Brilliant play from FA , now they will use court order as a evidience that john terry is not guilty , however for a case with video evidience he deserves atleast a 8 match ban , probably even more

A great day to bury bad news.....

Same set of charges Suarez faced.

The key is whether his words were deemed to be offensive. If they were, then the racial part is a given and doubles the penalty.

As it's the foul and abusive language that sits at the centre of this charge rather than the allegation of racism, surely Ferdinand should be charged as well. Along with every single other footballer who has sworn at an opponent. The matter was dealt with by the courts and should have been left at that in my opinion.

The FA have opened a huge can of worms with this charge and made a rod for their own back. Regardless of anyone's opinion of Terry as a man (and there is little doubt that he's an abhorrent scumbag), there really was no need to drag all this up again.

The can was opened with the Suarez case, if the punish Suarez but let Terry walk it would be an even bigger shambles than it already is.

This could be the start of the FA getting on top of the on-field language issues.

I doubt it though.

Can they not do him for being ****, I feel the cps missed a trick there

If they did, fecking pube head over at the scum would play 2 games a season.

if they do that's rooney banned for most of next season for consistently effing and blinding referees to their face. but i'm not holding my breath.

Spot on



my sentiments exactly, if you the FA are serious about racism then Ferdinand has to be charged as well, if he does n't then some might accuse him of playing the race card. If we go with the court's decision that Terry did n't intend to use racist language in an insulting manner then what he did (using foul language to wind an opponent and get him booked, sent off, win a FK, pen or just make him play poorly) was just as bad. But was it really surpising that they did it anyway? chelsea were losing 1-0 and down to 9 men, undeservedly from their perspective, whilst they had a new manager under pressure for results and performances and the "derby" element would have added something else.

We know players will try to use dark arts and tricks to get one over on an opponent, Martin Keown would n't use banter he just use to pinch them, Lucio tugged Drogba's injured arm at WC 2010, whilst multi-lingual players can wind people up without the referee knowing what they said, Evra spoke in spanish whilst making commentss about suarez's sister. You can't clean football up from foul language, when it is obvious like Rooney at West ham, players giving it out to supporters and officials ,then punish them. However, I think because of the nature of the game, the high pressure, the high tempo and aggression, I think players swearing at themselves or each other is something that would be too difficult to kick out.