Racism in Football

[Gibbo]

Terry has already denied the charge and requested a personal hearing.

Now it's a level playing field with the Suarez case it'll be interesting to see that cunt Piara Powar and the rest of them trying to wriggle out of this.

Going to be very interesting this.

[Leyton388]

So the FA banned Suarez on the say so if Evra so Terry should face the same on the say so of ferdinand. If he dosen't the LFC should appeal the suarez case.

[fidget]

So the FA banned Suarez on the say so if Evra so Terry should face the same on the say so of ferdinand. If he dosen't the LFC should appeal the suarez case.

Ferdinand didn't say anything.
However somehow the cameras caught this one incident despite missing Luis who said it one,two,ten, thirteen, seventeen or a million times.

[Lee]

Completely shocked that the FA have gone through with this, I thought they'd wash their hands with it after the court case.

Let's hope he's banned for at least eight games.

[TheElephantMan]

This could/should get interesting now, can't see Chelsea or John Terry just accepting this. Will there be a photo of John Terry underneath "RACIST" in big bold letters in the Mirror now?

[Gibbo]

He has to get at least the same as Suarez.

[Lee]

He has to get at least the same as Suarez.

I hope he rots.

[TheElephantMan]

The media really need to go to town with this now, otherwise it could be suggested that they're all actually racists.

[Liverpel]

John Terry has denied a Football Association charge for the use of racially abusive language during Chelsea's defeat at Queens Park Rangers last October and requested a personal hearing as he attempts to avoid a suspension that would rule him out of the start of the Premier League season.

The defender was acquitted of a racially aggravated public order offence after a five-day trial at Westminster magistrates court this month because it had not been proven beyond reasonable doubt that the England player had directed his words as an insult aimed at the QPR defender Anton Ferdinand.

The FA's original inquiry into the incident, which occurred late in Chelsea's 1-0 defeat at Loftus Road, was suspended after the police became involved and Terry was prosecuted.

It was resumed on the completion of the court case, with an independent QC overseeing the evidence already accrued – Terry had been interviewed by the FA's head of off-field regulation, Jenni Kennedy, five days after the game – and scrutinising evidence that emerged during the court proceedings.

The defender was formally charged by the governing body's disciplinary commission on Friday evening. An FA statement said: "After seeking advice from an external independent QC, and having considered the evidence and magistrates court decision in the John Terry case, the FA has today charged the Chelsea player following an alleged incident that occurred during the Queens Park Rangers versus Chelsea fixture.

"It is alleged that Terry used abusive and/or insulting words and/or behaviour towards Queens Park Rangers' Anton Ferdinand, contrary to FA rules. It is further alleged that this included a reference to the ethnic origin and/or colour and/or race of Anton Ferdinand.

"This charge is the result of the FA's long-standing enquiries into this matter, which were placed on hold pending the outcome of the criminal trial, and relates to rules governing football only."

Terry, who is due to play for Chelsea against Milan in Miami this weekend after participating in two games on the club's tour of the United States, had until 3 August to respond but swiftly confirmed that he would be contesting the charge and seeking a personal hearing.

He said: "I deny the charge and will be requesting the opportunity to attend the commission for a personal hearing." That is likely to be a four-man commission, including the independent QC.

Despite Terry having been found not guilty of any offence by the chief magistrate, Howard Riddle, there is a distinction between the required degree of evidence to support a criminal conviction – proven beyond reasonable doubt – and an FA guilty decision, proven on the balance of probabilities. Should he now be found guilty, a fine and suspension would follow.

Last December, a three-man FA panel had found Liverpool's Luis Suárez guilty of abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra with a racial element, although there was no film or recording of the words spoken and no independent witnesses who heard them. The panel decided Evra had been consistent in maintaining that Suárez had referred to his colour in the two players' heated argument during the draw at Anfield on 15 October and found Suárez's account not credible. Suárez was banned for eight matches and fined £40,000.

Ferdinand will not be sanctioned despite the evidence heard during court case having exposed the level of swearing used in his exchange with Terry in their on-pitch dispute.

There were concerns that any charge brought on the basis of that evidence might dissuade others from coming forward as witnesses in future.

Terry had claimed he believed Ferdinand had accused him on the pitch of using the offensive words as an insult, with the Chelsea and England defender maintaining throughout the process that he was repeating them only to deny he had said them. The chief magistrate had expressed scepticism in his 13-page written judgment on the case: "Mr Terry's explanation is, certainly under the cold light of forensic examination, unlikely."

About Terry's case that he repeated the words back to deny having said them, Riddle went on: "It is not the most obvious response. It is sandwiched between other undoubted insults." Yet, with the film of the incident obscured, the evidence of lip readers inconclusive and no independent witnesses who heard what Terry said, Riddle concluded that the evidence left sufficient doubt and acquitted the former England captain.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jul/27/john-terry-fa-abusive-language

[Exiled_red]

My guess would be that (if found guilty) Terry will get a shorter ban than Suarez; with the reason being Terry said it once where as Suarez said it multiple times.

[Phoenix07]

The Mirror ran with the headline after the verdict. They can't exactly do that before a verdict is passed on Terry by the FA.

[TheElephantMan]

I just noticed that someone said he'd been charged by the FA which was also a headline on the BBC website. I really hope those ****s at the Mirror are consistent.

[Red_Polo]

Let's remember though, it would only be making them consistently wrong.

[TheElephantMan]

Well yes, but won't they be deemed RACISTs if they don't?

[Fredo]

What a ****ing cunt Martin Samuel is.