Essex_Stu
Tour Rookie
I may be wrong, but I thought that the trial was delayed til after the Euro's due to the fact that the prosecution and defence agreed that it would be almost impossible to arrange for the witnesses to be in court at the required times during the regular season and the Euro's. The FA was hoping that the case would be heard earlier so that they would not have to make the difficult decision of removing John Terry from the Captains position (again).
Its a joke though. Could you imagine saying to a court;- 'Sorry your honour but I cannot attend that day as I am at work so are the witnesses.Could you please arrange it for when its convienient for me'. There must be an international break coming up where it is possible to get all of the witnesses together. Most of the friendlies we play are training exercises and experiments anyway so not selecting some senior members for the team would hardly matter.