What is everyone's thoughts on the verdict this afternoon? I personally think it's a shocking decision but no surprise considering Terry is loaded with cash and can get away with being a racist by hiring the best legal team money can buy.
This type of response is ignorant! Under the scrutiny of the laws of the land it was clearly impossible to find Terry guilty. For you to think it is shocking just basically shows your ignorance towards the whole issue! The court could not just guess at what happened, it had to be proven....unlike the Suarez verdict, which was guessed at! Which imo makes the FA and their disciplinary procedures look farcical and in need of a major shake-up!
That is not true...the reason he got away with it is that his guilt could not be proven, and the laws of the land, and those who uphold those laws, do not allow (rightly) for 'guesswork' to enter their decision making process!
I think there was never a chance of him being found guilty in a law court, even though it makes me want to scrub myself for agreeing with billy. It would have been better kept within the FA where he would have been found guilty and banned no doubt. Given the odious twat a kick up the arse. Like with that equally hateful **** Suarez. Then again, that piece of dirt still thinks he did nothing wrong.
It was the judge who directed the jury to deliver a not-guilty verdict in the Gerrard case, not Gerrard! He 'got away with it', because the laws of the land dictated that he could not be found guilty based on the evidence that was provided! Would you rather he was found guilty even though there was not enough evidence to convict him? If so, then it is the law of the land that you should have a problem with, and not Gerrard!
I suppose you are 'sure' that he actually did something wrong? The one thing that the Terry verdict highlights is that 'guessing' at somebody's guilty is actually not lawful in this country, and with that in mind, the FA acted beyond the law by delivering their guilty verdict on Suarez! I don't know whether Suarez or Terry were actually guilty of what they were charged with, but I find it a bit ridiculous that we can have two completely different outcomes to what was basically two very similar cases!
Astonishing how many people merely watched a 3 second youtube clip and then saw the bbc headline. Read the court transcript before passing foul judgement you inept fools
But the context in which it was said was not clear at all, so to suggest it was cut and dried before the trial is basically not true!
Okay mate! You are 100% certain about this, even though the panel that saw all the evidence and examined all the witnesses could not be 100% certain, but based their verdict on probability, which in itself describes something that cannot be verified! Yet despite all this, you are 100% certain! .........As I said earlier, okay mate!
As I said earlier, your problem should be with the system that forced the judge to direct the jury to deliver a not guilty verdict, and not with Gerrard himself! It is okay to shout about how unfair it all is, but Gerrard didn't make up the rules, just like Fergie didn't make up the rules when he dodged his penalty for driving on the hard shoulder all those years ago! Using your example of just using the same excuse as Gerrard, do you think I would be justified by driving along the hard shoulder, and when caught I could just say I needed to go the toilet and thus escape punishment?
Suarez admitted saying the word that got him in trouble claiming cultural differences and then had contradictions in his defense, things like saying he gave him a "conciliatory" pinch only to later say it was to wind him up, that's the difference, that and the fact that he wasn't actually in a court of law or course.
