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undyingkingMy guess is that Fabio Capello will retain Terry as captain, unless there's something more that we don't know about. He seems a pretty pragmatic sort of guy, who will not be bothered about the moral issues -- only the practical question of whether it will affect the players' desire to follow Terry's leadership. And, unless it turns out his extra-marital adventures have been more wide-ranging than hitherto exposed, I don't think they will let any feeling of sympathy for England's reserve left-back overcome their loyalty to the captain. Terry has been guilty of other idiotic indiscretions, but nothing so serious as to call his position on the field into question.
Anyway, who else could be appointed captain? The handful of players who are good enough to be guaranteed a place -- surely a requisite of the captaincy -- are far from moral supermen themselves. Gerrard, who beat a guy up for not playing his Phil Collins records? Lampard, who drunkenly taunted American tourists the day after 9/11? Ferdinand, a convicted drunk driver and banned for evading drug tests? Rooney, patron of a prostitute grandmother known as the Auld Slapper? Ashley Cole, whose litany of offences need scarcely be rehearsed?
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Anyway, who else could be appointed captain? The handful of players who are good enough to be guaranteed a place -- surely a requisite of the captaincy -- are far from moral supermen themselves. Gerrard, who beat a guy up for not playing his Phil Collins records? Lampard, who drunkenly taunted American tourists the day after 9/11? Ferdinand, a convicted drunk driver and banned for evading drug tests? Rooney, patron of a prostitute grandmother known as the Auld Slapper? Ashley Cole, whose litany of offences need scarcely be rehearsed?
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