The News Of The World today revealed that Terry only this week had received a £10,000 payment (along with Tony Bruce, a ticket tout and general football hanger on) to which his £8,000 portion would be...*gasp*...given to a kids charity! (Max A Wish, to be exact) the remainder staying with Tony.
The article goes on to detail how JT then shows the reporters, dressed and acting as businessmen, around Cobham and lets them see the facilities etc. Then comes the apparently seedy part in which the money (in £50 notes in case you were wondering) was handed over in the canteen in a satchel sewn from orphan hides. Sorry, after re-reading it turns out it was just a black folder. Our mistake.
The key details according to the News Of The World are that Carlo Ancelotti and Chelsea FC were not aware of these actions and would-be visitors were told to keep it under their hat. The likelihood being of course Chelsea wouldn’t want to give away the £2,000 Tony Bruce (leading the conversations throughout) collected for the deals. They were told that, in the event things ‘went wrong’, they were to deny JT had any knowledge of the events.
The piece continues with details on how Terry and Tony instruct that as long as the money is correct and people are discrete they will continue to conduct tours around Cobham, lead by JT and in return 80% of the finance would be passed on to children’s charities....
Look, from the article the top and bottom of it would appear that JT has been a naughty lad in conducting unauthorised tours around the training ground and more so without running the fees through the clubs books. Naughty naughty JT, don’t do it again.
The big question for us, though, is who exactly is trying to knife JT? This isn’t the first article recently slating the England and Chelsea captain. We’ve seen numerous attempts to chip away at his reputation and image with what can only be described as incredibly weak shots. So who’s behind it? Sacked agents? Perhaps. Manchester City’s ridiculous bungling CEO? God knows. But whoever it is they are being helped along by the pathetic vermin sat in their stinking piss-stained suits clattering away on yellowed keyboards at the various scummy Sunday red-tops. We would ask them, if they could remove the pubes from their teeth for a moment, why in a World Cup season and with the complete lack of obvious replacement (‘affray’ charged Steven Gerrard and serial idiot Rio Ferdinand) they are gunning for the countries captain?
When it comes to Chelsea FC, JT has never, ever let adverse PR affect his performances. So if it comes to some pathetic attempt to derail the season for JT the likelihood is it won’t. All it will have served to do is, hopefully, highlight that the printed press are scum. Utter scum. When they’re daubing their rags with St. George’s flags next summer and giving away free tournament charts proclaiming we should ‘Back the lads!’ just bear in mind before you pick up that copy of whatever arse-wipe publication you’re considering – that they have spent the entire season undermining England’s footballers .
They have no loyalty to them, us, or indeed anything else but their pocket.
The only way things could possible change is for people to stop buying the papers. Simple. Scousers, abhorrent they may be on occasions, showed the way with their reaction to printed lies – the nations ‘best loved’ tabloid still panders to them to try and reclaim sales even now.
So think again before you buy, just pop online and read it for nothing, don’t click ads on their sites, read what you need and leave.
Oh and JT? I haven’t got £10k but I’ll happily donate a month’s salary to Make A Wish to meet you and get a tour round Cobham, maybe clear it with the club though first? Cheers.
Fitz
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