I actually think John Terry has a lot to answer for. Any decent prinicipled person, would of stepped down from his position, as soon as charged, until he was proved innocent or guilty. This has happened recently to the energy minister, who declares his innocence, but has resigned from his cabinet position, until it is cleared up.
I think in this case the FA have taken the right decision. Maybe they could of included Cappello in those discussions. However there could of only been the one result.
Redknapp is quite obviously the choice.....the people and press want him.....the players want him.....and so the outcry if it wasn't him, would be to much. However I do mark caution, as in the end its the players that go on the field and play..or not as the case may be. I think most of us would of picked the same team as Cappello in South Africa. It was the players that let him down. Someone mentioned Beckham earlier in the thread. For all his modelling and other pursuits, the one thing you always got from Beckham was 100% effort. He wanted to play for England and you could see that every minute he was on that pitch. You could see how proud he was to wear the three lions on his chest. If only we can have another 11 players that would run through walls for england, like he did. We can but dream !!!
thats all well and good and very informative, but what about Beckham and his aftershaves ?
the simple answer is Star...if John Terry had done the honourable thing and stepped down...until he feels he can clear his name, then none of this would of happened. Also the modern media world being as it is, most of us have seen the clip of John Terry shouting his racist comment at Anton Ferdinand. I am no lip reader, but it is quite obviuos what was said. I stand by my comments, if you are in a posiytion of responsability, you should step down. Or as in this case you would be relieved of your duties.
However looking at the front page of The Sun today you wonder why anyone would bother to take the England job anyway. Pearce is given the caretaker managers role for one game....and a 18 year old news story is blasted across the front pages. A situation that was resolved, and an apology accepted. This is exactly why people would think twice about taking the position. Why after one day does this rag of a newspaper scrape the barrel with a story like this. I hope in the same way as circulation dropped by two thirds on merseyside when they published lies about Liverpool supporters back in the 80's.....then we all see this paper for the excuse for tiolet paper it is and stop buying it. Another news international paper that deserves to be binned.
in reply...step down from the captaincy so as to clear his name...(and you say of what ???)...the charge of racial abuse that he has to go to court for...thats what !!!!!Seems quite obvious to me !!! remember when Dave Jones was accused of child abuse. He resigned his position as Southampton manager..in the premiership at the time....and fought and cleared his name. He was then free to ( as he has done ) take back up his career as a football manager. A man with honour that most respect as such. John Terry as can be seen from Essex's link has caused England more than his fair share of trouble. In this case, he has lost the Manager his job. Any one with ounce of honour would have stepped down, until they had cleared their name of charges brought.
Also you asked about what I would do if someone falsely accused me at work of doing something. Well all depends if i was charged by the police. If I was charged by the police of racially abuseing someone at work, I would be suspended from my position without delay, pending the outcome of the case. Think this is what most companies would do. Normal practise....ask any HR department.
And... no I'm not a lip reader...but if you have seen the clip...you tell me what else you think he was saying then !!!!!!! I think his defense will be, that it was a comment in the heat of the moment. It will indeed be up to a jury to then decide if that is racial abuse or not.
Star I think you just argue the toss about football and footballers. Over the months it has become more and more difficult to follow and understand your points as logic seems to be really lacking.
For once, the FA have acted in the right way by removing John Terry from the spotlight for the greater good of the England team. Terry could not see the potential for disruption himself so the FA took the decision for him. If you can't understand why they had to do that for the greater good of the team then you just don't understand the relationship between sport and the press and how the shadow of this trial would be used by the press at the faintest whiff of team disharmony and we just don't need another International team debacle like South Africa. This may not be fair and it may be offensive to John Terry but unfortunately life is not fair and he has a rather large bank balance and an even bigger ego to console himself with.
As far as football and footballers go I have written to Ed Milliband and asked him why he is having a go a Captains of the Industrial and Commercial for earning a good living out of creating wealth and industrial success when dick head footballers who are nothing but spoiled brats earn several million pounds a year for nothing and get the most creative tax advice available. There is a slight erring in the aim of Mr Muilliband with his daily attacks on the highly paid in a sector that is responsible for production, growth and wealth. He should target the dick head footballers who don't create, produce or encourage anything other than their own bank balances - I wonder if the myopic loony labour supporters will support that kind of ranting?
it's a simple thing to slag all off at the fa and the boss, but a simple look at stat's does clear it up a bit. any one checked them. as south africa proved, the boss can't play. it's the current players who are letting us down. when a younger team is experimented with, england play well, then we revert to the suppossed gods for big games and it all falls over again. oh i am cross. just look at what the dutch did 20-30 years ago. get the kids in. managers hands are tied by our expectations
not to forget the most important thing, Posh says you have to so there <stamps feet>
bet he was about the 6 million quid per yeer though.
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