You'd think so but I doubt it. Anyway Terry will be ready to retire by the time this has finished and he has appealed etc.
i said the same thing months ago,if found guilty he will retire and dodge his FA punishment and if found innocent i'm not sure if the FA can punish him?
Innocent of what though? From what I've heard there's is no denial that he said it, his defence is based on intent and context. Suarez was not allowed to base his case on these things, and the FA's judgement was that he used the word and that was enough. So, if a court finds that JT did use the offensive language but not in a sufficiently offensive manner to warrant a guilty verdict, what does the FA do about that?
Good point, I suppose if the court in the unlikely event clear him of all charges then the FA would use that as an excuse not to punish him.
As he has already admitted he called Ferdinand a "bla*k c*nt" i fully expect him to be found not guilty and given £1m compensation and the England captaincy back.
Terry won't be found guilty anyway. If you have a load of money in this country, you can get away with anything.
But unless the court finds that he did not use the alleged phrase at all, regardless of context, then he will have committed a punishable act, according to the FA's precedent. I don't want to claim to know something I don't, but I thought he had admitted to using the words? In that case, that should be enough to satisfy the FA that he's done wrong, as it was enough in Suarez's case.
He said something along the lines that he used the offending words because he knew that Ferdinand was thinking that's what he said. It doesn't matter what 'context' he said it in to the FA(as shown in the Suarez case),all that matters is that he said it on a football pitch during a game.
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Terry's case could be thrown out today. FOOTBALLLawyers for Chelsea captain John Terry have asked the presiding magistrate to dismiss the racism case against him. After the conclusion of the prosecution argument Mr Terry's legal team asked for the case to be thrown out. George Carter-Stephenson QC argued Mr Anton Ferdinand was an unreliable witness and lip reading experts, who had viewed television footage, agreed it was impossible to clarify what was said. He said the case was "so weak and tenuous it does not warrant it going any further". Chief magistrate Howard Riddle has adjourned the hearing until 14:00 BST, when he will make a ruling. Keep across the very latest on the BBC News website.
