John Terry, one of the most rough Vindicator, scary and admired anywhere in the world, a natural leader who plays for Chelsea, and the country, United Kingdom, will appear in the London courthouse to face criminal charges that he tortured his black with a torrent of vile language, racial insults.
Terry insists the whole affair a misunderstanding. Born and raised in East London’s ethnic melting pot, he played with black players or with all of his sport. But the video of the October 11 match Premier League seem to indicate he shouts, “You———–black” at Queens Park Rangers Defender Anton Ferdinand, whose brother, Rio, has long been Terry’s partner in the United Kingdom’s defence.
Terry was quick to issue a statement: “people jump to the wrong conclusion about the context of what I see says.” He vowed to “fight tooth and nail to prove my innocence” at West London Magistrates ‘ Court.
However, these and other incidents in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe, which raises the question as to whether the attempt to get rid of racist behaviour in sport no. 1 in the world has taken a huge step backwards after making so many steps forward in the last decade or so. Racist fans and players have been hiding, only those who do not repent, below the surface, instead of the hunted out? Having the football authorities, led by the governing body of World Cup, and UEFA, Europe’s cousin, died down too early in their often stated determination to get rid of global sports all forms of discrimination?
“We are winning,” said Steve Rotheram, a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which successfully lobbied for a parliamentary Committee to look at the new racism in sports, after the case of Terry and others. However, “people are starting to ask about institutional racism and, you know, whether or not the kind of improvements that we all wish happen for 20 years is really embedded.”