The press are in their right to report the story  according to the judge but they obviously have an agenda and it is quite sickening the way some pundits and opposition fans are using the situation to achieve their own ulterior ends.  

Future captain? Well if you are going to strip Terry of the captaincy then it amazes me how they can justify Gerrard (thumped  that barman three-times whilst backed-up by his mates), or Rooney (the prostitute grandmother), Ferdinand (missed a drug test – and is currently banned for elbowing)...  Of those, only Ferdinand’s misdemeanours are sport related – the others are really private matters - BUT you how can you “try” Terry for his offence and forget about the others and theirs because it suits an agenda?

Those championing the causes of the other players mentioned above are actually proving that they don’t, as they would have us believe, "care" about the England squad at all.  They are unable to apply their own standards equally and fairly - they are cowardly hypocrites hiding behind press generated scandal in order to achieve their own selfish ends.

Then there is the issue of past captains that have offended (unfaithful, thieving or both) WITHOUT the captaincy being stripped?  Bobby Moore, Beckham, Shilton.... (I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more).  Yet again, are we seeing unequal standards being applied because a particular player plays for Chelsea? Paranoia?  Well ok then, so how do you justify those being put forward for the captaincy and addtionally, the historic precedents?

Terry does need to wise-up though - he’s been a silly boy - and not for the first time. He knows what the British media are like (he would have been ok if he was French or Italian) but, as one Chelsea fan recently commented, in this country we are so warped that we accept an adulterous king on the throne - but not an adulterous captain of the England football team!

Capello is the only one who can make a decision on this issue.  Perhaps Terry could offer to resign but only IF Capello feels that is what he should do (although I’d be very surprised if he does). 

 

In my view, the correct and fair outcome is that Terry continues as England captain - but If Terry has to step down or is stripped of the captaincy, then another player with misdemeanour(s) such as those players mentioned above should NOT replace him - NO Gerrard, NO Ferdinand, NO Rooney.  Capello could only therefore appoint someone new and "unblemished" - an almost impossible task probably resulting in an almost farcicle solution - and one that would only serve as an illustration of the rediculous and hypocritical standards the English impose where we have no business doing so.