Last Friday evening Galatasaray’s Didier Drogba and Emmanuel Eboue played a lovely homage to the late Nelson Mandela by bearing t-shirt messages in their side's win over Elazigspor.
It’s now come to light that the Turkish football authorities took a rather dim view of the benevolent gesture, believing it to carry a political message and hence break the rules, and have summoned the pair to the FA disciplinary committee to explain themselves.
Drogba's T-shirt read: "Thank you Madiba" while Eboue's said: "Rest in Peace Nelson Mandela" in respect of the man who changed the course of African history by putting an end to the Aparthied regime in South Africa.