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• Two points:
  1. I want to know who – if any – provides audit and governance to the FA. When the dust has settled on all of this, ALL the evidence, everything, should be made public. Let us see how transparent the FA are prepared to be. Let us see their reasoning in all these cases. Why? Well, I am sure that most of the FA are not dim-witted self-serving fools with no thoughts in their heads apart from their own bank balances and their next freebie trips abroad (see my point 2) but they sure as hell are trying to make themselves look like it, and have been doing so for years.

  2. Specifically the Terry case. Look at the facts. Came into the team alongside Marcel Desailly – you’d have to be inanely stupid to think a racist would have got very far at our club then. Captains a multinational team with strong characters like Drogba, Cole etc – you’d have to be a retard with a migraine to think those guys would put up with being captained by someone who makes racist comments. Captains an international team with lots of black players – you’d have to be a weak, spineless under-educated buffoon with no consideration for anyone or anything other than your next jolly if you think those players would tolerate such a player in the squad, never mind being the captain. Made Captain by successive club and international managers – you’d have to be of sub-moronic intellect and lack the capacity to respect anything anyone else does to think such managers would choose such a man.
  And when it comes to the verdict, whatever it is (including Innocent) – the very fact someone would sit in judgement following a court of law’s decision to exonerate a person, shows an organisation with an ill-conceived, self-important, aggrandised vision of their own authority. Or perhaps it’s an organisation trying to cover up a comparative lack of effort in dealing with racism over the last 20 years (anyone remember “it’s not our problem, its society’s problem”) with this pointless witch-hunt?

  Oh, but it’s the FA. Well, well, now I understand. You’d have to be the FA to behave like this, wouldn’t you?

  • Anyone care to comment on the fact that ‘team Terry’ were feeding the press the line that he said blind rather than black when things initially blew up. The eventual ‘unlikely’ defence emerged after lip readers confidently indicated that not to be the case.

  • Well put bluebrain .. summed up the farce that is the FA perfectly ..

• The treatment of John Terry is a complete disgrace. David Bernstein has picked him out as a scapegoat from the moment he became chairman. The PC lobby and more particularly the anti racism groups are determined that there has to be a punishment dished out in the John Terry case irrespective of the truth of the matter because failure to do so apparently in some way damages the fight against racism. Unfortunately for them and the FA the law of the land determined that John Terry was innocent. To this we should add the clear fact that John Terry is not a racist. He has been the captain and leader of England and Chelsea for the last 10 years. Both of these teams are multi racial, does anyone honestly believe that John Terry would have been most managers choice for captain if he was racist, and that the players would universally respect and follow him? I’m sure even John Terry would accept that during his career he has made some stupid decisions that have led to him being targeted by the popular press. This does not however excuse him being made a scapegoat to satisfy the bloodlust of kick it out and the other anti racism groups who are determined to have their pound of flesh despite him being cleared by the courts and there being more than sufficient evidence to give him the benefit of the doubt. The FA’s weakness in the face of pressure from these groups and the biased reporting of BBC commentators with axes to grind like Garth Crooks, has led to England’s Football team being significantly weakened but much more importantly John Terry being unfairly slandered as a racist for the rest of his life. The joke is that this will actually set race relations back years within football and society. John Terry will become a rallying point for groups he would not wish to be associated with but who will be able to make politic out of his totally unreasonable treatment. The anti racism groups and the like of Garth Crooks have shown themselves to be so totally biased towards their specific goals that they will go to any lengths to achieve them thereby damaging their cause rather than enhancing it. This is a dark day for justice in this country. JT has been a loyal servant to England, the most successful captain of his country ever and the best English central defender for a decade but he has been thrown to the Wolves. With the appalling recent treatment of Liverpool fans , we now have this appaling bullying of an England hero, I’m ashamed to call myself British !! He has to appeal !!

• The only thing that matters mate is the court decision and the reaction of the Chelsea supporters. JT wasn’t liked before this case and he won’t be liked after- nothing has changed there. I also hope he doesn’t appeal, it only intensify the moronic hysteria that surrounds him.

• The trial judge’s summary said ‘Mr Terry’s explanation is unlikely’ and it’s difficult to argue with that. I really can’t see Terry as a victim. He narrowly avoided the ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ test but the clear ‘balance of probability’ is that his defence was concocted.

• Absolutely brilliant piece!!

• The FA need to look at themselves in the mirror before condemning JT , anyone else ever noticed Wembley ( the home of football !) on big match days, plenty of black ,ethnic minorites serving in the kiosks and turnstile area`s at ground level but if you`ve had the pleasure ( or dis-pleasure, whichever your take ) of the corperate , middle class resturant jolly area`s you`ll notice a very distictly “white” environment working there .. hypocrites !

• Whilst the standards of proof required by the court and the FA are different it is fairly clear that the FA have contravened their own rules in the Terry case.the argument here is not about racism(which is clearly reprehensible) but about what is ‘good’ in terms of law and governance.in those terms the FA’s decision is ‘bad’ and apparently driven by impure motives. to allow the decision to stand merely permits and indeed encourages the FA to continue to make ‘bad ‘decisions .in those circumstances it appears to me that Terry could not only go to judicial review,it is important that he does.

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