Just when everything in the England camp was going so well. The team was finally playing like a team, we were putting in some truly excellent performances and finally living up to all the media hype that surrounds our country when football is discussed.
Then, our captain, a man who is supposed to lead by example goes and has an affair with an England team-mate’s wife, on his players designer bedding no less! Well done John, now you have the media focusing, once more, on the England team for all the wrong reasons. No doubt there will be repercussions such as a sour atmosphere in the England dressing room.
This issue has to blow over quickly. We cannot afford to let a team as talented as this current England one, with the potential for success it has, to focus on the wrong things before this year’s World Cup. I am sure that if there is a man for the job of keeping our boys focused it is Fabio Capello; the man oozes respect and leadership and we need him now to steady the ship.
Whether or not Terry should lose his captaincy is a difficult one to answer. On the one hand, he has disrupted the team and done something wrong. Because of this, Terry should take the full brunt of the media storm that is going to come his way now. He should divert attention away from any discussion about what this could mean for the England team and keep the media focused on himself.
However, on the other hand, what happens in John Terry’s private life is his own business and none of ours. It is not so much what he has done that annoys me, more so what the repercussions could be for my beloved England team. He is a great captain and is certainly a good leader on the pitch. Perhaps his punishment should be the invasion from the media he is going to get.
Whatever happens to him, we need to separate it from the England team, we cannot afford any further disruption this year.