Swiss national team, which had never reached the finals of a major tournament since the 1960s, to the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Cup in the United States and the quarter-finals of the 1996 European Cup.

Before coaching Blackburn, he also coached the Italian giants Inter Milan. Hodgson is also one of the candidates for the head coach of the England national team, and even the German national team has shown interest in him. Such a coach is certainly qualified to say this about George.

However, Hodgson's coaching of Blackburn is not so wise. Blackburn has been obviously turbulent in the past two years. After Hodgson came to Blackburn, Blackburn's performance this season was also very bad. It has been hovering in the relegation zone.

But George was very upset by Hodgson's behavior. Don't say you are Hodgson, even Ferguson can't do this. So George immediately refuted Hodgson. "I am a coach with a coaching certificate. I don't need anyone to tell me how to be a coach. I think he should pray that he doesn't lead the team to relegation this season."

The game hasn't started yet, and the verbal battle between George and Hodgson has already excited many media.

There is not much to hype about this game, it's just a derby. But because of George, the youngest coach in the current English professional club, and a coach with a distinct personality. So the game is particularly interesting.

"Blackburn is the only team that has won the Premier League title so far, except Manchester United. But from the Premier League champion to now hovering in the relegation zone, Blackburn's decline is the most surprising. From the Premier League champion in 1995 to now, less than three years have passed, and Blackburn's coaches have changed one after another. First, Dalglish gave up the position of head coach, Ray Shaft coached for a short period of time, Dalglish took over temporarily, Kidd took over for a year, and now Roy Hodgson. Speaking of the turbulent Blackburn, the current Burnley young coach George also has a certain credit. At that time, Ray Shaft's Blackburn had just shown signs of getting out of trouble, but was defeated by Burnley at home. Levy scored three goals. Ray Shaft eventually resigned, which also caused turmoil in Blackburn in recent years. "

"In the 15 rounds of the league, Burnley won 10 games, drew 4 games and lost 1 game, with 34 points, ranking first in the English League One. The road to promotion is smooth, and the young coach Levy has become the most unwelcome coach of Blackburn fans because of his provocative behavior in Ewood Park last time. "

"Speaking of it, Blackburn and Burnley were originally a pair of mortal enemies, and their games were usually full of flames. And this time, it was because of coach Levy that it attracted more attention. I believe that as long as George is still in Burnley, every collision between Burnley and Blackburn will attract as much attention as it does now. "