I suppose everyone suspected he was guilty but there was insufficient evidence to prove it in court then, somehow, the FA has managed to sidestep double jeopardy.

What a waste of money The FA should have arranged this judgement in the first place and made that the end of the matter.

Will they keep him for 8 years???

bloody shambles

It's clear the bloke isn't a racist - he just said something which could be construed as racist in the heat of a the moment during a particularly heated football game.

Some bloke see this on TV, decides that he doesn't like JT and that he should make his life difficult and makes a complaint. the uk media jump on it so the CPS and FA decide that given that how PC british society is these days they can't be allowed to let something so high profile go and then spend millions of pounds and hundreds of hours to find the guy not guilty / guilty.

absolutely shocking - just imagine what good that money and time could have done for the game in spending it towards that something that does matter.

I am no fan of JT - I think he is a class a bell end but this was absolutely ridiculous.

Those jumped up idiots in suits at the FA who fear the media so much that they do what they think it wants. Given that the majority of sports are either plastic Liverpool / Man Utd fans or support London clubs, none of them are particularly keen on the nouveau rich Chelsea so like to slate them whenever they want.

I don't think that Capello telling them they were idiots about the whole thing helped either so they were determined to make someone pay after he left before the Euro's. They ended up with egg on their faces and they now feel a bit better about themselves.

in the big scheme of things this whole thing has been an absolute joke.

He's naffing racist and he's a ****. Nobody in their right mind would say such stuff. He should be banned from football. End of.

typical anti-chelsea sheep and part of the reason for this stupid problem. bet you are loving the witch hunt.

the general public don't know the bloke but jump on the bandwagon while everyone that does know him and has worked with him have stated he isn't - he just said something that was deemed as racist on the pitch after being provoked by abuse from someone.

read between the lines.

the criminal court finds him not guilty while the FA do so everyone say's he's guilty.

baaaaaaaaa.......

Typical Chelsea fan and part of the reason racism exists in football. Just because he's 'provoked' it shouldn't mean his default response is a verbal racist attack.

Read between the lines.

The judge in court was pretty clear in his summing up that he believed Terry was guilty but the prosecution had not been able to prove it beyond reasonable doubt. The FA only had to judge on the balance of probability so much easier to find him guilty.

The man is pure scum.

Delighted that I'll never have to see him in an England shirt again.

Big game tomorrow.

I think the first real test of AVB's tactical genius and our revamped playing staff.

I think you failed that against United in week one.

Woo hoo.

Fantastic result.

Terrible commentary on Sportsnet.

Nice to have a decent referee at Old Trafford for a change.

I didn't watch the game myself but it sounds like a wonderful first half for Spurs and an almost equally wonderful second half for that other lot.

Almost. Luckily. Have one for me.

Memo to Spurs fans: Now is the time to transfer Spurs players into your fantasy teams

Indeed splendid day for the boys in white.

Man City 1 (due to an extremely soft penalty decision), Dortmund 1.

Oh dear. We might end up in the same group of the other thing soon.