Chapter 111 The curtain of the Premier League (Part 2)

In English football, there are some small rules, or small curse, just like using the South locker room in the Millennium Stadium, which cannot win... Of course, this has been broken by Tony Donn's Nottingham Forest. Today's game Arsenal is the South locker room used. Another small curse means that the team that won the Community Shield Championship at the beginning of the season will inevitably lose the league championship - the 2000 Community Shield Championship was Chelsea. They only won the sixth place that season, and Manchester United won the league championship.

Go.    The brilliant five-champion Liverpool won the Community Shield Cup in 2001, after winning the new season of the Community Shield Cup, all four were gone.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

As for the 2004 Community Shield Championship, what will happen in the end... Tang En remembers it very clearly.

After hearing the Manchester United fan's constant complaints and self-deprecating words, he couldn't help laughing: "That's not sure, maybe the league champion this season will be Chelsea!"

The fat man looked at Tang En in surprise, then waved his hand: "Stop kidding, how could that mercenary be our opponent? Don't think that they got second last season and can get first this season... Hello, do you understand football?"

It seems that his words aroused the man's anger. Don't want to argue with the fans who are losing their minds. He and David Chris Lack quickly left the Millennium Stadium.

On the way back, Chris Lack also talked about this issue. He felt that Arsenal is in very good shape at present, and his unbeaten momentum has not declined due to the long summer.

"Why can't Wenger's team break the curse of the community shield champion not winning the league championship? You said Chelsea? I'm not optimistic. They are like us in the summer. They have introduced too many new players, from the team's head coach to the players, and the team's running-in will take up a lot of their time. I don't think they can pose any threat to Arsenal and Manchester United this season. I'm more optimistic about them next season..."

Donn was unwilling to bet with Chris Lack, not that he was not sure whether the future was the same as he remembered, but because they had joined now. "If you want to win the championship, this year is Chelsea's best chance." He shook his head and said.

"Why?" Chris Lark was puzzled.

"Because..." Tang En turned his head and looked at his partner and laughed, "From next season, we will join us."

The Community Shield is the outpost of the Premier League, which means that the league will begin in a week.

During this week, Don and Forests accepted an interview with Sky TV. This is a special video that Sky TV, which is responsible for broadcasting the Premier League, will produce before each season. It will accept the audience's twenty teams in the new season. In addition to the favorites to win the championship, the most important proportion of the program is the updated team, because for most viewers, the three updated teams are brand new and unfamiliar. At the same time, because the Forests is the most special among the three upgraded teams, they are more popular.

As a newly promoted team who has just entered the Super League and is about to participate in European competitions, the main concern of the media is what the Forest team's goal this season is. Almost all newly promoted teams are relegation in the first season of the Premier League. Because it is a completely qualitative leap from the League One to the Premier League, many teams in the League One are beaten to the top and get caught in the Premier League.

Tang En naturally doesn't like this kind of thing to happen to him, but he doesn't explicitly say his exact goal. He just said, "win everything he thinks is necessary to win", this is the goal of the Forest team.

A reporter from Sky TV analyzed other meanings from this sentence. So he asked excitedly: "For example, last season in Arsenal..."

This is a sign of danger. Journalists always like to use this tone that seems to talk to themselves and seem to be asking questions to draw you into the trap. Donn shook his head firmly: "Arsenal is Arsenal, Nottingham Forest is Nottingham Forest. I don't plan to repeat the path others have walked."

The disappointed reporter thought of another related question: "The longest consecutive unbeaten record in England's top league was maintained by the Forests, forty-two games..."

"The past record has nothing to do with the present land forest team. Just like no one thinks that the forest team is the European champion now."

Tang En's answer was not at all cooperating, and the Sky TV reporter was not giving up. His eyes rolled and suddenly he thought of a very excited topic: "According to the schedule, the Forests will play Arsenal at home on August 26th."

Tang En nodded, not knowing what this a bit annoying reporter was going to say.

"If Arsenal won both the first two rounds of the league, Mr. Donn, do you know? The third round of the league between Arsenal and Forest will be the 43rd game after Arsenal was unbeaten for 42 consecutive rounds. You know this..."

When Tang En was stunned when he heard the reporter say this. When he was paying attention to the schedule, Bald Headache had encountered such a powerful team from the beginning. Unexpectedly, there was another meaning in it...

A record made the reporter entangled. Tang En was a little impatient. He frowned and said, "The record was released to be broken by future generations. I don't think it's bad. In addition, I think I need to remind you, Mr. Reporter, are you really sure that the target of your collection today is not Arsenal?"

The reporter who was a little embarrassed by Tang En's rhetoric question had to change to some very ordinary and ordinary topics, and there was no news or things that readers like to see. Tang En responded to a few words, then threw down the crew and ran to the training ground to pay attention to the team's training.

For him now, showing his face on TV is no longer enough to satisfy his sense of accomplishment and vanity. He cares more about the team's victory and final glory. In addition... it feels bad to be despised by this damn reporter. Now Arsenal has taken the community shield, and all England are concerned about when that record will be broken by Wenger's team. So the Forest team, which once set this record, has also been pulled out of the dust of history, as a background to set off Arsenal's glory.

This feeling of being a supporting role for others makes Tang En very uncomfortable.

When will those damn media and fans discuss the Forests as the protagonist rather than the supporting role?

It seems that the road is still long!

When the new season of the Premier League is about to begin, the low-level leagues have already ignited the flames. The opponents that Tang En once familiar with are still struggling in that completely different world, and he himself has long since no longer wants to go back.

By the way, because of finding a new sponsor, the English League One has been renamed to the English Championship since the beginning of this season, and the following leagues are renamed one by one. The name "Champions League" sounds cool, but in fact it is still the same, just changing the soup and not changing the medicine.

After being promoted to the Super League, Tang En didn't care about the chores of the low-level league. It was just that the league's name change made him feel a little emotional.

Perhaps... there will never be an extra "England Champions League Trophy" in the glory room of the Forest.
Chapter completed!