Chapter 6 Tony's Ten Years

On December 12, 2003, Tony Don, one of the greatest head coaches in Nottingham Forest history, returned to his best position after half a year of silence and appeared on the home coaching table of the City Stadium. When he returned, no one talked about his unlucky predecessor, Corey Moore, as if the location of the City Stadium was built for Tony Don.

It was an ordinary English League One (there was no English Champions League at that time, so the League One was the League Two). Nottingham Forest ranked one lower at home after losing six games in a row, but he was aggressive and planned to settle their Crystal Palace. Nottingham Forest fell behind first and then reversed, ending an embarrassing six-game losing streak.

Since that game, he has never left this position again. Tony Donn has always been the head coach of Nottingham Forest, and the team has been marked by his arrogant and unyielding character. Even in the six months of his cultivation due to a heart disease, the team has never lacked his influence. He led his Forest team to sweep across Europe, winning two European Champions Leagues and two Premier League titles.

So far, Nottingham Forest, one of the world's first professional football clubs, has two most glorious times in history. The first glorious era was after Brian Clauve came to Nottingham Forest, led by the most individual coach in England, the originally unknown Nottingham Forest soared into the sky, winning the English top league championship, two European Champions Leagues, and one European Super Cup, and also set a record of unbeaten in the forty-two unbeaten England top league. This record was not surpassed by Wenger's Arsenal with a new record of 49 games until twenty-six years later.

The second glorious era will undoubtedly start from December 12, 2003. Tony Donne, the former unknown man, led the Forest team to hang a red whirlwind at the city stadium. So far, they have won two Premier League championships. Two European Champions League champions, two European Super Cup champions, one World Club Cup champion, two English Community Shield champions, and one English League Cup. But in terms of the number of championships, he has surpassed his predecessors Brian Crowf. And Clough has passed away. Tony Donne is only forty-five years old, and as a coach, he is still young. There is still a long way under his feet. People believe that under his leadership, the Forest team can continue to be brilliant and create the most glorious forest dynasty in history, just around the corner.

Ten years have passed in this flash.

As the only head coach in the club history who can be compared with Brian Clauve, his tenth anniversary must be celebrated. The club has decided to present a commemorative trophy to Donn. Unfortunately, on December 12th, the Forests' game was not at home, so the trophy cannot be distributed in front of tens of thousands of spectators before the game.

On December 12, 2013, in the 17th round of the English Premier League, Nottingham Forest challenged Liverpool away.

This is a game that Tang En officially coached the Forest's first team in the whole decade. Although he became the acting head coach of the Forest as early as January 1, 2003, he was a "agent". In addition, he was dismissed by Evan Dogette in the middle, so it cannot be considered as a formal coaching career. Even Tang En was unwilling to divide the failed half season into his own ten years. Although that half season occupied a very important position in his life, leaving countless precious memories.

Local media such as the Nottingham Evening Post have specially set up special issues to review Tony Donn's special projects over the past ten years. For the Nottingham people, there are so many things worth remembering in these ten years. They seem to have had an extremely wonderful and long dream. Ten years ago, if someone said to them, "Your team will definitely return to the top", they would definitely think that the person was here to deliberately mock them. But now those honors are quietly placed in the club's honor room, telling them that this is not a dream, but a reality.

All this is thanks to the forty-five-year-old man. As a coach, he is only forty-five years old and very young. The honor he received has made many coaches older than him jealous. But as a man, forty-five is already middle-aged. I hope he can continue working in the future. The longer the better, this is the greatest wish of all the forests for fans.

A publisher found Don Eun, hoping to publish his autobiography on this day worth several years. Don Eun's writing style is pretty good. He often opens columns in newspapers, but writing books is too time-consuming for him. A head coach of a Premier League club is already busy enough, how could he still have time to write books? So he handed this matter to the reporter Pierce Bruce, who knows him best. He said it was his oral description and Bruce notes, but in fact he didn't give any effort. It was all Bruce using the information he recorded over the past decade to form the book. The only thing that was originally written by Don Eun may be the name of the book.

"ten years".

Well... Strictly speaking, even the title of the book is not original by him.   When the publisher asked him to think about the title of the book, what happened to him was the title of Eason Chan's song.   He thought this was a kind of fate. So he used it.

At first, the publisher thought the name was very imposing and too low-key. He was completely unworthy of Tony Tang Endi's "madman identity". He wanted to change Tang Endi, such as "The Emperor of the Forest", "The Heart of the Lion King", "Champion Godfather", "We are the Champion"... These are just a simple and simple name that you can tell what the land is.

But Tang En refused.

"Since I am a madman, I can't even stick to the title of the book I made myself, so why are you a madman?" His words made the publisher speechless. Sure enough, crazy...

"Tony, I thought about it.  It would be better to hold a press conference in Nottingham the day before the game and give you the trophy?" Three days before the game, club chairman Evan Dogerty found Donne.

"Why?" Tang En felt strange, because the original plan was awarded after the competition.

"Uh, I'm worried that if you lose that game, you won't be in the mood to receive the prize in front of the media..."

Tang En laughed.

"Don't laugh, Tony. We have to prepare both ways, right?"

Tang En continued to laugh: "Ha! If you sent me that crystal cup before the game, what are the preparations? Before some important games, the media had plans for A and B, but they would not announce the team's failure in advance before the game began. Don't worry." Tang En patted Evan on the shoulder, "The situation you are worried about will not happen because we will not lose at all. I don't want to lose the ball to receive this prize."

"It's very difficult to play at home..."

"We didn't defeat them at Anfield. Is it because this is my tenth anniversary that their place suddenly became the most difficult fortress in the world?"

"But our team's performance recently...and George Wood's condition..."

Tang En shook his head and interrupted his question: "No problem. The team and him are fine."

Evan had some questions, but asked Tang En to push it out. “Believe me, Evan. That was my tenth anniversary. How could I allow someone to make trouble? My friend came and there was good wine, and the jackal came and there was only a hunting gun.”

"Anfield is the most devilish home court on the planet!" Chris Bascombe, a senior reporter of the Liverpool Echo, predicted the game two days later in his column. "Our relationship with Nottingham Forest is not very good. We have no reason to have Tony Don enjoy a anniversary dinner in Anfield."

This guy once listed the top ten wishes for the 2009-2010 season in his column, one of which was "I hope Tony Don completely bid farewell to the coach of the Forest team due to a heart attack". In addition, he also hoped that Abramovich would go bankrupt, and Chelsea would have no choice but to sell Lampard to Barcelona and Terry to Liverpool, so that "the Premier League can start a fair and reasonable competition."

It can be seen that he is a firm kop. He also doesn't like Chelsea and Tony Don.

In fact, he doesn't have to add fuel to the fire in the column, few Liverpool fans will have a good impression of Nottingham Forest and Tony Donne.

Liverpool has been able to participate in the League Cup for several consecutive years and has become a laughing stock among European powers.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Answer: Brian Clauve and his Nottingham Forest.

With this relationship, although both sides are the "red camp" in English football, they seem to be playing a derby in every match. Liverpool hopes to use the victory in the league to prove that they are not weaker than Nottingham Forest. Why can they play the Champions League and can only participate in the League Cup? Nottingham Forest has always adhered to the principle of eye for eye for eye for tooth. Since you don't feel happy about me, I naturally don't need to be polite to you.

In addition, the debate about who is the best midfielder in England is currently the debate between the supporters of the two teams. Chelsea fans had joined in to support Lampard. Later, as Lampard grew older and lost his main position in the national team, Chelsea fans quit the team with tactfully.

Liverpool supporters believe that Gerald is more comprehensive, flawless, and has no shortcomings at all. He is a well-deserved core player in England and Liverpool. Of course, England is the best. Although George Wood is slightly better than Gerald, his offense is too poor. His scoring ability is simply a difference compared to Gerald, and there is no way to compare with Gerald. In England, George Wood appears more as Gerald's supporter.

Supporters of Nottingham Forest believe that Wood is unparalleled in midfield defense, and has rapid offense progress. He is younger and has a lot of room for improvement. On the contrary, Gerrard has been established. In addition, Liverpool is always under the pressure of Nottingham Forest in the league. The team's performance is not ideal, and Gerrard's achievements have basically been established. On the contrary, Nottingham Forest won the championship under the leadership of Tony Donn, and George Wood has also been constantly refreshing his honor list. He will definitely be able to obtain more honors and achievements in the future. He can definitely reach the peak of Gerrard not reached.

Anyway, fans, experts and journalists who support their respective teams have their own opinions and often engage in such debates. However, this debate has not affected the relationship between Gerald and Wood, and there is no negative impact on the national team that has caused this debate. Gerald and Wood's "double German" combination is obviously better than the previous "double German" combination of him and Lampard. Wood is a midfielder who can match anyone. He can attack, defend, and serve as a core or as a supporter. This is exactly what Capello likes most about Wood. So although when he and Gerald appear at the same time, he must be assisting Gerald, but who can rotate in the national team can be rotated, only Wood cannot. Gerald sometimes needs to give up the position to others to partner with Wood, but he has never heard of the media hype about "who partner with Gerald".

Wood is not a person who likes to compete for the fame of "who is the number one in English football". Gerald obviously doesn't need to compete for the first place, and his status in the world has long been laid.

Such a debate is nothing more than an excuse for fans to talk after dinner and to the media to hype the two teams' games.

"Nottingham Forest is in bad condition recently, and there seems to be something wrong with their core captain George Wood. I do not hide my feelings of being very happy to see this scene. I just hope that the opponents will have problems themselves." Bascombe continued in his column, "The schedule is really bad for Tony Donn. His tenth anniversary will be held at the Devil's Stadium. If he is at the City Stadium, he might be able to accept the club's awards before the game. That must be a glorious thing, but unfortunately, coach Donn can only imagine in his heart. "

"I disturbed the anniversary of this arrogant and arrogant person, which is my greatest expectation in watching this game. I do not hide my dislike for Nottingham Forest and my love for Liverpool. Every KOP, who is familiar with Liverpool's history in the late 1970s and early 1980s, should agree with me. New and old hatreds, on the night of Anfield on December 12th, let's count together!"
Chapter completed!