The move to Wimbledon was a big deal and their results were greatly affected in the past two years.

After being relegated from League One (now the Championship), the club's new owner, musical instrument chain businessman Peter-Winkelman, decided that now that the team had moved to Milton Keynes Dons, the only way to change the name would reflect the local culture and attract new residents to become new fans and make more money. Despite the opposition of the fans and the FA's proposal, the club applied for a name change, and after a PR process from the top, the proposal was approved, and this summer, Wimbledon FC was relegated to League Two (now League One), and was officially renamed FC Milton Keynes Keynes, along with changing the club's crest and colours.

This announced the death of the Wimbledon club, which had been around for more than a hundred years.

This move made the long-angry former Wimbledon fans completely explode!

People started to form their own clubs, and with the support of the Wimbledon Independent Fans' Club and The-Donstrust, the fans' club was born, called AFC Wimbledon, and South West London regained a football club called Wimbledon.

"It's very simple," said Kevin Ley, a spokesman for WISA, "and no club based in Miltonkeynes can represent the 130-year-old Wimbledon football team. ”

The passion of the fans for the club is palpable.

At the same time, the club's name change also made some loyal coaches, players and internal staff very unhappy, so the new Milton Keynes Keynes club has undergone a lot of personnel changes, and Walton Cooper, who has been with the club for ten years, has also resigned along with other colleagues, and now, Walton Cooper has come to Derby County to apply.

Originally, Walton Cooper was looking for a job as a strength and conditioning coach, but he was very interested when he saw that the Derby County job advertisement was so demanding, and he had heard of Wan Sheng's name, so he wanted to try it at Derby County FC.

In the Derby County Club manager's office. Walton Cooper met Wan Sheng.

At the same time, Wan Sheng was also looking at him.

A year and ten months ago, Wan Sheng also came to Derby County FC to apply for the same job as Walton Cooper, and at that time he was in a much worse situation than Walton Cooper, and no one believed that he was qualified to become a football coach, but with self-confidence, he still got a job as an assistant coach.

And now, the interviewer has turned into himself.

Thinking about this qiē, Wan Sheng will always be very emotional, and the roles are reversed. He became an interviewer to find a suitable assistant coach, he kept looking at Walton Cooper, this middle-aged man looked very young, physically strong, of course, a football coach does not look at appearances, after some introductions to each other, Wan Sheng directly talked about his requirements.

"I need an assistant coach who can arrange the training sessions for each player." Wan Sheng explained.

It's basically about training for each player. Of course, the content of the training is not changed by you, but the schedule can be changed, for example, tactical training takes two hours. Individual training is two hours long, and any time of the day can be adjusted, and Wan Sheng hopes to find the most reasonable objection, but no one can help him in this regard.

As for the strength and conditioning coach. Wan Sheng doesn't think about it, he is the best physical trainer himself.

Walton Cooper listened to Wan Sheng's explanation and frowned. He didn't answer the question of whether he could finish the job or not, but instead pointed to the resume on the table and said, "You can take a look at my resume first." ”

Wan Sheng was stunned for a moment, nodded and opened his resume and read it carefully.

Walton Cooper's resume doesn't have a lot of content, it's all about ability, what he's learned, what he's done, etc., but he quickly focused on one of them.

"Sports psychology?" Wan Sheng looked at Walton Cooper in surprise.

Walton Cooper nodded, he had a little understanding of Wansheng before he came, knowing that he was a top student at University College London, he could naturally know what sports psychology was, if those 'practical' coaches saw this, they would definitely skip it, and it would not be the same thing at all, but Wansheng was different, he knew very well what the concept of 'sports psychology' was.

This is a very specialized field, a sub-discipline of psychology that specializes in the study of the psychological characteristics and laws of people when they engage in sports, and it is also a new discipline, and Walton Cooper's age to be able to engage in this research shows that he has been learning.

Walton Cooper said, "I can't guarantee that I can do my best and that I can arrange the most efficient arrangements, but I am an individual coach, and I can arrange these trainings in the most reasonable way from the perspective of physical endurance and athletic psychology." ”

Wan Sheng looked at Walton Cooper, thought about it for a moment, and finally nodded.

He decided to hire Walton Cooper.

The reason is that Walton Cooper has studied sports psychology and his last sentence, he knows that it is almost impossible to find the most efficient way to arrange training, and Walton Cooper can make the most reasonable training plan for the team in both physical and mental aspects, which is already quite good.

What's more, Walton Cooper has a decade of coaching experience, and despite being a strength and conditioning coach, he has certainly done some work on the team, which can help Diamares reduce his workload.

In fact, in the team, Diamares's work is even busier than Wansheng's.

It seems that he is just leading the team, but in fact, he has a lot of work tasks - he has to lead the team to train every day, this work alone takes up most of the time, the team's real assistant coach is only him, weekday training, game day work, a lot of work has to be completed by Diamares, especially when the team is promoted to the Premier League, after receiving more attention, Diamares sometimes even has to deal with many media reporters, the workload is too much, Diamares is even busier than Wan Sheng.

The only thing is that he doesn't have to bother with his brains, he just works according to Wansheng's arrangement, that's all.

Walton Cooper coming to the club will definitely be able to help Diamares share some of the work, this alone is enough, as for whether Walton Cooper can do a good job in arranging training, it is difficult to see the effect in a short time. So Wansheng decided to hire Walton Cooper anyway.

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Wan Sheng's influence at Derby County is undoubted, with his current influence, it is still easy for the club to sign an assistant coach, Walton Cooper's salary package is also good, a one-month probationary period, and after a formal job, the weekly salary is 2,500 pounds, which is a little higher than the salary he received at Wimbledon.

Walton Cooper came to work at the club the next day after becoming an assistant coach at Derby County and he thought he would go straight to the training arrangements. Or become Diamares's assistant first, train with the team, and get familiar with the team by the way, but what he didn't expect was that the first job task would be to help the club's press officer, Richarson, deal with the many media reporters.

After the big win over Arsenal at Highbury Stadium, many media reporters flocked to the town of Greater Derby County to interview the Derby County club, and Wan Sheng refused to allow reporters to interrupt the team's training, so the Derby County club had to spend energy to deal with it.

Among the media who came to interview, it was not only the English media. There are also some Chinese media.

There is still a lot of attention in China about Wansheng, and although Wansheng is a coach and not an attractive professional player, there is still a lot of attention in China. Because Wansheng is already the most talkable football coach in China, especially this season Derby County was promoted to the Premier League, and the first game was against Arsenal, some domestic network TV. For example, the game was also webcast, and this big victory made more voices of domestic support for Wansheng. As a result, more Chinese media reporters came to cover the situation.

However, they didn't enjoy any special treatment when they came to Derbyshire, maybe Wan Sheng also had the heart to take care of his compatriots, but there were too many media reporters who came to interview, in order not to affect the team's normal training, he could only refuse a request for an interview, and then let the club's press officer Richardson deal with it.

These reporters can only contact Wansheng at the regular press conference, and it is not easy for them to interview the players, so they need to interview them privately.

However, on a normal training day, the training schedule of the players is very tight, most of the players are a little tired after a day of training, and few people will still have the heart to deal with the media, so it is not easy for them to interview the players.

In fact, most of the media reporters who came wanted to interview Wan Sheng, because everyone knew that Wan Sheng was the biggest contributor to the good results of the Derby County club, and it didn't matter at all whether the players were good or anything, unless these players had any big news, such as entering the England team or something, the interview would not be very rewarding.

It's a pity that Wansheng will hardly accept private interviews.

It's not that he deliberately put on a lofty posture, in fact, Wansheng is still very friendly to those reporters who purely support Derbyshire, but many media ask for interviews, you agree to a reporter's request, and it's not good to refuse other reporters, this kind of differential treatment is unacceptable, so the only way to get in touch with Wansheng is to join Wansheng's MSN group, and this group is internal, the reporters inside, Wansheng knows, but it's not who wants to come in, in short, it's very difficult to interview Wansheng.

Some Chinese reporters directly asked the Derby County club to conduct an exclusive interview with Wan Sheng, on the grounds that they and Wan Sheng are compatriots. Derby County FC is happy to see this, Chinese journalists! It was a good opportunity to increase the Derby County club's influence abroad, but it was rejected by Wansheng here.

"No time!"

Wan Sheng's answer was straightforward.

Wan Sheng really doesn't have time, he needs to do a lot of work, just to prepare for the competition, the time spent is beyond the normal working hours, how can he have the heart to be interviewed by any reporter?

But this attitude is a big name in the eyes of reporters!

Chinese reporters will subconsciously be a head shorter in the face of foreign big names, but when facing domestic big names, they have something to say, which may also be customary, in China, some ordinary people and even celebrities are happy to be interviewed, and foreign stars rarely accept interviews in private, but Wan Sheng must be directly classified in the scope of 'domestic', he directly refused to be interviewed is to play a big name, but what they didn't think about is that Wan Sheng is now in the UK, and this land definitely belongs to' abroad'.

Of course, they don't think so.

As a result, some voices in the domestic media did not have a good evaluation of Wansheng, and they once again quoted some English media's evaluation of Wansheng - arrogant, arrogant, and when a Derby County club is the head coach, the tail will go up to the sky.

Derby County Club?

Has anyone in China ever heard of this name before?

What's so great about a tiny Derby County club manager?

Such voices began to appear in China, but it's a pity that Wansheng didn't pay attention to it at all, they could say whatever they liked, for him, leading the team to play well was the most important thing, and nothing else mattered.

In this atmosphere, Derby County FC soon ushered in the second round of the league and the whole team went to Ewood Park to face Blackburn Rovers away.

Blackburn Rovers were disappointing last season, having reached the UEFA Cup the previous season, and after selling key players such as Duff and Dunn in the summer, coach Souness was faced with the task of rebuilding the team.

Despite this, Blackburn is not an easy team to deal with, their style of play is known for their rough defense, even if the strength of the team, facing such a style of opponent will be a headache, the same is true of Wan Sheng, he is most worried about the mentality of many young players in the team in the face of this kind of tough defense, after all, many young players still have too little experience, less experience equals less experience, and less experience is difficult to show calmness.

Wansheng's fears soon became a reality.

In this game, Derby County's performance was not very good, in the face of Blackburn's fierce defense, some players were a little cowardly, which led to the performance of the whole team was affected, in the first half Derby County was even suppressed by Blackburn for a time, and was scored a goal by Blackburn in a fast attack.

Fortunately, Wansheng made some adjustments at halftime and built confidence and fighting spirit for the whole team, which made the team calm down a lot in the second half.

After making adjustments, Derby County launched an offensive in the second half, the whole team seemed to be a different look, Blackburn tried to suppress it almost impossible, they could only defend passively, but Blackburn's defense was still very good, at the end of the game, Derby County also scored only one goal, or a set-piece scored by Ivan Crewe.

The two teams ended up playing to a 1-1 draw.

At the end of the game, all the players of Derby County breathed a sigh of relief, this game was difficult enough, compared to the last game with Arsenal, many players know that the top league is not as simple as imagined, even if you can beat the strong team by a big score, but it may not be easy to win the weak team.

Blackburn Rovers are underdogs against Arsenal, but it's not easy to beat them when they really play, and now they haven't done it.

1:1, a draw, which made the whole of Derby County a little disappointed.

Perhaps this also has something to do with the fact that the last big win over Arsenal made the team's expectations a little too high.

However, Wan Sheng felt that it was acceptable, and this was a reminder to all the players, telling them that they should not be careless at any time, and that they must do their best to deal with any opponent, otherwise, defeat is sometimes inevitable. (To be continued......)