Roberto Di Matteo has taken another brave move by retaining John Terry as captain of Chelsea though after a hefty fine. The man in blue will again wear captain’s armband and enter in the field with full confidence as he had always been doing. There is no need to discuss again as to why he had become an untouchable in last few weeks for everybody, but Chelsea helped him in moving further in his life forgiving what happened in last few months to him. Notably, Terry has been found guilty of passing racial comments to Anton Ferdinand last year. That case has been concluded from FA’s end after imposing a mammoth 220,000 pounds as fine on him. Many consider Chelsea’s decision as full of error this time, but on the other side, Chelsea has issued a statement and clarified how it takes on FA decision, racial abuses, and the whole turnaround happened to him. Bruce Buck, the chairman of Chelsea, discussed Terry’s status via statement given to Associated Press that reads as, “John will continue to … [Read more...]
Ashley Cole is fined heavily by FA over his Rebellious Tweets
Ashley Cole could be the best defender for England and Chelsea, but he could not defend what he tweeted few days back about FA disciplinary penal investing a racial case against John Terry. Though, he apologized immediately but FA was in no mood to spare his brave effort to criticize soccer’s biggest governing body. Besides, FA has also defined a set of guidelines to be used by every footballer, official, club, or nation using a social media to express its views. In the latest case, Ashley Cole has been fined with €110,000 (£90,000 or $145,000) for his abusive tweets. Obviously, Cole is not happy with the way FA has handled this case, perhaps, he has a strong reason to believe that whatever he said in his defense is not taken care of by FA’s disciplinary penal. FA issued a statement for its decision and said, “Chelsea's Ashley Cole has been fined £90,000 after he admitted an FA charge in relation to a Twitter comment which was improper and/or brought the game into disrepute. Cole, who … [Read more...]
Neymar may accept Chelsea’s offer
Brazilian 20 year’s old starlet: Neymar da Silva is all set to shift to Chelsea next season, if rumors are to be believed. Neymar, who plays for Brazilian national football team as a forward player along with Brazilian professional Santos Futebol Clube, has long been trying to attach with one of the topmost European league clubs. For now, he is associated with Santos, but next season he may be seen with Chelsea. Besides, he had been in touch with other heavyweight top clubs recently, like Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Paris Saint-Germain, but Chelsea became successful in signing him. However, nothing has been revealed officially yet, but behind the scene news is quite optimistic for his said transfer. Citing the supremacy of these giant clubs in global soccer world, he told to UK’s national daily newspaper: The Sun, “When the time is right I will listen to to the right offers that my agent has for me. It is very simple: if Barcelona are interested you listen, if Real Madrid are … [Read more...]
Premier League: It’s a 2-1 win for Chelsea over Arsenal
1 - 2 Chelsea remained unbeaten this season, until now even after its sixth match in the Premium League. Yesterday, it defeated Arsenal on their home ground with a 2-1 margin, and more importantly it’s their captain John Terry who gave Chelsea their winning goal. With this victory, Chelsea is leading the leaderboard with its top ranking and 16 points, and more notably; it’s still unbeatable this season! Emirates Stadium, the home ground of Arsenal, witnessed some power pack soccer actions this Saturday where Spaniards Juan Mata (who scored the first goal) and Fernando Torres (who scored the second and winning goal) remained the scorer for Chelsea, and for Arsenal, Ivorian Gervinho scored the only goal. Chelsea was looking confident right from the word go, but Arsenal also kept a tight pressure on them until their midfielder Abou Diaby got injured in an attempt to score a goal from distance. This muscular strain kept French Abou Diaby out of the field for at least three weeks – … [Read more...]
John Terry Quits International Football
John George Terry, the former captain of England’s national football team and Chelsea has decided to finally quite the international football over his racial criticisms in the recent past. Considering his age of just 31 years, England has lost an elite member of its national team and all coz of his own on/off field behaviors. John Terry has several charges of racial remarks and one of them was against Anton Ferdinand in a match between Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers last October. Though, he was cleared by the court for said comment in July this year, but another similar case is yet to start in Football Association’s disciplinary hearing. Said hearing was supposed to be started on 25th September, but the star footballer decided to resign from international games even before FA could start its case against him. John Terry has as many as 78 playing caps for England and over 500 match appearance for Chelsea. For the record, he has been the most successful player for Chelsea winning it as … [Read more...]