John Terry has been charged by the FA using the same charge levelled against Luis Suárez after his confrontation with Patrice Evra. Terry has already stated in the media that he feels he has already been cleared of the charge in a Court of Law so why should he face another judgement by the FA rule-makers? Terry is clearly offended by the fact he must answer once again to the charge as demonstrated by his comments made after he announced his resignation as the England captain. Terry was cleared of a racially aggravated public order offence. JT admitted to using words “fucking black cunt” to Ferdinand but weakly suggested he was repeating words that Ferdinand had himself used.
Given that the FA require a lower burden of proof than did Westminster magistrates court, it is highly likely that John Terry will face a heavy sanction. In 2011 there were 473 FA disciplinary cases with a conviction rate of 99.5%. In the Suárez-Evra case, Suárez was found guilty on the “balance of probability”, a lower standard than the criminal standard of “beyond all reasonable doubt”
It would seem that JT ‘walked before he was pushed’ in announcing his resignation form the England Captaincy. This should not come as any surprise to supporters out side of the ‘Chelsea village’ as he has behaved in questionable ways on other occasions.
Past Controversies
In September 2001, Terry and three teammates were fined two weeks’ wages by Chelsea for an incident involving players and American tourists at a Heathrow airport bar in the immediate aftermath of the 11 September attacks.In January 2002 Terry, Chelsea team mate Jody Morris and Des Byrne of Wimbledon were charged with assault and affray after a confrontation with a nightclub bouncer. Terry was banned from selection for the England team for the duration of the case, though he was ultimately cleared of all charges. In the same month, Terry was fined £60 for parking his Bentley in a disabled bay. In 2009, Terry was investigated by Chelsea and the FA for allegedly taking money from an undercover reporter for a private tour of Chelsea’s training ground. The club responded that it was “confident that at no time did Terry ask for or accept money in relation to visits to the training ground.” In January 2010, a super-injunction was imposed by a High Court judge preventing the media from reporting allegations that Terry had had a four-month affair in late 2009 with Vanessa Perroncel, the former girlfriend of Wayne Bridge, his former Chelsea and England teammate. The injunction was lifted a week later,and the British media – especially the tabloid press – covered the rumours in great detail in the days following. The News of the World and the Mail on Sunday subsequently printed apologies to Perroncel for breaching her privacy and stated that the story was “untrue in any case”.[86] Perroncel maintains that the alleged affair never took place. The allegations led to then-England manager Fabio Capello removing Terry from the captaincy on 5 February 2010, replacing him with Rio Ferdinand. Terry was reinstated as captain the following year.
It seems that controversy follows John Terry around which, some might say, goes with the territory given his high-profile occupation. However his expensive Lawyers ‘spin’ the FA case against him, it seems he will take a big ‘professional hit’ out of his Anton Ferdinand comments. This is the likely reason he walked away from his England responsibility as he would most likely have had it taken from him once again with no prospect t of another Lazarus like third coming.
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