53 Family Tour of the Center

The next day was a Sunday and Tony slept for a very long time as he didn't need to wake up early and go to the academy today.

He finally got up around past 10 and began to perform his exercises. As he performed a series of exercises for close to an hour on a gym mat in his room and was now very sweaty.

After he was done he quickly showered and went downstairs and greeted his parents and brother before he then had his breakfast. Tony was very relaxed and happy with his day of rest and since his team had won the game yesterday there was no reason for him to be sad.

After his breakfast he asked his family if they would like to go see the arcade center. His mom had already been there but she still agreed to join them and visit the center.

They all agreed to prepare and leave the house by 1 and go check on the place. By 1 they all got into Tony's dad car and drove to the arcade centre. When they got there, they all expressed their approval at the exterior designs of the building.

Tony was also seeing the finished name post at the top of the building where 'Lane Arcade Center' was boldly written and could be seen from a distance.

They went in and toured round with Tony explaining some of the plans he wanted to implement in the place.

As he was explaining to them some of the things he was planning on putting in the center, his mobile phone rang and it was his friend Paul who was calling.

"Hey I have sent a lot of messages to you since after the match yesterday" Paul immediately fired as Tony answered the call.

"Sorry mate, haven't had the time to reply messages yet." Tony replied as they greeted each other before Paul then went on to congratulate him on the match and ask if he would be joining them over at Tom's house to hangout.

Tony rejected Paul's offer as he explained that he would probably be busy through out the day before they hung up.

He continued explaining some of his ideas and plans for the place to his parents, but it was mainly George his junior brother who knew more about arcade centers that answered or suggested some other things.

Tony's parents knew little to nothing about games but understood businesses as a whole. So they only expressed there thoughts when it was concerning the business side of things.

Tony asked his brother and mother to come over and check on things anytime they were a little free or in the area. Since he would still hire a day to day manager he felt they didn't need to be coming over every day.

After they were done in the building, it was already getting late in the evening and his Father decided they all go out for family dinner together before they would then later go home.

They got into the car and drove to a restaurant that Tony's mom suggested and went on to have a lovely family dinner.

They chatted happily as they ate their dinner together. When they were done they went back home together and later went to do their own things.

Tony called George to come into his room and assist him as he needed his help a little. Tony and George were fans of different types of games including arcade games.

So Tony used his phone to start browsing accross websites as they began online shopping and ordered some of the popular arcade games they would need for the center, Virtual reality games, playstation 4's, TV's and all the other gadgets necessary for the center.

After he felt they had ordered just enough for the beginning of the business, they stopped and checked out of the site as Tony paid for everything online. They would be delivered in about 7-14 days from now, as Tony thanked George who now went to his own room.

He had now used close to 400,000 thousand from his bet win and now had about 100,000 thousand pounds remaining but he was still yet to hire workers for the center and do some other little things.

Tony continued to press his phone for a while as he read and replied to the messages on his phone. He was not technically a young teenager anymore who could not do without messaging friends for an hour as he had matured past that and was 5 years more mature than the regular teenager.

Tony replied to his messages and read the messages in the academy group chat which were filled with congratulatory messages and some few off topics.

When he was done he arranged his room a little and put some other things in other in preparation for the next day before he laid on his bed in his pyjamas greeted Rose goodnight before he began to doze off.

*****

Training through out the new week was a little serious as they were to play against a very important opponent in an away match. This was one of the matches most players and fans would check once they got to see the teams match schedule for the season.

It was the Manchester derby, which was the most important fixture especially in the first team matches as both teams battled for supremacy over the other.

Manchester United and Manchester City were both clubs based in Manchester, and they both wanted to win the other and be above the other team as it gave them a kind of bragging right against there city neighbors.

In the past Man utd mostly had the upper hand and usually beat Man City when they met in the past.

But in recent years the gap had now been closing and Tony knew that in 2020 Man City could be said to be above the standard of Man utd even if most of the united fans would not still agree.

Man City had won a stream of competitions and were now firmly considered one of the top 6 clubs in the premier league.

All the players knew what the match meant even if it was just the academy teams meeting, it still meant a lot as they were more focused through out the week in training as they all wanted to participate in the match and to win against their bitter rivals for bragging rights.

In the Premier league the match was considered one of the top clashes of the season and most fans around the world and even neutral spectators from around the world were also interested in watching the match.

Even if the El classico which was the meeting between Barcelona and Real Madrid was still considered the number one clash in football as it also bordered on issues like politics, England still had some other major derbies like the London derbies, Man utd vs Liverpool, Merseyside derbies, etc.

They all liked the feeling of beating there bitter rivals and the atmosphere leading to such matches were more tense than usual and most fans loved and looked forward to such matches.