Was only ever going to be one outcome I'm afraid. Time to move on now and look forward to the new season.
If this was Scotland, it would be "not proven". Interesting to see what the FA do, because it's a different burden of proof, "probably" rather than "beyond doubt"
According to tweets: "issue is not whether Terry is racist, in broadest sence of word." "Issue is whether he uttered words as an insult" "Ferdinand had little or no reason to lie about central issue in case. Judge has no significant doubts about his integrity" "Ferdinand was brave to give testimony" "No doubt Terry uttered words, when he did so he was angry. But impossible to be certain of what words spoken" "Nobody has been able to show he was lying" Basically, it was the 'beyond reasonable doubt' element - sounds to me that Anton was fine and credible, and was being truthful, but it came down to one mans word against anothers, and there wasn't enough other evidence to allow the judge to make a call. It's now up to the FA to show some balls - although I fully expect them to slink away.
f****** scum bag roman must have pad magistate off, complete wasted a week tax payers money because the ****er couldn't lip read.
New rules then... you abuse me and I can legally racially abuse you!! Wow!! Political correctness has gone out of the window. Sets fight against racism back in my view.
Of course it was an insult. He called him a ****ing knobhead right after. If Ferdinand has not no reason to lie then Terry is guilty, end of. Either Terry is guilty of Ferdinand is a liar, there is no other way out of it.
Vodafone with HMRC, the LIBOR rate scam, phone hacking, the other News International/Police corruption investigation, the Harewood trial... - justice + disgrace
Let's move on - far more important and exciting developments for us to discuss at LR Doesn't change my view on JT as a person - never liked him and never will
That verdict stinks and sends out completely the wrong message. From now on a player or anyone else can now use any kind of offensive rascist, sexist or homophobic abuse on a football pitch and simply argue that they were just repeating something they "misheard".. Diabolical discision. Nobody is going to speak out about this sort of thing now.
