Godfather Of Champions

Chapter 808: Volume Six Crimson POMO

Before the game between Nottingham Forest and Norwich, the media scrambled to report this news:

Carl Spike, the host of Sky TV's "Football Things...", appeared as a bald head in the show last night. Spike, who had been confirmed to have lost the bet with Tony Dunn, was willing to accept the bet and shaved his hair. Mr. Carl Spike became the second public figure to lose in a bet with Tony Dunn. The first was Mark Lawrenson who lost his beard. His beard has not grown until now...

Of course this is a scandal for Spike, but it is a good thing for Sky TV. Because they can use this opportunity to further build the reputation of the show. So before the show, they advertised that Karl Spike would appear in a "new image" on the show later. The show that day created a new high in ratings.

Dunn did not forget to sprinkle salt on the wound and laughed at Spike in the column: "He should be grateful that he had to make this bet with me. I heard that their ratings have soared. That is all my credit. I think Sky TV should seriously consider giving me dividends."

In the away locker room, the players of the Forest team celebrated Ibisevic's 20th season goal. However, he did not start this game.

The media knew that a day before the starting list, Tony Dunn was about to engage in rotation, there was nothing to hide.

The forward who replaced Ibisevic in the starting field was not Eastwood, nor Abang Raho, but the young teenager Aaron Mitchell. This is his first appearance in an official competition on behalf of Nottingham Forest.

This arrangement is not unexpected. After all, Nottingham Forest will face its rival Barcelona in the home game next week. There is really no need for an opponent like Norwich to put in the strongest lineup.

Aaron Mitchell might think that this day is the most memorable day of his career, because when he was a central defender, he never thought that he could be a part of Nottingham Forest at such a fast time. Players represent the team in the starting field in the league.

But Dunn didn't take any special care of this lucky kid. What he said to the team is what he wants to say to this kid.

"I don't know if you feel one foot is deep and the other is shallow when you walk on the court for a while?"

The players burst into laughter. They have been training on that terrible training ground for the past half a week. They injured three on the first day, and Eastwood was also among them. Fortunately, they warmed up enough, and they were not seriously injured. In order to hurry up, Dunn even rushed to the away game on the morning of the game. For the Champions League, he was ready to give up the league.

"Norwich’s stadium turf quality is definitely not as good as the Nou Camp, but it must be much better than our training ground. Don’t forget all your physical memories because of this place. To be honest, I won’t be able to play this game. It doesn't matter if you put any pressure on you, it doesn't matter if you win or lose. You treat yourself as if you are still training on that bad ground. Keeping your physical memory is your only task in this game."

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After the game started, the players of Nottingham Forest showed a state of surprise to outsiders. This is not a question of slow heating or slow heating at all. The players of the Forest team seemed to be unable to play collectively, and their performance was rather poor.

From the simplest running point of view, it is obvious that football is closer to the players of the Forest team. Under normal circumstances, the ball must have been won by the Forest team.

But in this game, the players of Nottingham Forest seemed to be unable to run. From the start point of view, they were very weak, and they couldn't keep up with the Norwich players at all in the mid-run. Just watched the football get ahead of the opponent. Take away.

"I really doubt that the forest team players went out to prostitutes collectively last night, otherwise how to explain their weak legs?" The commentator also felt that such a forest team is really ugly.

"The desire to win is not strong, and the body is not right. What has Tony Dunn training on for three days of closed training?"

"Only God knows..."

Aaron Mitchell was replaced after sixty-five minutes of the first game. Due to the team's inexplicable "downturn" on the field, his personal performance was not ideal. None of the header and foot skills that he was good at was displayed. On the contrary, due to his slightly thin body, he was still at a disadvantage in the physical confrontation with the opponent's central defender.

Ibisevic, who came on the field, did not see any improvement. This makes it even more difficult for the commentators to understand-"Why are Nottingham Forest in such a bad state from the start on the field to the off-court bench? Did they have any witchcraft?"

In the end, everyone was in a bad state and could not find the game state on the court. Nottingham Forest, who seemed to not be able to play, unexpectedly lost 0:1 to Norwich in the away game, bursting out the biggest upset in the league this round. . You know before that, Norwich ranked first from the bottom, almost certainly relegated.

After the game, in the mixed zone, the losing Nottingham Forest players became the target of the media. All reporters want to ask the forest team players a question: "Can you explain your poor performance in this game?"

Most players may refuse to answer questions because they are in a bad mood after losing. Even if a few people answered, they actually didn't say anything: "The state is inaccurate. We feel that there is no problem, but there is a problem in the game, so we don't know where the problem is."

Well, these players are obviously unwilling to cooperate with the reporters' work, perhaps because they themselves feel that their performance is too bad and are ashamed to answer such questions. So the reporters moved to the post-match press conference site to listen to what Dunn said. As usual, Tony Dunn must be very angry when his team played such a bad game.

But what did they see at the scene?

Tony Dunn smiled and sat in front of a row of microphones, talking about the game that had just ended.

"Football is like this. You can never say that because we are strong, we deserve to win. Nor can we celebrate the victory before the start of the game. No one knows the result before the last second. For such a game. It turns out I am really sorry."

Can anyone see the slightest "regret" look on his face?

"The team is not in shape, I am also very angry."

Is he really angry? "Laughing and angry"?

"Finally, I want to congratulate Mr. Glenn Rod, his team played a beautiful game." Dunn stood up and shook hands with Rod, who was proud of him. The two can be considered to be quite related-Dunn's opponent in the debut battle is West Ham led by this man. At that time, he showed his "big mouth talent" for the first time in a press conference. Not only did he successfully curse West Ham's relegation, but he also let himself know for the first time where the England Football Association's door opened.

Now eight years later, Mr. Rod appeared before Dunn after experiencing heart disease and cerebral thrombosis. But this time he is neither the head coach of West Ham nor the guarding head coach of Newcastle, but he has become the head coach of newly promoted Manovic. Last season, he led the team to qualify for promotion, but this season he is likely to bring the team back to the Championship. At this critical time, being able to defeat the powerful enemy Nottingham Forest is naturally a matter of giving charcoal.

Unfortunately, even so, he could not be the protagonist at the press conference. Instead, Dunn, who lost the ball, became the focus of much attention. If it wasn't for Dun En to stand up and shake hands with him and congratulate him, he still doesn't know how long it will take to wait for the attention of reporters.

After the game, Norwich's victory over Nottingham Forest became a big upset, but what appeared in a prominent position was the article analyzing why Nottingham Forest suddenly couldn't find its status. Poor Mr. Glenn Rod...

Some people say that this is Dunn’s rotation to face Barcelona, ​​but the strength of the Forest team, even if the full rotation is completed, will not be defeated against a team of this level of Norwich?

Others say that the away loss to Barcelona has a profound impact on Nottingham Forest. There have been gaps in their indestructible locker room, and Tony Dunn, who would only jump up and swear, could not control his stars. Today's Nottingham Forest is like a loose sand. After losing two games in a row, morale has dropped to the bottom, and Barcelona's opportunity has come.

What's more, the analysis of Dunn's abnormal performance in the post-match press conference shows that after he lost control of the team, he and the club's top management have also turned their faces. He's totally broken jars. There are already rumors that if you lose to Barcelona, ​​Tony Dunn will get out of Vilford. The Manchester United club has already initialed an agreement with Dunn in private. When he leaves Nottingham Forest, he will immediately go to Manchester United to take office.

These rumors are half true and half false, some cannot stand scrutiny at all, and some seem quite reasonable. True and false are mixed together, and readers can't tell the truth. Can only be led by the media.

For these media reports, Dunn chose silence, and Nottingham Forest also chose silence. It's like a nuclear submarine diving into the deep sea, hibernating in the dark, so that the enemy can't figure out their movements and don't know what they are going to do.

The only trouble is that some people in the Nottingham Forest fan community believe these rumors. After all, the game was really ugly, almost catching up with the game they lost to Bolton at home. And Tony Dunn didn't lose his temper uncharacteristically. It's no wonder that some Forest fans want to get crooked.

But from this point of view, Nottingham Forest’s confidentiality work is doing really well.

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While continuing to spread rumors that Tony Dunn was about to dismiss get out of class, the players of Nottingham Forest continued to train on that rotten vegetable patch. After these few days of "spoiling", the site has become even worse.

However, this has little effect on the training effect, because Nottingham Forest does not conduct any ground coordination training. This week, the focus of the team's training is on the sky-long pass.

The forward attacking player is required to handle the ball as simple as possible, and the sooner the better. Don't think about how to play a subtle ground to cooperate-in fact, many players did think so at the beginning, but when they saw the ball they passed on this kind of venue, they couldn't even want it. After going there, they gave up such unrealistic ideas.

To put it bluntly, the only trick to playing on such uneven and uneven grass is to minimize the contact between the football and the ground, so golf is king.

If the defenders are guarding the ball, they must go forward with their big feet; the double-back midfielders do not use short passes but long passes when switching between offense and defense; full-backs frequently pass diagonally at 45 degrees, not Cross from the bottom. Then put a high center forward with a good header at the front, wherever the high center forward is, the football will pass. In addition, practice set-kick tactics, whether it is offensive or defensive, set-kick will become the top priority of that game. Because Dunn knew very well that his tactics might not be able to get more direct shot opportunities, and he needed other means to score. Set ball is the best choice.

The players of Nottingham Forest will not be too unfamiliar with this style of play, and they will not think that this is a new thing made on a whim. Because even when the Forest team played the most beautiful, they could see this kind of "efficiency football" or "ugly football" in their tactics. Otherwise, why do the media always scold them?

The coaches in Nottingham Forest will not be surprised. Because Tony Dunn's initial success in the Forest team relied on efficient football and "the ball is useless". Only later he revised his tactics a little bit to make the forest team's play style richer and more beautiful. It’s just this time that Dunn has taken the “uselessness of possession” to the extreme and moved to a famous extreme-POMO (Positions_of_Maximum_Opportunity), which means "theory of position of maximum opportunity", which is the famous set of "British long pass. ".

Almost all coaches in England know and are familiar with this theory, because this theory was created by Charles Hughes, the man who had the greatest influence on English football in the last century, and used him as a player from the 1960s to the 1990s. The position of Technical Director of the Football Association of England has been widely promoted and is the chief culprit for the lack of development and even retrogression in the technical style of English football.

This is a typical example of "talking on paper" in football. The theory is impeccable, but the actual situation is totally different and totally different. That being the case, why would Dunn suddenly decide to use this extreme tactic?

Since POMO has been promoted in England for 30 years and has a profound impact, it must have its merits, even if it is small. George Graham's Arsenal were successful in the early 1990s, although they played rough football that Arsenal fans themselves were tired of. But they won the championship, and that's the merit.

A bad venue is obviously very suitable for long passes. Dunn said he could do whatever he could to win, so it wouldn't be a big deal to resurrect the "notorious" POMO once in Nottingham Forest.

Winners will smile even if they are scolded, and losers will not be happy even if they get more praise.

The Catalan media will always criticize Dunn for one reason-his football is ugly and full of utilitarianism. He is the biggest football hooligan in England.

Then Dunn will tell them: ugly and utilitarian, have you ever seen what is the ugliest and most utilitarian football? It doesn't matter if you haven't seen it, I'll open your eyes right away! (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, authors are supported, and genuine reading is supported!)

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