Andre Villas-Boas: Standing by captain John Terry
Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has vowed that he and the club will give John Terry their full support if prosecutors decide to charge him with racially abusing Anton Ferdinand.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will confirm on Wednesday whether Terry will face legal action over his altercation with fellow defender Ferdinand during October's west London derby at QPR.
"We know exactly his human values and personality. They are never in doubt."
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England skipper Terry has categorically denied racially abusing Ferdinand and Villas-Boas will continue to back the 31-year-old, regardless of any charge.
"The only thing I know is that I will be fully supportive of John Terry, whatever the outcome," Villas-Boas said. "He has my full support, he has the club's full support.
"We know exactly his human values and personality. They are never in doubt."
Timing
The CPS decision will come barely 24 hours before Chelsea's crunch Premier League game at Tottenham, the start of a run of four games in 11 days, but Villas-Boas was philosophical about the outcome.
"This is legal proceedings and I'm not in the right to say something done by justice is wrong," he said.
"If this is the timing they chose, this is the timing they thought was correct."
Villas-Boas also confirmed Terry would start at White Hart Lane on Thursday night, a match which can be seen live on Sky Sports HD1.
Shortly after the allegations were made, Terry issued a statement saying: "I've seen that there's a lot of comments on the internet with regards to some video footage of me during the game.
"I'm disappointed that people have leapt to the wrong conclusions about the context of what I was seen to be saying to Anton Ferdinand.
"I would never say such a thing and I'm saddened that people would think so."
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On Tuesday, Liverpool striker Luis Suarez was handed an eight-match ban for racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra during a Premier League match at Anfield on 15th October.
The Uruguay international, who is expected to appeal against the Football Association's decision, was also fined 40,000.
Villas-Boas admitted the punishment sent out a strong message but was reluctant to comment further on it before seeing the full judgment of the independent disciplinary committee.
Terry's altercation with Ferdinand is also the subject of an FA probe and Villas-Boas said of the Suarez verdict: "I'm not sure and I'm not in a position to say whether it's fairly applied or not.
"It looks to be setting a firm example."
Source: http://www1.skysports.com/news/12040/7390253/
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