"Uncle Tony, I watched that episode of the show. But can I make a suggestion? "
"Sure."
"Next time you're on TV, remember to iron your suit …" Shania laughed happily.
Tang En scratched his head with the phone in his hand.
Ever since the incident at Inter Milan, he and Shania had reconciled. This was perhaps something that made Tang En happier than eliminating Inter Milan. They could chat on the phone and online like before. Clarice Gloria was no longer a problem, even though Tang En was still in contact with that beautiful woman until now.
After the away game against Inter Milan, the English media did hype up the topic of the "scandal" between him and Gloria. This time, Tang En turned a deaf ear to it. He did not appear in front of the media to explain his relationship with Gloria, and Gloria did not respond to the topic again. Over time, everyone got bored, or they found other topics of interest. The relationship between Tang En and Gloria was gradually forgotten, and people's interest in Tang En shifted back to football itself.
Shania laughed loudly on the other end of the phone. Her bell-like laughter sounded like a melodious tune. Tang En enjoyed listening to it, so he did not speak.
"No matter what, you're a big star now. You have to pay attention to your public image, Uncle Tony."
"It's okay. I'm careful. It's good enough that I don't wear sportswear all day. You haven't seen what Dunn wears. That's bad! "
As Tang En said that, he could even feel Shania rolling her eyes on the other end of the phone.
"Two men living together. It's really the end of the world. How often do you clean the room? How often do you wash the clothes? "
Tang En suddenly felt that this was not the tone a junior should use to an elder.
"Uh, it's okay. It's okay. Hehe."
Shania sighed. For men, this was considered a chronic illness. She could not do anything about it. "How's Auntie Sophia?" She changed the topic. "How's her health?"
"It's okay. She's been recovering. Dunn and I go for a meal every two weeks now. She's in good spirits. "
"I'm so sorry that we didn't spend Christmas together last year. I don't know if I can do it this year … Christmas is my busiest time every year … I really hate this job!"
"Shania."
"Alright, alright, I'm just saying it casually. I'm not going to chat anymore. I'm going to sleep. I still have work tomorrow! "
"So early?" Twain raised his wrist to look at his watch. It was three minutes past nine in the evening.
"Only with enough sleep can I take better care of myself."
"Alright. Good night, Shania. Sweet dreams. "Tang En laughed when he heard Shania say such words in a mature manner.
"Good night, Uncle Tony."
After hanging up, Tang En walked down from the bedroom upstairs. Dunn was still quietly watching the matches and training videos. Tang En stood at the top of the stairs and looked at the messy living room. There were all sorts of video tape packaging, clothes taken off, newspapers scattered on the floor, and the sofa.
He had always lived in such an environment, but after hearing what Shania said, he felt that it was a little unbearable. He went down and began to tidy up the room.
Dunn heard a noise behind him and turned his head to look. "What are you doing?"
"Cleaning up."
"At this time?" Dunn looked up at the clock on the wall.
"Of course. I'll do it when I think of it."
Dunn saw that he was going to tidy up the video tape packaging and hurriedly stood up. "I'll do this."
Tang En did not stand on ceremony and handed the task of tidying up the video tape packaging to him. He carried the dirty clothes on the sofa to the bathroom and threw them all into the washing machine. When he came out, he was holding a rag ready to wipe the table.
"You … finished talking to Shania?" Dunn guessed the reason when he saw Tang En so motivated.
Tang En nodded.
"She's coming?"
Tang En looked up at Dunn and shook his head. "No. I just suddenly feel that it's too scary that we've been living in a dump. "
Dunn grinned and said nothing.
"Hey, Dunn. I say, you should also consider your marriage, right? " Looking at Dunn, who was dressed casually to the point of being sloppy, Tang En thought that if there was a woman who could take care of his life, enter his heart, and occupy an important position, it might be able to effectively improve his character and temper.
"But I'm not interested in women right now."
"Oh, please … I get nervous when you say that."
Dunn looked at Tang En's nervous expression and suddenly smiled. The smile flashed across his face for a moment before disappearing. "China's law states that a man must be older than 23 when he marries. According to my age, I've just passed the average. There are still many people in their thirties who are not married. "
"But your actual age …" Tang En thought of the special status of the two of them. "Ah, what the hell …"
"I'm Dunn now, the 24-year-old Dunn."
Tang En coughed twice. "That's right, that's right. I'm Tang En, Tony Twain. "
"At the age of 37, Tony Twain hasn't thought about his marriage either, has he?"
Tang En glared at the person who said that. "There's a historical reason for that. There's something I'm very interested in. How much of my memory do you keep, Dunn? I only kept the memory of the period after you came here. I know nothing about the period before that. What about you? "
"Very complete," Dunn replied. "From when I was sensible until now."
"I thought it was an equivalent exchange …" Tang En muttered. He had never known about the memories of the previous Tang En before he came to Nottingham Forest. After meeting Dunn, Dunn had not told him. So, he thought that Dunn must have deliberately not wanted others to know. That memory might be very important to him, very beautiful, so he did not want others to share it. But it did not matter. Dunn did not want to say, and Tang En did not force him. It was not like he could not live without that memory. He did not care about those things.
"Because … I've been trying very hard to forget those days in the past, so you don't remember," Dunn said, as if he could read Tang En's mind. Tang En was not surprised. The two of them always had a feeling of telepathy when they were together. Perhaps it was because they had exchanged bodies and souls.
It did not look good …
"Then, have you forgotten?"
"… No."
Tang En did not intend to pry into other people's privacy. So, even though he was curious about what kind of days Dunn was trying so hard to forget, he did not continue asking.
"Do you want to know?" He did not expect Dunn to take the initiative to bring it up.
"Huh?" Tang En was surprised.
"Do you want to know about 'your' past?"
Tang En did not know if he should say yes or not. He really wanted to know what had happened in the past with Tony Twain's body, but … "But, didn't you always not want to talk about it?"
"I want to talk about it now."
"Why all of a sudden …"
"Because I think it's unfair to you. I know all of 'your' past, but you don't know 'my' past. Are you busy tomorrow? "
"Tomorrow? Uh, I have to lead the team to London tomorrow to play Chelsea. "
Dunn looked at Tang En. "That's a difficult team to deal with."
Tang En shrugged. "Maybe."
"Do you need any advice?"
Tang En shook his head. "No, thanks. But we'll talk about this after you become a First Team manager. "
"Okay. When you come back from London, I'll take you to see 'your' past. "
A "beep beep beep" sound came from the bathroom.
"Ah, it's all done. I'm going to hang up the clothes." Tang En threw down the rag and turned to leave the living room.
Dunn stacked the videotape boxes together, then picked up the rag that Tang En threw down and continued doing what he was doing.
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After eliminating Inter Milan, Tang En could finally put his mind on the domestic league for the time being. Currently, Nottingham Forest and Manchester United were only two points apart. A draw would allow the other team to tie the points, and a loss would put them behind. In the final stages of the league tournament, Forest still had two tough battles: a home game against Manchester United and an away game against Chelsea.
Although the top four teams in the league tournament would qualify for next season's UEFA Champions League, there was still a difference between directly entering the main competition and needing to participate in the qualifiers. Not to mention the fact that playing a few more games would affect the team's summer preparations, just the issue of face was not a small matter. If a strong team always needed to rely on the qualifiers to participate in the main competition, it would be such a disgrace.
The game against Chelsea was a tough battle. The good news for Tang En was that the game was not scheduled between the two Champions League games. Otherwise, he would have given up on the league tournament and focused on the Champions League. But now, he had a week to prepare, make a detailed plan, formulate a tactical strategy, and carefully study his opponent.
He was so busy that he forgot to "quarrel" with Mourinho. This greatly disappointed the media, who were waiting for a good show and ready to take the opportunity to hype things up.
Tang En did not have time to satisfy the media and the curious masses.
"Guys, we didn't prepare for a week to come here and lose," Tang En said to his players before the game.
In this game, Tang En unexpectedly did not use his most commonly used "defense" tactic. Not only did it surprise the audience, but it also surprised Mourinho. At Chelsea's home ground, Nottingham Forest did not choose to conservatively defend the goal. Instead, they launched an attack against Chelsea, who wanted to use their offense to massacre the game.
Their unreserved attacks stunned those who thought that Tang En could do nothing but defend. The game entered a white-hot phase right from the start. The tempo of the change between offense and defense was astonishing. Of course, it was also very intense. In the first half alone, the referee showed a total of six yellow cards to the players on both sides, an average of three per team.
Chelsea was the first to break the goal. They seized the opportunity when the Forest team pressed forward to launch a counterattack. Drogba leaned on Piqué in front of the penalty area. Just when the Forest players thought he was waiting for his teammates to receive and thus shifted their defensive attention to the others, he suddenly turned and volleyed. The football flew beautifully into the goal, shocking the commentator and incessantly exclaiming, "Unbelievable."
The Chelsea people were not happy for long. The Forest team equalized the score. Even though the goal was an own goal scored by a Chelsea player himself. Carvalho made a mistake under Eastwood's pressing in the front field. He headed Ashley Young's pass into his own goal.
Both sides entered the second half with a score of 1: 1. They switched sides and fought again. The main theme of the attack remained unchanged.
The goals were not over. Both sides scored in a regular pattern. The home team scored first to lead the away team, and then the away team tried to find a way to equalize the score. Then the home team seized the opportunity to take the lead again, and the away team once again tenaciously equalized the score.
When the referee blew the final whistle, the score was fixed at 3: 3. Tony Twain used a different kind of "defense" to hold on to a point in the away game, while Mourinho still did not break his embarrassing record of not winning against the Forest team in the league tournament.
"3: 3, you lunatic." Mourinho smiled in front of the television cameras when they shook hands after the game, but he gritted his teeth as he spoke to Tang En. He did not expect Tang En to be so bold in the away game. There was an imposing manner of cutting off all means of retreat, which caught the Chelsea players by surprise.
"A crazy match needs to be created by two crazy head coaches," Tang En replied with a smile on his face.
In a place where the media could not hear, the two men had a brief confrontation. The result was a draw.
In fact, this result was the worst that Tang En could accept, but he had no other choice. It was a little difficult to beat the current Chelsea team at home. Mourinho's team was in its best form. They were almost invincible.
With Manchester United and Forest in hot pursuit, Tang En urgently needed to widen the gap in points again, but they had to run into Chelsea at this juncture. It was already very impressive for Tang En not to lose the game.
On the way back to Nottingham, Tang En finally received a piece of good news. In a match between the strongest teams, Manchester United, who was ranked third, and Liverpool, who was ranked fourth, tied in an away game. Neither side gained the upper hand, but Tony Twain gained the upper hand.
When Kerslake announced the news, there was a burst of cheers in the car. Tang En fooled around with the players for a while, but he turned his head to the window and fell into deep thought as he looked at the passing scenery outside.
Manchester United did not win. The difference in points between the two sides was still two points. At the same time, Arsenal, who had focused on the Champions League this season, also exerted its strength in the final stages of the league tournament and caught up. They were only three points away from the fourth-ranked Liverpool in the league tournament. Because Liverpool, Arsenal, and Tottenham were a little far from the top three in the league, the last Champions League spot would be produced among these three teams. It could be foreseen that the last few rounds of the league tournament would be very, very cruel for these three teams.
As for the battle between Manchester United and Nottingham Forest for the second place in the league tournament, it was meaningless. At that time, Tony Twain could also sit on the television and watch them fight to the death for a Champions League spot.
When the league tournament reached the 33rd round, Tang En reviewed the season. What allowed him to rest easy now was the team's eight-game winning streak in the middle of the league tournament, which helped the team earn a lot of points. After the Champions League restarted, the team's results immediately began to become unstable. In the last three rounds of the league tournament, they had not won a single game, with one loss and two draws. Looking back a little further, they had only won one game in seven rounds of the league tournament. The reason why they were now being chased by Manchester United was because of the terrible results of one win, two losses, and three draws in these seven rounds of the league tournament.
Although Tang En was now a famous manager in Europe, his mind was still very clear.
This season, coupled with Wenger's shift of focus from the domestic league tournament to the European arena, coupled with Manchester United's continued slump, the traditional strong teams did not show their due strength, which allowed Forest to rise to the top. If Forest's goal was only to guarantee participation in European competitions every year, then Tang En should be very satisfied. But his goal was to win the championship. How could this kind of performance be worthy of being a champion? If he could not solve the problem of the team's stability in multiple competitions, then next year would probably be the same.
"Tony, what's on your mind?" David Kerslake asked him with a smile.
"Ah … Nothing. You're in a good mood? "
"Manchester United didn't win, and we weren't overtaken. What reason is there to be in a bad mood?"
Tang En smiled. "We can't always hope for our opponents to perform badly. I think we should sum up our mistakes this season, David."
Kerslake stopped smiling. "The season isn't over yet."
"We have to prepare for a rainy day."
"But I think you've done enough."
"David." Tang En looked at his assistant manager and said, "You have to know that we're a team that wants to win the championship."
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After returning to Nottingham and announcing the team's disbandment and resuming training the next afternoon, Tang En went home alone and found that Dunn was already waiting for him. The two of them did not call Randy's taxi. Instead, they took the streetcar and went directly to the small town of Eastwood in the northwest of the city.
"He has the same name as one of your First Team subordinates." Standing outside a small church, Dunn said to Tang En like a tour guide, "Eastwood, my former hometown."
When he saw the church, Tang En more or less guessed something.
They went straight through the front of the church and into the graveyard behind. Dunn stopped in front of a tombstone whose name had been eroded by the wind and rain. He bent down to take a closer look and then stood up to say, "This is' my 'father."
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