Ok then. I sat in the court and heard the prosecution say to Terry "you're not a racist are you? you are friends with Ashley Cole aren't you? John Terry said he was. At first I thought the prosecution was actually the defence! Prosecuting Council went onto say that "this is like being in the school playground isn't it?
Film footage was played of the alleged incident, and speech recognition 'experts' were quoted, they also used facial recognition 'experts'. I thought how much is this costing. Learned council said how professional they were in their field. An old woman was dropping of to sleep by this stage, and I thought she had wasted her time in the public gallery, and someone else could have used her space. Out of 40 spaces in the public gallery, I would say 35 people were from the press and only 5 of us from the public.
The prosecutor said to Terry did you use the words BC and Terry replied that before that he had called Ferdinand "a fxxking knonbhead first". I nearly burst out laughing, the whole thing was farcical, it reminded me of two children being hauled before the school head and asked who was name calling.
Terry was asked on quite a few occasions if this sort of behaviour goes on regularly on the football pitch and he said it did. Ferdinand according to Terry was making 'thrusting' gestures with his hand (wanking gestures) and I think he said something about his wife and affairs, (could not hear that clearly, as we were behind a large glass window).
Apparently Ferdinand did not have any support in the court and only his father and lawyer attended court on Monday.
If I heard "fxxking knob head" used once I heard it ten times. I'm sure our learned friends enjoyed using this term.
Having sat through part of this trial, IMO it is a complete waste of taxpayers money.