Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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#1
As this has not come up on the Forum I take it that you are all treating the trial of John Terry with the contempt it deserves. Well now I have mentioned it, I ask the question should it have gone to trial and be costing the tax payer so much money?
Anyone else accused of making such a comment may end up in front of the local magistrate be given a small fine and marched out. Surly this is the P.C. brigade trying to make a big issue of what may or may not be racist remarks by a well known person.
Total waste of the courts time and money, which will end up at the worst with a small fine, well small as far as John Terry finances go. The worst part is he could be branded a racist and while I do not particularly like Terry, I do not think he is a racist. If he was it would have come out a long time ago and plenty of players would have been lining up to condemn him.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#2
total waste of money, ferdinand had been winding terry up and the latter responded.
sadly we see so many times players complaining to referees about something said by a fellow professional in the heat of a match.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#3
The circus is because Terry has pleaded not guilty and as with all celebrities it then becomes big news when it goes to trial. There is no doubt he said the words and is using his wealth to try and get found not guilty, money does talk! Being found guilty of a racist incident has not done Cheryl Cole much harm has it.
Audere est facere.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#4
A storm in a teacup ?? Sounds as though, as Harry says, it should not have gone to trial.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#5
john terry has now been exonerated despite attempts to blacken his name.
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#6
He has been found not guilty in court but still has the FA to deal with, I would not call that exonerated. The trial is likely to cost the CPS about £300,000 according to my lawyer grandson.
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Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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#7
All part of the smoke screen economy...you've seen the film Matrix-it's a parody of course.
Never give up...
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#8
#2, these footballers are only professional in the sense that they get paid for what they do. Surely being a member of a profession demands a good understanding of ethics which seems universally lacking in football at the top levels.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#9
And these professionals are paid so well only because of the various TV deals. It can hardly be asserted that what happens on the pitch stays on the pitch when that pitch is but a few feet away across the carpet of homes throughout the land and all over the world.
If boorishness is to continue there is a case for screenings to take place only after the water-shed.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#10
there has always been a minority of bad characters in football, as in every other walk of life.
ferdinand and terry seem the types that we would not invite round for tea and fairy cakes.
Guest 699- Registered: 3 Jun 2010
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#11
whose firm does not have a bullying and harrassment policy ? rules tightened up last october by the EU
the court case was for racisism
so 2 parts to answer ?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#12
the plot thickens now as rio ferdinand has tweeted that ashley cole is a choc ice then says it is not a racist term.
rio has never been the sharpest tool in the box.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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#13
From the Telegraph:
"Wind farm subsidies to top £1bn this year".
And all the papers can do is talk about choc ices and other trivial nonsense.
This really is a non-story no better than reading those soap magazines you find on supermarket shelves.