FA 'a week away' from Terry call
Garth Crooks says the FA should have taken immediate action over the John Terry case
The Football Association will study the findings of the John Terry court case before deciding whether or not to bring any charges against the Chelsea captain.
Terry has been cleared at Westminster Magistrates' Court of racially abusing QPR's Anton Ferdinand and the FA will now have to decide whether to open disciplinary proceedings under its rules.
An FA spokesman said: "The FA notes the decision in the John Terry case and will now seek to conclude its own enquiries. The FA will make no further comment at this time."
The FA can still bring charges even though Terry was found not guilty in court. It is likely to be at least a week before a decision is made.
Liverpool's Luis Suarez was banned by the FA last season for racially abusing Patrice Evra but that case never went to court.
Former Manchester United and Tottenham striker Garth Crooks, now a BBC presenter, has criticised the FA for not acting sooner.
Crooks said on www.guardian.co.uk: "The real problem in the Terry case began once the FA failed to take immediate action.
"This lack of fibre by the governing body to act instantly when Terry gave them a statement after the verbal clash with Ferdinand, threw the entire procedure into chaos - forcing everyone associated with the game to either dive for cover or sit on the fence."
Crooks believes that Terry should still face action from the FA even though the Chelsea player's defence was that he was only repeating what he believed Ferdinand had accused him of saying.
He added: "I believe it was wrong of him to say these words under any circumstances - and though Terry has been found not to have committed a criminal offence, the FA must now decide whether the former England captain should be charged for contravening its own rules."
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and so anton is now seen in the light that most thought he was. an average player going nowhere who is pi55ed still that his dear brother, the drug test missing and unfaithful family man, was picked above jt for the england captaincy.
i know jt is no saint but neither is rio
this whole money wasting episode stinks of revenge when he didnt even know what happened himself
turns out anton was the instigator in all the banter that went to far
jt the man is no role model but so are most of the highly paid footballers playing now but come on, a RACIST, never!
look at the best role model professional so everyone thought, mr giggs our great britain olympic captain, he was soon found out to not only cheat on his family like jt but seriously it was with his own sister-in-law!!! how the hell can he really be the captain for the olympics team??? thats a bigger joke than saying jt is a racist
i agree with some saying that the racist card is far too easily played and i hope this decison today helps to stop that!
There is far to much swearing by football players before , during and at the end of matches , the worst offenders are the top paid professionals . Its time they realised that not everyone appreciates bad language and there are children watching the games
I also get annoyed with the bad manners on the field as in fouling , its time the FA cleaned up their act and took the culprits to task
surprise surprise!!
a guardian reading,black,leftie,ex footballer has come out saying john terry should have been,basically, hung,drawn and quartered.
watch this space for that other pro-black brigade idiot,ian wright,coming out in favour of bringing back hanging for john terry.
if i remember correctly,he also works for a pathetic newspaper.
Once the police report was sent in I believe the FA were legally obliged to suspend their investigation (maybe someone can correct me on that??) So Mr Crooks is prabably wrong about the 'lack of fibre' part. Now the court case is over the FA may well conclude thier own investigation, in the same way that a case can be tried in both a civil and criminal court.
It is beyond me though why a man, any man regardless of colour, can't voice his opinions without being abused or called names. Surely this is the heart of the issue, a slow degradation of respect for each other. Fat, thin, black, white, bald, whatever, why are these things relevant to arguing against another man's point of view. These things begin in the school playground but clearly don't end there. We are smarter than this, at least I would like to thing so.
Once foul language begins it's very easy for it to escalate out of control. The officials are already empowered to act when they hear foul language, nip it in the bud. Shirt pulling at corners, simulations, diving, they have the power to eradicate this stuff within one season but they don't use the power they already have. Football really is the 'beautiful game' but for all sorts of reasons, money, fixing, cheating and abuse, it's under a cloud of shame. The way ahead, I believe, is not by knocking verbal lumps out of each other for cheap points but by embracing our common love of the game. Maybe a bit touchy-feely but I'm sick to death of this stuff, it used to be about can he pass, can he tackle, can he score? Now it's 'he called me names sir and gets paid more than me.'
knew it would happen!
all comment's from the john terry,not guilty topic have been taken down.
i think the underlying thoughts of a nation in general were coming to the fore weren't they!
msn,you're getting as bad as 'the sun'...what about 'freedom of speech'???
anyone who doesn't understand this comment...go and read the beano!!
