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what do you think about John Terry having the England captaincy withdrawn?

Sepp Blatter said it was a British condition to condemn him for his private life

what do you think?

Sue x

I think it's up to the Manager and the manager alone.

IF it's caused divisions within the team then he had to go.

IF it was just because the PRESS wanted him to go then that's very wrong xx

Well, I think it was right...he's a public figure in a way. Not only that, but kids look up to him, and if he behaves like that, those kids are going to think that's the way a footballer should behave, which doesn't bode well for their future wives really.

Adultery is what it is, and wouldn't normally affect a person's ability to continue in their job (unless they were caught with the bosses wife or daughter lol), but in this case, it is someone very much in the public eye. If they are trying to tidy up the general bad behaviour of overpaid footballers, then that is not the way to do it. So unfortunately for John Terry, it was the right thing to do.

Quite Muffy

It's a football decision

If JT leads the dressing room, then fine.

We get all too hung up on the morality or otherwise of "public" figures.

If the press didn't make it such a big deal, JT's philandering about wouldn't be even known.

And if we didn't keep on salivating over the press, it wouldn't be worth a column inch - and wouldn't be published.

Sue x

Yep, I think it is a British condition - don't know if it's the same in other countries but we seem to be ruled by what the papers want to print.

It amazes me ..... If I could get the truth out of half of the population, I dare bet they'd be no better"?

Since when has the private life of those in the public eye been fair game for the "moral majority"?

get back in your glass houses I say

Sue x

I think that Drug abusing popstars and the like have more to answer for than a wayward footballer,
as was implied, the attraction of the "grass on the other side of the fence" etc.

Quote""There but for the grace of god....opportunity,........and luck, go I"!

Bob

I think he was dropped just to take the heat away, pro tem I think. Give it a couple of months or so, he'll be back as Captain.

Is there a World Cup on the horizon in the very near future ?
John Terry = front page news
Wayne Rooney in the news,
and would you believe Rio Ferdinand in the news as well,
all of course portrayed in a negative light.........

Makes me think the gutter press are out to demolish The England football team before they have even started on their world Cup Campaign.

I wonder why i get this feeling of De ja vou every four years.

PS. Did Prince Charles get this much s**t thrown at him when he was discovered to have had an affair with Camilla while still married to Di ?