Terry out a mistake?

[Herbie]

I think Murph said a lot of the things that spring to my mind, but |I will add that trust in a person can be easily lost when you see them do untrustworthy things, especially when its close to home. One example being being disloyal not only to his own family but to fellow professionals.
He has done too many things in my book to be considered a leader, then againg he is like so many in the pro football world, great occasionally on the pitch, waste of space elsewhere. I distrust Terry so much that I would'nt let him play the professional game at all, but because so many in that field and supporting it will equally support Terry he will still be there because not enough people have the right values.

Now, where is my hard hat?

 

[JustOne]

You'd think players of that standard would be grown up enough to not even need a captain. After all, surely the manager could call heads or tails at the coin toss

 

[madandra]

I am surprised that real English footy fans buy red tops as there only agenda is to disrupt the preperations of the team .... I would swear blind they want England to loose MORE than the Scots do.

 

[Parmo]

He should still be the captain, what he did was off the pitch and naff all to do with his place in the team.

The boss was wrong to drop him and was just going along with the press.

Shagging an England team mates bird would be classed as on the pitch interference.

 

[joefox]

Lets face it , the manager did John a huge favour by sacking him from the captaincy, I've every reason to believe that this was a 'putup' job and that John got the result he wanted.
England can now go ahead with preparation for the World Cup and put this incident behind them.

 

[madandra]

He should have resigned and stopped the whole media circus focusing on the England set up.

 

[CrapHacker]

I think he had to be 'suspended'. Because that's all it will amount to.

By the time the world cup comes round this will have blown over, and the press will be behind the team again.

But at the moment it's all about selling papers, rather than what's right or wrong.

I don't think that what he did deserves the sack, but given the power that the media wield nowadays, it's best for him and his family to take a back seat for a while.

And it makes the England boss look strong.

There probably isn't anyone in the England set up who is guaranteed a place that hasn't suffered in the press at some point, so he's in good company.

If being publically outed for transgressions is enough to make sure you don't become captain, then that would exclude

Terry
Ferdinand
Gerrard
Rooney
Cole

Probably leaving Lampard and Barry as the best options.

Given that the role is majorly diplomatic, rather than just being important on the field, I think one of those would be perfectly adequate.

 

[CrapHacker]

Capello knows what it takes to have a winning team, and discipline is a big part of it. You just cannot have a situation where the captain is boning the girlfried of a team mate. Not matter how good a captain his is, he's broke the rules and has to be dropped. If he'd have stayed as captain, I think that would have had a more detrimental effect on team spirit than if he'd stayed, and it would have made a mockery of Capellos record for discipline.

Maybe, but how far should you take it?

Ask Howard Wilkinson if it was such a good idea to get rid of Cantona.

Fine in the morality league and all that, but do you think he'd make the same choice with hindsight.

History books are written by winners, not moralists.

 

[RGDave]

A mistake? No. The right thing to do.

There are enough good/experienced players in the team for any number of them to be captain.

It's all irrelevant though because although we have good players, the World Cup will go to another country.....with even better players.

 

[Snelly]

English Premiership footballers are despicable overpaid chavs with very few exceptions.

The best illustration of John Terry's attitude to life is illustrated by the fact that he parks his Bentley in a disabled bay in Esher most Sunday's when he goes to a restaurant there.

I would love to drive a Centurion tank over it whilst he watched.

Another example of his terrible character can be seen at his wedding (sponsored by OK magazine of course) when he asked to be served only dessert wine throughout the wedding banquet. Utterly unforgiveable.

This also reminds me of the time my brother in law served Posh and Becks a bottle of Krug Cristal champagne at the Midland hotel in Manchester when they were courting. It is an exquisite wine at over £400 a bottle. However, after taking a sip, they both asked for some orange juice so that they could make Bucks Fizz. Classy.

 

[viscount17]

there never was going to be any other outcome, and it was always going to come after Terry had spoken to Capello (or vice versa). srely, though, if you are of international standard you <u>should</u> be capable of acting as captain - though given the need to attend press conferences . . .

mad's right about the red tops though, any British team or individual in with a chance (OK a half-chance) (or a company winning a contract) and they'll get bashed.

 

[USER1999]

But you can't bash em without amunition, and boy does terry supply it.