By Chris Wright
In which, during Galatasaray’s goalless draw with rivals Besiktas yesterday, Emmanuel Eboue is pelted with lighters and empty bottles every time he ventures toward the touchline and reacts to the barrage in the manner you’d probably expect him to, like a complete wuss – hitting the deck, feigning lower back injury, swatting away invisible projectiles and then cowering behind two Gala physios as the missiles continue to rain…
After rumblings on Twitter and in the press, both Besiktas and the Turkish FA have strenuously denied that Eboue was being subjected to racist abuse – with their reasoning presumably being somewhere along the lines of ‘he’s a bit of a tit and it’s little wonder people throw things at him’.