Chapter 106: Bad news

The match against Argentina is considered the most important warm-up match before the European Cup, because it is the strongest among many warm-up opponents. In the end, England defeated Argentina 2-0 at its home court, and Tony Don't's team has not yet lost.

After the game, many English media praised the achievements made by Donn. Many English fans even cheered. After many years, England has finally produced an excellent head coach. Now they no longer have to envy Scotland.

When Tang En saw such a report, he wanted to laugh. He was a real Chinese. In the end, the Englishman still had to be unable to raise his head in front of the Scots when it comes to coaching.

After finishing the game with Argentina, Don continued to prepare for the European Cup. He and his assistants were collecting information about opponents in the European Cup group stage and information about their possible opponents. The progress of this work is a bit slow. His coaching team is not as good as the ones he had with the Forest team. It is not that their level is not enough, but that they are not used to doing such things.

In addition, the information of the national team is not as easy as that of clubs, especially those in Eastern Europe's national teams. After the expansion of the European Cup, eight additional teams have increased, and there are many national teams that have not often appeared in top European football events in the past. They are very mysterious for island teams like England. However, such teams appearing in the European Cup final circle also increases the possibility of uproar and makes the game more suspenseful.

"We can't ignore them just because they are unfamiliar and weak. We must know the tactics and styles they are good at, their past record, who are threatening players in the team... If I don't understand these, I can't feel at ease." Tang En said when explaining to the coaching team why he valued the intelligence research of those weak teams so much. "You can't guarantee that they won't break out of the siege from their team and then appear in front of us. If we know nothing about them, we will be the one who is unlucky at that time. I don't want to see this happen."

For all fans, the opening of a large-scale event like the European Cup is always very exciting. They start planning how to arrange time during the European Cup to miss every exciting game, and talk to their friends about which stars will make a big splash in the European Cup and which stars will succeed. In a nervous mood, they look forward to the teams they support can win the championship trophy, defeat all the strong enemies, and trample their bodies under their feet.

They will buy boxes of beer, coffee and snacks in advance and keep them at home. They will concentrate the saved annual leave for this period. Settle up their wives, girlfriends and children. In the next month, only football will be with them.

How happy it is to be a fan...

Being a head coach, I have no such romantic feelings these days. They really need to settle down their wives, children or girlfriends, and they can only let football accompany them. Because when they are busy, home is just a symbol for them.

Shania returned to her home in the UK to accompany her husband, but Don Eun didn't have much time to go home. Most of the time he had to be with his coaches and study his opponents with them. At the same time, he kept a close eye on the status of the internationals. If someone was injured, someone would call the club to ask about the player's injury to decide whether he needed to be called to the bench. Just after the game against Argentina, Don Eun also called several major international clubs, hoping that they could fully consider the importance of the European Cup to England. Put the country first and try to minimize the time for the English internationals in the team to play, on the one hand, avoiding the possibility of injury, on the other hand, Don Eun did not want to get a group of exhausted internationals in the end.

As the head coach, Don Eun needs to appear in public often and be watched by the media wherever he goes, just like seeing a talking gorilla.

He also has to answer those idiotic questions often. For example, will XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Tang En was in a bad mood during this period. He had a very upset temper. He couldn't help but talk to reporters almost every time he met. The media was happy to publish such news. Harassment of Tang En seemed to have become a shared method for the media in England to attract attention. Shawn Barclay, CEO of the FA England, has had some migraines recently, and was tortured by Tang En and the media.

Can you bastards, can't you calm down?

Deep inside Mr. Barclay, he moaned weakly.

April 16th is the 34th round of the English Premier League. Nottingham Forest challenges Newcastle, who is fighting for relegation away. This game is related to the fate of the two teams next season. Forests need to qualify for the Champions League. That way they can make more money. They are currently ranked sixth and are still six points away from fourth place Liverpool. They need to fight hard to score points in the next five rounds to avoid playing in the League Cup. Newcastle needs to stay in the Super League to avoid relegation. Now they are on the edge of the relegation zone and may fall at any time.

This is a life-and-death game. So from the beginning, we entered a fierce competition. Both sides had constant physical contact, rough movements, and unclean mouths.

George Wood, as the core of the team, naturally became the target of the opponent's focus. The Forests need to control the rhythm through Wood, both offense and defense, and he is the team's "melodder".

Now he cannot pass the ball immediately after getting it, and hand over the offense to his partner. He now needs to control the ball, then observe the situation on the field, and decide how to attack. In this way, the football stays under his feet for a long time, and the opponents will have an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Wood was knocked down six times in the first half. No matter how strong he was, he could not stop his opponent's defensive movements like cutting trees... The red jerseys changed color. Chris Lack yelled on the sidelines. As long as Newcastle fouls against Wood, he would roar at the fourth official. It was like Tony Donn possessed him.

But roaring like this is useless because his people are also using the same method to deal with Newcastle players.

The fourth official knew very well what this game meant for the two teams. He was not easy to interfere with these actions. As long as there was nothing wrong, he turned a blind eye.

The scene in the second half still did not improve, and even became more and more aggressive. The players on both sides did not put the goal first, but instead focused on whoever was who knocked down the opponent.

Wood was very angry. The opponent's constant fouls made him unable to make the whole game at all. He had to focus all his energy on dealing with those fouls.

However, he has not attacked people so far, which has made a great progress. His temper was finally not so popular when he was thirty years old...

In the 73rd minute, George Wood was tackled to the ground by his opponent. This time, he did not get up as quickly as he used to be, but instead lay on the ground without moving.

Chris Lark was still shouting for his opponent's despicable behavior, and the expression on the face of his assistant Eastwood next to him was no longer right.

Wood did not roll in pain on the ground, nor did he raise his hand powerlessly to signal to be replaced. He just lay on the ground quietly. He seemed to be asleep.

The teammate closest to him was Gago. He rushed up to find out what was going on, but was startled by Wood's expression.

This captain, famous for his strength, was lying on the ground, holding his right toe with his hands. His face turned pale, his eyebrows were twisted together, and his face was covered in sweat.

But he gritted his teeth and didn't say a word.

"George!" Gago called him.

Wood didn't answer him.

Gago knew it was broken. He quickly got up and made a stretcher and gesture to the ground to substitute.

"It's so bad..." Eastwood murmured after seeing Gago's gesture. Fleming had already run up quickly with the stretcher.

Chris Lack stopped spitting water at the fourth official. That kind of action is meaningless now. Because Wood is already injured...

Fleming rushed to Wood, glanced at him quickly, then took off the shoes on his right foot and began to check.

After seeing Fleming go up, Chris Lack quickly turned around and made a substitution gesture to himself. His heart was shocked - George Wood had never been injured, nor had he been replaced due to injury...

A bad idea emerged in his mind.

George Wood was eventually replaced by John Bostock. He was carried off the court. This was probably the first time he was treated like this. He was a little stunned on the stretcher. He was injured and carried off the court. He was not unfamiliar with such a scene, but when it happened to him for the first time, he still couldn't accept it.

The media have always thought that he was an Iron Warrior, and he himself thought so, but he didn't expect that the Iron Warrior would rust when he was thirty...

The TV commentator didn't know what to say in the face of this scene. He was silent for a long time and felt that it was really impossible to say something, so he spoke: "... George, George Wood left the game due to injury. It seems that he can't participate in this game... This is a really unexpected scene. George Wood, who never was injured, was actually injured... Let's see what happened just now..."

Newcastle's Spanish left-back Jose Enrique rushed up from the side and tackled Wood. It seemed that the collision was not fierce, but after the tackle, Enrique's body twisted naturally. Wood's right foot just stuck between Enrique's legs, and he cut it like this... The right foot, which was supporting the foot, received all the energy. If it was not injured, Wood should have been pulled to the laboratory for dissection.

As England's patron saint "Saint George", Newcastle fans stopped cheering and booing after seeing Wood leaving the court due to injury. Enrique was desperately explaining to the referee and the Forest players who rushed up: "I didn't mean it, I really didn't mean it..."

Is it useful to explain these at this time?

The referee took out a red card to Enrique!

Chris Lack stared at the fourth official: "If you intervened earlier, this would not have happened! Now I can only pray that George was not seriously injured, otherwise..." He and the fourth official thought of Tony Don't faced angry at the same time.

Chris Lack dropped the fourth official and turned around and ran to the other side. He had to see how Wood was like.

Fleming faced his inquiring gaze and shook his head: "The situation is not very good, David."

"How bad is it?" Chris Lark's heart sank.

"It seems like I've broken..."

Chris Lack only heard a "boom" in his mind.

At the critical moment of competing for the championship ticket, the captain and core broke, which meant that he could not play in the next four rounds. He could almost foresee his fate after the end of the season. Evan Dogette is not a patient club chairman.

This season, he has no championship and won no championship. The Champions League is his last life-saving straw.

It seems that he is going to start planning what to do next season...

He had another idea, that is...what should the England team do?

Donn only heard about George Wood's injury after this league round, because he and Walker did not watch the game in Newcastle, but went to Manchester.

When the news reached Donn's ears, he didn't believe it, thinking he had heard it wrong, or Walker was joking: "Are you sure it was George Wood who was injured? Not any other George?"

Walker shook his head: "Which George is there in England?"

"How did you get injured?" Tang En did not ask "How is your injury?" because he felt that even if Wood was injured, it should not be a big problem. At most, he had bleeding. He was more interested in how he got injured.

"I was tackled by the opponent's defender and injured his support foot."

Tang En tried to recreate the scene in his mind, but he felt awkward no matter how he thought about it, so he asked casually: "How is the injury?"

"Broken big toe on the right foot."

Donn put his surprised eyes on Walker's face, and his expression seemed to hear the Martians invading the earth.

"It's true, I just went on the phone with Fleming." Walker could understand why Tang En made such a look. He was similar to Tang En at the beginning.

Tang En looked away and turned aimlessly to other places, never stopping.

"Fuck!" he cursed suddenly. "!What a fucking bitch!"

He was like crazy, and swearing came out of his mouth. Fortunately, there was no one else in the room except Walker, otherwise others would be surprised by this. However, his old partner Walker was familiar with Tang En's temper, not too surprised.

"I had a fucking call to Premier League coaches, hoping that they would lessen the killing tactics against international players... Newcastle bastards take my words in front of my ears? Kinneill (Newcastle head coach) that old bastard doesn't know what George Wood means to England? Our main core has a broken big toe! This is not a cold!"

Tang En turned around in the hotel room, waved his arms excitedly, and shouted loudly.

Walker was not advised to calm down. He knew that Tang En was under great pressure and had a bad temper. He happened to take this opportunity to let him vent, and maybe there would be some benefits.

After scolding everyone who should be scolded, Tang En slowly calmed down and asked, "How long will Fleming be able to do it?"

"...Three months." Walker hesitated when he said, and he was worried that Tang En would scold him again.

Fortunately, Tang En was stunned after hearing this deadline, but he didn't open his mouth and said "". His eyes passed by Walker, and his avatar was like the blue sky outside the window.
Chapter completed!