Terry not guilty

[davybill]

John Terry was found not guilty in court today.

[tinkerman]

Now the FA are going to decide whether to disapline him? The decision should take at least five days....

[teetee]

If there's no case to answer at magistrates court then why are the FA not dropping it. Have they got a hidden agenda?

[Marggie]

I agree, as he was found not guilty the FA should drop it.

[cheers]

Problem is he was guilty of racial abuse on the field and he admitted it

[tinkerman]

No, he was found NOT guilty of racial abuse and admitted no such thing, he admitted repeating what ferdinand thought he heard but didnt realise what he thought he heard til his agent told him about it til several hours later.

[Scunner]

he admitted repeating what ferdinand thought he heard but didnt realise what he thought he heard til his agent told him about it til several hours later.

I cannot get my head round that at all, I have no idea what Terry's defence was

[Scunner]

I'm going to recreate the conversation as described by Tinx (and I assume Terry's reasoning for the whole outburst)...

(Angry banter on football pitch...)

AF: "...you black ****"

JT: "...you black ****?"

Doesn't seem likely that does it  

[cheers]

Tinx there was no doubt he racially abused Ferdinand.  He admitted it in court and it was court on camera??

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/9397889/Element-of-doubt-enough-to-save-John-Terry-as-Chelsea-captain-is-cleared-of-racially-abusing-Anton-Ferdinand.html

[tinkerman]

AF " I think you called me a name"

JT "you think I called you a name, is that what you think?"