Amy Lawrence: Bursaspor set Turkey alight as Fenerbahce fans torch own ground
The twist in the tale saw delirious celebrations in Bursa and Istanbul simultaneously, because some bright spark with a microphone at Fenerbahce's Sukru Saracoglu stadium announced (wrongly) that Bursaspor had faltered and they were champions. Such cock-ups do not get accepted in Turkey with the kind of stoicism observed at Manchester City in 1996, when they famously welcomed the "news" that they had escaped relegation by easing off for the last 12 minutes of a crucial game, a scene that turned tearful and melancholy when corrected scores from elsewhere condemned them.
Sanford's Soccer Net @ May 21, 2010 9:55 AM EDT | Blog Profile
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