Chapter 231: Call Me Chris (Part 1)
Chapter 231 Call me Chris (Part 1)
Although the shooting schedule given by Chris Gronia is very detailed, it is actually very simple. It is impossible for so many film crews to stay in the Forest Team for a long time, and Don Eun will not give them too much time. The shooting time is only five days.
Gronia's plan is to shoot a game of the Forest team after a few days of training, so that the training and competition will be filmed together.
The training part is full of those things, and only the competition makes Gronia look forward to it. The only thing she is worried about is...
"The newspapers say that your team is in trouble now, Mr. Donne." Gronia took a copy of the Sun and flipped to the sports page.
Nottingham Forest has not won two league rounds in the last two rounds. He lost to Everton in the 28th round away and was tied by Manchester City away again in the 29th round. Therefore, there is such a voice in the media that the Forest team is not in good condition.
Tang En sneered at this.
"I don't think much, Miss Gronia. I think it proves from another perspective that the Forest team is very strong."
"Oh?" Gronia was very interested in Don't say this.
"We didn't win in two rounds of the league, and the media started calling Forests to no avail. Don't you think this just means they are used to seeing Forests win?"
Gronia smiled, her eyes curled into crescent moons.
The training that day has ended, and the players have come out of the locker room one after another and walk to the parking lot. Their work has ended. The crew members are also busy packing up the machines, and their work today has ended.
Gronia followed Donne to his office to discuss the game shooting a day later because it involved going into the locker room for shooting.
"Okay, let's talk about some serious business, Miss Gronia. Generally speaking, the team's locker room is absolutely not allowed to enter the media. What's more, the media that is resistant to cameras."
Gronia nodded to show that she knew this convention.
"But... I once put a large group of fans in the locker room to teach me the players a lesson, so it's no big deal to put a group of media carrying cameras in.
"Tang En said in his seat, Gronia sat on the sofa opposite to him and looked at him. "But you can't shoot the whole time, I can only give you a few minutes."
Hearing Tang En say this, Gronia turns her head, "How many minutes? Mr. Tang En, this is too short, and it's almost time to get the machine ready."
"You can go in and set up the machine in advance. In fact, the preparation time and the intermission time before a game are not long. Even if you shoot in the whole city, you can't take pictures... Besides, there are some things I can't say in front of the TV camera."
During the shooting training, although Tang En said before that the club must cooperate with the entire club, what is actually? Physical recovery training, physical training, technical training and other types of film crews are allowed to shoot throughout the filming process. Once tactical exercises are involved, Wanyan will invite the crew out of the training ground.
So Gronia knew it too.
"Okay. I understand, Mr. Tang En." She sighed pretending to be regretful. "It's a pity that we can't take pictures of the most exciting things..."
“The most exciting one?”
"I have heard a lot of stories about you yelling at your opponent in the locker room and pique the morale of the players."
Tang En scratched his head: "That won't let you take pictures, this is a privacy story in the locker room."
Gronia raised her hands: "Yes, boss!"
These days, she has learned the players’ names of Don En.
Don was stunned when he heard Gronia suddenly called him that.
Looking at the surprised expression on Don En's face, Gronia laughed like a prank.
Gronia stood up in laughter and walked to Donn.
Extending her hand: "We are leaving Nottingham after shooting the game the day after tomorrow. I think we were busy packing all kinds of equipment and luggage at that time, and Mr. Tang, you must be with the team, and everyone has no time.
So, I want to invite Mr. Tang En to have a meal tonight. I wonder if you have time, Mr. Tang En?"
Don Eun looked up at Gronia standing in front of him. This was such a beautiful woman...
He looked down at the white and tender little hand again.
"The beauty invites you. That's my honor." Tang En reached out and gently held Gronia's little hand.
Let Tang solve the problem with supper alone...
Although Gronia said she treats her, as a host and as a man, how could she let a woman treat her? So this meal was still a treat by Don En.
Since it was Tang En's invitation, Tang En decided where to eat. Tang En was not very interested in Western food. If he was still interested in it at first, he would have no idea after eating it for a few years.
Indian restaurants bloom everywhere in the UK, but Don't hate Indian food. He can't stand the curry flavor. In the eyes of Don't have anything delicious in the UK's own restaurant. As for what French food is,... it's better to go to France to eat.
Of course, the most important point is that because Tang En is a Chinese who travels through time. He has a preference for Chinese food. He should treat him to naturally choose Chinese restaurants. Although Chinese restaurants in Nottingham are very expensive and not authentic, they are better than eating Indian food.
Anyway, Chris; Gronia has never eaten authentic Chinese food, so she can't tell whether it's good or bad or authentic.
So Gronia was very happy to eat, thinking that she had finally eaten the legendary delicacy. Seeing the beautiful host showing a satisfied expression like a little girl, Tang En smiled in his heart.
Such "foods" are collected in China, and almost every family can make them... Foreigners really have no knowledge!
"I have read some related information about Mr. Tang En. It is said that Mr. Tang En likes Chinese culture very much. I didn't expect you to know so much about Chinese food."
"I can also speak fluent Chinese...but I don't have any chance to speak here."
"Don't you have a Chinese player in your team...Sun?"
"Well, I never speak Chinese to him.
"Tang En is telling the truth. Since Sun Jihai came to the team, facing this Chinese player, whether he arranged tactics in the team or chatted privately, he only spoke English. Although both of them speak Chinese, they just didn't need to.
Tang En only speaks English in one situation, that is, when he returns home and talks to Tang. At first, Tang wanted to come to England and should speak English, but Tang En told him that he would speak Chinese when the two of them were there.
Tang En felt that an oriental face was fluent in his native language, but he was a little uncomfortable with it.
Of course, as for whether Tang would think that whether he, a foreign face, would make him unaccustomed to speaking non-native language, it would be beyond Tang En's consideration...
"Why? If you can speak fluent Chinese, Sun will do it. Wouldn't it be more convenient to communicate like that?"
"Of course, it's very convenient. But Sun doesn't know how to speak English, nor does he not understand.
In this case, I don’t need to be an interpreter in the locker room. Everyone speaks English, whether Spanish, French, or Italian, the first thing they do when they come to Nottingham Forest is to learn language. If Sun speaks Chinese again, it will give people the illusion that ‘he is not a member of this team’, which is not good.
Different languages are the main reasons for communication disorders. I don’t want people to think that Chinese player Sun Jihai is a special one, the one who is out of place with the team. “Tang En shrugged.
"He is a Nottingham Forest player and has nothing to do with his nationality and language."
Hearing this, Gronia was silent for a while.
Seeing that there was a little dismay, Tang En decided to tell a joke to activate the atmosphere: "When it comes to the players' language and nationality issues, I thought of a joke. Do you want to listen to it? Miss Gronia."
Gronia withdrew her thoughtful gaze and nodded with a smile.
"We all know that after Abramovich took over Chelsea, he brought a lot of money to the club so that they could buy the best players in the world - as long as they want to come.
But in fact, before this Russian rich man, Chelsea was a famous multinational force in the Premier League. When Gulite coached the team, he set a record - none of the eleven starting players in the team were in the English local player.
"Tang En told the story seriously. From now on, this joke is actually not funny at all. He is more like telling Gronia about a piece of football history.
"Later Chelsea came with a new coach, Italian Ranieri, who was a coach who had succeeded in both Spain and Italy, Italian.
The first problem he faces after taking over the team is not the team's tactics, lineup, transfers, but language.
Because Chelsea had too many foreign players, the media mocked Ranieri for his bad English: when he wanted to explain tactics to the main players, he usually told his assistant coach Wilkinson that Wilkinson would first tell the tactics to the team in English, and then Ranieri himself spoke to Zora in Italian, and then in Spanish to the team's Spanish, Argentine and Uruguayan players.
Chapter completed!