120 Provocation Part 1 (1/2)
Chapter 120: Provocation Part 1
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
”There was a kid named Gavin! He used to like Nottingham Forest! And now he's lying on the ground, his trampled face was all smashed up! All smashed up! Get lost and go home! All you Nottingham b*stards, that dead boy is your example!! Oh, oh, oh, oh! Gavin, Gavin! All smashed up! Yea, yea, yea, yea! Gavin, Gavin! All smashed up!”
Tang En turned his head around and stared at the Millwall fans. They were singing it all together. They were either waving their fists or pointing their middle fingers. With their mouths wide open, their sharp teeth were revealed, as if they were fierce-looking wild beasts. Wrong, they were not wild beasts, they were worse than beasts.
Tang En stood beneath the viewing platforms with his back to the field and gave a death stare to a few Millwall fans that were still making faces at him. His lips were bitten pale, his face ashen-colored, his neck stiff, and his entire body trembling.
Walker, who was beside Tang En, noticed his abnormalities. Walker, of course, knew what those fans were singing about, and he was also very angry. But when he saw Tony's look, it was as though he wanted to rush up and fight those fans!
”Tony, Tony… Calm down!” Walker pulled back Twain, but to no avail.
All of the players on the substitutes' bench heard the song by the fans, which used ”Gavin” in its lyrics. They also stood up and stared at those fans. The song was extremely loud, and it could be heard throughout the entire stadium.
Hearing the ear-piercing song, Brosnan stood on the reporters' seat and clenched his fists rightly. He had never imagined he would encounter such a despicable thing while reporting a football match! In order to provoke Nottingham Forest, the fans of the opposing team actually shamelessly used the name of the small Nottingham Forest fan who had passed away, in the lyrics of an insulting song!
They had already achieved their objective. It appeared that Nottingham Forest had indeed been affected by the song coming from the viewing platform. After hearing the song, Michael Dawson and Andy Reid became exceptionally angry. However, they could only take it out on the Millwall players, which in turn gave the Millwall fans a reason to sing the song even more loudly.
There were already signs of the match losing control.
Tang En still stood below the viewing platform with his back to the field, and the group of fans noticed him. Seeing that he did not look pleased, they continued to sing the song even more loudly.
They were smugly taunting each and every person on Nottingham Forest.
Suddenly, the silent Tang En punched the awning above the technical area. Crash! Following that, the plastic baffle shattered into countless pieces, falling onto the seats!
”Tony!” Walker and the other people from the managerial team were shocked. They thought that Twain would rush onto the viewing platform after that, and quickly hugged him, dragging him backwards.
The fans near the technical area saw this scene, and were momentarily dumbfounded. However, they soon recovered from their shock, and scolded Twain, ”Who doesn't know how to shatter a few pieces of plastic board? Come up and hit us if you got the guts!”
”Nottingham b*stards!”
”Idiots! Cowards! Trash! You and your team are all trash!”
Tang En's punch not only drew the outburst from the fans, it also attracted the attention of the fourth official, as well as the camera.
”Mr. Twain.” The fourth official walked to Tang En, and said to him with a stern face, ”Intentionally destroying the stadium's facilities is a punishable offense.”
”Do as you wish!” Tang En turned his head around and stared at the fourth official as he said fiercely, ”Are you intending to ban me from the field? How much is the Football Association intending to fine me? If I am punishable for my offense, then these people…” He broke free of Walker, and roared as he pointed to the gloating Millwall fans on the viewing platform, ”These people! They should all go to goddamned hell! Can't you hear what they were singing? Can't you hear?!”
Walker also stood out and protested, ”We are here to play in the match, and not for those b*stards to insult our dead fans! We are lodging an official protest right now.”
Of course, the fourth official had heard the singing on the viewing platform. As such, he was currently speechless after being asked by Tang En. After standing there dumbfounded for a while, the fourth official finally replied, ”Alright, I will write all of these inside the match records. I believe the Football Association will conduct investigations regarding everything that has happened during this match. But I hope all of you can remain calm. After all, the match is still going on.”
Tang En tidied up his shirt before saying to the fourth official, ”I am very calm, very very…goddamned calm!”
After which, he turned around and shouted at the players on the field who had been distracted by these happenings on the side of the field. ”What are you standing there in a daze for?! We are still trailing, so you guys better buck up! Shut the mouths of those b*stards on the viewing platform!”
Tang En's voice was so loud that even the television broadcast managed to record it, especially that line ”those b*stards on the viewing platform!”
The fourth official looked at Twain. Tang En also stared back at him with an unfriendly look, and said domineeringly, ”What's the matter? Mr. Referee, are you also going to interfere with the things that I'm shouting when I'm giving instructions to my players?”