If there is one name who is the most popular soccer personality for various reasons, it would surely be John Terry, whether it is racial case, or his penalty or his club’s warning given to him. Further, there is a whole debate started in soccer fraternity about how to eradicate racial abuses from soccer. But this time, Terry is in the news for genuine soccer reasons, i.e., his injuries. As per the current media buzz Terry may not play Club World Cup, coz of his ongoing knee injury. Last month; he got his right ligament damaged and if he somehow decides to play in coming Club World Cup in Japan, his recovery would delay further. Hence, according to Chelsea manager Rafa Benitez, it is better to rest him for another period of time. Benitez said, “The inflammation during the flight will not be the best thing for him so he will not travel. He wanted to go and to help, but it's better that he stays here. We don't know when he will play. We have to wait and see how he reacts.” Notably, … [Read more...]
Chelsea skipper out for three weeks
John Terry is a most famous name these days as far Chelsea is concerned but for erroneous reasons. For now, there are no allegations leveled against him nor has he used any racial abusive language to anyone. Let’s keep it simple, John Terry, Chelsea’s skipper, is out for at least three weeks after he injured his knee when he collided with Luis Suarez in 1-1 draw with Liverpool on Sunday. His injury looked serious initially when he was taken off the field on a stretcher, but later, injury was not found as serious as it was predicted earlier. Blues coach Roberto Di Matteo said “With Terry, we're looking at approximately three weeks out, fortunately it's not as bad as we first thought.” Actually, it was an unlucky day for Terry coz he just returned after a four matches’ suspension and got a forced leave again. However, the good news is, he scored the only goal from Chelsea side in 20th minute of the game. Quoting his injury as unfortunate, Matteo said, “Terry's injury was unfortunate as … [Read more...]
Ferdinand refused to wear anti-racism T-shirt
Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand, who had been a victim of racial abuses by English Captain John Terry last year, has now refused to join the Kick It Out campaign by not wearing T-shirt along with two of his QPR team-mates. His racial abuse case against Terry concluded just in last week and where he has been imposed with a £220,000 fine and a four matches’ suspension. His decision to boycott wearing the t shirts came within 24 hours of Rio Ferdinand’s, his brother, decision to boycott the support of Kick It Out anti racial campaign here at Loftus Road. During Kick It Out campaign, all premier league players are asked to wear a t-shirt bearing an anti-racial massage: “one game, one community” during each of their pre-game training session to withdraw the attention towards the biggest evil of soccer. Moreover, according to Rio and his brother, Ferdinand’s racial abuser Terry should have been punished little more harshly rather imposing a moderate fine, and that’s why they are … [Read more...]
John Terry is still Chelsea’s captain, but after a huge fine
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...]