John Terry Mega Appreciation Thread /merged, one is enough, thank you/

[paulmason]

Two points.

1) Terry has already admitted using the word "black". He did not say "blind". His defence is that Anton accued him of calling him " black ****" and Terry claims he replied "I didn't call you a black ****".

2) All those people who say it doesn't matter - imagine you found yourself in Kingston surrounded by a load of black blokes and one called you a "white ****" - would you take that as a friendly greeting?

Do you really think it would be treated in the same way as if it was a group of white blokes around a black fella?. Ask teenagers, it happens all the time, just before they loose their phone, bike or whatever else they have of value. These incidents are never classed as racist are they, as no one in authority takes a blind bit of notice, as it appears that only white people can be / are racist.

Why is is acceptable for a black person to call a white girl, white trash, but if a white person called a black girl, black trash, what do you think would happen.

[HammersmithR]

This whole John Terry incident......sums up most of the ****'s fans.

Many will know what the ****'s fans were like back in the day. So it's no surprise that John Terry is their captain and says the kind of things that he does. Just reading through their message boards it appears that many of them are defending him and can't see why it's such a big issue! Sums them up. They are deluded! I wonder how their new fans will view the whole situation as many of them will come from a different ethnic background to John Terry??


I would love it if he has the England captaincy taken from him. Can't stand the bloke with his arrogance.

[swanleyhoop]

Interesting what you say about the newbies and the different ethnic background -- I went on the Give me Football JT page and there are lots of nauseating comments on there about how wonderful he is and how he's done nothing wrong etc etc. and many were people in other countries, non-whites included.
(As an aside, I put replies on comments from an Asian woman in Calcutta and a Malaysian from Malaysia(obviously!) about the match and they got their knickers in a right twist about it -- fun, fun, fun!!)