Although rejecting the Queen's award caused a stir at home, Twain wasn't much affected. He was still taking the team everywhere, playing the game. In every Forest home game, their Crimson Stadium was still full of seats. The Nottingham press continued to sing his praises every week. The voices of the few opposing media people did not affect him at all.
Britain's royal family only regretted that Twain, such a prominent celebrity, has refused to be honored. They did not say much about it. Perhaps they thought that it was really inappropriate to take it so seriously when one had royal noble status like they did.
However, someone must have been dissatisfied with Twain's open letter, because they felt like they were deeply offended. Twain didn't care how they felt. Just let those haters keep on hating him.
"Nottingham Forest have risen from 17th to 14th place… "
Xia Yang was reading the news of international football in the newspaper.
