How can I be a racist? I have done work with African charities: What Terry told police after arrest on charge of abusing black opponent

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How can I be a racist? I have done work with African charities: What Terry told police after arrest on charge of abusing black opponent

July 12th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Terry took to the witness stand to give evidence for the first time
He said it was Ferdinand who used racist term first
Chelsea star said he was ‘shocked and angry’ when he thought his opponent accused him of being racist on the pitch

By
Paul Harris

PUBLISHED:

04:49 EST, 10 July 2012

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UPDATED:

04:50 EST, 11 July 2012

Only rarely is it possible for spectators to watch John Terry in action for more than 90 minutes without having to go through a turnstile.

Rarer still is to see the former England captain virtually motionless, speaking almost in a whisper at times, and standing with his hands clasped in front of him as if in silent prayer.

But anyone at Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday got a glimpse of the other John Terry.

Not the Chelsea defender aggressively tackling his opponents on the pitch.

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Arriving at court: Chelsea captain John Terry pictured yesterday outside Westminster Magistrates' Court, where he is on trial for allegedly racially abusing fellow footballer Anton Ferdinand

Arriving at court: Chelsea captain John Terry pictured yesterday outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court, where he is on trial for allegedly racially abusing fellow footballer Anton Ferdinand

Terry denied making the alleged slur during a Premier League game in October last year

This was Terry at his most humble,
giving evidence for the first time in defence of a charge that he
racially abused Anton Ferdinand in a four-letter tirade during a game
against QPR last October.

Evidence: Anton Ferdinand leaves the court with friends

Evidence: Anton Ferdinand leaves the court yesterday with friends

Terry, who denies the claim, arrived
at court on Monday looking as if he had just left a wedding in his
expensive grey suit and pink tie.

Yesterday the outfit was bordering on
funereal – a midnight blue suit, black tie and highly polished black
shoes.

To begin with, Mr Terry, as
prosecuting lawyer Duncan Penny addressed him, was asked to place the
various insults, banter and confrontations commonplace in top class
football into rank order.

‘Handbags’, the 31-year-old Chelsea
skipper agreed, was how commentators tended to define clashes that
didn’t result in fists, headbutts and outright violence.

Then there were the insults.

‘You’re
ugly,’ was probably at the lower end of the scale and was commonplace,
Terry agreed.

Ditto ‘You’re fat’.

Comments about players’ wives and
girlfriends?

‘I’ve had that,’ Terry said.

Mr Penny: ‘A player might say, “I had
your wife… I s****** your girlfriend, that sort of thing?”’

Terry:
‘Yes.’

Terry allegedly made racist comments to Queens Park Rangers defender Ferdinand during a match on October 23 last year

But there were no-go areas. ‘How about, “Your mum’s a s***”? Have
you heard that said to other players?’ Mr Penny asked.

Terry: ‘No, only to myself.’

What about insults concerning what Mr
Penny called his ‘domestic circumstances’ – Terry is alleged to have
reacted after Ferdinand accused him of ‘s******* Bridge’s missus’, a
reference to his relationship with model Vanessa Perroncel, who had been
dating his former colleague Wayne Bridge.

Was that a no-go area?

‘Apparently not,’ said Terry, adding that fans had long heckled him over
it.

Mr Penny: ‘So when someone enters a
no-go area, you strike back?’

Terry: ‘No, I don’t strike back.’

Mr
Penny: ‘You’re the innocent victim are you?’

Terry: ‘Yes.’

Mr Penny:
‘Too right. You’ve been stitched up right and proper haven’t you?’

Terry: ‘Yeah.’

Former England soccer captain and Chelsea player John Terry, centre, arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Courts in London

Former England soccer captain and Chelsea player John Terry, centre, arrives at Westminster Magistrates’ Courts in London

Under further questioning, Terry denied he had ‘snapped’ when Ferdinand abused him, or that his ‘blood was up’.

Terry told Mr Penny he had never been
accused on a football pitch of making racist remarks.

‘At the time I was
shocked and angry,’ he said.

‘Hindsight’s a wonderful thing. At the
time I was shocked, I was angry, you can’t control your emotions.’

The court heard that Terry had told
detectives that using racist terms was ‘completely unacceptable’.

He had
also told police of his work with the African charities of two black
former Chelsea colleagues, Marcel Desailly and striker Didier Drogba,
adding: ‘My commitment to these projects further demonstrates that I am
not a racist.’

At one stage in confrontation with
Ferdinand, he admitted, he had waved his hand in front of his nose to
gesture that his opponent had ‘bad breath’ – but he had not intended to
humiliate him.

Anton Ferdinand's mother Janice arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court for the second day of John Terry trial

Anton Ferdinand’s mother Janice arrives at Westminster Magistrates’ Court for the second day of John Terry trial

In the dock: John Terry watches on as his alleged race abuse victim Anton Ferdinand gives evidence in this artist's impression of proceedings

In the dock: John Terry watches on as his alleged race abuse victim Anton Ferdinand gives evidence in this artist’s impression of proceedings

Why not just tell him to calm down?

‘You wouldn’t see many footballers when they square up saying “Calm down”,’ Terry replied.

Why did he gesture in the same game
that QPR goalkeeper Paddy Kenny was fat?

Was that ‘handbags’ too? ‘Yes,’
said Terry, adding that his rivals sometimes called him fat.

Mr Penny: ‘You’re not fat though are you? You’re a supreme athlete.’

Terry: ‘I used to be…’

Scandal: Terry's alleged comments came in response to taunts by the other player about his alleged affair with an ex-team-mate's girlfriend, Vanessa Perroncel, pictured, the prosecution said

Scandal: Terry’s alleged comments came in response to taunts by the other player about his alleged affair with an ex-team-mate’s girlfriend, Vanessa Perroncel, pictured, the prosecution said

Had he thought about apologising to
Anton Ferdinand?

‘Why would I apologise to Anton?’ he replied. ‘He’s the
one who accused me.’

Terry told the court that it had
actually been Ferdinand who had first used racist terms during the
flare-up.

As the pair traded insults, he claims to have heard Ferdinand
say: ‘Calling me a black c***?’

He said: ‘I thought he was accusing me
of calling him a black c***. I was very angry and I was upset. I
replied, “A black c***? You f****** k***head”.’

This second day of the hearing was played out to a packed court.

Outside, passing van drivers
displaying Chelsea colours tooted support on their horns; inside, the
legal files, coincidentally, were coloured blue and white.

Terry was in the witness box for a
total of two hours, which, even on his wages of £160,000 a week, almost
certainly worked out less in hourly rates than the collective fees of
the lawyers involved in the case.

Earlier Terry told the court he shook Ferdinand’s hand in the dressing room after asking to see him after the match.

‘We’ve got a little bit of
superstition at Chelsea,’ he said. ‘Me, Ash [Ashley Cole], Frank Lampard
and [Daniel] Sturridge all get changed together – until we lose, then
we change sequence.

‘By this stage I’m already changed. I’m in the toilet doing my hair. As I come out, me and Anton passed.’

Terry said he asked the QPR defender if he was suggesting he had been racially abused.

Ferdinand’s response? ‘No, no, no. We all say things we shouldn’t. That’s the end of it.’

This case is listed to run until the end of the week. If you don’t want to know the result, look away then.

Key moment: Terry and QPR's Anton Ferdinand clash during the Barclays Premier League match at Loftus Road