John Terry – Good Or Bad For England’s Euro 2012 Campaign?

John Terry – Good Or Bad For England’s Euro 2012 Campaign? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com The extraordinary delays in a resolution to the Terry-Ferdinand affair have already resulted in the wholly unnecessary cop-out by the FA and the Premier League in asking Chelsea and QPR to forego handshakes in their recent league clash. The pointlessness of team handshakes apart, the worst that could have happened would have been the whole of the QPR contingent refusing to shake John Terry’s hand. Now you might refuse to shake Terry’s hand on principle in any case, but the more likely explanation was that the football authorities wanted to avoid the sort of press fiasco that followed Wayne Bridge’s refusal to shake John Terry’s hand and therefore deny tabloids extra ammunition to throw at Terry / the FA / English football in general. Fair enough – but surely this could have been resolved a lot quicker through an expedited judicial process where the relevant witnesses and p...