Weekends are bad for john terry

Weekends are bad and tiresome for john tery. After weeks yesterday accused of racial against Anton Ferdinand, today tetrry komedy actor should be in the middle of the field


He scored, he slipped, he lost heavily, In chronological order, Terry saw another old-gang member, Frank Lampard, put Chelsea in front, then Van Persie equalise. Next he met a Chelsea corner to restore his team's lead a minute before half-time and wheeled away to be enveloped by his team-mates, black and white.

Was this to be an afternoon of cliches about his fortitude under pressure? No. André Santos equalised for Arsenal, Theo Walcott made it 3-2, Juan Mata equalised again, then came the moment photographers will have fired back to their desks. As Florent Malouda played a simple back-pass, Terry's studs slipped through the turf and Van Persie swooped, rounding Petr Cech to finish before crashing in Arsenal's fifth in added time.