Chapter 16: This Is the Punishment (I)
As a head coach, he must be the last person to leave after every training session. But today, when Eames walked out of the King's Ranch, it was already dark, and he found Ingrid waiting for him at the door.
"There's something I want to talk to you about, Terry."
Seeing Eames come out, Ingrid couldn't help but greet him.
"I know what you're trying to say to me, but you say." Eames wasn't surprised.
"I want to know your intention in arranging Chu and Russell together, don't use the excuse that this can solve the conflict between them to perfunctory me." Ingrid looked at Eames with a serious expression.
Eames shrugged: "Actually, I really came up with this idea to solve the conflict between them......"
"But as a result, their contradictions are becoming more and more intense."
"There's always a process to solve problems, Nicky." Eames said as he walked. "It's impossible for us to pull the two of them together, force them to shake hands, and think that there is no conflict between them. As you know, football is a competitive sport in the final analysis, with an emphasis on confrontation, honor and confrontation as the eternal theme. ”
Of course Ingrid understands this. "But what does this have to do with the conflict between the two of them?"
"So now I'm forcibly tying them up and making them a little collective, guess what they're going to do?" Eames smirked, an idea he had been thinking about for two nights.
Ingrid poured cold water on him: "I think they're going to fall apart, Terry." You won't see them cooperating with each other, you'll just see them pointing fingers at each other, teasing each other, and pulling each other back. ”
Looking at Ingrid's serious expression, Eames's smile froze, and he suddenly didn't know how to convince his partner, so he had to mutter, "Then we'll wait and see, Nicky." ”
With that, he sped up the speed of his feet.
"Let's have some fun, Terry." Ingrid suddenly shouted at him from behind. "Let's bet, bet your solution won't work!"
"How much?" Eames paused and turned back to his partner.
"One hundred pounds."
"No problem." Eames waved his hand, turned and walked away.
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During Saturday's training session, Eames issued new rules:
"I give a rating on every training session based on how well you do in training. In teams of two, each individual's individual score counts towards the group points, with the lowest score being penalized. ”
When he said this, his eyes were looking at Chu Zhongtian and Russell.
There was a lot of chatter among the players. Someone asked in a loud voice, "Boss, what kind of punishment is it?" ”
"Various." Eames replied. "You have to believe that, as your manager, I have a knack for playing tricks. If you're curious, try it out for yourself. ”
"Uh...... No need......" Amid the laughter of his teammates, the questioner craned his neck.
Seeing that everyone didn't ask any more questions, Eames slapped his face: "Okay then, let's start today's training." Today our training program was still possession. ”
Russell laughed as soon as he heard about today's training session. He proudly glanced at Chu Zhongtian on the other side of the crowd, and said in his heart that you look good now!
Bolger said to Russell next to him, "You're welcome, let that kid throw more people!" ”
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"Alright, that's it for today's training." After a relaxing jog, Eames walked up to give a summary of the players.
"I hope you haven't forgotten what I said at the start of today's training. The worst performing group was punished. He raised the clipboard in his hand, "Now I'm going to announce the group that needs to be punished." He pointed at Chu Zhongtian.
"Chu, and Russell. You two come out! ”
Chu Zhongtian walked out, and Russell was a little surprised: "Boss, I'm doing very well......" He pointed to himself and said with a slight condescension.
"We're a group, sissy." Chu Zhongtian suddenly laughed happily and said to Russell beside him.
Eames nodded, and stood in the same trench as Chu Zhongtian: "You are a group, I said before that individual performance should also be counted in group performance." If you don't understand this sentence, I'm willing to explain it for you again. If Chu's performance is not good......" he pointed to Chu Zhongtian, "your group's performance will not be good." If you don't perform well, Chu will also be punished with you. Do you understand now? ”
Russell's face immediately changed when he heard Eames say this. In training, he deliberately teased Chu Zhongtian and made him look ugly, but he didn't expect to be cocooned and bound himself.
"The punishment for you is to sprint and turn around, from one penalty area to another. Sprint back and forth forty times. Notice that I'm talking about forty times back and forth, not one time and one back. ”
Russell's face was dead, and this was one of the punishments he feared the most......
"Hah!" This time it was Chu Zhongtian's turn to laugh out loud, this punishment was so addictive to him!
Bolger didn't expect that he would instigate Russell to play tricks on Chu Zhongtian, but let his good friend end up like this, he stood next to Russell and patted Russell on the shoulder with some embarrassment: "Uh...... I didn't mean to, really...... Alai ......"
Russell didn't listen to him at all, and now he thought of running from this forbidden area to that forbidden area and rushing back again, forty or forty times back and forth! His heart was about to stop.
Damn it! He really wants to scold, but who should he scold? Scolding Chu Zhongtian? But if it weren't for the fact that he deliberately made things difficult for Chu Zhongtian in his training and let him complete the training normally, he wouldn't have suffered this crime now......
Schilling and Sullivan were very supportive of the head coach's decision, they knew that the sprint switchback run was as normal as breathing for Chu Zhongtian, but in fact, the person who was really punished was Russell. Maybe the head coach also thinks that in the contradiction between the two people, Russell has to bear more responsibility than Chu Zhongtian?
When he heard the content of this punishment, Chu Zhongtian re-tied his shoelaces and walked to the big forbidden area line, ready to start sprinting back and forth. Russell was still stunned.
Eames' voice rang out, "What are you doing in a daze, Russell?" If you want to go home early, do as I say. Now, go run! ”
Russell reluctantly moved over, and Chu Zhongtian had already rushed out. Looking at Chu Zhongtian's back, he spat angrily and ran out.
"Okay, okay, it's nothing for you to do, go change your clothes and go home." Eames waved his hand. But there are still people standing in the middle of the field to watch the show. Schilling also "cheered" Russell very evilly below.
"Hey, Russell! Run faster! You can't do that! ”
"I bet I can walk faster than you, Russell!"
Russell, who finished the first set, wanted to stop and rest before running, but Coach Eames' voice immediately rang out: "I said that you can practice after each sprint?" Get up and continue!! Must rest! It's punishment, not fucking training! Who gave you time off? ”
Russell reluctantly got up from the ground and mustered up the energy to start the 120-meter sprint back and forth......
"...... Fuck the Chinese Mad Dogs! Russell gritted his teeth and sprinted, cursing in his mind incessantly. The curse on Chu Zhongtian had become all his motivation now, and he could only do this in order to forget the heartburn he had brought from sprinting back and forth.
Compared with him, Chu Zhongtian seemed to be much more at ease. Trip after trip, he didn't stop or slow down, going back and forth between the two penalty areas on the pitch, in stark contrast to Russell, who staggered and could fall at any moment.
Ingrid looked at Russell with some concern, and said to Ingrid beside him, "Are you really sure that this method can help them resolve the conflict?" ”
Eames smiled, "Don't worry about that, Nicky. Anyway, the hundred pounds in your pocket, I'm going to decide! ”
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That night, Russell was helped into the car by Bolger. It had already taken a lot of his physical strength to train for an afternoon, and he couldn't stand it anymore if he sprinted back and forth forty times without stopping. After finally running down with a rolling belt, he lay on the sidelines and vomited, and in the end he didn't vomit anything, and he still retched.
Chu Zhongtian came out of the shower and changed clothes as if nothing happened, and got on the bus back to Wimbledon. By the time he left, Russell was still vomiting on the sidelines.
Seeing Russell's embarrassed appearance, he even danced happily when he passed by the two of them. "Jump just a little - jump just a little - jump just a little! Hey! ”
Russell was so weak that he didn't have the strength to give Chu Zhongtian the middle finger. Borger couldn't throw Russell to the ground and run to find Chu Zhongtian's trouble, so he could only yell at Chu Zhongtian's back: "You wait and see, bastard!" ”
It was Chu Zhongtian's middle finger that answered him.
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ps, the first more delivered. Because I have something to go out today, the first one will be sent out in advance. The second shift is still around 6 o'clock in the afternoon~
Please smash the ticket~~!
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