Chapter 932 Volume 7: Heart of the Lion King 46-Year-Old Twain

After the match against Macedonia, on the following September 9th, in the second round of the qualifiers, England was given a bye, but the team did not disband early, but played a friendly match against visiting Australia in London.

This day was also Tony Twain's birthday. After this day, he would be forty-five years old, and he was heading towards forty-six years old.

The international players from the forest team hoped to use a victory to make a birthday present for the boss, but Tang En didn't care about the result of the game. For him, this is a chance for the team to fine-tune the lineup, and he doesn't mind using a large number of players who did not play in the game against Macedonia.

But before the match against Australia, Twain still had one very important thing to do.

On the morning of the race, he drove away from Colney alone and also from London. He returned to Nottingham along the A1 motorway, and then found the barbershop he had visited many times before.

Then he sat quietly on the chair and asked the middle-aged master to dye his hair.

Yes, a very important thing is to color your hair.

After days of hard work, his white hair tended to increase again, and the hair that had been dyed before had grown back, black and white, and it didn't look good.

For him, dyeing his hair is an important part of maintaining his image. He is only forty-six years old, he wants to try his best to look young, and he doesn't want to give people an "old" impression. Of course, forty-six years old is not considered old, but the gray hair on his forehead will give people the feeling that he is already sixty-six years old, which is not very good...

"Tony." Master Connery, who dyed his hair, was five years older than him. Ever since Tang En decided to dye his hair, he had been serving Tang En, and the relationship between the two was fairly close. So he was able to chat with Tang En while dyeing his hair.

"Huh?" Tang En, who closed his eyes, replied lazily in a nasal voice.

"Happy birthday!"

Hearing this, Tang En opened his eyes, turned his head slightly, and wanted to send a surprised look to the other party, but was stopped.

"Hold on, Tony."

"How do you know my birthday is today? I remember I didn't tell you..."

"Ha, as a celebrity, your birthday is no longer a secret, right? Even today's "Evening Post" dedicated a page to wish you a happy birthday. Even if you didn't know it before, you know it today." Kang Nally laughed.

Tang En's mood was not too high, he murmured: "I'm already forty-six, and celebrating my birthday six years ago is nothing to be happy about."

Connery smiled and went on with his work.

At this moment, Tang En's cell phone rang. He took out the headset and put it on his ear, and pressed the answer button.

"Happy birthday, Uncle Tony!"

Shania's energetic voice came out of the bluetooth headset, making Tang En's mood much better in an instant. Although Shania and Connery said the same sentence. At the same time, he was also a little surprised.

"It's past two o'clock in the morning on your side right now?" There is an eight-hour time difference between London and Los Angeles, and it's ten twenty o'clock in the morning on Tang En's side.

Shania said with a smile: "I'll call you at this time, otherwise I won't be able to sleep."

Hearing his wife's voice, Tang En suddenly wanted to reach out and hug her. He raised his shoulders and realized that there was an Atlantic Ocean and an American continent between the two of them. It might not be enough to describe it with thousands of mountains and rivers.

"Forty-six, and one year older..." Tang En didn't mind having outsiders by his side, he flirted with Shania on the phone.

"My uncle Tony is more attractive the older he gets! I just like old men!" Shania said angrily. It was as if she was being acted like a baby in Tang En's arms. "what are you doing?"

"Dye your hair."

When Shania heard Tang En say this, she suddenly laughed: "Use this to celebrate your birthday, is this your birthday wish, Uncle Tony?"

"Of course, no matter how young I am, I will be able to accompany you for a few more years." Perhaps realizing that this question was a bit sad, Tang En quickly changed the subject: "Is filming in Los Angeles hard?"

"It's okay. I'm going to Paris in a few days, and I'll see you then." Shania was also very smart not to get entangled in that issue.

"Long stay?"

"I can only stay for three days..." Shania's voice was a little lost.

Tang En also fell silent for a while.

The long-term separation made it impossible for them to live like a normal couple, and it is not known how long this situation will last.

"I saw the news that your England team won Macedonia, and it was a big victory. Congratulations, Uncle Tony!" This question is as sad as "how long can Uncle Tony stay with me", so Shania also changed the subject, Although she doesn't care about football, it's better than talking about that.

The two chatted a little more, Tang En kept urging Shania to go to sleep, dawdling, and repeated several times, Shania finally hung up the phone reluctantly and went to sleep.

Tang En took off the earphones, and Connery could finally dye his hair here.

"You two have such a good relationship, Tony." Connery said enviously. "My guy just complained that I didn't make much money."

"Then do you also envy the separation of the two places, Connery?"

"If it's separated from my mother-in-law, I'd be very happy! Haha!" Connery laughed loudly, and Tang En also laughed along with him. "No one cares about drinking, and no one cares about going to the football game! A free life is what every man like me desires!"

"Hey, Tony. Can you tell me a little bit about tonight's game? How do you plan to play against Australia?" After laughing, Connery suddenly lowered his voice and asked next to Dunn's ear.

Tang En smiled: "How else can we fight? Those who didn't get a chance to play in the last game will have a chance to appear tonight."

"That's right. Australia is not a strong team." It is only natural for an England fan to say this. In their eyes, except for England, other teams are probably not considered strong teams. "Then I'll cheer you on in front of the TV tonight!"

"Thank you, Connery."

The two stopped talking, Connery focused on the work in hand, Dunn continued to enjoy the leisure time with his eyes closed, and then he fell asleep at some point. He has been very tired recently and lacks sleep, and he can always fall asleep easily at such times.

But this will not be a reason for hindering Connery's work, because even when he fell asleep on the chair, Tang En's head always kept a fixed position and did not hang down.

By the time Tang En was woken up, it was already after dyeing his hair.

"I fell asleep?" Tang En was still a little confused.

Connery nodded with a smile: "You're still in a deep sleep, no matter how I fiddle with you, you won't wake up."

"Uh... sorry." Tang En rubbed his eyes, then looked at himself in the mirror.

With black hair and having just slept in, she looks much more refreshed than when she first arrived. Appearing in this image in front of the players and the media, there should be nothing to worry about.

He grinned at the mirror and made a smiley expression. "It worked well!" he praised. "If possible, I really want to suggest to the Football Association to call you into the national team coaching staff, Connery!"

"Ha!" Connery laughed, "Are you going to dye your hair?"

Tang En took out the money and tipped Connery, "Yes."

Walking out of the shop, Tang En got into his jeep, pulled down the rearview mirror, looked at his own image, and after confirming that there was nothing missing or unnoticed, he started the car and drove away to London. .

On the long and boring road, he hummed an English song he learned in middle school.

"Happy_birthday_to_you~~Happy_birthday_to_you~~~Happy_birthday_dear_teacher——Happy_birthday_to_you..."

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Tang En finally rushed back to the hotel before lunch. He had told Walker in the morning that he had to go out to attend to some personal matters, so everyone was not surprised that he rushed back from outside.

The players were eating, and Dunn found the coach's table and sat down to greet his colleagues.

"Happy birthday!" Walker raised his glass of juice to him. At the same time, he noticed that the black hair on the top of Tang En's head had grown a lot yesterday, and he guessed what Tang En was going to do.

"Happy birthday, Tony!" Others raised their glasses to Tang En one after another.

"Thank you, thank you..." Tang En replied one by one.

After seeing Tang En sitting down, Walker smiled mysteriously at Tang En: "We have prepared a birthday cake for you."

He clapped his hands.

Then I saw the players stand up one after another, laughing and clapping their hands and singing "Happy Birthday Song" together. The two captains, Wood and Terry, pushed a small dining cart and walked in from the door.

Amidst the singing, they passed through the restaurant lobby of the entire hotel and walked to Tang En's table.

Wood lifted the lid, and what Tang En saw was a Wembley Stadium-shaped chocolate cream cake.

"Happy birthday, boss." Wood tried to put a sincere smile on his face, but it looked even more awkward...

Tang En shook his head with a smile: "You guys have premeditated?"

"We heard it from Aaron after we won the game in Macedonia," Terry explained.

When Mitchell heard his name mentioned, he quickly raised his hand and waved it at Tang En. It seems to be introducing him to meet the audience friends.

"Don't blame me for talking too much, boss!" Mitchell said loudly, "I was just discussing with David what gift to give you on your birthday, and they heard it." He pointed to the other teammates around him.

In fact, Twain is a very friendly head coach. Although there are many rumors against him outside, these national team players found that the devil-like man is not difficult to get along with after spending a week with Twain day and night... And sometimes it's very easy to get along with. If you joke with him, he will never reprimand you with staring eyes, and ask you to pay attention to the difference between up and down. If he is in a good mood, he will take the initiative to joke with you. For example, after winning Macedonia, Twain made jokes about George Wood in the locker room. It was really interesting to see that George Wood, who was always stern, couldn't laugh or cry in front of Twain's scoundrel. Tony Twain was probably the only person who could joke with that cold-faced evil star.

Seeing so many players worrying about their birthdays, Tang En's heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment. It seems that he has captured the hearts of this group of players, and the team is very harmonious.

He stood up to accept the birthday cake presented by the players, and he held up a glass containing fruit juice.

"I am very grateful to you guys. The national team will be temporarily disbanded after this game. The next game is on October 16. I hope I can see you back to me at that time, healthy and healthy Kang, the state is excellent. Of course, arranging so many excellent players is also the trouble of the head coach, but I prefer to enjoy such troubles. For me, this is the trouble of happiness. Let's relax and enjoy the game tonight! Thank you!"

This is a good opportunity, and he has not forgotten to use this opportunity to draw closer to himself and the players.

He drank the juice in the glass.

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In the game tonight, just like Dunn said, the lineup of the England national team was completely different from the previous game.

Even George Wood was put on the bench. None of the eleven had started against Macedonia.

Australia doesn't see the game that way. Although the United Kingdom is their suzerain politically, football is apolitical, and being able to beat England at the New Wembley Stadium is a very tempting result. Australia wants to try it.

This kind of game still attracts many fans to watch the game.

When Australia took advantage of England's lineup that was not tacit enough, they took the lead and they were aggressive.

Although Tang En didn't care about the result, he only wanted to observe the performance of these players. But not all the players on the field think so.

For example, Joe Mattock, Bentley and Abanglaho, three players from the forest team, they don't want to lose the game on the birthday of the boss. A birthday cake is a birthday cake, and a birthday present should be a game-winner. Even if it's just a friendly match, they don't want to lose.

The ideas Dunn had instilled in Nottingham Forest for a long time played a role like inertia at this time. The Forest players' habit of not wanting to lose made them work extra hard on the field.

The commentator thought it was a way of hoping to perform well in front of Twain and get a chance to be selected into the starting lineup.

Before the end of the first half, there was a tacit cooperation between the "Nottingham Forest Gang" in England, which tore apart Australia's defense. In the case that the team's cooperation is not tacit, these small cooperations with players from the same club have shown value.

Joe Mattock made a long diagonal pass from the left to the right. Bentley stopped the football beautifully and then passed it diagonally to the center. Forward Abanglaho made full use of his speed and then jumped in to throw away the heavy Australia. Central defender, received the football and entered the penalty area!

Things became much easier after the formation of a single shot. Abang Lahoro used Xu Huang's upper body to trick the goalkeeper and then shot. The football passed by the goalkeeper's feet and rolled into the goal. The score was tied 1:1 by England!

After scoring the goal, Abang Laho ran all the way to the England coach's bench and hugged Tony Twain.

"Happy birthday, boss!"

On the way back to the court, Abanglaho also pulled other teammates and said: "Don't let the Australians spoil the boss's birthday night, we must win!"

The players of the forest team worked very hard. It didn't look like a friendly match to inspect the lineup, but more like a life-and-death battle related to who could qualify.

The Australian resisted desperately for a while at the start of the second half before throwing up his hands in surrender.

In the second half, England began to exert its strength, which was completely out of Twain's arrangement.

In the 67th minute, Curtis Davies successfully competed for the top of the corner kick and headed the ball for England to overtake the score.

In the 79th minute, Delphi broke into the penalty area and received a pass from Vaughn and scored with a low shot. The score became 3:1.

In the 85th minute, Tang Ning also scored a goal, but was ruled offside first and the goal was invalidated.

However, Twain was already very satisfied with the score of 3:1. England's strength is indeed above Australia.

At the post-match press conference, some reporters who had a better relationship with Twain congratulated Twain for winning the game on his birthday and received the best birthday gift.

It seems that after becoming the head coach of the England national team, his birthday will not be spent alone.

This 46th birthday was Tang En's first birthday in the national team. He is another year older.