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ashley cole
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EricBrooksGhost
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He's only tweeting what a lot of people think in any case, just read a few threads on here about referees and their matches , bans, retrospective red cards etc.
bluevengence
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Good read from Henry Winter.... <a class="postlink" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/9590947/Chelseas-Toxic-Twins-John-Terry-and-Ashley-Cole-are-an-embarrassment-to-the-game-and-their-peers.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... peers.html</a>
By Henry Winter, Football Correspondent12:00AM BST 06 Oct 2012
They are an embarrassment to the club and to the game that rewards them so handsomely. Chelsea need to order Terry to start apologising and Cole to stop tweeting.
Over the past decade, the centre-back and left back have been England’s most sure-footed defenders, invariably alive to danger, vital sporting qualities painfully lacking in their human armoury.
Having been found guilty of making a racist remark by an Independent Regulatory Commission, and then received “written reasons” dripping with condemnation, Terry would be a total fool even to consider an appeal. He cannot be that stupid, surely? Nothing would surprise in this unseemly saga, though. Privately, the FA admits there is no chance of Terry’s four-game ban being increased if his appeal fails but what remains of his credibility would be washed away in a further storm of derision.
Terry has built a career on defiance, an admirable attribute when games are turning against him, but now the whole game is turning against him. “This whole case is causing the game to implode,’’ remarked Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, who has tried to reason with Terry. Strong words.
Already unpopular in quarters of the professional game, Terry could become a pariah.
He is perceived as conceited, his character captured in the IRC report that described his expression when addressing Anton Ferdinand on Oct 23 as “disdainful” and “contemptuous”, not “injured” or “quizzical in the face of an unfounded allegation” (as Terry claimed).
Who is advising Terry? Baldrick? If there is nobody close to Terry with the gumption or common sense to tell him to say sorry to Ferdinand, to embark on a damage-limitation exercise sharpish, voicing his abhorrence of racism, then Chelsea must step in, pointing out that he is damaging them. Terry is letting a sore fester, risking infecting the rest of the club. “At the moment, he’s our captain,’’ said his manager, Roberto Di Matteo, a touch ominously.
Chelsea’s usually amiable director of communications, Steve Atkins, has taken to lecturing certain correspondents, this one included, on the tenor and content of their columns when he and his club should be focusing on extinguishing the inferno of two employees’ making.
Currently, Chelsea resemble a club short of leadership. The owner is silent (as usual), the board is inert and the captain is disgraced. How sad. They should be basking in the limelight, enjoying the afterglow of their European success and the warming feel of their joyous football.
The focus on Chelsea should be around the twinkling feet of Juan Mata, Oscar and Eden Hazard, but Terry and Cole have dragged the national spotlight on to their multiple character defects.
Cole’s reputation was smeared across a few pages of the judgment. He was effectively accused of changing his tune, of letting loyalty to a team-mate get in the way of truth’s journey into light. According to the IRC, Cole’s evidence “evolved”. Pity his intellectual capacities haven’t. In a remarkable fit of pique even by his prickly standards, Cole responded to the written reasons by pouring bile all over the FA.
I nearly swerved off the road when I heard what Cole had tweeted. He had not even read the full reasons, simply reacting splenetically to the “captions” on the breaking news bar on the training-ground flat screen. At least he apologised.
So nimble and clever when closing down an opposing winger, Cole can be remarkably leaden-footed and dim-witted off the pitch. He has previous. He even shot an intern with an air rifle. He is worth many millions, a sportsman with lucrative contracts, and yet he unleashes a barb of a tweet at those in charge of discipline.
Cole seems to use Twitter as a catapult. Surely a charge awaits followed by a swift guilty verdict and fine? Deleting the tweet was an admission of an error. Cole could have been savvier, issuing a statement through the club, highlighting the technical errors made by the FA in bringing its case. Instead, Cole lashed out.
Cole and Terry are an embarrassment to their peers. Most Premier League players get through the day without uttering a racist remark at an opponent or launching invective at the guardians of the game. When footballing agnostics think of the Premier League they will associate it with Terry and Cole, with ignorance and arrogance, overlooking the altruistic elements.
The crassness of Terry and Cole will blind the critics to the £100 million a year the Premier League gives clubs and assorted initiatives outside the elite (with parachute payments on top).
They will not see the countless club community schemes, the number of players with their own private foundations, the constant visits to children’s hospitals and regular picture-signing sessions after training so that the myriad requests can be met. English football is a benevolent force yet its image is tainted by the likes of Terry and Cole.
They may be at ease with their toxic reputations. There is an inherent sadness here. Terry is still a fine centre half. Cole is still England’s best left back, albeit with Leighton Baines closing fast. As competitors in their chosen craft, Terry and Cole are brilliant performers. As human beings, they leave so much to be desired.
By Henry Winter, Football Correspondent12:00AM BST 06 Oct 2012
They are an embarrassment to the club and to the game that rewards them so handsomely. Chelsea need to order Terry to start apologising and Cole to stop tweeting.
Over the past decade, the centre-back and left back have been England’s most sure-footed defenders, invariably alive to danger, vital sporting qualities painfully lacking in their human armoury.
Having been found guilty of making a racist remark by an Independent Regulatory Commission, and then received “written reasons” dripping with condemnation, Terry would be a total fool even to consider an appeal. He cannot be that stupid, surely? Nothing would surprise in this unseemly saga, though. Privately, the FA admits there is no chance of Terry’s four-game ban being increased if his appeal fails but what remains of his credibility would be washed away in a further storm of derision.
Terry has built a career on defiance, an admirable attribute when games are turning against him, but now the whole game is turning against him. “This whole case is causing the game to implode,’’ remarked Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, who has tried to reason with Terry. Strong words.
Already unpopular in quarters of the professional game, Terry could become a pariah.
He is perceived as conceited, his character captured in the IRC report that described his expression when addressing Anton Ferdinand on Oct 23 as “disdainful” and “contemptuous”, not “injured” or “quizzical in the face of an unfounded allegation” (as Terry claimed).
Who is advising Terry? Baldrick? If there is nobody close to Terry with the gumption or common sense to tell him to say sorry to Ferdinand, to embark on a damage-limitation exercise sharpish, voicing his abhorrence of racism, then Chelsea must step in, pointing out that he is damaging them. Terry is letting a sore fester, risking infecting the rest of the club. “At the moment, he’s our captain,’’ said his manager, Roberto Di Matteo, a touch ominously.
Chelsea’s usually amiable director of communications, Steve Atkins, has taken to lecturing certain correspondents, this one included, on the tenor and content of their columns when he and his club should be focusing on extinguishing the inferno of two employees’ making.
Currently, Chelsea resemble a club short of leadership. The owner is silent (as usual), the board is inert and the captain is disgraced. How sad. They should be basking in the limelight, enjoying the afterglow of their European success and the warming feel of their joyous football.
The focus on Chelsea should be around the twinkling feet of Juan Mata, Oscar and Eden Hazard, but Terry and Cole have dragged the national spotlight on to their multiple character defects.
Cole’s reputation was smeared across a few pages of the judgment. He was effectively accused of changing his tune, of letting loyalty to a team-mate get in the way of truth’s journey into light. According to the IRC, Cole’s evidence “evolved”. Pity his intellectual capacities haven’t. In a remarkable fit of pique even by his prickly standards, Cole responded to the written reasons by pouring bile all over the FA.
I nearly swerved off the road when I heard what Cole had tweeted. He had not even read the full reasons, simply reacting splenetically to the “captions” on the breaking news bar on the training-ground flat screen. At least he apologised.
So nimble and clever when closing down an opposing winger, Cole can be remarkably leaden-footed and dim-witted off the pitch. He has previous. He even shot an intern with an air rifle. He is worth many millions, a sportsman with lucrative contracts, and yet he unleashes a barb of a tweet at those in charge of discipline.
Cole seems to use Twitter as a catapult. Surely a charge awaits followed by a swift guilty verdict and fine? Deleting the tweet was an admission of an error. Cole could have been savvier, issuing a statement through the club, highlighting the technical errors made by the FA in bringing its case. Instead, Cole lashed out.
Cole and Terry are an embarrassment to their peers. Most Premier League players get through the day without uttering a racist remark at an opponent or launching invective at the guardians of the game. When footballing agnostics think of the Premier League they will associate it with Terry and Cole, with ignorance and arrogance, overlooking the altruistic elements.
The crassness of Terry and Cole will blind the critics to the £100 million a year the Premier League gives clubs and assorted initiatives outside the elite (with parachute payments on top).
They will not see the countless club community schemes, the number of players with their own private foundations, the constant visits to children’s hospitals and regular picture-signing sessions after training so that the myriad requests can be met. English football is a benevolent force yet its image is tainted by the likes of Terry and Cole.
They may be at ease with their toxic reputations. There is an inherent sadness here. Terry is still a fine centre half. Cole is still England’s best left back, albeit with Leighton Baines closing fast. As competitors in their chosen craft, Terry and Cole are brilliant performers. As human beings, they leave so much to be desired.
johnny on the spot
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Loads of cash, banging that Cheryl bird, professional footballer. He's going to fucking Hell.
jimharri
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It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it!johnny on the spot said:Loads of cash, banging that Cheryl bird, professional footballer. He's going to fucking Hell.
stimo
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not wrong though, is he?
jimharri
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Yeah, true. But some things you just don't say, particularly if you want to keep in favour with those you are insulting.stimo said:not wrong though, is he?