Terry’s only crime is ‘clubultery’
John Terry has the right to feel hard done by in recent weeks. Despite the fact that demands for ‘Team Bridge’ t-shirts have gone through the roof and he has become the man everyone loves to hate, the Chelsea captain hasn’t actually done a great deal wrong. 
Terry’s only mistake was shacking up with a teammate’s significant other. That may sound callous but football dictates that sexual relations with your personal assistant (Beckham)/ a prostitute (Rooney)/ a single mum (Cole)/ a member of the FA’s secretarial staff (Sven) are permissable, if not ideal.
That no-one has dared doing the dirty with the missus of a teammate does not mean Terry is morally worse than any of those mentioned above; it just means that his relationship with Wayne Bridge’s wife during their time at Chelsea deserves more scrutiny. If anything, JT’s only mistake was having extra-marital sex too close too home, of engaging in ‘clubultery’ when sex with anyone without connections to the Chelsea dressing room would have sufficed.
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