Lessons in Juvenility - 101 with the Ferdinands

John Terry: Deserves more respect than you think

There comes that one point in a football supporter’s life when he wears his club’s jersey, sits down right in front the TV and expects much more than just 3 points.

Yesterday was that day for me. Speculation and rumors were in the air that Ferdinand was all set to ignore Terry and Cole at the pre-match handshakes. I on the other hand , firmly believed that they would shake their hands, share a quick word, smile and walk on. But fate had other plans.

Ferdinand walked right past John Terry and Ashley Cole, who sarcastically spat behind him and shook the next guy’s hand. David Luiz, as well, ignored Ferdinand and ignored everyone who came after him.

In David Luiz’s words, “Ferdinand was not a good geezer ! “

Now comparing this to the Suarez – Evra incident, the man who was guilty of racial abuse ignored the proposed handshake of the victim.

Let’s get back to the point at hand.

If we can say that these two incidents are similar, then doesn’t John Terry somehow or the other turn out to be the good guy? Of course, he spoke and abused Ferdinand in a way he should not have but after the case is done, should Anton fuel the fire again?

The expression on John Terry’s face clearly says it. Ferdinand and Suarez’s acts touches the heights of juvenility and in my opinion raises the bar for someone who wants to act in the same way.

Now obviously this is 101 with the Ferdinands, and the family is not complete without his brother from Manchester, Rio Ferdinand!

An old man trying to divulge himself into the new generation just to fit in due to peer pressure.

From what I’ve seen of him, peer pressure can probably be the only reason he ended up registering himself on Twitter.

Rio Ferdinand recently came under lot of criticism for retweeting a tweet from one of his follwers that sparked outrage from his followers even though it was aimed at Ashley Cole. I am new to the whole Twitter fad as well, and even though I might not know much about how things go around in the social networking site, I’m pretty sure that the best way to begin is not by retweeting a racist tweet.

When’s all said and done, Premier League might finally scrap the pre-match rituals, which in my opinion is the best thing to do. When you enter that pitch, you’re completely focused on destroying your opponents, and exchanging complementaries before that is a tad too soft.

Whatever happened in that game is probably pointless for a neutral fan, but about half the sane football watching population just realized that, the man with the morals and bigger character was John Terry. Captain, Leader, Legend for a reason. Period.