Football: Chelsea reject supportive T-shirts

The Blues are backing their captain, facing a racially aggravated public order charge and will face a magistrate.

LONDON:

Chelsea football club have turned down the players’ proposal to wear T-shirts in support of captain John Terry.

The Blues are backing their captain, who is facing a racially aggravated public order charge and will face a magistrate.

However, a spokesman for the club said, “We didn’t think wearing T-shirts was an appropriate or helpful show of that support.”

Earlier, Liverpool were criticised after their players wore T-shirts in support of Luis Suarez following his eight-match ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra. Suarez, with the club’s backing, is planning to appeal the verdict and the ban that was handed out to him.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 27^th, 2011.