Captain. Leader. Far-right sympathiser. Terry joins ranks of football’s radicalised | Jonathan Liew
المصدر: The Guardian Sport | Source: The Guardian SportJohn Terry’s journey into the internet pipeline is by no means an isolated case – what makes footballers so susceptible?
And so we ask ourselves: how did it come to this? Did we miss the signs? Were there red flags that went unheeded, cries for help that fell on closed ears, forks in the road not taken? Or ultimately, for all our best efforts, was it always going to end like this? Is it, in fact, possible that John Terry was a far-right sympathiser all along?
Yes, it’s been a chastening week for those who have been fighting Terry’s corner for more than a decade. Who steadfastly defended him against the racism charges, who accepted his explanation that he was simply repeating what Anton Ferdinand had been saying to him, who turned up at his trial in full kit, who lamented his failure to land the coaching jobs he so coveted, who right to the end just wanted to believe.
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