Chapter 298: Volume 3: Red Forest, Winning FA Cup (Part 1)

Evan Dalgety didn't lie to Twain. On the second day, all the media in Nottingham who were pro-Forest reported on the contract extension. The Nottingham Evening Post, which had the best relationship with the Forest team, even used He used the nasty words of "determining the future contract extension" to characterize Wood's contract renewal with the Forest team.

Even when the Forest team introduced Mikel Arteta a few days ago, the media were not as positive as this time. It seems that Evan has really put in a lot of effort.

George Wood accepted the media interview for the first time at the behest of his agent Billy Wooks. Tang En glanced at the report and knew that Wood's answer must have been drawn up by Wu Kesi. But the meaning of what they said is similar, it just seems to be more flexible in expression.

Twain believes that Evan Dougherty is so high-profile in promoting Wood's contract extension, he must be ready to continue bleeding. In the next half of the season, there will definitely be other players in the Forest team who will ask the club to revise their contracts. requirements.

George Wood won a better contract with his outstanding performance, so are other players not performing well? Leighton Barnes, Ashley Young, Freddie Eastwood, Pete Crouch...these people probably need better contracts to encourage their contributions to the team.

Tang En thought for a while, instead of waiting for the other agent's agent to come to him and wasting time talking one by one, it is better to choose a suitable reality and issue a new contract in a unified way, saving time and boosting morale.

Of course not now, the Forest team is about to face Manchester United at home, which is a focus of the fourth round of the FA Cup.

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Because Manchester United was defeated by Nottingham Forest at home in the league, the fans of the Forest team were full of good expectations for this game, such as defeating and eliminating Manchester United...

Ferguson did not mention the past of losing three points in the last moment of the league to the media, and even vaguely prevaricated when asked by the media. However, he consciously or unintentionally recalled the wonderful moments when Manchester United was here before the game——

"Six years ago, my team and I had very good memories here, and I still get excited when I think about it, and I believe Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ) would agree with me."

The six years ago Ferguson said was February 6, 1999. That season was Manchester United's most glorious season - the Treble. On the day of February 6th, Manchester United was a guest at Nottingham City Stadium in the league to challenge the already declining Forest team. Before this season's Champions League final, this game was the most brilliant game for super substitute Solskjaer. It is the perfect interpretation of his title of "super substitute".

In that game, Manchester United completed the carnage in the away game. They defeated Nottingham Forest 8:1. Solskjaer, who came off the bench at the last moment, scored four goals in 20 minutes, setting a Premier League record.

For Ferguson and Solskjaer, this is indeed a wonderful moment that they will remember and talk about for a long time. But Ferguson shouldn't be bringing it up in front of Nottingham Forest fans.

Such games and scores are simply nightmares for Forest fans, and they are the last thing they want to mention, especially Manchester United.

Now the media in Nottingham mocked Ferguson with the 2:2 match more than a month ago, but they didn't expect that the feedback they got was "making fun of themselves". Ferguson said lightly that he enjoyed the game six years ago, as if he had slapped you, and then said with a happy face that it felt great.

This is a great shame.

This is Ferguson's most commonly used psychological tactic-to irritate the opponent and make the opponent lose his calm judgment in tactical arrangements. Regardless of whether the Forest team and Tony Twain were irritated or not, the Nottingham Forest fans and the media were irritated.

Twain didn't have any feelings about this grievance between the two teams. He was still in China in 1999. At that time, he didn't know much about the Premier League, and he didn't care much about the results of a declining team, Nottingham Forest. : The 8 game was only heard from other channels in the future. Ferguson's provocation was of no use to him.

But his players don't think so. Although none of them has experienced that fiasco, as a player, no one wants to be looked down upon.

What does Ferguson mean by that? The players of the Forest team think Ferguson's subtext is: "Since I can beat the Nottingham Forest team 8:1 six years ago, then today, six years later, I can also beat your Forest team!"

They feel deeply insulted.

Although Albertini and Hierro remained calm, their aura of calm did not affect a few people in the crowd of fanatics.

Twain has seriously considered this issue. Ferguson's speech before the game angered his players, so should he deliberately avoid this kind of anger during the game, or use this opportunity to inspire the players' fighting spirit and stimulate their potential? ?

Anger has two results, one is that the angry party is torn to pieces by this emotion, and the other is that the other party who provokes oneself is torn to pieces by anger.

Twain had to choose between the two, he couldn't choose the mean, and the mean was useless on the football field.

He learned about the number of people in the team who had these two emotions respectively, and found that the majority of people who were angry with Ferguson's speech and thought that they did not get the respect they deserved, and thought that the Forest team should put this Very few people deal with the game as if it were a normal FA Cup. So Tang En decided to choose to add fuel to the fire.

In the last few minutes before playing, he successfully convinced the players that Ferguson was a hideous Scottish old man and made them hate Manchester United from the bottom of their hearts. Even he himself thought so, and he was very satisfied with his agitation.

As a result, when the players actually played, Tang En, who sat on the coach's bench and calmed down, found that he seemed to have gone too far.

Under the harsh boos of the home fans, even the Forest team was affected, and the anger in their hearts was magnified countless times by the boos, far breaking through Tang En's expected warning line.

There is only a fine line between losing one's mind due to anger and arousing one's fighting spirit due to anger. The current forest team is obviously showing signs of losing their minds...

The angry forest team took the lead, and their start was unexpected. Just seven minutes into the game, Nottingham Forest was knocked open by Viduka - yes, it was knocked open, Ribery's cross, Viduka had the upper hand in the confrontation with Ferdinand, forcefully Overwhelmed the opponent and slammed Ribery's pass into the gate guarded by Carroll.

American goalkeeper Tim Howard has completely lost Ferguson's trust. It was Carroll who guarded the gate for Manchester United in this game, but obviously his performance could not satisfy Ferguson either.

Before the game, Ferguson talked about 8:1, and the meaning was very clear. On the one hand, he angered his opponents, and on the other hand, he encouraged his players. If Manchester United loses this game, Ferguson must be the one who will be ashamed, so he will definitely try his best to win this game.

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