After hearing from a chelsea tour guide that they helped cover a racist groundsman arse in the evra incident I wouldnt hold your breathe4 games a bit of a joke really ......... lets see if Chelsea support their own charter re racism and add their own fine and ban - I wont hold my breathe
so will he play against Arsenal ? Is the ban is suspended awaiting the appeal ?
The fine won't even begin to hurt him.
He got off far too lightly. He got away with it.
He must be laughing at the FA.
I agree with Ugo Ehigou, this incident has spiralled out of control and the two should have been brought together to sort out earlier,
they've known each other for a long time. The Ferdinand's have also snubbed Cole just because he stuck up for his mate, very petty. Rio also called him a choc ice I don't think anyone comes out of this with any credit. I believe Terry is not a racist, I believe he said black **** in the heat of the moment and then panicked and then tried to cover it up with a cock and bull story. More of a dumbass then a racist I think.
Stuart Pearce called Paul Ince a black bastard, Pearce owned up to his mistake and Ince to his credit forgave him and didn't hold a grudge. About the discrepency between the Suarez punishment and Terry's punishment, I think Suarez was worse because he repeatedly called Evra negrito, even though Evra made it very clear to him that he should not say that. He deliberately meant to offend and upset Evra.
I think a lot of people are letting their hatred of Terry cloud their judgement.
Ok but he certainly endorsed and laughed at the comment.Rio didn't call Cole a choc ice but he did re-tweet someone who did.
Didn't Terry mock American tourists at Heathrow in the aftermath of 9/11?
If he did it just shows the type of **** he is.
I wonder what the Fa will think of this:
"A message posted on England and Chelsea defender Ashley Cole's Twitter page says: "Hahahahaa, well done #fa I lied did I". It was followed by a derogatory term."
The commission found that there were discrepancies in Cole's initial statement to FA interviewers of what he heard Ferdinand say to Terry compared to later statements.
Cole did not mention the word 'black' in the initial interview with the FA on October 28. On November 3, Barnard asked the FA for the specific word 'black' to be inserted into Cole's witness statement, suggesting that Cole may have heard Ferdinand use the term.
The commission saw an email exchange between the FA and Barnard and said that should be regarded as "cogent new evidence".
The commission said: "These highly material issues relating to Mr Cole's evidence were not addressed by the Chief Magistrate - he clearly did not have the interview notes of the FA's interviewers, or Mr Barnard's statement before him - and they do not appear in his judgment.
"Accordingly, that material can and should properly be regarded as cogent new evidence.
"Had it been before him, the commission has no doubt that the Chief Magistrate would have examined Mr Cole's evidence as to what he claims he heard Mr Ferdinand say to Mr Terry on the pitch very carefully indeed, or scrutinised it even more closely than he may have done."
It adds: "All of this causes the commission to have very real concerns about the accuracy of Mr Barnard's recollections, and the motivation for the assertions that he makes in his witness statement about what Mr Cole said during the FA interview of him, particularly his alleged use of the word 'black'."