March 15, 2007 | The Road to Spokane
The bus idled outside the Austin gym before sunrise, headlights cutting through a thin, gray morning. Players shuffled on with backpacks and duffels, the air heavy with coffee and menthol rub. Yawns mixed with low chatter, laughter muffled by nerves that no one wanted to admit.
Ethan stepped on ne...
2025-09-30 19:39:48 +0000 UTC
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May 1, 2016 | Old Trafford – Post-Match Press Conference
The press room lights burned bright, but not brighter than the camera flashes that stung with every step Tristan and Jamie Vardy took to the table. They sat down side by side, water bottles untouched, shoulders tight. To the journalists, they looked like men who’d just lost a fin...
2025-09-30 04:03:43 +0000 UTC
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Coaches’ Room – March 8, 2007 | Austin, Texas
The gym had gone quiet hours ago, but the lights still burned in the coaches’ office. Coffee cups littered the table, stat sheets fanned out in messy piles. The air smelled of paper, sweat, and stale caffeine. On the far wall, a whiteboard carried the bracket in thick black marker, ...
2025-09-29 02:38:03 +0000 UTC
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April 30, 2016 | Belvoir Drive – Boardroom
Tristan sat at the far end of the polished mahogany table, shoulders set back, arms folded loosely across his chest. The chair beneath him was comfortable, too comfortable, like it wanted to swallow him into compliance. He hated that. He hated this whole setting.
Every new sunrise in Leice...
2025-09-29 00:29:32 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys if you have time please check out the new story, Basketball's Greatest. I just posted the first chapter.
The story will be free until like we get to 30 chapters which than is up to you guys if you wanna join the tier.
Don't worry England's Greatest isn't finished, there's still lot left to write, at least 200 chapters left....
2025-09-28 03:32:17 +0000 UTC
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March 8, 2007 | Austin, Texas
The gym buzzed like a live wire.
Sneakers squeaked against the polished hardwood, each bounce of the ball echoing like a heartbeat. Fluorescent lights flickered overhead, casting long reflections on the waxed floor. The air stank of sweat, heat, and competition.
March Madness was a week away, and e...
2025-09-28 02:36:30 +0000 UTC
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April 14, 2016 | King Power Stadium – 89th Minute
The rain had eased but the noise hadn’t.
The King Power was alive, a wall of thunder, scarves waving like flags of defiance. Sevilla pushed forward with desperation, but Leicester stood tall, shoulders squared and boots braced for war.
"One minute plus stoppage time," ...
2025-09-27 02:00:11 +0000 UTC
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April 10th, 2016 | Sunderland vs Leicester City
The sun was out, warm on the King Power pitch. The title was already wrapped, Sevilla loomed midweek, and Ranieri knew exactly what kind of afternoon this was going to be. A free one. A rare one.
And Tristan? He was in no mood to sprint.
“Oi!” Vardy shouted across the grass, h...
2025-09-25 02:52:32 +0000 UTC
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April 9th, 2016
Belvoir Drive – Next Morning
The second Tristan stepped through the doors of Belvoir Drive, he knew he was finished. Not injured finished. Not transfer finished. A different kind of finished. The kind you felt when thirty pairs of eyes followed you into the building, smirks and jokes already spreading like wildfire....
2025-09-24 01:43:32 +0000 UTC
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April 8th, 2016
Leicester, England | Inside the Hale House
The camera wasn’t even on yet, and the chaos had already started.
“Tristan, it’s crooked. The tripod is leaning like it’s seasick.”
Barbara was crouched on the rug, one hand steadying the legs while her robe pooled around her like a blanket fortress. Str...
2025-09-20 18:21:37 +0000 UTC
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A/N: 7k chapter, I have another chapter posted soon as well to make up for not posting a chapter yesterday.
April 6th, 2016 | Seville, Spain
Europa League Quarter-Final, 1st Leg – Pre-Match Press Conference
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The room was full and noisy with reporters and journalists cramped into a press room.
Camera bulbs cracked...
2025-09-18 21:47:10 +0000 UTC
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April 3rd, 2016
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The city had never breathed like this before.
Above terraced rooftops, fireworks tore across the sky in crooked blue streaks, scattering sparks like confetti over chimney pots. Car horns blared up and down London Road, a constant, chaotic symphony. Kids leaned out of windows, faces painted, scarves trailing in th...
2025-09-15 23:12:16 +0000 UTC
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April 3rd, 2016 – King Power Stadium
Full-Time Whistle
Three sharp notes.
Short. Final. Eternal.
For a split-second, silence. The whole ground frozen, suspended in disbelief.
Then the detonation.
Thirty thousand voices exploded as one. A wall of sound, primal and unstoppable. The King Power shook like ...
2025-09-13 23:37:42 +0000 UTC
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March 30th, 2016 – Sky Sports Studio – Late Night
The theme music faded, the cameras swept the table, and the studio lights settled into a soft golden glow. Behind the panel, the giant screen carried two scorelines that had shaken England out of its gloom and into belief again:
GERMANY 1 – 3 ENGLAND
Tristan Hale (c): 2 Go...
2025-09-11 22:42:00 +0000 UTC
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March 17, 2016 – Old Trafford, Manchester
2025-09-09 00:45:14 +0000 UTC
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March 15, 2016 – Early Morning
Hospitals always carried a certain gravity the second you walked in. One room could hold relief, another despair. Lives could change forever in the space of a single breath. At this hour, the lobby was hushed, the quiet broken only by the shuffle of slippers on tile and the clipped footsteps of doctors and ...
2025-09-06 19:57:39 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, just a quick update. I’m at the hospital right now, had an accident on the way back from work like a hour ago. Not the best of days. Ended up with a stress fracture in my right leg. The doctors didn’t want to risk it getting worse, so they put it in a cast. Came pretty close to a full break, but thankfully it isn’t. I’ll keep y...
2025-09-01 23:16:44 +0000 UTC
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March 2, 2016
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The doorbell rang,
2025-08-31 03:34:13 +0000 UTC
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Working on the newest chapter, just got it to 9k, give me until the morning to bring it up to around at least 17k.
This chapter is better if I finish it in one go instead of dividing it into multiple chapters.
So please just have some patience, patreon is still 19 chapters ahead and there's no Webnovel chapter tomorrow either way ...
2025-08-30 02:33:51 +0000 UTC
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February 29, 2016
The Morning After Final
Sunlight dripped through the blinds. It caught the edge of the marble counter and the curve of the silver kettle. The kitchen smelled like eggs and browned butter.
Tristan stood shirtless at the stove, one hand on the frying pan, the other massaging the back of his neck. His hair ...
2025-08-28 00:13:05 +0000 UTC
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March 1, 2016 — King Power Stadium
Premier League: Leicester City Vs West Brom
The air was cold and heavy. Like the city itself had finally exhaled after a weekend of screaming.
Blue scarves were everywhere, but the energy wasn’t the same. Not tonight. The flares were gone. The fans still sang, still clapped but even the no...
2025-08-26 03:29:32 +0000 UTC
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Update to $7 Tier (Now $5)
Starting with the next renewals, the $7 tier will be adjusted to $5/month.
The tier will now include daily updates at a lighter pace and 20 advance chapters instead of 30.
Everyone currently subscribed will automatically be charged $5 at renewal, so no action is needed on your end.
Thank you for yo...
2025-08-25 00:55:53 +0000 UTC
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February 28, 2016
Leicester: Tristan’s House
11:47 PM
The front door clicked shut behind them.
Silence. No more flares. No more chants. No thunder of Wembley shaking the sky. Only the muted scuff of Tristan’s boots across the wooden floor as he stepped inside.
After the longest day of his life, ninety drai...
2025-08-23 07:51:28 +0000 UTC
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Kevin De Bruyne rose to his feet as the final whistle echoed out, swallowed almost instantly by the roar.
The Leicester bench had emptied in a flash. Black and gold shirts flooded the pitch, arms raised, voices breaking. Blue flares let off in the Leicester end. Flags whipped and clashed like waves.
“TRISTAN! TRISTAN! TRISTAN!”
2025-08-22 06:45:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys quick update.
I’m working on the chapters, there will be two tonight, I just had a busy today enjoying my free time so I might have gotten carried away drinking but don’t worry the chapters will still be posted tonight.
2025-08-22 01:45:23 +0000 UTC
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February 28, 2016 — Wembley Stadium
12:12 PM
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The air was thick with blue smoke, the pavement trembling under boots and chants.
“QUAD-RU-PLE! QUAD-RU-PLE!”
“TREBLE’S TOO SMALL - WE WANT IT ALL!”
“TRISTAN FOR PRIME MINISTER!”
Security held the lines, but fans surged forward ju...
2025-08-20 00:17:52 +0000 UTC
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The door clicked shut behind him, his bag sliding from his shoulder and thudding to the floor. Heat wrapped around him straight away, the radiators humming, the air thick with the earthy aroma of the Chinese tea his dad had brought them.
Little claws tapped frantically across the hardwood — click, click — before Biscuit shot around the...
2025-08-18 04:24:05 +0000 UTC
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February 27, 2016 | Belvoir Drive
Leicester’s locker room buzzed in little pockets of energy. Vardy still cracking jokes even after the double session, Mahrez slouched with his headphones in, Kanté quietly folding his training top like they’d just come back from a picnic instead of ninety minutes of pure intensity.
Tristan leane...
2025-08-16 19:31:29 +0000 UTC
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January 17, 2016 | Zurich, Switzerland 12:52 PM
The elevator doors slid shut with a soft hiss. The faint hum of the motor vibrated beneath their feet as they began their ascent to the top floor.
They’d just left their families one floor down, after a long day they didn’t feel like going back to their lodge.
Barbara leaned a...
2025-08-16 00:48:08 +0000 UTC
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The house lights dropped.
Silence spread through the ballroom. Then the screens lit up, gold waves pulsing behind a glowing FIFA crest, and the opening chords of the ceremony’s orchestral theme spilled out.
From stage left, Kate Abdo stepped into view wearing a glowing navy dress.
“Good evening, Zurich,” she said. ...
2025-08-14 01:46:21 +0000 UTC
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