Saint John Terry: As If He'd Do Such a Thing- OTT 21 [R]

What does youtube say?

 

He's ace.

 

youtube says great. But I think he's a notch below Lucas Moura, Neymar and Ganso of the young kids.

Certainly a luxury, but when you've got a load of money, who cares?

 

After Euro Cup and before the preasons I started watching a lot of Euro football. I looked over the players and checked out their compilation videos, and I agree that Oscar really isn't all that super amazing. Has a habit of missing obvious passes to shuffle his feat a bunch and take a long shot. Seems quite two footed, but I dont think hes as creative as people act like he is. And without the metric acres of space in the Brazilian league I do kinda think he'll flop.

 

Banner displayed at the MLS All-Star match: "Terry's a good guy - said no one ever"

 

Never like laughing at others' misfortunes as this was us two years ago, only we were worse.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jul/25/manchester-united-new-york-flotation

 

What is puzzling is the expectation that somebody would stump up $300 million with no control over the board, no dividends

 

John Terry got charged by the FA...I am actually surprised.

 

Adebayor to Spurs is apparently off. He's trying to hold Citeh ransom for the difference in his wages because Levy isn't offering him anything close to the 170k per week he was making at Citeh.

 

I realize the FA is a separate entity and has their own rules, etc., but I fail to see how they could suspend one player for potty mouth and not the other, as both admitted saying the 'c' word, and JT was proven innocent of racism - or perhaps it's better said that he was not proved guilty of racism.

Just seems to me that if the FA wants to take a stance against the on-field 'banter' they should punish both players. Am I missing something?

 

Racism and banter are two different things.

 

Right. The issue is if saying Negrito is a suspension then saying Black ******** should be too. It's not like "You are a ********" "no you are a bigger ********". It's throwing race and color into it that is the question. In Suarez case there were linguistic and cultural issues but between Terry and Ferdinand those don't exist

 

I think the FA, in its haste to make an example out of a dirty foreigner, cooked its own anti-racism goose, here. Terry's case, beside being more egregious-- there is no grey area with regards to what he said, had video and other evidence to back. Heck, even the magistrate cast doubt on Terry's ow testimony and reasons for saying what he did but couldn't safely convict him.

Suarez's case depended on one man' sword against another and a trio of lawyers making a ruling based on suppositions and arguably conflicting interpretations.

 

Well the bar was set at "8 games for racial abuse."

Let's see how well the FA and Terry can limbo..!

 

...and a 40 grand fine.

 

Wow 40 grand fine? What else did Suarez do, show his underwear?

 

Rio charged:

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/s...erdinand-charged-over-twitter-remarks?cc=5901

But Rio/Cole are apparently cool with eachother (despite the fact that Cole basically testified against Rio's bro), plus its United... so forget about it.

 

Well if the shoe fits

 

Is it true that the marketing whizzkid who agreed the skanks' shirt sponsorship deal spowith GM has been sacked for ... precisely that?

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-gm-ewanick-fired-20120730,0,1002620.story

 

I've never understood this attitude from players: ok, fine--there is a huge difference between 170 and 80 (which is I believe the wage ceiling at Spuds) but he would be playing for a competitive team and furthermore he would be playing regularly. But no, money has to be more important?

 

But at some point, you do feel like you're obligated what you signed for.

If I'm Adebayor, I feel I'm worth something close to that 170k, and going down to 70k is making it seem like I'm a poor player. Sure, I rather play than sit, but if I stomp my feet enough, someone might pay it.

I also imagine there's some pressure from the players union (at least there is in American sports) to not take a massive reduction in wages in moves, as it hurts players leverage on future deals.