Chelsea stars playing away from home

[knockers]

Who was the other footballers wife he was having a dabbel with? The one with 3 kids?

Hilario - the Chelsea reserve keeper from what I've been seen in a email doing the roundss.

[Chrono]

Popbitch:


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>> John Terry: A mini special <<
A Popbitch tribute to the England captain

A sports magazine sent a couple of journalists
to interview John Terry, one male; one female.

At the end of the shoot JT and his
representative left. But then the agent came
back, to tell the girl that John wanted to
invite her to the upcoming Chelsea party.

In the time honoured tradition, she made
her excuses and left.


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Did you know JT has scored 28 times at
the Bridge? Nah, nor did Wayne.
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>> Team bonding <<
A grand don't come for free

Last autumn, one day after training, Chelsea
first-teamers were asked to stay behind for a
presentation. A man was brought in and talked to
them about a property investment offer overseas.
The players were then given a couple of grand
for listening, which left more than one of them
a little mystified.

It turned out that the property consultant
had arranged the talk through a man claiming
to be a representative of John Terry. And
he'd handed over a six-figure sum for the "in".


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An anagram of Chelsea's John Terry is
Lecher Enjoys Trash.
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>> Cashing in <<
It's all gold for Terry

Remember that email going round a few weeks ago
touting John Terry to brands and sponsors?
Well, it seems that Riviera marketing had given
Terry a wedge of cash to secure his image rights
and realised they needed to do something fast
to make back some money.

Add in Terry going to the Sun (the paper who
refused to keep quiet about his mum's
shoplifting) to secure another 300 grand for
writing columns, and he looks like a man who,
despite the 150k salary a week, is in need of
cash. As Kelvin Mackenzie said in the Sun
today "How much money does he need? Or are
those stories about his gambling debts true?"
Wouldn't it be funnier if it was for paying
off kiss and tell girls - Tiger Woods
style. Or like a recent foreign Premiership hero,
who has only managed to make sure his name is
not synonymous with cheating by being very
generous to girls and the media.
Or at least that was the case back then.


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Any girls out there expecting a Terry-fuelled payday
should hurry to tabloids now. The first of Tiger
Woods' mistresses was offered 150k by NoTW. The
12th? Not much more than a fish supper and bus fare.
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>> Reign of Terry <<
Chelsea managers put in place

John Terry is often blamed for hastening
Mourinho's departure but a club insider tells
us he could have played a part in Avram Grant's
demise too. Alleged Thai-fancier Avram was
attacked in the press by Chelsea defender Tal
Ben Haim. Grant was not amused and Ben Haim
found his first team opportunities somewhat
limited. However, Ben Haim was mates with
Terry who, we're told, made it clear to Grant
that he wouldn't take too kindly if Ben Haim was
dropped for long. It was not long after this
that stories started to appear in the sports
pages that Grant's number two, Steve Clarke,
was effectively running the team.


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So JT was sleeping with Wayne Bridge's girl. Poor old
Wayne - he wasn't even first choice with his missus.
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>> Once bitten <<
It's hard to be a football writer

It must be difficult for footballer writers
when they're put on the spot to take the
moral high-ground. News of the World writer
Rob Shepherd called for Terry to step down
as England captain last weekend,
"Terry did not break the law but he
committed a cardinal sin of the dressing room."

Rob Shepherd is, of course, himself no stranger
to breaking the law. He was given a prison
sentence in 2004 for biting someone's face after
an argument in a bar in Beckenham.


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JT has signed up to star in a new TV show.
It's called Other Footballers' Wives.
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>> Terry towelling <<
Once again, Germans get there first

The JT/Wayne Bridge England issue has a German
parallel. In the late 90s, controversial
midfielder Stefan Effenberg had an affair with
the wife of his Germany team-mate, Thomas Strunz.
Strunz found out about Claudia's affair when he
read a text message from Effenberg on his wife's
phone. Effenberg married Claudia and they moved
to the USA to get away from it all. Though not
before publishing an autobiography which
included some nice and mucky photographs of him
and his new bride.


*************** JT Special ends **********************

[Kenneth]

Bridge has been properly cuckolded

[Imy]

How anyone can shag John Terry is beyond me.

Money, fame and power is powerful cocktail it seems

[S-RED]

To the Adams family theme

Your father is a dealer,
your mother is a stealer,
you shag your team mates shelia,
THE TERRY FAMILY.

[Le Chef]

To the Adams family theme

Your father is a dealer,
your mother is a stealer,
you shag your team mates shelia,
THE TERRY FAMILY.

[dww]

Italians amused and bewildered by English hypocrisy over John Terry

The relaxed attitude to footballers' private lives in Italy means England's moral dilemma over John Terry is hard to fathom

Posted by Tom Kington in Rome Thursday 4 February 2010 20.13 GMT guardian.co.uk


Gianluigi Lentini was not censured by Fabio Capello at Milan after an alleged indiscretion in 1993. Photograph: Ben Radford/Allsport

Italian sports journalists struggled to stifle their laughter this week as they followed the John Terry affair, and sought to explain why England is dumping questions about leadership and extramarital affairs in the lap of an Italian. "This is one for the history books," said Il Giornale, smirking. "Who would have thought of asking one of us to become the moral authority in such a delicate question?"

Owned by the family of Silvio *Berlusconi, Il Giornale may well have an axe to grind about Fleet Street's keen *interest in the Italian prime minister's nights with escort girls. But it could be forgiven for pointing out that not only is Fabio Capello being handed the job of deciding Terry's fate as England captain, but his go‑between, Franco Baldini, is also Italian, as is Terry's club manager, Carlo Ancelotti.

And if Ancelotti has already made it clear Terry can stay on as the Chelsea captain, Italian pundits were in no doubt Capello would like to do the same. "What goes on on the pitch is important to him, period," one said.

No one can recall Capello ever dishing out moral discipline during his stints at Milan, Roma and Juventus. The wayward striker Antonio Cassano, who played under Capello at Roma and Real Madrid, proudly revealed in his autobiography he had notched up over 600 lovers, including some he sneaked into the physio's room at Roma under the nose of the manager.

Capello dished out punishment to Cassano, but only for his behaviour on the pitch, once screaming: "Only rabbits walk away!" when Cassano stormed out of training.

Up in Milan, Capello was told by a journalist that his new signing Marcel Desailly had been spotted in a bar at 3am before training. "Capello took the player aside and calmly said: 'Milan may seem big, but everyone knows everything.' Desailly *settled in very quickly after that," recalled the same journalist.

In another incident, the Milan winger Gianluigi Lentini famously crashed his Porsche in 1993 while driving at 200kmh amid rumours of a visit to the wife of the Juventus player Toto Schillaci. But that was Schillaci's estranged wife and Capello never acted over the episode. Certainly, there is no indication that the fact Lentini never featured regularly for Milan once he had recovered from his injuries had *anything to do with him being *punished by Capello.

Managers throughout Serie A are loth to crack down on private lives. "There is just less attention in sports to moral questions here," said La Repubblica's Fabrizio Bocca. "All that counts is that you can keep up during training," said a second journalist.

The Italian press also does a fair job of ignoring salacious stories of players misbehaving with other players' wives when they arise. One journalist said he could think of two recent incidents that were widely rumoured but never made the back pages. One exception was the much-publicised decision by the wife of Paolo Barison, who played for Italy in the 1966 World Cup, to move in with his Napoli team-mate, José Altafini.

Today, David Beckham's return to Milan for a second winter spell is proof that *players get an easier life in Italy, said one Milan watcher. "David has told fellow players that one of the reasons he came back here was because no one worries about his private life. We are more interested in what he does on the pitch than where Victoria is going shopping."

Turning its attention to the Premier League, Corriere della Sera stopped laughing long enough to have a stab at explaining the media storm in which Terry is being tossed around. Coverage, it wrote, is equally divided between "scandalous entertainment", "sociological dissertation work on spoilt footballers", and "condemnation of the poor behaviour of people in public positions".

The only moral position taken by the English authorities to date, the paper wrote, is cowardice. "The sports minister was horrified but did not lift a finger and the FA passed the hot potato to the coach." Il Giornale went one further, calling the sports minister, Gerry Sutcliffe, "a jackal who scented blood and jumped in". John Terry, it added, "is just a footballer, not a priest".

[Chrono]

If I comment on that I'll get accused of racism but there is a certain irony to the decision making process in this even if I do think the whole thing is over the top.

[dww]

Fabio Capello's tactical retreat suggests John Terry is safe

The England manager will not want to undermine his image of infallibility by changing the national team captain

Posted by Kevin McCarra Thursday 4 February 2010 22.05 GMT guardian.co.uk


Fabio Capello is unlikely to want to disrupt the England team further by changing the captain. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

There is something quaint about the John Terry furore. It could only be addressed, we were told, once Fabio Capello got back to Blighty. Nobody explained why it was impossible for him to take *soundings before his return to London. Perhaps the England manager feared making a decision while his mind was still clouded by the anaesthetic required for knee surgery in Switzerland. Maybe he just couldn't be bothered adding the +44 to all the contacts in his mobile that he wanted to consult.

The delay is far more likely to be tactical. Human beings have a tendency towards prurience, but attention soon wanders on to the next scandal. Terry's relationship with Vanessa Perroncel may no longer have the public quite so enthralled even now. Indifference towards the whole subject will work in Capello's favour if he wants to retain Terry as captain. The sole problem with that tactic may be the assumption that there are no more headlines to come. It is feasible that the Sunday papers will unleash new tales.

So far, the evidence suggests that Terry will keep the armband. Stuart Pearce was emphatic. "John Terry is a fantastic captain, in footballing terms on and off the pitch," the England coach said. "I think he is a selfless professional and his form is fantastic for his country. I'm not a big lover of witch hunts, which I'm afraid our country tends to follow a little bit these days. The bottom line is John, his family and everyone concerned in the matter. Not other people who haven't got a vested interest in what goes on."

It would be remarkable if Pearce had made such a statement without being very confident that his opinions were in line with those of the boss. Apart from the need to ensure continuity now that the World Cup finals are in sight, Capello has personal reasons to dislike the prospect of changing tack. The idea of doubt or vacillation undermines the image he has of himself.

The Capello of popular legend is decisive and right at all times. How could such a character confess, by implication, that he had botched the appointment of a captain? He will have known that he was choosing a person who is not renowned as a diplomat or a retiring personality. Terry appealed for his boldness and gift for leader*ship. This will have been a very unusual week if Capello concedes tacitly that he has blundered.

On professional grounds he would also like to have continuity in the build‑up to the World Cup, instead of breaking in a new captain. Some will argue that there is a moral element that must not be ignored out of expediency. However, the tale is slightly clouded. If Wayne Bridge, as reported, had already broken up with Perroncel, the issue, strictly speaking, is none of his business. Unfortunately for Capello, people's relationships generally fail to be quite so clear-cut as that.

The manager's concern must ultimately be with any disruption caused to the squad itself. He ought to be reassured by the ruthlessness of professional sportsmen. Whatever sympathy they have towards Bridge will be dwarfed by a determination not to be distracted by the episode when the World Cup is imminent. One friendly, against Egypt next month, remains before the end of the club season. It is critical to England's prospects that Terry should feel settled. Bridge's place in Capello's scheme is more obscure.

Taking the captaincy from the centre-half would not be a perfect solution in any case. Both men would still have to coexist in training, on the bus, in the team hotel and perhaps on the field, with no guarantee of Bridge and Terry being reconciled. Camaraderie would not necessarily be restored purely because someone else had the armband. Capello will have to satisfy himself that the pair will get along well enough to prevent any harm being done to the team.

The cruellest step to avoid any such risk would be to ditch the blameless Bridge. There would be short-lived uproar before the remainder of the squad reverted to pursuing their own interests. So far as the practicalities go, other left-backs are capable of coming into contention as cover for Ashley Cole. Stephen Warnock, who already has one cap, has been impressing for Aston Villa.

Whatever happens in the matter of Terry and Bridge, Capello has the means to remain in complete control. Just as he likes it.

[PTP]

Do you not annoys me about all this. That there is so many little slags out there, who main goal in life is to shag a footballer so they are sorted - i 'know' a few girls round our's who had been through a few ex liverpool players and rumours of a couple of current ones too -

What pisses me off about it - why isn't there loads of rich famous woman putting it about so average people like me can get them drunk, throw a mix in and make some money easily.

[Exiled_red]

Do you not annoys me about all this. That there is so many little slags out there, who main goal in life is to shag a footballer so they are sorted - i 'know' a few girls round our's who had been through a few ex liverpool players and rumours of a couple of current ones too -

What pisses me off about it - why isn't there loads of rich famous woman putting it about so average people like me can get them drunk, throw a mix in and make some money easily.

[knockers]

What pisses me off about it - why isn't there loads of rich famous woman putting it about so average people like me can get them drunk, throw a mix in and make some money easily.

[PTP]

it's true though - if for example - there was say 30 rich famous women in liverpool (ie like there is liverpool/everton footballers) - and i knew these rich woman drank in various places round town - i'd be all over it. Hanging round, with the thought process of "i'm going to shag one of these rich famous women and i'm made"

Eventually, after enough hard work, I'd bag one of them - and it'd go one of two ways - i'd 'settle' down with her and allow her to do what the **** she wanted as i had my life of luxury - and if it goes tits up, i sell my story and go on celerbrity island brother - either way, **** this 9-5 ****.

[Chrono]

Haha, you were born in the wrong body mate. You would have made a superb wag

[PTP]

I still might