Les Ferdinand speaks out about racial issues in football  According to Les Ferdinand, a one-time England striker, John Terry should quit international football, if he did in fact spew racial abuse at Anton Ferdinand, his cousin. This statement comes after an investigation by the Football Association was announced, to determine whether or not John Terry yelled a racial slur at Ferdinand, during a match between the Queens Parks Rangers and Chelsea, in a Premier League Match. Terry has denied leveling any type of racial abuse at Ferdinand and has stated that he is fine with the inquiry because it gives him a chance to prove his innocence.

At the Black List Awards, Les Ferdinand, spoke about the incident. It was there that he stated that Terry should give up playing if he did call Anton Ferdinand a racist name. Even though Ferdinand acknowledged that the final decision is up to FA, he wanted it to be known what his feelings were about what would warrant an appropriate punishment. Terry doesn’t believe that a fine would be adequate enough, in terms of punishment. Low level financial fines in the past have seemingly ignored or downplayed the racism that exists in football.

Fabio Capello, who is the England manager, by all accounts is going to have Terry join his team for their friendly matches against Sweden and Spain. Rio Ferdinand, won’t likely play. This decision is believed to be football and only football, related. However, there may be additional reasons for it as well. Excluding Rio would ensure that he and Terry would avoid contact with each. Rio is the brother of Anton Ferdinand, the player Terry allegedly yelled the racial slur at.

The investigation by the FA has already begun. The organization has started to talk to witnesses and government representatives. They have already spent some time at the QPR training ground. Anton Ferdinand is believed to have been interviewed, along with three or more of his QPR teammates.

According to Ferdinand, he didn’t actually hear Terry make the racial slur. He learned of it later and then watched a video of the incident. During the matches 85th minute, Terry reportedly mouthed a racially charged insult toward Ferdinand.  Terry refutes that version of events, stating that he never made such a statement and never called Ferdinand, the term he has been accused of.

Immediately after the game, Ferdinand never made mention that Terry said something inappropriate to him. He spoke with Terry after the match concluded but apparently was not satisfied with what was said because he asked the FA to investigate.

The FA has not announced when they will conclude their investigation. If it not completed soon, then it may make life a bit uncomfortable for Terry, because England is set to compete against Sweden and Spain in friendlies. Though there has been no official word, according to sources close to the investigation, the investigation should be finished in about a week. It is believed that it will take about that long to interview witnesses and take a look at the evidence. Once the aforementioned has been done, the FA legal team will need to decide whether or not further action is needed, specifically, whether or not charges should be filed. As it stands, the investigation has not been fast tracked. It may even be slowed down because of Ferdinand and Terry’s clubs, game commitments.

Vanessa Perroncel talks about John Terry affair  Ah well, we’ll probably never know the whole, true story, but then the participants seem a little uncertain themselves.  A few facts are available, however.  One is that England’s John Terry was divested of his captaincy of the national soccer team as a result of allegations that he had or was having an affair with Vanessa Perroncel, the French lingerie model.

Terry was and is married and the father of twins.  Vanessa’s boyfriend before the alleged affair was Wayne Bridge, teammate and ‘close friend’ of John Terry.  When the rumours started flying, Terry tried to get a gag order to keep the whole thing quiet.  That didn’t work very well.

Today, in her first TV interview since the affair was ‘discovered’, Vanessa Perroncel talked with Kate Garraway of GMTV.  When asked if she did have an affair with Terry, Vanessa insisted that they were “just friends”.  She also said that the allegations about being paid to keep quiet were utterly false, and she “didn’t take a penny from him.”  Vanessa also seems to believe that Toni Poole, Terry’s wife, believes her denials.

Whatever she did or did not do, Vanessa repeats, “there was no malicious intent.”  She says that she hopes to get back together with Wayne Bridge, the father of her 3-year-old son.  He was “the one”, she says, but their relationship suffered from too much absence on his part, and so far Wayne hasn’t come forward to give us his opinion on the situation.

Vanessa Perroncel still wants Wayne  Even though Vanessa Perroncel humiliated Wayne Bridge when she had an affair with his teammate John Terry, and potentially breaking up his marriage, Perroncel still declared that she loves Bridge and would love to get back together with him for the sake of their son who is three years old.

Perroncel is said to have told friends that she realizes Bridge is hurting terribly but that she still loves him and she would love to have him back for her and son Jaydon.  She went on to say that she realizes it must have been a terrible week for him as she has been forced to read stories about her sex life that she regards mostly as lies.

Friends of Perroncel stated that she was devastated when the public discovered her affair with Terry.  Since the news came out she has only seen Bridge once briefly when he came to pick up her son.

Perroncel’s close friend Antonia Graham stated that she never stopped loved Bridge but is unsure if he still feels the same way about her.  Her friend also stated that their split during the summer was due to a large number of small things, and that she still wants to spend her life with him despite breaking off the engagement.

Terry also suffered from the fallout with his wife taking a period away from him in Dubai to consider if she will leave him or not, and the loss of his job as England’s captain last Friday.

John Terry’s wife leaves him and flies to Dubai  John Terry’s wife left Britain for Dubai after declaring to Terry that their marriage was over.

Toni Terry, his wife, was reportedly destroyed after finding out that the star Chelsea footballer was cheating on her with his team-mate Wayne Bridge’s girlfriend.

After telling Terry that she wanted a divorce she took her twins to Dubai.

Friends reported that Toni was torn apart by the news that Terry had cheated twice a week for four months on her with Vanessa Perroncel. This is in the face of Terry’s Dad of the Year award in 2009.

According to her friends, the last straw came when she learned that Terry had arranged for Perroncel to have an abortion after Terry found out she had become pregnant.

Toni left Saturday night for the Gulf accompanied by her three year old twins and her mother.  At the moment she is looking at retaining the services of Fiona Shackleton, a top divorce lawyer, to ensure she gets at least half of Terry’s fortune.

Terry is thought to earn about £8m per year.  He also enjoys several sponsorship deals with Umbro, Nationwide, and Samsung as well as owning two lavish properties and a handful of luxury cars.

However, legal experts say that if Toni files for divorce his lifestyle may end given that he could owe over £10m to her. A source close to Toni stated that she has had more than she can take and is fairly certain that she wants a divorce at this point.