Throwing his toys out the pram How dare the FA ask him to attend a hearing...he is SO far more important than that. Words fail me
If you were wrongly accused of something*, found not guilty of it in court, and then somebody else decided to effectively put you on trial for it again wouldn't you also decide to tell them to stick their team up their arse? *I'm not saying he's been wrongly accused, but that's the impression he wants people to have so he has to act that way. It's also known as "doing a Shearer" following that incident when Neil Lennon cynically and repeatedly attacked Shearer's feet with his face, and the FA had the nerve to suggest they might press charges until Shearer was so offended that he threatened to stand down if they proceeded.
With this. I also read that Anton's legal team was going to attempt to get the texts/call after the game onto the table for consideration. Had those been put forward as evidence in the Court case there may well have been a different outcome.
can see the FA looking dimly upon his decision and give him a much bigger ban,well it wont affect the England team will it?
Why didn't they then? I'm with Ricardo on this one. Interesting that it takes an outsider to come in and talk a bit of sense. We've had the Rangers-loving, Chelsea-hating glasses on throughout the whole episode. The Chelsea morons are just as bad, defending Terry to the hilt no matter what. Fu*k Terry. Who cares what he does?
Why weren't they put forward in the trial? (that's a legitimate question not an argumentative one) The call I'd imagine is pretty hard to submit as evidence because who records their phone calls? The texts though should have been able to prove.
From what I read Anton is threatening a Civil action if the FA don't ban Terry and he's doing this because he's confident, or his legal team is confident, that the text/call records will sink JT. So if I remember correctly, if the FA don't ban Terry and in doing so have not taken into account the text/call records then the Civil action will follow to get the text/call records into the public domain. If they ban him, no Civil action. That's my understanding.
Fair enough mate but I still don't understand why they didn't use them in Court? Sounds like sour grapes from Ferdinand.
Strange that it's taken him three months to work out that his position is 'untenable' and he announces his tear-jerking retirement 12 hours before his FA hearing. Never was the sharpest tool in the box...
Now there's an honest sentence. Our Ferdinand ain't the brightest star in the sky either. They'll probably find him guilty, the FA.
I fancy the evidence from text/call would be very incriminating. It suits the FA/JT now not to have it out there, and JT can be the wronged party. That suits JT more than a Civil case where he may be shown to have committed perjury along with Mr Cole.
