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England captain John Terry had an affair with team-mate Wayne Bridge's partner ... and then launched legal cover-up

 

 

By Sam Greenhill, Christian Gysin and Steve Doughty

Last updated at 10:27 PM on 29th January 2010

 

 

 

England captain John Terry was publicly disgraced last night for cheating on his wife with a team-mate's girlfriend after losing a court battle to keep it secret.

The £170,000-a-week footballer had an affair with French underwear model Vanessa Perroncel - his wife's best friend and the partner of fellow England defender Wayne Bridge.

Terry, 29, who has three-year-old twins with his childhood sweetheart Toni, now faces a backlash from players and fans fearing the storm will rock the England squad and ruin the team's chances at this summer's World Cup in South Africa.

 

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Within minutes of the story breaking, the internet was awash with angry calls for Terry to be stripped of the title.

The Chelsea star had desperately tried to keep the public in the dark over his infidelity and initially managed to use human rights laws to obtain a gagging order against the press. He claimed his right to a 'private and family life' would be breached if his shameful behaviour were exposed. Even the existence of the so-called 'super-injunction' was supposed to be a secret.

 

But yesterday in a landmark ruling for press freedom, a High Court judge refused to continue the draconian order imposed a week ago and ruled the public had a right to know.

Mr Justice Tugendhat effectively declared that celebrities should not be able to stifle newspapers from reporting on their activities - even if they were embarrassing.

He said the public should have the right to criticise 'socially harmful' behaviour because freedom of speech is as important as the right to privacy.

Experts believe his ruling could open the floodgates to more revelations - high on the list being the identity of the Premier League manager recently accused of visiting a brothel.

 

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The decision will shatter Terry's recently-acquired family man image and could lose him millions in commercial sponsorships.

The judge was critical of the way Terry, his business partners and Schillings, one of the best-known celebrity law firms, had tried to keep the affair under wraps.

Terry, recently crowned celebrity 'father of the year', was not in court yesterday and kept out of public sight as the scandal broke.

He has long been close friends with his teammate Bridge and until recently the pair were neighbours in a gated community in Surrey.

Bridge was a club team-mate of Terry for five years until he moved to Manchester City in 2008.

Until last week, no one knew that Terry was having a secret sexual affair with Bridge's girlfriend.

 

 

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When Miss Perroncel's own relationship with Bridge collapsed last July, it was to Terry's wife Toni, her best friend, that she turned for support. The two women are even understood to have holidayed together.

The court has not said when the affair with Terry began or how long it lasted, but there was one unconfirmed suggestion that it was as recently as last month.

 

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The alleged relationship had 'consequences', the court heard - but their nature was not spelt out.

Sources close to Bridge said he was 'in bits' after hearing about the alleged affair. The 29-year-old has a three-year- old son with brunette Miss Perroncel.

His son, Jaydon Jean Claude Bridge, was born in November 2006 but when Bridge moved to Manchester City a year ago, Miss Perroncel remained in their Surrey mansion.

Bridge said nothing when asked about his teammate's behaviour yesterday as he left his club's training ground before returning to his £ 2million rented mansion in Alderley Edge, Cheshire.

Yesterday even fellow England stars - not always known for their family values - were privately condemning Terry for 'crossing the line' in sleeping with a teammate's partner.

He also faces the wrath of England manager Fabio Capello - the Italian has famously strict moral values. Capello will come under pressure to strip Terry of the England captaincy if his off-the-field behaviour is causing a rift in the team. FA insiders claimed Terry's future depended on how fellow players will react to him at a friendly game against Egypt in March.

Yesterday there was no sign of Terry at his £4million home where, on Monday, he confessed his infidelity to his wife.

Terry has previously admitted to cheating on Toni. In 2005, two years before marrying, he said: 'I've misbehaved and slept with girls behind her back. I'm not going to cheat on her ever again and I want to marry her more than anything.'

But the day he was quoted, it emerged he had a fling with a blonde - and even borrowed his friend Bridge's £4million house as a love nest. His alleged lover Shalimar Wimble, 25, told a Sunday newspaper: 'John never mentioned his fiancee Toni to me - I guess that's why he took me to Wayne's place.'

 

Yesterday the judge made it clear he thought Terry's history as a love rat was very much relevant in deciding whether he should be allowed to keep his latest transgression a secret.

Mr Justice Tugendhat said it was crucial that newspapers should not be prevented from reporting things that were 'socially harmful'.

Even before the order was lifted, the internet was buzzing with details of Terry's infidelity. He was named on at least one football website, while posts on the social networking site Twitter ridiculed the England captain. One said: 'Everyone knew he was boffing the (rather gorgeous) girlfriend of Wayne Bridge - let the story run.'

The case echoes former England captain David Beckham's alleged affair with Rebecca Loos. He was never forced to quit his post, but then again the England coach at the time, Sven Goran Eriksson, was busy having a secret affair of his own.

 

The underwear model and her friendship with the WAG next door

 

 

John Terry's wife and his mistress were the most unlikely of best friends.

Toni Poole, 28, is a working-class girl who shuns the public eye and is happy to stay at home with the twin children she has by her childhood sweetheart.

 

 

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Vanessa Perroncel is a French-born lingerie model who has posed provocatively in a series of 'lads' mags'.

Yet they holidayed together last summer and were regular guests in each other's neighbouring homes.

Miss Poole, 28, had dated Terry from the age of 16, when he was a year older and an apprentice footballer on £48 a week still living with his family in an estate in Barking, East London.

She worked briefly as a beautician, but in an age of WAGs is more like the traditional footballers' wife - a loyal, quiet presence in the background.

 

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She and Miss Perroncel became friends in 2006 after the exotic model, who is thought to be around 29, had begun dating Wayne Bridge. He was Terry's Chelsea teammate and neighbour - as well as an accommodating friend.

In 2005 a tabloid newspaper told how Bridge allowed Terry to use his house to have sex with a secretary when he wasn't there.

 

Afterwards, Terry apologised for his transgression and vowed that it would be the last. At the time, it was the eighth to be publicised in tabloid newspapers.

Whatever doubts his long-term partner might have had over Bridge, she quickly became friendly with his new girlfriend, despite their differences.

Miss Perroncel was certainly different-having made a career out of her body once she moved to the UK.

She posed provocatively in a whole array of downmarket lads' magazines including Maxim - where she was labelled a Maxim Mate - and Front.

 

Apart from her magazine appearances, she posed with Sacha Baron-Cohen's film creation Ali G, she in a white bra and red knickers as he lay between her parted legs.

Toni and Vanessa headed - along with the other WAGs - to Baden Baden in Germany for their now notorious stay during England's ill-fated World Cup campaign in 2006.

 

 

The friendship between the two women intensified after Toni gave birth to twins, son George and daughter Summer, and Vanessa had a son, Jaydon Jean Claude five months later.

 

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The following summer, Miss Perroncel and Bridge were both guests when Terry wed Toni at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire and last summer they went on a 'girls' break' together.

Yesterday's revelations suggest another holiday is unlikely - and there is likely to be a distinct froideur the next time they meet in their Footballers' Wives estate.

After ten years of secrecy, a powerful blow for freedom

 

The John Terry ruling is a powerful blow against the growth of the privacy law used by celebrities to silence their critics and keep their bad behaviour secret.

For the first time in a decade a senior judge has come down against secrecy, and in favour of freedom of speech and the right of ordinary people to criticise the rich and famous.

The privacy laws have been built up by judges - and one judge in particular - without endorsement from Parliament. They have, for the first time in centuries, made it against the law to tell the truth about the wealthy and the powerful.

They have been based on the Human Rights Act and its guarantee of 'respect for private and family life'. Yesterday's judgment from Mr Justice Tugendhat also signals the end for the celebrity super-injunction, which are designed to stop anyone revealing private information and are so secret that no one is allowed to mention their very existence.

 

Privacy rules reached their zenith in 2008 when the judge most associated with privacy rulings, Mr Justice Eady, found in favour of Max Mosley.

The Formula One chief said the News of the World breached his privacy when it reported his participation in a sado-masochistic orgy conducted in German with five prostitutes. Mr Justice Eady said that since Mosley's orgy was conducted in a private flat, it was not a matter that could lawfully be discussed by others, and nobody was allowed to report it.

 

But Mr Justice Tugendhat's 37-page judgment backed the right of newspapers to report and help form public opinion, and said that those who feel their privacy has been infringed should have to argue their case in open court.

 

His findings are an effective counterweight to the Mosley judgment and lawyers believe they will have been discussed with other senior judges, in particular the other two judges who deal with serious libel and privacy cases, Eady and Mrs Justice Sharpe.

 

 

Mystery of the £1 silence agreement

 

An extraordinary attempt to silence John Terry's lover Vanessa Perroncel was revealed by the judge.

In documents disclosed by Terry's lawyers to the court, it was claimed that she was offered £1 in return for signing a confidentiality agreement.

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But Judge Tugendhat said he believed it could have been a nominal sum and she might have been given more.

The deal was done at a hotel after Terry became concerned about rumours circulating in the football world a week ago.

He believed a newspaper was about to expose his secret, and was warned the News of the World was 'all over it', although it is understood the paper had made no formal approaches.

On Friday January 22, two of Terry's business partners met Miss Perroncel at a London hotel and she signed two documents, the court heard.

The first was a short letter which said: 'I agree to keep such information private and confidential', and promising to pass any media inquiries on to one of Terry's business partners.

The second document said she agreed to keep quiet, 'in order to assist you in keeping such information confidential and in consideration of £1, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged'.

The judge said he was 'troubled' by the arrangement - and wondered whether the woman was really only paid £1. He added he did 'not feel confident' that the documents really expressed her wishes.

Judge Tugendhat also expressed concern that the business partners were not solicitors, trained in taking statements from witnesses.

'It is very important that information from witnesses should be what the witness truly believes, and that words should not be put into the mouth of a witness,' he said.

In a scathing remark, he added: 'Their business interest is to protect Terry's reputation. I am left in serious doubt as to whether the information sourced through the business partners is full and frank.'

The court did not name the two business partners, but said they were engaged in the promotion of the player for sponsorship deals and the protection of his image.

The Daily Mail contacted Elite Management, run by Paul Nicholls and Keith Cousins, who represent Terry, to ask if they were the business partners referred to. Neither was available for comment.

 

 

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Terry's £4million sponsorship deal under threat

 

Sponsors are under pressure to ditch John Terry, potentially costing the player millions.

The England captain has a £ 4million contract to wear Umbro sports shoes at every match.

 

He has also appeared in adverts for the Nationwide building society and electronics giant Samsung.

In a scathing ruling, the judge made it clear he suspected Terry was more afraid of losing the commercial deals than anything else.

He said the footballer appeared to have brought his High Court action in a desperate move to protect his earnings - rather than the woman with whom he had been conducting his affair.

 

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Terry's attempt at a cover-up came as golfer Tiger Woods was estimated to be losing $1million (£625,000) a day after sponsors deserted him following revelations of his extramarital affairs.

Mr Justice Tugendhat referred to Terry's 'number of high-profile sponsorship or endorsement deals for companies'.

The judge said that income earned from such deals for 'successful professionals' could be 'very large indeed', adding: 'But high-profile sponsors are sensitive to the reputation of the sports professionals to whom they pay large sponsorship fees for promoting the sponsor's products.'

Yesterday the silence was deafening as none of Terry's sponsors was prepared to discuss him.

An Umbro spokesman said: 'There is absolutely no comment about this at this time.' A spokesman for Samsung - which sponsors Terry's Premiership side Chelsea - was unavailable, while Nationwide was quick to point out it was the England team it sponsored, rather than Terry personally.

The player had an estimated personal wealth of almost £17million in April last year.

PR guru Max Clifford predicted that football fans would not be 'too concerned' at the actions of Terry and, because neither Nationwide nor Samsung was 'that family-orientated' it would be highly unlikely for those two firms to drop Terry.

He said: 'It all depends how sensitive the sponsors are to both their clients and their customers and I honestly do not think what John Terry has done is going to upset them.'

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But yesterday in a landmark ruling for press freedom, a High Court judge refused to continue the draconian order imposed a week ago and ruled the public had a right to know.

Mr Justice Tugendhat effectively declared that celebrities should not be able to stifle newspapers from reporting on their activities - even if they were embarrassing.

He said the public should have the right to criticise 'socially harmful' behaviour because freedom of speech is as important as the right to privacy.

Experts believe his ruling could open the floodgates to more revelations - high on the list being the identity of the Premier League manager recently accused of visiting a brothel.

 

At last - a victory for common-sense (and freedom of speech).:cool:

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John Terry took some stick at Turf Moor tonight, you're not Tiger you're not Tiger you're not Tiger Woods; and does she take, does she take, does she take it up the arse? .. were crowd favourites, although the most sung was Mrs Bridge is going down going down going down, Mrs Bridge is going down, on John Terry (tune to My Fair Lady)

 

The cheating bastard only went and scored the winner! :dozey:

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John Terry took some stick at Turf Moor tonight, you're not Tiger you're not Tiger you're not Tiger Woods; and does she take, does she take, does she take it up the arse? .. were crowd favourites, although the most sung was Mrs Bridge is going down going down going down, Mrs Bridge is going down, on John Terry (tune to My Fair Lady)

 

Classic!:laugh3:

 

They reckon it's only a matter of time before he's stripped of the England captaincy, anyway.;)

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England captain John Terry made team-mate's girlfriend pregnant - and then arranged for abortion

 

 

By Amanda Perthen, Ian Gallagher, Andy Chapman and James Millbank

Last updated at 8:25 AM on 31st January 2010

 

 

 

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England captain John Terry’s career was thrown into further doubt last night after it was revealed he got his team-mate’s girlfriend pregnant.

The Mail on Sunday has learned that French model Vanessa Perroncel, former partner of fellow England defender Wayne Bridge, had an abortion within months of the affair starting.

The pregnancy and termination are thought to have been the ‘consequences’ referred to by the High Court judge who threw out the £170,000-a-week footballer’s bid to seek a draconian gagging order to keep his affair secret.

Last night, the far-reaching implications of Terry’s extraordinary legal action were becoming clear.

 

There is now a strong belief among fans that Terry may have caused irreparable damage to England’s chances of success at the World Cup in South Africa in June.

 

Although he is seen as a vital member of the squad, his behaviour has turned him into a pariah and has deeply unsettled his team-mates.

There is anger, too, that his decision to use a super-injunction to try to prevent scrutiny of his actions has only served to exacerbate an already painful situation.

Rejecting Terry’s claim for the right to have a ‘private and family life’, the judge said he believed it was more likely Terry was trying to protect his reputation and business interests.

 

In his written judgment, Mr Justice Tugendhat referred to ‘details of such affair and/or relationship, including the consequences thereof’.

Although he as not explicit by what was meant by the ‘consequences’, the internet was yesterday buzzing with reports that it referred to Miss Perroncel’s abortion. When asked about it, Miss Perroncel’s publicity agent Max Clifford said: ‘No comment‘.

Friends said last night the termination was arranged by Terry and took place at a private clinic under clandestine circumstances. Miss Perroncel arrived and left the clinic via a back entrance.

 

 

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In crisis: John Terry with his wife Toni (left) and Wayne Bridge with Vanessa Perroncel in 2006

 

 

 

 

 

Terry is now facing a showdown with England manager Fabio Capello, expected to take place today, which may well decide the course of his career.

But yesterday he appeared to put his private troubles behind him when he captained Chelsea in their Premiership clash against Burnley, scoring the winning goal in the 2-1 victory in the 82nd minute.

He was booed by the opposing home fans whenever he touched the ball, and endured their chants of: ‘Same old Terry, always cheating’ and the song: ‘Chelsea wherever you may be, don’t leave your wife with John Terry.’

Friends said Terry’s affair began soon after Miss Perroncel, a lingerie model, split from Bridge last summer. At first it was platonic, but became sexual in September. It is understood she became pregnant in October and had the termination weeks later.

 

 

 

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‘John has known her for years and there was always something between them, a kind of flirtatious thing,’ a friend told The Mail on Sunday. ‘It used to upset John’s wife Toni.

‘After Vanessa and Wayne separated, John would go around to her house, initially at least, to offer support. Then it got a lot heavier very quickly.’

On Friday, after the gagging order was overturned in the High Court, Mrs Terry rang Miss Perroncel, who lives close to the couple’s £3million home in the footballers’ enclave of Oxshott, Surrey.

 

The two women had been close friends before the news of Terry’s infidelity broke and sources described their conversation as ‘extremely tense’.

 

Earlier that day, Miss Perroncel spoke for the first time about the affair to a Mail on Sunday reporter.

Describing how Terry’s secrecy bid backfired so spectacularly, she said that Bridge, the father of her three-year-old son, only learned about the liaison because of the court action.

‘Wayne rang me last weekend and started shouting at me and accusing me of having an affair,’ said Miss Perroncel. ‘It was terrible. He was saying horrible things.’

She said she told Bridge, 29, that she wasn’t having an affair ‘but he wouldn’t believe me’.

Earlier, she said: ‘Wayne was convinced I had been cheating on him because the court action had been taken. It was an agonising call and he was furious.

‘I am a close friend of his [John Terry’s]. We don’t talk everyday, but we are in touch a lot. I have known him for eight years, I even knew him before Wayne.

 

'He has been to my house. I am also a close friend of his wife and I phoned her last weekend to arrange for us to go out together.

 

 

 

 

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‘I am friends with Frank Lampard’s ex-fiancee Elen as well. I don’t know what they are all going to think. It is a very close community of footballers and their wives here. I’m a single mother with a little boy to think about.’

Miss Perroncel’s £3 million mansion on an exclusive estate in Oxshott is a short drive from where Terry lives with 28-year-old Toni, his childhood sweetheart, and their three-year-old twins.

His mother and mother-in-law both live on the same road, while other neighbours include West Ham midfielder Scott Parker, Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole and England star Ashley Cole and his wife Cheryl.

Terry, 29, is believed to have spent yesterday explaining himself to his wife. Friends said that although Terry has been caught cheating before, his previous encounters had been much less serious and short-lived. ‘Toni will find this devastatingly painful,’ said one friend.

Meanwhile Terry also faces a backlash from players and fans. Bridge, once a close friend, is said to have made it clear in football circles that he will not travel with Terry to the World Cup if, as expected, he is selected for the squad.

News of the affair broke as Bridge and Miss Perroncel, who were together for three years, were struggling to sort out a settlement following their split six months ago. He moved to a £2million Edwardian mansion in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, while she remained in the marital home, after his transfer to Manchester City.

 

Speaking about the negotiations, Miss Perroncel said: ‘Wayne and I are trying to sort out a settlement and I have been told by lawyers not to say certain things because it could affect it. The house I am living in is the one that Wayne and I had. It is very sad.’

Yesterday, Bridge declined to comment on the affair.

 

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It is understood Terry was seen visiting his lover’s home in his green Bentley two weeks ago. A witness said he appeared to use an electronic ‘beeper’ to get through the security gates.

Toni and Vanessa became close friends in 2006 after the model started dating Bridge and last summer the two women went on a ‘girls’ break’ together.

In 2005, two years before his marriage to Toni, Terry said: ‘I’ve mis-behaved and slept with girls behind her back. I’m not going to cheat on her ever again and I want to marry her more than anything.’

But the day he was quoted, it emerged he had a fling with a blonde – and even borrowed Bridge’s house as a love nest.

The girl concerned, 25-year-old Shalimar Wimble, said at the time: ‘John never mentioned his fiancee Toni to me – I guess that’s why he took me to Wayne’s place.’

On Friday, Mr Justice Tugendhat said it was crucial that newspapers should not be prevented from reporting details of his philandering ways just because they were ‘socially harmful’.

 

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It was also revealed in court that Terry tried to silence his former lover by getting her to sign a ‘confidentiality’ agreement. In documents disclosed by Terry’s lawyers, it was claimed that she was offered just £1 in return for signing the agreement.

But Judge Tugendhat said that it could have been a nominal sum and she might have been given more.

The deal was done at a hotel after Terry became concerned about rumours circulating in the football world a week ago.

He believed a newspaper was about to expose his secret, so on Friday January 22, two of Terry’s business partners met Vanessa at a London hotel and she signed two documents, the court heard.

The first was a short letter which said: ‘I agree to keep such information private and confidential’ and promising to pass any media inquiries on to one of Terry’s business partners.

The second document said she agreed to keep quiet, ‘in order to assist you in keeping such information confidential and in consideration of £1, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged’.

The judge said he was ‘troubled’ by the arrangement and in a scathing remark said: ‘Their business interest is to protect Terry’s reputation. I am left in serious doubt as to whether the information sourced through the business partners is full and frank.’

 

 

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Legitimately playing away: A tired and sheepish-looking John Terry warming up with his Chelsea teammates (left) and celebrating his goal (right) at Turf Moor Stadium in Burnley today

 

HOW ADVISERS' ATTEMPT TO GAG LOVER BACKFIRED

 

 

An attempt by two of Terry’s business partners to silence Miss Perroncel was partly responsible for the judge’s decision to allow damaging details to be reported.

Court documents revealed she was given £1 for signing a confidentiality agreement. But Mr Justice Tugendhat ‘did not feel confident’ the papers she signed expressed her wishes.

He also suggested she may have been given more money.

She met the men at a London hotel on January 22. But the judge was concerned that the ‘business partners’ had not been frank with the court about events leading to her signing of the contract.

The identity of the two men was not revealed but the judge said they promoted the player for sponsorship deals and protected his image.

Terry is represented by Elite management, run by Essex businessmen Paul Nicholls and Keith Cousins. Both men describe themselves as ‘long term friends’ of Terry. Nicholls played alongside Terry as a Chelsea youth player.

Mr Cousins and Mr Nicholls took over Terry’s management before the start of the season after he parted company from agent Aaron Lincoln.

Lincoln had been credited with cultivating a more wholesome image for Terry.

In November, Terry was severely embarrassed when an email was circulated among the sports business community.

 

It had been sent by a small firm called Riviera Entertainment, based in Enfield, North London, hired by Elite management to fix lucrative commercial deals for the star leading up to the World Cup.

The email was widely criticised as a bid to use Terry’s position as England’s captain as another cash cow.

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JANET STREET-PORTER: Why it's time to blow the whistle on arrogant John Terry's foul play

 

 

By Janet Street Porter

Last updated at 3:13 PM on 01st February 2010

 

 

 

 

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Sick joke - John Terry was chosen as 'Dad of the Year' by Daddies Sauce. That's a product I won't be buying any more.

 

A serial philanderer, a 'colourful' (ie loutish) character who routinely urinates in public, had sex with a fan in his car and who made a drunken display of himself in a hotel in 2001, where anxious travellers were watching the TV news after the planes hit the World Trade Centre in New York.

That's the man our football authorities thought was perfectly qualified to inspire and lead the England team.

Let's not forget his drug-selling dad and shoplifter mother - team Terry is a shambles, a bunch of cocky vulgarians who most of us wouldn't invite in for a coffee, let alone select the prodigal son as the face of our national game.

There's a school of thought that decrees we should admire sportsmen and women for their physical prowess, not what they get up to after games are over and they are enjoying themselves in private.

But when these people rack up millions in sponsorship deals (like Tiger Woods) by employing PR men and brand managers to craft a lucrative image as wholesome and well-rounded family men, then the public are entitled to expect they will conduct themselves in a way we find socially acceptable. Instead, all too often, they are photographed late at night falling down drunk, glassy-eyed and dishevelled.

Football is the one sport that ordinary kids all over Britain rightly see as a passport to money and success.

 

All the evidence shows that white, working-class boys - exactly the background that John Terry comes from - are doing poorly at school and lagging behind their ethnic counterparts.

 

 

 

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They make up the bulk of the NEETs (the 16 to 24-year-olds who are not in education, employment or training) - who number well over a million, a huge cause for concern.

 

Unless we engage with this generation, there will be more anti-social behaviour, not less. They need role models - and what have they got? Morons such as John Terry.

My dad wanted a boy, but he got me. Nevertheless, I would accompany him to see his beloved Fulham play until I was 12, standing on the terraces at Craven Cottage every other week.

 

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I saw at first hand how football has the unique power to glue communities together and give them hope.

These days I sponsor a boys team in Kent, sending them cash for equipment whenever they need it.

 

Seeing these 12-year- olds dashing about the pitch on a Sunday morning instead of standing around looking sullen or smashing up bus shelters is tremendous. It teaches them team spirit, sharing and discipline.

This is why John Terry represents everything that's wrong about the way professional football is run. Time and time again this bloke has got away with foul behaviour because he's a good player.

 

Now he's made a complete fool of himself by hiring swanky lawyers to try to prevent the Press disclosing that he's been cheating on his wife with one of her best friends, Vanessa Perroncel, the former girlfriend of his pal Wayne Bridge.

John Terry is alleged to have made his lover pregnant and paid for an abortion. Why should his extra-marital activities have remained secret?

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He might complain that it wasn't in the public interest - but the judge rightly disagreed, pointing out that Terry was more concerned about losing his sponsorship deals than anything else.

 

By trying to manipulate the law, Terry reinforces the notion that wealthy footballers think they are a breed apart from the rest of us.

 

Their insanely high rewards have created a mindset where they believe they can behave exactly how they like and get away with it, as long as they do well on the pitch.

The time has come to blow the whistle on that mentality for good. We owe it to the next generation not to turn a blind eye on John Terry's repellent behaviour.

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Gonna be interesting how he's going to dig himself out of this mess.

 

Is it just me or does Wayne Bridge bear a resemblance to the actor Tate Donovan, the guy starred in The O.C. as Mischa Barton's character's Dad.

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How John Terry played happy families on theme park day out with wife, his future mistress and Wayne Bridge

 

 

By Christian Gysin

Last updated at 7:41 PM on 01st February 2010

 

 

 

John Terry and his wife were such close friends with his future mistress and her boyfriend that they went on family days out together, it was revealed last night.

They played 'Happy Families' at a theme park together near their Surrey homes more than two years before the affair began.

Terry and his wife Toni Poole were joined by team-mate Wayne Bridge and his girlfriend Vanessa Perroncel, with whom he had a five-month affair, as they took their children to Chessington World of Adventures.

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Happy families? (left to right) Wayne Bridge, John Terry, Vanessa Perroncel and Toni Poole

The friendship between all four was clear as they walked round the park - but now Miss Perroncel is in talks about selling the story of their affair for £250,000 and Bridge refuses to be anywhere near Terry.

The furious player has claimed he will not even sit on the same plane as England captain Terry en route to the World Cup finals in South Africa.

 

 

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In the family visit in April 2007 Terry could be seen cuddling one of his twin children, then aged almost one, while Bridge carefully strapped his then nine-month old son Jaydon into a pram.

Minutes later the footballers walked through the amusement park with their wives and children.

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Happy day out: Terry (right) and Bridge enjoyed a trip to Chessington World of Adventures together in April 2007

At one stage Bridge's girlfriend Vanessa Perroncel could be seen pushing a pram as she walked alongside Terry.

A group of children - some of them wearing England shirts - trailed behind the Chelsea and England defender in the hope of snatching an autograph.

But yesterday Miss Perroncel was hoping to put her name to a £250,000 contract - enabling her to sell the story of her five month long affair with the England captain.

Lingerie model Vanessa Perroncel spent part of the afternoon with publicist Max Clifford discussing if and when she might sell her story.

The pair were photographed at Weybridge Health Club in Surrey.

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The mistress: Vanessa Perroncel with her publicist, Max Clifford

The dark haired model wore designer tracksuit pants and a vest top as she posed in the doorway of the club and in the car park where she could be seen tying her hair into a ponytail.

Sources close to the 28-year-old former girlfriend of ex-Chelsea star Wayne Bridge claimed that she had also been speaking to Terry about her plans.

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The Daily Mail has been told that the England captain has 'begged' Miss Perroncel not to reveal details of their relationship and is prepared to pay her a vast sum himself to keep quiet , with one well placed source adding:

'Vanessa is still deciding what to do and is unsure about everything at the moment. She is angry about some of the things that have been said about her and is a bit confused at the moment.

'John Terry has been in contact with her and has been begging her not to do a media deal.

'He is quite desperate to buy her off - effectively pay her to keep quiet about everything.'

Terry, meanwhile, has been in regular contact with his wife who flew to Dubai at the weekend.

A source close to the player told the Daily Mail: 'Toni just wanted to get away from all the photographers and the fuss. John has been speaking to her and is desperate to save their marriage. She has just gone away to get away from it all.

'At the moment talk of her filing for divorce may be premature.'

The £250,000 offer to Miss Perroncel is understood to have been made by a Sunday newspaper and there is also talk of TV interview and magazine deals being arranged.

Yesterday Terry was preparing with his Chelsea team-mates for tonight's Premiership game away against Hull City - but he was said to have been in phone contact with Miss Perroncel.

Pressure remained on Terry to resign as England captain after Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe ' called into question' his role as he pointed out the 29-year-old's ' wider responsibility for the country.'

He spoke after several members of Wayne Bridge's current Manchester City team were seen wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the words 'Team Bridge' as they left the field after their home game against Portsmouth yesterday afternoon.

In recent days thousands of England fans have posted messages on football forums and websites urging the England manager Fabio Capello to sack Terry.

Others have claimed that Bridge himself will seal Terry's future if he tells the FA he will not go to the World Cup if the current captain stays in his post.

However the Italian - who is recovering from keen surgery at his Italian home - is not expected to deal with the 'Terry situation' until her returns to Britain on Thursday.

He has asked one of his back room staff - Franco Baldini - to speak to both Bridge and Terry before he returns.

Should Miss Perroncel talk she is expected to reveal details of sordid claims that Terry paid for her to visit a private clinic in London for an abortion in October - only weeks after the pair began seeing each other at her Surrey home.

It has even been claimed that Terry left an England training session early to visit his mistress on the day of the termination.

 

 

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Revelations: John Terry on the training pitch today (left) while Wayne Bridge is pictured leaving Manchester City's training centre

 

 

The affair is said to have taken place at the home Miss Perroncel once shared with Bridge in Oxshott, Surrey, before the player was transferred in January 2009 to Manchester City.

Pictures showed Terry visiting the house in his Bentley which it was said he parked behind Miss Perroncel's car so it could not be seen by neighbours and passers-by.

Terry's wife Toni fled the couple's nearby home in Oxshott, Surrey, at the weekend and flew to Dubai with her young twin daughters and her parents.

The group are understood to be staying in an apartment while she considers whether to call in divorce lawyers in a bid to end her three-year-old marriage to the disgraced player.

According to legal sources Mrs Terry could expect to receive a large settlement and also take a large proportion of her errant husband's future earnings. Terry is said to be worth around £20 million.

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The triangle: Terry sitting beside Perroncel and Bridge during a Carling Cup match in 2007

Yesterday publicist Mr Clifford said Miss Perroncel was '50-50' over whether to sell her story and was upset at some 'untrue things' that had been said about her in recent days.

Wayne Bridge has already stated that he will not be commenting on what many in football see as Terry's betrayal with many claiming he 'crossed the line' when embarking on an affair with an England team-mate's partner.

Last night after days of silence the FA finally issued a statement in which they confirmed that Terry's future would be decided solely by the England manager.

'The FA confirms that England manager Fabio Capello alone will make the decision about John Terry's position,' the FA said.

'Fabio is fully up to speed with developments regarding John Terry. He spoke with our chairman Lord Triesman and chief executive Ian Watmore today, who both backed him to make the best decision for England on footballing grounds.

'Fabio is dealing with the matter in his own way using his extensive experience as a football manager.'

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Show of solidarity: Manchester City players Stephen Ireland (left) and Carlos Tevez today wore shirts under their strip bearing the words 'Team Bridge' in support of their fellow player, who was off with a knee injury

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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