Wayne Bridge, not loving life either

One can't mention John Terry these days without also talking about Wayne Bridge.

Proving the world is not a fair place, Bridge is doing arguably worse than even Terry. The Manchester City defender and former English defender (who refuses to play on the national team with Terry) had to have hernia surgery yesterday which will cause him to miss a month of action.

Bridge had just recently come back from a knee injury which shelved him for 13 games earlier in the EPL season.

Manchester City is battling for the fourth spot in the EPL standings, which would enable them to qualify for next year's Champions League. It would also throw a curveball into the Big 4 of English soccer: Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool.

Capello says to England: stop being clowns like Terry and Cole

Who knew weeks ago when I first blogged about John Terry's affair with Wayne Bridge's ex-girlfriend that it would turn into such a huge story surrounding the English national team, which like it or not has a reputation for choking in big moments like the Buffalo Bills in the 90's.

With the most recent media circus surrounding injured defender Ashley Cole and his now ex-wife, Cheryl Cole (they separated!), Capello felt like he had to signal to the media his intentions with his bunch of Austin Powers wannabes. Haha, was that too dated?

Asked what will happen to players who step out of line after he spells out his code of conduct on their behavior, Capello said: "The players have to understand what I want if you want to stay with me."

Capello, who is renowned as a strict disciplinarian, does not want to see his players' private lives splashed across newspapers -- particularly as the Italian coach tries to deliver England's first World Cup since 1966.

"It will be very important because we need to create a group. The England shirt is very important. This will be one of the most important points we will speak about."

Capello will talk to his players next week when the team gathers before a friendly against Egypt on March 3.

The Italian head coach is saying the right things as England will all convene next week ahead of its friendly with Egypt. It's been four months since this troubled group was all together in the same dressing room. Should make for some awkward moments, huh?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/soccer/02/23/capello.england.ap/index.html

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If you've never been to England, specifically London, it's worth it just for the newspapers and tabloids alone. Imagine if every NFL player's personal life was followed as closely as Tom Brady's and you can somewhat start to appreciate the microscope that English Premier League players live under. Homegrown EPL players even more so.

Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the latest scandal in the UK is that Chelsea and England captain John Terry (who's married and has twins) had an affair with English teammate Wayne Bridge's former girlfriend. Throw in the juicy detail that said former flame is a French underwear model and boom: you've got a story that everyone is talking about.


Since I spent a semester in London during the winter/spring of 2005, Terry has always been one of my favorites. I even have an England jersey with his name on the back.

As a nice footnote, Terry didn't seem affected by the whole thing since he scored the game-winning goal on a sweet header off a corner kick in Chelsea's 2-1 win over Burnley yesterday.

PS. John what the hell are you wearing? Must have been a present from the wife. Also a great picture because while his wife stares at him (and not the camera), some banshee in the background gives her best smile.