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A rather strange article that is purely an attempt to attack JT and his family.
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Friday December 17,2010
By Simon Edge
SECURITY staff at Brooklands Shopping Centre in Surrey, next to the historic motor- racing track, could not believe their eyes. Two middle-aged blonde women were each wheeling a trolley into the car park.
The trolleys were crammed with watches, pet food, flip-flops, tracksuits and various other items of food and clothing from Marks & Spencer and the adjacent Tesco superstore, to the value of £800. What astonished staff was that the goods clearly hadn’t been paid for but the women were making no attempt to conceal them. They simply wheeled the trolleys to their car and started unloading them.
One of the women was Sue Terry, mother of then England football captain John Terry. Her companion was Sue Poole, whose daughter Toni is better known as long-suffering Mrs John Terry.
The pair of them hailed originally from Essex but had both upshifted to live in neighbouring houses in the heart of Surrey’s footballer belt thanks to the generosity of their £150,000-a-week son and son-in-law.
In other words they were women who wanted for nothing and as they later accepted a police caution for shoplifting on that March afternoon in 2009, they said that they were at a loss to explain what they had done. One of them was reported as saying that she had no idea why she had taken sports gear as she didn’t even like wearing the stuff.
But as news breaks of the latest scandal involving a member of the Terry family – goalkeeper Dale Roberts hanged himself after his fiancée had an affair with John’s elder brother Paul – an acquaintance of the Chelsea captain has an explanation of his own. “The Terrys are a bad lot,” he says grimly.
Roberts, 24, who once played in goal for Nottingham Forest and latterly played with non-league Rushden and Diamonds, was found dead on Tuesday at the home he shared with his girlfriend Lindsey Cowan.
The pair had split up earlier this year after she had a fling with 31-year-old Paul Terry, Dale’s Rushden teammate who was staying with the couple. The club was plunged into a crisis and fellow players called for Terry, a father of two, to be sacked. Dale Roberts refused to play with him and Paul Terry was eventually released by the club. He now plays for Darlington.
Lindsey moved back in with Roberts and they were trying to pick up their relationship again but he is said never to have got over the betrayal.
The story has eerie echoes of John Terry’s alleged affair with Vanessa Perroncel, the former partner of his England teammate Wayne Bridge. That scandal, which the younger and more successful Terry had tried to keep out of the media spotlight by taking out a controversial “super-injunction”, cost him the England captaincy after he was seen to have crossed a behavioural line by his fellow players, so undermining the team spirit.
And just to add to the sense of Shameless-style dysfunction surrounding the family, this summer the footballers’ father Ted Terry received a six-month suspended sentence, plus 100 hours’ community service, after being caught facilitating a cocaine deal in a wine bar toilet. He only avoided being sent to prison after the judge noted that he had been entrapped by a tabloid journalist.
The Terrys were living on a rough estate in Barking, East London, when 14-year-old John joined the Chelsea youth system in 1994. He made his first-team debut before his 18th birthday and by 21 he was being tipped as England material. However, there were early signs of how hard he would find it to moderate his behaviour once money was no longer an object.
On September 12, 2001, he was one of four young Chelsea players who went on a drinking spree in various bars, including a Heathrow airport hotel where US travellers were watching TV coverage of the previous day’s attacks on the World Trade Center. Their behaviour and swearing disgusted patrons and managers alike and they were each fined two weeks’ wages.
Four months later, Terry was involved in a drunken fight with doormen at a club in London’s Knightsbridge and he and two other young players were charged with assault. He admitted throwing a punch but insisted that it was in self-defence and was cleared of all charges.
On his own admission he was badly shaken by the experience - which included spending a night in the cells - but it did not improve his behaviour.
He was thrown out of an Essex nightclub for relieving himself into a beer glass which he then dropped on to the floor. His reluctance to bother with toilet queues was a persistent theme: even when he was England captain, he urinated publicly on the floor of a London club.
He was equally incontinent sexually. He married Toni, mother of his twins, in 2007, but he was strikingly unfaithful even by footballer standards. After one stream of kiss-and-tells he admitted: “I really regret what I’ve done to Toni. I’ve misbehaved and slept with girls behind her back and that’s not right.”
H e vowed he wouldn’t do it again but then came a sleazy encounter in the back of his Bentley with a 17-year-old autograph hunter, as well as his alleged dalliance with Perroncel, a French lingerie model.
Even worse for his reputation was his cash deal with a ticket tout, while he was still captain of England, to sell tours of Chelsea’s training facility. He demanded £10,000 in £50 notes for behind-the-scenes access not realising that he was the victim of a newspaper sting. His claim that his 80 per cent cut was going to a children’s charity did little to dignify his behaviour.
“On the surface John Terry is smiling and cheerful but underneath there’s an edge to the fella,” says the acquaintance quoted previously. “He’s got a bit of charm but you wouldn’t want to get too close. He gets a look in his eye as if to admit: ‘I’m a bit of a rogue.’ His background is part of it – draw your own conclusions from his mum and dad’s brushes with the law. And if you grow up without much money, you get very anxious about losing it, even if you do earn close to £200,000 a week, what with all his appearance fees and sponsorship deals. He also likes a bet so he knows he could blow it all.”
Paul Terry, who has had more of a journeyman professional career, earns a fraction of his younger brother’s salary – counted in the hundreds of pounds a week not hundreds of thousands. But his behaviour, starting an affair with his teammate’s fiancée while staying under their roof, seems to be of a kind with the Chelsea captain’s.
As tragic goalkeeper Dale’s father was quoted as saying when the affair first came to light: “They say every family has a black sheep. The Terrys must have a whole flock.”
This week the parents of Dale Roberts were keen to keep Paul Terry’s name out of the tragedy. “Today we are grieving for our wonderful son Dale,” they said yesterday. “We are devastated by his death.” They insisted that their son and Lindsey Cowan had been very happy together, and said of the alleged affair that it was a “rumour which had no foundation”.
In her own carefully worded statement Lindsey said: “Dale was my childhood sweetheart and the love of my life. Recent rumours and allegations about our relationship are without foundation. We had been together since a young age and I will never get over his death.”
Perhaps the behaviour of Paul Terry really did have nothing to do with this tragic suicide. But his brother’s acquaintance says: “The thing about the Terrys is that when stories like this emerge, no one is surprised. You think: ‘Oh God, here they go again.’ They just can’t keep themselves out of the news. ”
Read more: http://www.express.c...s#ixzz18LFjbkQJ
By Simon Edge
SECURITY staff at Brooklands Shopping Centre in Surrey, next to the historic motor- racing track, could not believe their eyes. Two middle-aged blonde women were each wheeling a trolley into the car park.
The trolleys were crammed with watches, pet food, flip-flops, tracksuits and various other items of food and clothing from Marks & Spencer and the adjacent Tesco superstore, to the value of £800. What astonished staff was that the goods clearly hadn’t been paid for but the women were making no attempt to conceal them. They simply wheeled the trolleys to their car and started unloading them.
One of the women was Sue Terry, mother of then England football captain John Terry. Her companion was Sue Poole, whose daughter Toni is better known as long-suffering Mrs John Terry.
The pair of them hailed originally from Essex but had both upshifted to live in neighbouring houses in the heart of Surrey’s footballer belt thanks to the generosity of their £150,000-a-week son and son-in-law.
In other words they were women who wanted for nothing and as they later accepted a police caution for shoplifting on that March afternoon in 2009, they said that they were at a loss to explain what they had done. One of them was reported as saying that she had no idea why she had taken sports gear as she didn’t even like wearing the stuff.
But as news breaks of the latest scandal involving a member of the Terry family – goalkeeper Dale Roberts hanged himself after his fiancée had an affair with John’s elder brother Paul – an acquaintance of the Chelsea captain has an explanation of his own. “The Terrys are a bad lot,” he says grimly.
Roberts, 24, who once played in goal for Nottingham Forest and latterly played with non-league Rushden and Diamonds, was found dead on Tuesday at the home he shared with his girlfriend Lindsey Cowan.
The pair had split up earlier this year after she had a fling with 31-year-old Paul Terry, Dale’s Rushden teammate who was staying with the couple. The club was plunged into a crisis and fellow players called for Terry, a father of two, to be sacked. Dale Roberts refused to play with him and Paul Terry was eventually released by the club. He now plays for Darlington.
Lindsey moved back in with Roberts and they were trying to pick up their relationship again but he is said never to have got over the betrayal.
The story has eerie echoes of John Terry’s alleged affair with Vanessa Perroncel, the former partner of his England teammate Wayne Bridge. That scandal, which the younger and more successful Terry had tried to keep out of the media spotlight by taking out a controversial “super-injunction”, cost him the England captaincy after he was seen to have crossed a behavioural line by his fellow players, so undermining the team spirit.
And just to add to the sense of Shameless-style dysfunction surrounding the family, this summer the footballers’ father Ted Terry received a six-month suspended sentence, plus 100 hours’ community service, after being caught facilitating a cocaine deal in a wine bar toilet. He only avoided being sent to prison after the judge noted that he had been entrapped by a tabloid journalist.
The Terrys were living on a rough estate in Barking, East London, when 14-year-old John joined the Chelsea youth system in 1994. He made his first-team debut before his 18th birthday and by 21 he was being tipped as England material. However, there were early signs of how hard he would find it to moderate his behaviour once money was no longer an object.
On September 12, 2001, he was one of four young Chelsea players who went on a drinking spree in various bars, including a Heathrow airport hotel where US travellers were watching TV coverage of the previous day’s attacks on the World Trade Center. Their behaviour and swearing disgusted patrons and managers alike and they were each fined two weeks’ wages.
Four months later, Terry was involved in a drunken fight with doormen at a club in London’s Knightsbridge and he and two other young players were charged with assault. He admitted throwing a punch but insisted that it was in self-defence and was cleared of all charges.
On his own admission he was badly shaken by the experience - which included spending a night in the cells - but it did not improve his behaviour.
He was thrown out of an Essex nightclub for relieving himself into a beer glass which he then dropped on to the floor. His reluctance to bother with toilet queues was a persistent theme: even when he was England captain, he urinated publicly on the floor of a London club.
He was equally incontinent sexually. He married Toni, mother of his twins, in 2007, but he was strikingly unfaithful even by footballer standards. After one stream of kiss-and-tells he admitted: “I really regret what I’ve done to Toni. I’ve misbehaved and slept with girls behind her back and that’s not right.”
H e vowed he wouldn’t do it again but then came a sleazy encounter in the back of his Bentley with a 17-year-old autograph hunter, as well as his alleged dalliance with Perroncel, a French lingerie model.
Even worse for his reputation was his cash deal with a ticket tout, while he was still captain of England, to sell tours of Chelsea’s training facility. He demanded £10,000 in £50 notes for behind-the-scenes access not realising that he was the victim of a newspaper sting. His claim that his 80 per cent cut was going to a children’s charity did little to dignify his behaviour.
“On the surface John Terry is smiling and cheerful but underneath there’s an edge to the fella,” says the acquaintance quoted previously. “He’s got a bit of charm but you wouldn’t want to get too close. He gets a look in his eye as if to admit: ‘I’m a bit of a rogue.’ His background is part of it – draw your own conclusions from his mum and dad’s brushes with the law. And if you grow up without much money, you get very anxious about losing it, even if you do earn close to £200,000 a week, what with all his appearance fees and sponsorship deals. He also likes a bet so he knows he could blow it all.”
Paul Terry, who has had more of a journeyman professional career, earns a fraction of his younger brother’s salary – counted in the hundreds of pounds a week not hundreds of thousands. But his behaviour, starting an affair with his teammate’s fiancée while staying under their roof, seems to be of a kind with the Chelsea captain’s.
As tragic goalkeeper Dale’s father was quoted as saying when the affair first came to light: “They say every family has a black sheep. The Terrys must have a whole flock.”
This week the parents of Dale Roberts were keen to keep Paul Terry’s name out of the tragedy. “Today we are grieving for our wonderful son Dale,” they said yesterday. “We are devastated by his death.” They insisted that their son and Lindsey Cowan had been very happy together, and said of the alleged affair that it was a “rumour which had no foundation”.
In her own carefully worded statement Lindsey said: “Dale was my childhood sweetheart and the love of my life. Recent rumours and allegations about our relationship are without foundation. We had been together since a young age and I will never get over his death.”
Perhaps the behaviour of Paul Terry really did have nothing to do with this tragic suicide. But his brother’s acquaintance says: “The thing about the Terrys is that when stories like this emerge, no one is surprised. You think: ‘Oh God, here they go again.’ They just can’t keep themselves out of the news. ”
Read more: http://www.express.c...s#ixzz18LFjbkQJ
Any reason to rake up the past it seems. The reason this article has been written is truly disgusting, surely an all time low by the English media.
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