Turkish Squad

By Matthew Jones
October 8 2003

Turkey's GM Can Cobanoglu has revealed how his country's players are "in hysterics" ahead of this weekend's big match.

Cobanoglu is insisting that the side are not laughing at Rio Ferdinand's misfortune, but they find the steady line of controversies hitting the England camp hilarious.

Cobanoglu told the Evening Standard: "They could only laugh because all they are hearing from England is stories like this. One day it's injuries, then about crowd segregation then failing a drugs test - or something else.

"This is not our problem. It's England's problem. We don't want to be interested in any of these stories because we don't want to lose any concentration. We want our concentration to be 100 per cent on the pitch."

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