The FA have charged John Terry

Exactly, I think I could give him lessons for 5% of his weekly salary

 

Okay, I accept your point

Whether or not the FA will punish him less than Suarez remains to be seen, however. They may take the view that lessons have still not been learnt, and that they must increase the punishment to make their point hit home harder. They may see Terry as making a monkey out of them, and hit him harder for that reason.

 

The point is, that no serious, rational fan wants the beautiful game reduced to Terry's (and, to be fair, Ferdinand's) level. The game is better than that. Managers are to blame as are referees and the FA, but the players must learn to regulate themselves. What is so disappointing about Terry's behaviour is that he is the Chelsea captain and ought to be setting an example to his team mates. He is an utter disgrace.

And I know that it has been said by a couple of the Chelsea boys that us Spurs lads are only saying this because it's a Chelsea player, but I can promise all of you that I would be hugely disappointed if a Spurs player was caught acting that way and any Spurs fan tried to defend him.

 

Come on HIAG, you can do better than this.

 

What a load of bollocks. What about 'arry and his fiddling taxes...oh yeah,not guilty doesn't mean innocent.

 

What's that got to do with the price of fish?

Harry was found "not guilty" of fiddling his taxes. Terry was found "not guilty" of racially abusing a fellow footballer. Neither was "proven" innocent, and these two facts do not alter the fact that Terry admitted to calling Ferdinand a "black ****." The FA does not regulate managers in how they conduct their private financial affairs, but it does regulate how footballers act on the field of play.

 

No, he didn't.

 

Two wrongs don't make a right, 'Arry's tax is irrelevant in this.

 

Yes, he did. The magistrate said he did.

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...led-bouncer-he-allegedly-punched-a-fat-P.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/ledley-king-confirms-retirement-but-will-stay-1149327

 

Right, so let's get this straight. You're saying that Terry admitted calling Anton an FBC, yet was found not guilty?? What Terry admitted was that he USED the words 'black ****' to query an accusation he THOUGHT Anton had made. Keep up.

 

ha ha they are all at it !! i thought ledley was a good guy lol

 

Do you believe him? All bias aside?

 

Yep, purely because I don't believe Terry is a racist. He's 31 years old and played with black players all his life with no problems whatsoever, has best friends and close colleagues who are black and who all backed him in court.

You also have to take into thought that Ashley Cole, friends of both Terry and Anton, virtually put Terry in the clear - surely if Terry was racist to Anton then Cole would state that in court, being a black man himself?

 

Yes, we all know that that is the excuse that Terry came up with in order for his very expensive QC to enable him to put a smidgen of doubt on the judge's mind, but when you read the judgement transcript it is patently obvious that the judge did not believe Terry. And the FA, which is not bound by the criminal law's very high standards of proof, will not believe him, either. If they do, they are as foolish as you, Drogs (not that I believe for one moment that you believe the bollocks that Terry came out with in order to save his skin).

 

Yeh that's a fair point that was largely ignored during the Suarez case (think Johnson, Barnes, and the Ajax squad supporting him publically).

It's possible that he said it in the heat of the moment. People say things they don't really mean when they're angry.

 

That has nothing to do with the statement you made, you said Terry admitted CALLING Anton an FBC, when in fact he did not.

 

I went to a multiracial school. The white kids were forever issuing racist abuse at the black and asian kids, notwithstanding the fact that white and black kids were in the same gangs and sports teams, etc. Were all these white kids racist? Probably not. Does that fact alone make it acceptable for anyone to hurl abuse, racist or otherwise, at another person, be he black or otherwise? Clearly not.

Being "a racist" is not what the FA has charged him with, it's bringing the game into disrepute for having used the language that he did against a fellow player. The fact that Ferdinand is a black player may or may not have a bearing on the FA's punishment.

 

I said that the judge records the fact that Terry admitted to calling Ferdinand a "black ****."

It's there in the transcript for everyone to read.

 

Tbh, I don't know much about the Suarez case to label him anything, Evra has history though and as much as I dislike Suarez, I don't think he's a racist. I think had Liverpool handled the saga a little better then he wouldn't be criticised as much if I'm honest!