Chapter 33 The head coach who never attends press conferences
Hydward has been in charge for six games, but he hasn't been to a single press conference, either pre-game or post-game.
It's unbelievable that a head coach is a profession that is highly integrated with the news media. Take the Daily Mail, which came out this morning, for example, with an article analysing Portsmouth's relegation pattern, all of which referred to the manager of Pompeo's Legion as White Walker.
The manager doesn't attend press conferences, which is understandable once, twice, three times, but the players are suspicious of the number of times.
"Boss, look, Walker, the guy who looks like a bean has become a head coach", Ricciardo, who is always the most active in the locker room, waved a copy of the Daily Mail and put it in front of Ward looking very unfair for the head coach.
Walker is certainly not Bean, and the assistant coach has been told that he looks a lot like England star Stam and is a tough guy at all. The players usually don't dare to joke about the manager, and it's okay to ridicule this very talkative assistant coach.
Anyone who has watched ancient Chinese war movies knows that when the two armies face each other, they use bows and crossbows to shoot their positions, and one general in front of the battle will fight. The manager's press conference is like a pre-battle fighter, winning boosts morale, losing or losing without a fight will hurt morale.
Players and players are divided into high and low bodies; spelling technology; Fight spirit, between coaches to divide high and low spelling training; Spell tactics; I also have to fight the press conference.
In Hydeward's training, he has shown his skills tactically, and everyone has never seen how the boss will behave when he fights with others.
There was a chorus of echoes in the locker room.
"yes, boss, teach that old guy a lesson to Steve."
"Yes, teach him a lesson!"
A veteran player like Jonathan mentions the former Portsmouth manager with gritted teeth.
"Old bastard!" I don't know who shouted, and the swearing slogans in the locker room came one after another.
The players have a grudge against Steve, to paraphrase a classic line from the novel: how much they loved at the beginning, how much they hate now.
Last season, Russian businessman Antonov brought his rubles to Pompey's army, giving Portsmouth a glimmer of hope, and Steve and his players were united in their own efforts, while relying on their own efforts to overcome the task of relegation from the Championship.
But as the saying goes, the house falls when it rains overnight, and it is said that husband and wife are birds of the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster strikes, and when people find out that Antonov's ruble does not seem to be able to revive Pompey, someone is the first to escape, and this person is Steve.
The commander of the army took the food and pay with his own guards, and then took refuge with his opponent, which is a fitting description, but Southampton looked much cuter than the old man.
Jonathan, Haim, Lawrence, Dave, and a bunch of others all hope that Hydward will step up. This is like between men and women, the rules of the rivers and lakes break up and challenge, the current one must be one grade stronger than the predecessor to say it to have face, people are so hypocritical.
Hydward didn't say a word, his eyes were fixed on the stack of tactical drawings. Football coaches have to prepare for their games very carefully every day, but unfortunately the plan doesn't always work.
A liar and a hacker can't stand in front of the sun, and Ward clearly recognizes this, so he is silent.
At the same time, he knows that he can always provoke the wave of public expectations, and he comes like a tide, he is such a person who can stay on the cusp of the storm for the longest time.
If Heidward wants to keep his lies under wrap and continue his coaching career at Portsmouth, he'll have to hold back and try not to expose himself to the media.
People came to the spotlight, and these reporters can dig up your ancestors for eight generations without a trace of secrets.
Ward jerked off the page he was reading and said, "If you want to humiliate your enemies, defeat them on the battlefield first." ”
The locker room was so full of excitement that he could only use a little cleverness in his language to change the subject. It's like a scene in a TV series movie, where the clumsy male protagonist breaks the heroine's favorite vase, kicks all the pieces under the sofa with his foot, but pulls out the roses in the vase and puts them in the heroine's face, saying, "You are ten times more beautiful than roses..."
Heidward dodged for the time being, and began to explain the focus of tonight's game.
There's no doubt that he comes across as a pragmatic coach, and Ward's philosophy is based on making sure his team doesn't lose. Around 2010, he pursued flashy attacking football like Real Madrid, and he knew very well that modern football could not be won like this.
Barcelona did play well in attack, but they counter-attacked immediately after losing possession, and it was a very hard-working team, as a whole.
Steve's Nottingham Forest is imitating this peak of the universe Barcelona, counter-attacking on the spot and passing the football. Chasing a 5-4 defeat rather than a 1-0 win has pleased the fans, with Forest's poor results and Steve's position still solid.
No one in the game knew from Heidward that Portsmouth would give up more than 65 per cent of possession. The opponent's strategy is to always play more and less in the midfield area.
If Pompeo has four midfielders, Forest will have five players waiting for you, and if six midfielders are deployed to control the midfield, you will find that you have to face seven opponents opposite. This will give the Forest more catches to get the ball moving, with four players at the back taking turns to pick up a midfield pass.
If Nottingham Forest had Barcelona's passing tacit understanding, the result would have been that the players were overwhelmed by the passing tactics, exhausted and dizzy. And by chance, the ball will fall in front of you from the sky. If you stare at the merry-go-round in the playground for a few minutes, you will understand the feeling of vertigo.
Even if he wasn't playing for Barcelona, Heidward felt his players didn't have much chance to touch football. But he has his own killer features: concentration and a sense of place.
In the 2010 Champions League semi-finals, Mourinho's game against Barcelona had a good reference. Defensive midfielder Esteban Cambiasso is a vital part of Inter's squad and will be with him if Messi is in his defensive zone, even if Messi moves to the other side. It sounds simple, but Inter's tight-knit defensive system at the time was surprisingly effective as part of the team's overall strategy. Jose's lineup in this game, Hydward cited as a classic.
There is no Cambiaso in the Portsmouth team, and of course there is no Messi in the Nottingham Forest, but the defensive system that the Pompeo Army have trained for so long is in a way tailor-made for Steve, and Hydward can not only gamble, but also hold a grudge.
"Concentration! Sense of location! He tapped the tactical board and emphasized.