Writer: Wingston 
Date:Thursday December 20 2007
Time: 11:59AM
Many Arsenal blogs this morning carry the comments from John 'JT' Terry (does that stand for 'Jinormous Tosser'?) criticising Eboue for the tackle Manu made on the man who would 'run through a brick wall for his country'.
And as you'd expect, the blogs have all responded in the same way. As I am going to as well.
Terry's response is nothing less than I would expect from a man who behaves and carries himself on the football pitch with all the grace and poise of a dirty thug - getting in referees' faces, screaming and showering them with spittle - check this:
Tackles have to be made in this game and especially in a top-of-the-table clash like Sunday's at Arsenal, and I had to make the tackle on Eboué, I felt he left his studs in there and it should have been a sending off.
Quite.
But not nearly as badly as Terry left his studs in on Cesc Fabregas earlier in the game, with Fabregas grounded on the floor, having already been brought down by one of Terry's teammates, I seem to recall Terry thundering in on an immobile Cesc at full-pelt, his fat, neanderthal foot slamming into Cesc's thigh/side. Naturally, such a crude tackle and lunge sparked a meleé. Terry in the thick of it, 'giving it the big'un' back, as if he'd done nothing wrong.
Terry's tackle on Fab was miles worse, a crude lunge designed to injure Arsenal brightest star, and put him out of the game, potentially for a long time. It was vile, pre-meditated, and sinister.
Poetic justice then that Terry should be put out for a similar period of time to what Cesc would have endured, had Terry's tackle had it's desired effect He should have been red carded for that, and if he had, he'd have been back sooner than he will now. If any Chelsea fans wish to say he didn't mean that tackle, then he's a piss-poor defender who doesn't deserve all the plaudits and England captaincy. The 'tackle' was that bad, and that late.
If you think it was meant, then he's a thug.
Either way, as Arseblogger already said, the karma police came calling, and it would appear they had a warrant, and smashed his door down to raid the property, taking away plenty of evidence in the process.
You will forgive me if I have little sympathy for Terry - remember the saying 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you'? Terry has little room for complaint.
And I've yet to hear his thoughts on his assault on Fabregas. Funny how he failed to mention that.
And before you CSKA Chelski fans pull me up on this, as for Cesc's foul on Cashley C.R.E.A.M. - yeah, that was wrong too, as Paul Mustchin already highlighted soon after the final whistle on Sunday. But it was nowhere near as sinister as the one carried out by 'JT'.
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Tell us why your captain is such a neanderthal thug with no sense of irony or perspective...»»Arsene Knows««
His actions towards referees are downright disrespectful (and as uyour club captain, he should behave with more decorum and carry himself better, th way he rpresents your club on the pitch are nothing short of anembarrassment to Chelsea FC and cast your club in a bad light).
His tackle on Fabregas was a pre-meditated assault on a player laying prone and immobilised on the floor, it could have put Cesc out of the game for a long time. THAT showed scant regard for the welfare of a fellow professional, if it showed any whatsoever.
Thirdly, neatly following on from that lunge at Cesc, he suffers an injury as a result of a tussle with Eboue - a tckle that Terry says he was perfectly entitled to go for, which, neatly, so was Eboue. I am no way Eboue's greatest fan, his antics frankly emabarrass me (and every time he goes down nowadays I am remoinded of the boy who cried 'wolf'), but on this occasion I truly do not believe Eboue should have red-carded for that tackle. Terry cleared the ball a fraction before Eboue got there, Eboue's was not a vastly late challenge, it was out by a split second and it was not designed to Injute - Terry's foot was in the action of swinging through the ball, having just leathered it, Eboue's foot was moving in a similarly rapid fashion. Yes he caught the top of Terry's foot, but it was not a stamp, and never once to me looked like an attempt to injure.
Yet Terry saw it otherwise. And funnily enough, failed to see the irony of the situation at all, what was his attempt to separate Cesc's legs from the rest of his body (incidentally, even if he had, that would still leave half-a-cesc as twice the player of Lumplard).
So in his call against Eboue, whilst simultaneously recognising or acknowledging his assaulty on Cesc was FAR worse, John Terry is a hypocrite.
For his misdemeanours (bad, late tackles, behaviour towards referees, general bad conduct on the pitch, thinking he is above the law [a thing sadly indicative of this modern day english player, 'I am an England International, you can't criticise me' as Lampa`rd said to Joey Barton] past, present, and no doubt future...), and for his tackle on Cesc, he is a *****er.
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And apologies to all for the myriad typing errors there in my last post :)
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