596 The Cell Phone

Nottingham Forest left Istanbul. However, the war of words between the English and Turkish media had just begun. Twain leaked the incident of the Beşiktaş fans' all-night party outside the hotel the Forest team had stayed in to the English media after the game. The off-field antics had always been very popular with the media.

The English media accused the Turkish fans of being uncouth and that disturbing the opposing players' rest was despicable. Some English press said Beşiktaş' discipline on home ground was so poor that there was always clutter being thrown from the stands during the game, but no substantive action was taken by the police force to stop the lack of sportsmanship.

They were well-documented matters, captured by photographs provided by the Forest team, which showed the Beşiktaş fans under the hotel and creating noise to disturb the Forest team.

It looked like the Turkish media could only shoulder the blackened name.