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Ferdinand has accused John Terry of ‘stupidity’ over the racial insult
he delivered to his brother Anton and has expressed his shock that the
former England captain never apologised to either of them.
Ferdinand,
once an England team-mate of Terry, became estranged from the
centre-half when he clashed with Anton at a match between QPR and
Chelsea in 2011. The FA ruled Terry had racially abused Anton, calling
him a ‘******* black ****’.
And Ferdinand, who has spoken about the affair publicly for the first time in his autobiography #2Sides, serialised in The Sun on Sunday, said:
‘He never apologised to me or to Anton. And he has never hinted that he
has ever had a moment of understanding over the damage his stupidity
had inflicted on everyone.’
Ferdinand
and Terry, who were England centre-back partners together, no longer
speak and the former Manchester United skipper says he cannot forgive
the Chelsea captain for what he said and did and put his family through.
He
added: ‘For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry. As England
captain and my centre-back partner he could have saved everyone a lot
of pain by admitting immediately he used the word in the heat of the
moment, but was not racist.
‘I think
that's probably what happened and what the truth is. Anton and I
would've accepted that – instead he never gave us a chance.
‘That was the betrayal. He tried to run away from what he had done.'
Fedinand
also revealed that the incident, which happened back in 2011, took its
toll on his family with his mother having her windows smashed in,
bullets in the post and was eventually admitted to hospital with stress.
Terry quit England after the FA’s charge, despite being cleared in court of racial abuse.
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