When Nottingham Forest arrived in Liverpool, many journalists tracked them down to their hotel in the hopes of getting some pre-match updates up close. Thus, the local media in Eastern Liverpool naturally got the updates first. They gathered outside the hotel, waiting to interview every Forest player who would come out of it.
George Wood was clearly the most high-profile player. Recently, the media had hyped his feud with Eastwood, which brought out days from his youth team when he was still new. The majority of the media thought George Wood should take responsibility for Eastwood's retirement, who pretended to be very angry at his teammate's retirement, but Eastwood didn't even mention it, questioning whether the atmosphere in Nottingham Forest was really as harmonious as what Twain had preached…
