Setting Up
Training had been very serious and hectic as they all wanted to beat there city rival in thier stadium.
Tony was also a mancunian who was born and bred in Manchester. He was a genuine fan of Man City right from when he was younger and always dreamt of beating United.
One of his best memory so far as a city fan was a day some fans liked to call "Aguero day" in 2012 when both united and city where both playing against other opponents on the final day of the season hoping to win the premier league.
Man City needed to score one more goal or the premier league cup would be handed over to united. Aguero had come up with an iconic goal at the last moment to win the match and steal the cup from their bitter rivals.
That was one of Tony's best time as a city fan as he also ran into the field with other thousands of fans to celebrate the win.
He also enjoyed the match in 2011 when man city humiliated man utd at their theatre of dreams with a 6:1 thrashing of a Sir Alex Ferguson team then.
But this match was against the United under 18 academy team, so the atmosphere and tension was not as serious as it would have been in the first team.
Tony used his time after trainings during the week to set up things for the arcade center.
Very early on Monday morning before he went for training, he had recieved a call that he was to go show an inspector the location for the center for it to be inspected and Tony would then be informed if he could get his license.
Tony fixed the inspection for a time when he would have been done with training. After training he met up with the inspector and they went into to the building as the inspector checked some things including a safety check on the building.
When the inspector was done, Tony was told he would be called the next day and be informed if he passed and to come recieve his license.
*****
On Tuesday Tony was called and informed that he had passed the inspection and could now come to receive his license which he immediately went to receive after training on Tuesday.
He could now start properly arranging things for the center as he used his time after trainings on Wednesday and Thursday to buy chairs for the center including for the PlayStation room where he would place some TV's and some playstation for people to come play.
He also went to an employment agency to request for personnel and workers for his arcade centre. He needed a manager and assistants for the whole arcade center who would watch and oversee the day to day running of the business, while also helping the players when they played and supervising the other parts of the business.
Tony was experienced from his previous timeline on how he was to approach most of this things and he quickly did most of this things and applied for the workers.
He applied for some other workers like a cleaner, two front Desk attendants who would collect money and admit the customers for the specified period of time and perform other duties.
The other staffs like the general manager or assistants would also assist the customers when they needed help with a game. He also applied for a maintenance technician who would constantly check the necessary equipments, games, lights and other electrical facilities in the building.
*****
On Friday training the players were all a little anxious as they waited for the end of training to listen to the starting lineup from the Coaches.
Tony and John were no exception as they also felt anxious while they trained as they unsuccessfully looked around for clues on who was going to be in the starting lineup.
The match against man utd was a match that would definitely be broadcasted and could definitely generate interest in most of the players that performed well in the match as many scouts would definitely be in such matches and even some fans may start liking a player from such matches.
Tony had only been in the academy for over a month and most of the scouts would observe a player for months to be extra sure on how good a player was before they recommended the players to there clubs or approached the player.
When training was finally over, the players all gathered up together before the starting 11 was now being announced. The players who heard there names couldn't hide there happiness as they expressed themselves happily.
Tony heard his name for the attacking midfielder and was also very happy as he would play in his first ever manchester derby which other youth players would want to play in, but John found himself again on the bench and could only half smile.
After the list was read the players all went for there break. Tony was feeling very anxious and suddenly had a burst of energy decided to go to the gym.
He had trained together with all the players but felt he still needed to perform some exercises as he entered the gym alone and began to use some of the equipments.
He exercised vigorously alone for over 30 minutes before he went to the locker room to quickly shower and then pick up a snack before he went to the seminar room for extra analysis for the match.
The players were now all in the seminar room as Coach Taylor showed them profiles of some Man united players he expected to start the match and there positions.
The match was important to Coach Taylor as could be seen from the level of information he had specifically gathered up on the united players.
He explained what the defenders were to expect from some of the united players like there favorite positions or they preferred foot that he and his coaching team had analysed.
Being better prepared for a football match usually improved a teams chances of winning but did not guarantee anything as that was football.
When he was done he told the player that they were to start out in a 4-5-1 were the wingers would also be more involved in defending when they didn't have possession of the ball and would then occasionally go back to a 4-3-3 when they were on the attack.
He continued to give the players some basic instructions which they were used to and gave some specific instructions on what they were to do in the match.
"Tony when you see the opportunity you can go up to join the striker as a supporting striker or even act as a target man to link up with your teammates from the striking position in a 4-4-2 formation." Coach Taylor gave Tony some tactical instructions which he nodded his head to express his understanding.
Coach Taylor went on to give the other players some other instructions as Tony who had now been given more freedom in the match was very happy.
He had more work and responsibilities to perform but now he was given the license and freedom to roam about and to change his tactical position when he saw an opportunity to in the match.
After the Seminar Tony told John he wasn't going to the arcade centre as he had to mainly wait for the equipments and games he had ordered to arrive before he could put other things in place.
They drove home together as they chatted on what the derby match was going to be like. John was also expectant of also being involved in the match from the substitute bench so they both analysed together as Tony drove to go drop John off before he went home.