In that era when the Internet was not popular and Chinese live broadcasts were not long ago, he had very poor channels for information to understand, but it could not stop him from falling in love with football from then on. He met Gascoin, although he had long become famous. He also met Bierhoff, although he was twenty-eight years old and was called a "rookie". Zidane came into everyone's sight that year, and later he became the best European football century... He also met very much

There are many more people, who have accompanied him through ten years in the future, from junior high school to high school, then to college, to society. Some of them have retired, and some are still struggling. The rookies of those days are already old, the superstars of those days are far away from his sight, and the unknown people of those days have become the leading actresses today. They carry all the youthful days of Tang En. They are like Tang En's friends, appearing on time to accompany him every weekend.

He didn't know how to describe that kind of relationship. This person who is always unpleasant, smelly and hard in front of others can cry because of a star's retirement - of course, he will not let others see it when he is crying.

Therefore, seven years ago in 2003, he first saw a large-scale football event in the world. He was attracted by the charm of football for the first time, and thus became its believer. This is also the only hobby that accompanied him.

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On the other side of the earth, a young man with the same name pronunciation as him has ushered in a turning point in his life. Tony Donn, a young man from Eastwood town, walked out of his hometown. He also loved football with another Donn, but his personality changed greatly when he encountered family changes. He did not want to stay in the hometown that made him sad, and decided to come out and make a living.

What can the taciturn Tony do? He seems to be able to bring a gust of wind wherever he goes, and he is not liked. Besides, he can't do anything except for his passion for football. In the end, God gave him a chance.

England dissolved in the football craze in the summer of 1996. This once blocked country finally passed the most difficult and dark time, re-entered the world, and attracted attention from the world. Nottingham, located in central England, is the same. After experiencing the pain of relegation from the English Premier League in 1992-93, the Forest returned to the Premier League the following year. They then had a fantastic season. In the 1994-95 season, they were excited to win third place in the league and qualified for the UEFA Cup. After eleven years, the Forest returned to the European arena.

The Forest, which is still revisiting the glory of the European arena in the past, faces the problems that all small and medium ball clubs will encounter. Under the temptation of the big club's money, they sold the team's star Stan Collymore to the giants Liverpool for 8.5 million pounds, and also introduced new international Andre Sirenzi from Turin, Italy, but the deal cost the club 1.8 million pounds. The tall Italian scored 17 goals in a season with Turin and became an international player. But he did not expect that he would later become the biggest joke of the Forest this season.

It was at this time that Tony Donn came to the Forest team. The club made new personnel arrangements for their youth training camp and needed to recruit some staff. Tony, who loves football, walked into the gate of the Forest team's training base. His initial job was a stadium cleaner. But Tony knew where his real position was. He usually paid attention to the work of the coaches. He listened carefully to what they talked to the players and how to do it, and then began to think and learn by himself. He was only twenty-seven years old this year.

All the efforts of the Forests in the summer of this year ended up in vain. Eleven years later, they could no longer keep up with the pace of the European arena. Although they entered the quarterfinals of the League Cup, they were humiliated by the powerful Bayern Munich with a total score of 7:2 and were eliminated. At the same time, because of the two-line battles, their results in the domestic league were not satisfactory, and after the end of the season, they only ranked ninth.

The disappointed board fired Coach Frank Clarke who led the team back to the Premier League. The team's captain, Stuart Pearce, who is already 34 years old, became the team's acting coach. It was also in this year that Tony met the most important person in his life, Paul Hart. The Forest team dug him from the Leeds United youth team and became the head coach of the Forest youth team. He was the person who appeared several times in Don En's dream.

Paul Hart is a very famous youth team coach. When he worked at Leeds Club, he trained a group of treasures for the team: Jonathan Woodgate, Alan Smith, Paul Robinson, Harry Kewell... Look at these names that are now shining with stars, these are all masterpieces of coach Paul Hart.

Hart's arrival changed Tony's life trajectory. Hart, who has arrived in the team, lacked a trustworthy assistant. At this time, he fell in love with Tony Donn, who is eager to learn and motivated, so he suggested to the club to give Tony Donn a new contract. From then on, Tony became Hart's assistant coach and one of the four assistant coaches of the Forest Youth Team. He also embarked on the coaching path.

Hart values ​​Tony, who is serious and studious, never talks nonsense and always takes him with him on any occasion. Tony learns a lot from this successful youth team coach.

The Forest's youth training level has always been at the forefront in England, and Paul Hart's arrival has brought the Forest's youth training level to a higher level. He has brought an excellent youth team to the Forest, and the best in this team is a young man named Jermaine`Jenas.

The team performed well in the first half of the season, and Pierce demonstrated his talent as a coach. But the team's board of directors made a foolish mistake again. Instead of straightening Pierce, they invited Bassett to coach with him. The division of power caused the team's combat effectiveness to be damaged, and the team was finally inevitably relegated to Class A this season.

After being relegated, Forest was taken over by the current club chairman Niger Doggeti. He chose to believe in Bassett. Bassett lived up to expectations. After being relegated for a year, Forest successfully upgraded again. However, Mei Meng only worked for a year. In the 1999-2000 season, Forest was relegated again and Bassett was dismissed. Doggeti found David Pratt as the team's head coach. However, the team never recovered and could not return to the Premier League. Instead, they consumed their former passion and spirit in the first-tier league battles year after year.

In the summer of 2001, the FA appointed Pratt as the head coach of England youth team. Pratt gave his position as coach in the Forest team to Paul Hart. Paul Hart left his position as coach in the youth team to Tony Donn, which was recommended by Hart to Dogerty, who believed that Tony Donn had the talent to become a successful coach.

Jenas, who Hart values ​​very much, also joined him to the first team and competed in the League One for the Forests.

Tony Donne is a man who is indeed of a good level, although his later achievements in the youth team were based on Paul Hart. When he was the head coach of the youth team, several players began to emerge in the youth team, and they soon became the focus of attention in the youth team. For example, left-hand forward Andy Reid, and youth team captain Michael Dawson.

Tony Donne hopes that he can become a successful youth team coach like Paul Hart. He likes the pleasure of finding one or two treasures among a large group of children. The sense of accomplishment of seeing the tender grass grow into towering trees under his hands is no less than leading the team to the European Champions League.

However, his peaceful life was changed three days ago.

Paul Hart is not a coach with no level. In the summer of 2001, the team asked him to be the head coach in the hope of successfully advancing to the super League. Dogette invested a lot of money and borrowed from banks to build the team. From the media to the fans, everyone was full of confidence in the future of the team. In the words of the Nottingham Evening Post, "This is a Premier League team that should not be staying in the First Division". They are extremely strong and have great goals... All this has undergone fundamental changes due to a disaster outside the football field.

Previously, in order to compete with Sky TV, which broadcasts the Premier League, England Independent Television Digital (ITV) spent a sky-high price to purchase broadcast rights for all English leagues outside the Premier League. However, the attractiveness of the League One is not as good as the Super League. The TV station spent a lot of money but did not get the corresponding returns. The company's financial burden increased, and finally overwhelmed and declared bankruptcy.

The fire broke out in the city gate, which affected the fish. Countless low-level team owners and coaches found that they had no money to use overnight and were in debt. It turned out that the stars who spent a lot of money to sign in became the team's biggest burden at this time. The Forests invested the most at the beginning of the season, and naturally the most affected in this economic crisis. After a failed season, in order to ease the economic crisis, they had to sell off their high-paying players in the team. Among them were Jermaine Jenas, who was known as the spokesperson for England's youth training level, who transferred to Newcastle for 5 million pounds, setting the most expensive young player in English football history.

Jenas' transfer was not due to his wishes and the coach, but to alleviate the team's economic crisis. So despite teams like Liverpool, Arsenal, and Manchester United raising prices, he finally chose to go to Newcastle, which is the highest price. The sell-off of his subordinates also hit Paul Hart, and his original ambitions disappeared with the departure of Jenas.

The players with strength within the team are almost the same, and those who stay are panic, not knowing whether they will become the next target to be sold. A capable person is busy finding a new home for themselves, and his mind is not on the game. The results of such a team can be imagined. In the first half of the 2002-03 season, Forest team ranked in the middle, for a team that once had a brilliant tradition and was still playing in the Premier League in the past few years, such results did not satisfy the fans.

Finally, on the third day after Christmas, Paul Hart, who was under heavy pressure, took the initiative to resign to Chairman Nigel Doggety. The two talked for a long time. The chairman agreed to Hart's request for resignation. As compensation for his voluntary resignation, Hart recommended Tony Donn as the first-team head coach to the team and became his replacement.

Dogette is not unfamiliar with Tony and has a good impression of it. After all, he has worked in this team for seven years, working diligently and conscientiously. His coaching results in the past two years are also obvious to all. So on December 29, 2002, the Forest team officially announced that their youth team head coach Tony Donn became the first-team acting head coach until the end of the season.

The media and fans were very concerned about Tony's first first-team game, but unexpectedly, Don Eun made a huge joke on the sidelines, and the 0:3 score became a handle for others to attack him.

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"...Tony, it's nothing to lose, any coach will lose." The topic talked about the game that ended yesterday, and Burns comforted. "You have always done a good job in the youth team and have proved your ability to others."

Tang En also thought of the scene that happened on the sidelines yesterday and the people he met at this bar at night. He was ridiculed on TV, and he was ridiculed outside TV. The most fundamental reason was not that he was injured and left the court by his own player, but because he lost the ball. As long as he lost the ball, he would be scolded, laughed at, and looked down upon. Other trivial mistakes will be amplified, amplified, and then magnified because of the game's defeat.

"Kenny, I know you're right...but I just... hate failure so much!" Tang En drank the glass of wine in one breath and then put the glass back on the table. He looked drunk.

Burns did not continue to pour wine for Donn: "I also hate failure. No one who plays football likes failure. But there are some things you have to go through. The first team and the youth team are very different. I think even if you get nothing this season, no one will blame you or something. I know you are not prepared, and we still have next season..."

His words were interrupted by the door, the bar door was pushed open, and several heads poked in.

"Hey, Kenny! Is your bar open yet?"

Burns then looked down at his watch: "Oh, damn, it's already eleven forty. I have to do business."

"Come in, guys!" He waved to the people at the door, then turned around and turned on the lights.

The door was open, and seven or eight people hugged each other and walked in. The bar, which was still very deserted and dim just now, suddenly became lively. People's anger even made the room brighter. They talked about various topics together, and then walked to the bar to ask for wine.

At this time, Tang En, who was curled up in a corner of the bar, was seen. Someone quickly recognized him. "Yoyo! Look who this is? Uncle Tony Tang En, who was knocked over by his own people on the stadium yesterday! Yoyo! Now he is huddled in the Forest Bar and drunk! Yoyo! Is this the secret to winning the next FA Cup game of the Forest?!" A young man danced with his hands, his movements and tone seemed to be singing a black rap. His appearance made people around him amused.

When Tang En heard the noise behind him, he slowly turned around and looked at the man with his eyes narrowed. He had no impression of the young man, but he must have been there last night as well.

"You little bastard with no hair grows all over..." Tang En struggled to stand up. Although his real age was only twenty-six, his body was thirty-four years old, so he could take advantage of it without hesitation.

Seeing that Tang En wanted to stand up, the person who came was not kind. The people who were still laughing next to him were alert. Yesterday, they saw how Tang En quickly knocked down the tall Michael. Michael with blood was taught a lesson by his wife when he came home. Now he didn't even dare to come to the bar and could only coax his wife at home. Only the young man who had never seen Tang En's powerful man seriously did not take it seriously. He posed as a boxer, jumping around, and kept shouting: "Come on, baby! Don't think I'm afraid of you!"

With a "dong!", it was not the sound of someone's nose being hit on the front, but the sound of a heavy beer mug hitting the table.

"Whose Irish stout?" Burns asked, putting his face between the two.

The young man immediately took back his fist and went to get the wine: "Uh, mine..."

Burns shook his glass in front of his hand: "Don't make trouble in my place." Hearing this, everyone honestly came to his mind.

Tang En didn't like this group of people at all. Seeing them flooding the bars, he felt that he should leave.

Burns personally sent him out of the bar, then grabbed him and said to him, "Tony. I think if you don't know how to train the team for the time being, and direct them... you can give it all to your assistant until you think you're in a better position."

Don looked up at him: "Thank you, Kenny."

Burns smiled: "You're welcome. In addition, Michael and the others are not bad people. They are the most loyal Forest fans. It's just that the team's performance has been too bad over the years, and they're so heartbroken. I hope you don't take it to heart. In the game the day after tomorrow, you will see their cute side."

Tang Endidn's mouth, nothing said.

"Do it well. Happy New Year, Tony."

"So too, happy New Year, Kenny..." Donn waved to Burns, then turned around and turned crookedly across the street corner.

Burns looked at his back, shook his head gently, and turned around and walked back to the bar.

"I really don't understand, Kenny, why are you so good to that idiot..." The fat man who mocked Don't last night couldn't help complaining when he saw Burns walking back.

Burns thought of the expression when Donn lie on the table and said that he hated failure. It was indeed from the heart, without any concealment of "hate". He turned his head and looked at the fat man and said, "John, if you talk nonsense, I won't let you come here to drink."

"Wow, I never dared to do it again!"

The laughter of men suddenly sounded in the bar.

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Even across a wall, Tang En could still hear the laughter coming from the bar. At this time, he was not walking erratic, with his waist straight, and he didn't look like he was drunk at all.

He stood by the roadside, waiting for the green light of the crosswalk to light up, and recalled Burns' advice to himself just now in his mind.

"Will you let the assistant coach do it? That's a really good idea."

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