Although the shooting schedule given by Clarice Gloria was very detailed, it was actually very simple. It was impossible for the film crew of so many people to stay in the Forest team for a long time, and Tang En would not give them too much time. The filming time was only five days.
Gloria's plan was to film a Forest game after a few days of training, so that the training and game could be filmed together.
The training part was all about those things. Only the game made Gloria look forward to it more. Her only worry was …
"The newspapers say your team is in trouble, Mr. Tang En." Gloria took a copy of The Sun and turned to the sports page. Nottingham Forest had not won in the last two rounds of the league tournament. They lost to Everton in the 28th round of the league tournament and were forced to a draw by Manchester City in the 29th round of the league tournament. Therefore, there was a voice in the media that the Forest team was in a bad situation.
Tang En scoffed at this.
"I don't think much about it, Miss Gloria. I think it proves from another angle that the Forest team is very strong. "
"Oh?" Gloria was very interested in what Tang En had said.
"We've only not won in two rounds of the league tournament, and the media has already begun to call out that the Forest team is done for. Don't you think this just shows that they're used to seeing the Forest team win? "
Gloria smiled, and her eyes curved into crescent moons.
The day's training was over. The players came out of the locker room one after another and walked to the parking lot. Their work was over. The members of the film crew were also busy packing up the equipment. Their work for the day was also over.
Gloria followed Tang En to his office to discuss the filming of the game the day after because it involved entering the locker room for filming.
"Well, let's get down to business, Miss Gloria. Generally speaking, the media is absolutely not allowed to enter the team's locker room, let alone the media carrying cameras. "
Gloria nodded to show that she was aware of this convention.
"But … I once let a large group of fans into the locker room to help me teach the players a lesson during halftime, so it's not a big deal to let a group of media carrying cameras in again," Tang En said as he sat in his seat. Gloria sat on the sofa opposite him and looked at him. "It's just that you can't film the whole time. I can only give you a few minutes."
Gloria tilted her head when she heard what Twain said. "A few minutes? Mr. Twain, this is too short. By the time we finish setting up the machine, it will be almost time. "
"You can go in and set up the machine in advance. In fact, the preparation time before a match and the intermission time itself isn't long. Even if you filmed the whole city, you wouldn't be able to capture anything … Besides, there are some things that I can't say in front of the TV cameras. "
During the filming of training, even though Tang En had previously said that the club would fully cooperate with them, in reality? Physical recovery training, physical training, technical training, and so on were allowed to film the entire process. Once it involved tactical drills, the film crew had to be asked to leave the training ground.
So Gloria knew about it too.
"Alright, I understand, Mr. Twain." She pretended to sigh regretfully. "It's a pity that we can't capture the most exciting things …"
"The most exciting?"
"I've heard a lot of stories about you scolding your opponents in the locker room to boost the players' morale."
Tang En scratched his head. "Then all the more I can't let you film. This is a private story in the locker room."
Gloria raised both her hands. "Yes, Boss!"
These days, she had followed the team for filming and training, and she had also learned the way the players addressed Tang En.
Tang En froze for a moment when he heard Gloria suddenly call him that.
Looking at the surprised expression on Tang En's face, Gloria laughed mischievously.
Amidst the laughter, Gloria stood up and walked up to Tang En. She held out her hand. "After filming the game the day after tomorrow, we'll be leaving Nottingham. I think we'll be busy packing all kinds of equipment and luggage at that time. Mr. Tang En, you'll definitely be with the team, and no one will have much time. So, I'd like to invite Mr. Tang En to dinner tonight. I wonder if you have the time, Mr. Tang En? "
Tang En looked up at Gloria standing in front of him. What a beauty she was.
He looked down at the fair and delicate little hand again.
"It's my honor to be invited by a beauty." Tang En reached out and gently held Gloria's little hand.
He would let Dunn settle the dinner alone.
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Although Gloria said she would treat, as the host, as a man, how could he let a female guest treat him? So, the meal was still Tang En's treat.
Since it was Tang En's treat, it was up to Tang En to decide where to eat. Tang En was not very interested in Western food. If he had been interested in it at the beginning, after eating it for so many years, he no longer had any interest. Indian restaurants were everywhere in Britain, but Tang En hated Indian food. He could not stand the smell of curry. In Tang En's eyes, there was nothing delicious about British restaurants. As for French cuisine, he might as well go to France to eat.
Of course, the most important point was that Tang En had a preference for Chinese cuisine because he was a transmigrator from China. If he wanted to treat, he would naturally choose a Chinese restaurant. Although the Chinese restaurants in Nottingham were expensive and not authentic, it was better than eating Indian food.
Anyway, Gloria had never eaten authentic Chinese food and could not tell the difference between good and bad.
So, Gloria ate happily, thinking she had finally eaten the legendary delicacy. Seeing the beautiful host reveal a satisfied expression like that of a little girl, Tang En snickered in his heart. Such "delicacies" were plentiful in China. Almost every family knew how to make them. The foreigners were really ignorant!
"I've seen some relevant information about Mr. Tang En. It's said that Mr. Tang En likes Chinese culture very much. I didn't expect you to know so much about Chinese cuisine."
"I can also speak fluent Mandarin. But there's no chance to do so here."
"Isn't there a Chinese player in your team … Sun?"
"Yes, I never speak Mandarin to him." Tang En was telling the truth. Ever since Sun Jihai came to the team, he only spoke English when facing the Chinese player, whether it was in the team setting up tactics or private conversations. Even though both of them could speak Mandarin, they did not use it. Now, there was only one situation where Tang En did not speak English but Mandarin. That was when he returned home and spoke to Dunn. Initially, Dunn thought that since he was in Britain, he should speak English. In the end, Tang En told him to speak Mandarin when the two of them were around.
Tang En felt a little unaccustomed to the fact that he had an Asian face and was speaking a language that was not his mother tongue. Of course, it was not within Tang En's consideration whether Dunn would feel uncomfortable speaking a language that was not his mother tongue with a foreigner's face.
"Why? If you can speak fluent Mandarin, so can Sun. Wouldn't it be easier to communicate that way? "
"Of course, it's very convenient. But it's not that Sun can't speak English, and it's not that he can't understand. Under such circumstances, there's no need for me to be a translator in the locker room. Everyone speaks English, whether they're Spanish, French, or Italian. The first thing they do when they come to Nottingham Forest is to learn the language. If I speak Mandarin with Sun, it will give people the illusion that he's not a member of this team. That's not good. Different languages are the main reason for communication barriers. I don't want people to think that the Chinese player, Sun Jihai, is the special one, the one who doesn't fit in with the team. "Tang En shrugged. "He's a Nottingham Forest player. It has nothing to do with his nationality or language."
Hearing this, Gloria was silent for a moment.
Tang En saw the awkward silence and decided to tell a joke to liven up the atmosphere. "Speaking of the players' language and nationality, I thought of a joke. Do you want to hear it, Miss Gloria?"
Gloria retracted her contemplative gaze and nodded with a smile.
"We all know that after Abramovich took over Chelsea, he brought a lot of money to the club, allowing them to buy the best players in the world — as long as they wanted to come. But in fact, before the Russian tycoon, Chelsea was a famous multinational team in the English Premier League. When Gullit coached the team, he once set a record — there was not a single native English player in the team's starting eleven. " Tang En told the story seriously. Looking at it now, the joke was not funny at all. It was more like he was telling Gloria a piece of football history. "Later, Chelsea had a new manager, the Italian Ranieri. He was a successful manager in both Spain and Italy, an Italian. When he took over the team, the first problem he had to face was not the team's tactics, lineup, or transfers, but the language. Because Chelsea had too many foreign players, the media mocked Ranieri's poor English at that time. When he had to explain the tactics to the main players, he usually told the assistant manager, Wilkinson. Wilkinson would first tell the tactics to the English players in the team in English, and then Ranieri himself would tell it to Zola in Italian. Then he would tell it again in Spanish to the Spanish players, Argentine players, and Uruguayan players in the team. As for the French players, Ranieri would first tell it to Desailly in Italian, and then the French player, who had played in Italy, would repeat it to his compatriots. Everyone had to say the same sentence many times, and no one knew what it meant in the end. Have you ever played that game, Miss Gloria? "
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