Tony Twain was once again in the news. However this time, he did not only appear in the local media of Nottingham or the English media; he was also in the major sports editions of the European media.
The focus of media coverage was not the 3:2 Nottingham Forest home game, a narrow victory over Sporting Lisbon, but the argument that had happened at the post-game press conference. The first to break the news was the Lisbon media in Portugal. Naturally, they would not say that José Peseiro was at fault. The Portuguese people described Tony Twain in the news as an ill-mannered, arrogant, rude, and uneducated country bumpkin and hooligan. They twisted the words he had used to attack Peseiro and published them as evidence.
