Chapter 16: Are you back, Tony?

"...Freddy Eastwood, once the legendary shooter of Nottingham Forest, is now the acting head coach. He is now using practical actions to prove the media's predictions in advance - the first game led by Eastwood coach was lost. Nottingham Forest has lost four consecutive games. Now the team is panic. It is said that Balotelli has officially submitted a transfer application to the club and hopes to leave. The rumors about George Wood's retirement have not been clarified by him..."

Kenny Burns' Forest Bar is very lively at night. After the day of work, the fans of the nearby Forest team will gather here to talk about what happened to the Forest team recently. If the Forest team has good results, there will be joy and a lot of fun. If the Forest team loses, there will be a lot of sadness in the bar, everyone is sighing, complaining that they are not lucky, or complaining that a player performs poorly in the game, or they are guest-starring the head coach and criticizing the team's tactics for being wrong.

But whether it is winning or losing, the atmosphere here is very hot.

It's different tonight.

I was so quiet that I could even hear everything I said on TV.

Faced with the news broadcast on TV, the most common reactions of fans were just sighing.

Otherwise what else can they do?

Wood is in poor condition because his mother is critically ill. Can they still scold Wood? Eastwood is the team's legendary shooter, but he lacks experience as a coach, so he should not bear the responsibility alone. It seems that only the club chairman is worth scolding, but they have been tired of scolding over the years. No matter how fiercely they scold here, it cannot shake Evan Dogette's position, what is the point of wasting saliva?

When everyone thought of this situation, everyone lost their interest. More than 20 old men could only drink one cup after another in the bar.

"Is there no way to save our team?" A young man couldn't stand such a depressing atmosphere and suddenly stood up and shouted.

The companion next to him looked up at him, then continued to lower his head to drink, or simply stared at the TV screen and was in a daze.

Such a question has been asked countless times in four years, but what is the result?

But today the young man seemed to be prepared. He stood up and found that no one responded to him, so he turned his eyes to the bar on the other side. Then he picked up the wine glass, pushed away his companion who was blocking him and walked over staggeringly.

Donn was drinking juice at the bar and chatting with Kenny Burns. Now Shania and Teresa are still in the United States, and she doesn't want to stay in the huge villa all day long. Except for the hospital, he has left all his time in this bar.

But he is no longer the team's head coach and he intends to keep a little distance from John and the others, and does not get involved in their circle, and only comes to chat with Kenny. If John and Bill are looking for him, they will come alone and will not take him to their side.

When talking, everyone will carefully avoid a topic - the head coach of the Forest Team.

Today, such a drunk young man rushed to Tang En, put the wine glass in front of him. Then he turned his head and stared at Tang En: "Tho... Tony!"

Tang En turned his head and looked at the uninvited guest.

"Come back!" the young man shouted. "Come back!"

John quickly stood up to stop the impulse of drinking too much young man. “Joseph, you…”

"Come back and lead Nottingham Forest!" Tears even oozed in the eyes of the excited young man. "Come back and bring us..." Before he finished speaking, his body suddenly tilted. He slid down from the high stool - he was already drunk.

Fatty John rushed to Tang En at this time and helped the young man up. "Joseph talks too much when he gets drunk!" He explained to Tang En, and then helped Joseph back to the seat there with force.

"He didn't say 'Joseph talks nonsense when he gets drunk'." Kenny Burns said next to him.

Donne did not express any dissatisfaction with Burns's actions. He looked at the back of John and the young man. They returned to the fans. It seemed that not many people blamed Joseph for their impulse. Instead, there were still people secretly glanced at them, wanting to observe their reactions.

Tang En thought they would not be able to see anything because there was no expression on his face.

Eastwood didn't expect such a guest to be welcomed at night. He asked his wife Serim to take the children upstairs to sleep, and left the living room to him and the guest who visited the late night.

"I have been thinking about it for a long time. Although I have retired, I am still paying attention to football. Following Nottingham Forest, I think I may be able to help you a little, Freddy." Donn, who was sitting opposite, looked at Eastwood and said.

Eastwood smiled bitterly and said, "You come back to coach the team, which is the greatest help to me... Well, I know this requirement is a bit unrealistic. Actually, I don't think I'm suitable to be a head coach... Do you know, boss. Before leading the team to play the first game, I forgot to tell the players the starting list, and it was Jimmy who reminded me. I didn't make a joke. Now I think about it at that time, I was so arrogant..."

He was a little depressed. As a head coach, he made such a big ugly in front of the players. It has become a psychological shadow for him in recent days.

Don Eun laughed: "What are you, Freddy? During my first game of coaching the first team, I was knocked to the ground by my own players, and left the coach's seat in front of everyone and returned home. After the game, I became a laughing stock in England, went to the bar to relieve my boredom and was ridiculed by people for this. Don't take such small things to heart. The job of the head coach is actually very simple. If you can lead the team to win, even if you never arrange the starting list, you can become a part of your legendary personality."

"The problem is, boss. I just don't know how to lead the team to victory. You know, when I watch them play off the court, I wish I could go up and help them score goals and win. But as the head coach, I don't know what to do..." Eastwood was very depressed. In this optimistic gypsy, such emotions are rare.

"You are inexperienced, and..." Tang En suddenly thought of a question, "No one around you can help you well." He was also a rookie at the beginning, but he had Old Ian and Walker. These two people were experienced when they were players, and they had been honing in the grassroots coaches of the Forest Team for many years. After being trained by many head coaches, it was Tang Enlai's turn to enjoy his success. But in the other hand, the Forest Team is in chaos, and excellent coaches are lost and poached by other clubs. Chris Lack's excellent coach was dismissed just because his performance was slightly unsatisfactory. Evan did not even let him stay in the Forest Team.

Although Eastwood has been a coach for four years, the difference between the manager and coach in England is too far.

Eastwood didn't want the topic to continue on himself. He suddenly asked, "It's a matter to come to me so late. Boss."

"What's the matter?"

"You can't let go of Nottingham Forest."

Donn glanced at Eastwood: "Of course I can't let it go. I'm a hardcore fan of the Forests. I have bought all the tickets every season."

"It's better to come back if you can't let it go." Eastwood looked at Donn's eyes and said this.

"I'm retired, Freddy..."

"No one stipulates that they cannot come back after retirement."

"I also want to accompany my daughter..."

"Now you are in the UK, is your daughter in the US?"

Tang En shook his head: "I won't talk about this anymore. If you don't understand anything when coaching, you can ask me. I will tell you my experience without reservation..."

But today Eastwood seems to be against Donn, and has raised an unanswered question: "George is the core of the team. If his form does not recover, the team's performance will not be stable. Is there any way you can, boss?"

Tang En was speechless. He knew why Wood was not in the state, but he could not solve such a thing. As long as Sophia's condition did not improve for a day, Wood's condition would not be cured.

This is not a problem that can be solved by skills and tactics, nor is it even something a head coach can do.

When he talked about Wood, Done would remember what Wood said to him that day in the backyard of the hospital: "If you want me not to retire, come back."

Have they agreed? Why did they ask me to come back when they see me?

In fact, when Don En was still the head coach of England, not many people would say this to him, but when he retired and was unemployed at home, he was immediately targeted. He could say that he was retired, but others might not understand it so much.

For example, the next day he received a call from Tang Jing. The content of the call made him feel like a thunderbolt on the sunny day hit him in his mind.

The Chinese Football Association contacted him through Tang Jing and actually wanted him to coach the Chinese national team!

"I'm just passing the message. Mr. Tang En."

"You can directly reject theirs. Just say you can't contact me." Tang En didn't want to contact the Chinese Football Association, and his reputation was not good...

"After all, I'm Chinese. To be honest, I think it would be interesting if you coach the Chinese national team..." Tang Jing was obviously smiling on the other end of the phone.

"That's not possible. I don't want to be unsafe in my later years." Tang En refused very simply. The bystanders found it interesting. He, the client, could not do anything.

Tang Jing was indeed passing the message. Once Tang En refused, she didn't persuade her and agreed to reply to the Football Association very readily. As for the reason, of course, Tang En had not had enough rest and did not want to come out to coach again.

However, some Chinese media learned from Tang Jing that the Chinese Football Association actually went to Tang En to coach.   The media was very polite at that time and mocked the Football Association for overestimating their abilities. Apart from not saying "What kind of virtue is it to pee and look at yourself?" In fact, the meaning is similar to this.    The only government agency in China that can curse and do not have to bear the responsibility is probably the Chinese Football Association. Although FIFA stipulates that the Football Association in each country and region must be a private institution, China's national conditions are special, and the Football Association is a government unit.

Even if the Chinese Football Association seeks Tang En to coach, it ended with Tang En, but unexpectedly, there was a lot of storm in China, focusing on whether the Chinese Football Association should seek Tang En to coach. Whether Tang En should come to coach in China, etc., are hot on the Internet. Some people think that high-level football coaches like Tang En should be invited, otherwise Chinese football will be self-confidence and will never make progress; some people think that it is useless to invite a good place and famous coach for the Chinese Football Association. If Tang En really comes, it will ruin his reputation; some people claim that the leaders of the Chinese Football Association are in a daze again, and they don’t want to invite Tony Tang En. Can they control it? Don’t say that they want to delegate power, it is absolutely impossible, unless the Chinese men’s football team wins the World Cup championship... But this becomes a vicious cycle, and it is meaningless.

In fact, the one who deliberately leaked this news was Tang Jing. She wanted the Football Association to make another ugly thing. Chinese football has not made progress in so many years. The leaders of the Football Association and the General Administration of Sports have changed one after another, but every leader is only considering his own black hat. No one has ever considered the sport of football. Chinese football can only stand still, or even retreat slightly. She has long since retired from the media circle and is focused on being a wife in the UK to take care of her husband and children, but when she talks about Chinese football, she is also angry and has a slight word. She can only vent her dissatisfaction through this method.

Tang En ignored the storm that caused in China after he refused the invitation from the Football Association, and his mind was still on the Forest Team.

Eastwood said that the biggest help was that Donn came back to coach the Forest team, and he still became the coach himself. But this was obviously impossible. Donn helped Eastwood in another way. He and Eastwood studied the current problems encountered by the Forest team. Find a solution.

Donn told Eastwood that if neither Wood nor Balotelli could be reliable, then they would decisively withdraw from the starting lineup and replace them with the youth team and the reserve team's second-tier players. They are obviously more fighting spirit than the current first-tier team. Now the Forest team is not technical and tactical problems, at least the biggest problem is not this, but fighting spirit and psychology.

He devoted himself to helping Eastwood. But he didn't notice the look of Eastwood looking at him, nor did he think about whether it was appropriate for him to interfere in other people's work as a retired person. He just hopes that the Forests' performance will be better and not worry so many fans like him.

After Eastwood heard Donne's words, he changed half of the first team lineup, and he stopped the downward trend in the second game. He relied on tenacious defense and overall battle away to tie the powerful Manchester United 0:0. Although the scene was ugly and there was no offense. But they did not continue to lose. And they were facing a strong Manchester United, which was even more valuable. So after this result came out, many media were very surprised - before the game, they predicted that Forest would be humiliated by Manchester United at Old Trafford, just like Liverpool.

In that game, Wood and Balotelli were not in the starting lineup, and Wood was not replaced until the last ten minutes. This also gave many media the opportunity to make up old accounts. They found out the conflict between Wood and Eastwood for hype, and analyzed that after Eastwood came on stage, they would suppress Wood. There were rumors before that Wood was about to retire, so it seems that the rumors will soon become a reality...

Of course these are nonsense. Eastwood is not the kind of person who takes revenge on his own. Besides, he and Wood have nothing to do with each other. What's more, it's still Don't let Wood start. Don't even want to give Wood a minute, but he wants him to calm down completely. Eastwood thinks that if he wants Wood to keep his form, he should still let him go and kick.

But this time the media really talked...

Just as the team had just stopped losing four consecutive times and returned to Nottingham from Manchester with confidence, Wood, who was with the team, received a call from the hospital.
Chapter completed!