Although football has evolved to a modern business machine, the unwritten rules and codes forged between men must be respected especially those bonded by the badge, and Terry has been done by his own folly and by the media scheming.

Hopefully the referees will no longer protect him and stop his cheating ‘unintentional’ body blocks, ‘camaouflague’ shirt pulls and other unintentional professional fouls he has been getting away with for so long.

@Walter – you ask what player could guarantee success and the answer of course is no one. No player in the world can guarantee you win anything. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth buying anyone either. Arsene is now saying he did try to buy someone but failed – although he’s not saying who. I hope it’s not too rude of me to say that I don’t believe it. It may have been said to placate the fans who have again witnessed weaknesses in our squad shockingly exposed. Either way – I’ve already said I’m determined to be positive. I never thought our team could win the league this year anyway so it’s more a matter of expectations raised – and then dashed. Getting knocked out of the FA Cup so feebly was a punch in the guts though.
Dropping Almunia for Mannone would make me feel a whole lot better about the Cheslki game.