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A magistrate has cleared Chelsea captain John Terry of racially abusing an opponent during a Premier League match after one of the most high-profile trials involving a soccer player.

The case led to Terry being stripped of the England captaincy by the Football Association ahead of the European Championship and the departure of coach Fabio Capello who disagreed with the decision.

After hearing four days of evidence at a London court, chief magistrate Howard Riddle decided Friday that Terry was not guilty of a racially aggravated public order offense in a confrontation with Queens Park Rangers player Anton Ferdinand during the match in October.

Terry maintained he only used an offensive term sarcastically to counter the obscenity he claims Ferdinand was accusing him of using.

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12 Comments!

  1. JoeBandMember&#174
    Posted July 13, 2012 at 8:57 am |

    I thought that pic was a graphic of what happens to a conservative person’s comments on the Golympian comments section.

  2. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted July 13, 2012 at 8:59 am |

    ^ A raspberry just came outta my nose!

  3. mojo
    Posted July 13, 2012 at 9:03 am |

    “One of the gentlemen had a question about the dining arrangements. They’re discussing the place-card settings now.”
    – The Dirty Dozen

  4. JoeBandMember®
    Posted July 13, 2012 at 9:04 am |

    Please, no semicolon jokes related to Olympia.

  5. JoeBandMember®
    Posted July 13, 2012 at 9:09 am |

    I saw a fatwa in Olympia yesterday.

  6. Colonel Jerry USMC
    Posted July 13, 2012 at 11:36 am |

    What wuz the Fat Wa doing, Hog?

  7. ZZMike
    Posted July 13, 2012 at 4:21 pm |

    Used to be, the joke was “I was watching a street fight the other day – a hockey game broke out”.

    Now it’s soccer.

  8. Lance
    Posted July 13, 2012 at 5:35 pm |

    ?? 4 days of testimony ??
    Over a guy on one team insulting a guy on the other
    team after he thought the guy insulted him with
    ‘bad’ words?? Oh, excuse me, it wasn’t an insult,
    it was a “racially aggravated public order offense”.
    I guess that’s different!
    IMHO, this type of societal insanity will only get worse
    until it’s back to the way it was in medieval times!

    When I was a kid, we were taught to say, “Sticks & stones
    will break my bones, but names will never hurt me!”

  9. Ironic in Denver
    Posted July 13, 2012 at 8:49 pm |

    Jeez, I thought that was a pic of some Democratic “civil discourse” and now I find out it was a sporting event. What has the world come to?

  10. lost cause
    Posted July 14, 2012 at 3:14 pm |

    FOOTBALL, or soccer for the working part of the world.

  11. ZZMike
    Posted July 14, 2012 at 3:58 pm |

    Why do we call ours “football” when they carry it around in their hands most of the time?

    (Maybe because “handball” was already taken?)

  12. Lance
    Posted July 14, 2012 at 4:05 pm |

    ZZMike (11) I really like the way you figgur things out!

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