The media is still speculating about the clash between Zim Bonda and Bendtner in practice, hoping to get a live video. Because everyone knows that the Forest team has the habit of recording the team in training.

Sometimes, they can get some training videos through insiders who are more connected. But this time, it all hit a wall. Those who have a better relationship with the media told them that Don took the tape of the fight after the incident, and no one gave it to anyone, and no one knew where he put it.

Don doesn't want the media to continue to hype up this thing that is already in the past, and the atmosphere of the team is finally normal, and this momentum must be maintained. So he put all the speculation of the English media behind him and left England with the team for Turkey.

Nottingham Forest face a big game next. This game will be about whether his team can take the first step towards qualifying from the group and whether they can silence the media behind them. As long as the results are not outstanding, any contradiction will make the paparazzi dig out of the ground, but as long as the ball wins, then no contradiction is a contradiction, and there is no problem with any problem.

That's the only truth in competitive sports – victory overshadows everything.

Having said so many nice things, in fact this game is not easy to play, or rather...... Quite hard to fight.

Besiktas is not a weak team to play casually, and Turkey's home atmosphere is world-famous. Britain and Turkey have a grudge in football, Leeds United fans were stabbed to death by Turkish fans in Istanbul a few years ago, Beckham missed a penalty when the England national team and the Turkish national team were playing, and was provoked by Turkish player Alpay, and after the game, the two teams fought each other in the dressing room passage, and Alpay, who provoked the incident, even lost his job - he was swept away by Aston Villa, where he played.

The media turned up the old accounts of the Forest's previous winless streak, as well as the recent news of the fight between Zim Bondda and Bendtner, to prove that the Forest team was full of internal contradictions and panic, and how the trip to Turkey was so bad and unlucky......

Don doesn't care. No matter what the outside world says, as long as it doesn't affect your team, it's fine. And...... On the other hand, he wished that the media in England would have done so. Because it will confuse its opponent in this game, the Turks.

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Besiktas is a powerhouse in the Turkish league and a team that regularly plays in the Europa League. In Turkey, they stand alongside Galatasaray and Fenerbahce and are a strong team representing the strength of Turkish football. At the same time, their main stadium, the Inonu Stadium, is also the home stadium of the Turkish national team and is known as the "home of the devil" in European football.

Istanbul is a city that straddles two continents and was formerly known as "Constantinople" by Westerners. The capital of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, a country that once brought blood and war to the European continent, at its largest they used to use the Mediterranean Sea as their inner lake. One of the "Yellow Perils" that made Europeans talk about it was the conquest of Europe by the Osmagnian Turkish Empire.

The country's predecessors planted the seeds of fear in the hearts of Westerners, and the football atmosphere in this country is equally terrifying in Westerners. In England, football hooligans may have turned into football hooligans because they drank too much. But in Turkey, the fans here are fanatical enough without drinking. In football circles, to describe the atmosphere of a certain stadium, it is generally used as "the devil's home field". But for Turkish stadiums, perhaps it would be more figurative to use the "hellish home".

From the moment Nottingham Forest landed, they fully felt the enthusiasm of the Turkish fans -

"Cry and go back, English bastard!"

It's a banner that appears next to the highway from the airport to your hotel, at intervals, so you don't have to worry about the Forest players not seeing it. Radical fans in Turkey are convinced that doing so will put the English side under intense psychological pressure and become dysfunctional when playing against their team.

In fact, the Forest players did see it, but it is unclear whether they really think it in their hearts as the Turkish fans would like it to be.

Before leaving, the British TV station BBC made a special album to introduce the style of Turkish fans, and solemnly warned those Nottingham Forest fans who want to follow the Forest team to Istanbul that they should never go out alone at night, it is best not to go out with a group, and do not go to crowded places and stay away from bars. Finally, follow the team organized by the Forest Club.

Here's how Nottingham Forest organised a cheering group for the fans:

On the morning of the game, we arrived in Istanbul by plane from London, dined together, acted together, and flew back to London immediately after watching the game in the evening.

This does not give fans time to stay overnight in Turkey, which greatly improves the safety of the surname. But it also makes many fans who like free activities and go abroad to watch football as a tourist feel that it is a restriction of personal freedom, and they can't do anything except watch the game.

It's not just Nottingham Forest, it's all other clubs in England doing the same. On the one hand, it is for the sake of cost savings, and on the other hand, it is for the safety of fans - English fans have become the target of public criticism abroad, and many clubs have to think about the lives of their supporters.

This is actually a general contradiction, fans want to be more free, and no one wants to spend time on planes and buses when they finally go abroad. But the clubs don't want to cause trouble for themselves because of any negative events, and this arrangement can really save the club a lot of money......

Considering the special surname of this place in Turkey, before leaving, Don also published an open letter to fans on the club's official website, suggesting that those fans who want to go to Turkey on their own dispel this idea and act with the cheering group organized by the club.

“…… I fully understand your feelings, but when it comes to football or tourism, life is obviously more important. I and the players don't want to win a game and hear bad news about something wrong with our supporters. Gavin. What happened with Bernard should not be repeated with Nottingham Forest fans. So, I really hope that the fans will come to Turkey with the cheering group organized by the club...... Don't worry about what happens to the team that arrives in Istanbul early without the support of their own people, I want to tell you that our players are not affected by the mess at all...... So, when you come to Istanbul, stay safe! ”

He said this very sincerely, so many people eventually gave up their plans to come to Turkey and chose to follow the club's cheering group to Istanbul on the day of the game. Gavin, after all. Bernard's case is almost a household tragedy in Nottingham, and no one wants their children or themselves to be the protagonists of the next tragedy.

As a result, Nottingham Forest arrived in Istanbul for a day and a half and have not seen the Englishman except for the media reporters who came here to cover the game and a few Forest fans.

However, I fully appreciated what it means to be "the warmth of the host".

They were accommodated in a hotel in the heart of downtown Istanbul, where they could be heard outside by the all-night of Turkish fans during their evening rest. This was clearly specifically designed to irritate the Forest team and interfere with their rest. It's all about the team they support to be able to win the next day's match.

Chrislak once negotiated with the person in charge of the hotel, but the other party spread his hands: "The private actions of the fans, our hotel can't help it, not to mention that they are all on the street outside the hotel...... We can't do anything if we want to. ”

The team called the newspaper to warn the people of nuisance. As a result, before the police came, the gang ran out. When the police came, they turned around and then said to the forest team, "I don't see the people you were talking about. And he withdrew. It didn't take long for the group to return, singing Turkish songs below, sounding like fan songs cheering on Besiktas. Of course, there is naturally a mixture of insults and middle fingers against the Forest.

Lying on the bed, he couldn't sleep because of the singing downstairs, so he got up and walked to the window, opened the curtains, and looked down.

The windows were completely closed, but they still couldn't stop the noise deliberately made by the madmen.

The crowd lit fireworks, waved black and white flags representing Besiktas, sang loudly, scolded when they were tired, and kept gesturing to the top of the hotel, and if they saw a light in one of the windows, the fans would cheer in triumph and then make even more noise. Illuminated by the street lamps and the fireworks in their hands, Don could clearly see the bottles scattered all over the ground.

It's really Turkey......

He tilted his head sideways, completely out of sight of the room next to him. But he knew that this level of noise would definitely have an impact on the team. Some people are born with a dull nerve, and thunder can kill them, while others have a nervous breakdown, and the slightest sound can wake them up from their sleep.

The Forest team has both.

Don felt that there was really nothing he could do in such a situation. Even if he knocked on the door from room to room and told the players to ignore the noise outside and sleep peacefully, it would not help. Those who should not be able to sleep still can't sleep, and those who were asleep may have been woken up by him. Feed sleeping pills? What's more, if the urine test after the game reveals something unfavorable to the Forest team, you tell people that it's because they can't sleep at night and eat some tranquilizers, will people listen to it?

So...... This move of Turkish fans is really poisonous, and it is also very helpless for the opponent.

Don stood in front of the window and watched for a while, his face was expressionless the whole time, and no one else could tell whether he was angry or helpless at this moment.

The Turkish fans are still tossing, and Donn has decided not to play with them. Their purpose is to keep the forest team awake, and if they stand here and interfere with them, they will fall into the ploy of these people.

Donn went back to bed, tucked his iPod's headphones into his ears, and fell asleep listening to music.

He was somewhere between a large strip of nerves and a nervous breakdown.

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The next day, at breakfast, Don was always observing the mental condition of the players, yawning for days does not mean that they have not rested well at night, maybe they have just gotten up and their spirits have not yet recovered. People who haven't slept well have haggard faces and dark eye circles. Donn noticed a few of them, and he wondered if he was going to start a few of them for the evening's game.

Gareth. Bell was clearly one of those men. He ate breakfast with his head down, listless, and seemingly unappetizing, and mechanically pulling the fruit salad on his plate with a fork.

There are several others like him, including...... Team assistant coach David. Chris Lack.

"Good morning, Tony......" David. Chris Lak made it to the coaching staff's dedicated table with a plate in his hands.

"You didn't sleep well at night." Don glanced at his plate, which had very little food on it, and it seemed that Chris Lack had little appetite to eat.

"Did you sleep well?"

"It's okay." Donn shrugged, "I listened to the music and fell asleep after a while. ”

Hearing Don say this, Chrislak sighed, "You can still fall asleep with a voice in your ears...... I can't have the slightest other voice, otherwise it's like this. He lifted his eyelids and showed Don his bloodshot eyeballs.

"It's pathetic." Don smacked his lips. "What's our plan for the morning?"

"Go to the stadium and do one last session of acclimatization." Don next to him answered him.

"Cancel." Don waved the fork in his hand, "Let the whole team go to sleep." Those idiots shouldn't come here to make a noise during the day, right? ”

"It's already noisy during the day, and this is a downtown area." Don reminded him.

"But our players have to get enough sleep, otherwise they will be out of energy at night. Moreover, I think it sounds noisy at night because the idiots deliberately make a lot of noise, which is clear in the silence of the night. But during the day...... Everyone is used to this level of noise, and maybe they don't think it's so noisy now. People who don't sleep well at night are not energetic, and I think they will fall asleep as soon as they fall into bed, so they don't care if it's noisy outside. The one who will feel like I can't sleep should be someone like me who has a good night's sleep. Don winked at Chrislak as if to show off his ability to fall asleep in such a noisy environment. You're going to sleep too. ”

"But...... We have already agreed with the people of Besiktas Club in advance that they will open the stadium in the morning for us to do acclimatization......"

Don waved his hand: "Then let them wait in the open court." My team's things are the biggest, their things are ...... Well, I don't care. ”

He has a bit of a clapper with the surname Ren. To say that it has been tossed all night, and there is no fire at all, it is an inflatable doll. Tang En naturally has fire in his heart, and it is not small, but he doesn't want to be too excited in front of his own people, otherwise he will mess up. But if there is a chance to take revenge on the Turks, he doesn't care. Although last night's events may have nothing to do with Besiktas, and even less with the poor stadium caretaker. But Donn equated all Turks at this moment.

So while reporters gathered at the Inonu Stadium to film the Forest team for field acclimatisation, the Forest players slept soundly in their hotel rooms. The poor reporters waited for half an hour and did not wait for the arrival of Nottingham Forest.

Dozens of reporters were hung out by Don for a morning, a sunny day and an unusually hot late October......

(To be continued)