I'd just like to put aside Melissa's comment about sport being boring - to me it isn't, but I accept that it is to others (although they're wrong!
). This John Terry thing was being discussed on BBC Breakfast this morning, and I voiced an opinion that if John Terry was captain of a lesser team than Chelsea, if he weren't captain of England, then would anyone actually give a toss? To which my good lady wife replied that if this situation had actually happened in any business environment other than sport, noone would bat an eyelid. Office romances happen every day, after all.
So, is this John Terry thing being blown out of all proportion? Should the fact that he's been caught playing away (sorry, bad pun, I know) with a team mate's wife be making front page headlines, or is it this culture we have in Britain of putting celebrities on a pedestal then taking great joy in knocking them off it? Or is it, as I believe, that our tabloid press are guttersnipes that take great glee in destroying people's lives?
For me, the wider issue was that a judge had the guts to throw out the so-called 'Super Injunction' in the first place. Perhaps this common sense ruling will demonstrate to the rich and undeserving that they must, after all, take the consequences for their actions the same as us plebs.
