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John Terry will not offer to resign as England captain ahead of a meeting with Fabio Capello, BBC Sport understands.
They are expected to meet on Friday to discuss allegations Terry had an affair with a team-mate’s ex-girlfriend.
The Football Association has made it clear Capello alone will decide the 29-year-old Chelsea defender’s fate.
The England coach has been recovering from knee surgery at his holiday home in Switzerland and will return to London on Thursday.
Terry issued a brief statement on Wednesday insisting he would be “keeping his own counsel” until he had held talks with Capello.
He has been monitoring the fall-out from the Terry saga closely and has regularly spoken on the telephone to his trusted lieutenant Franco Baldini.
Baldini, England’s general manager, held in-depth talks with four key FA board members on Monday – chairman Lord Triesman, chief executive Ian Watmore, director of communications Adrian Bevington and head of development Trevor Brooking.They agreed that Capello alone would make the decision about Terry’s future and that the priority was to make the right decision rather than a quick decision.
This is despite the fact that some members of the FA are eager for the issue to be resolved before England’s manager attends the Euro 2012 qualifying draw in Warsaw on Sunday.
If Capello does make a decision before Sunday, it is believed he would then inform the assembled media in the Polish capital.
Terry is alleged to have had an extra-marital affair with Vanessa Perroncel, the former girlfriend of England team-mate Wayne Bridge.
The French model is being advised by public relations guru Max Clifford, who claims Perroncel has already been offered £250,000 to tell her side of the story.
The possibility of Perroncel making further damaging revelations about Terry in a Sunday newspaper is another reason why Capello may want to wait before making a decision about his skipper. (BBC Sport)
Now this is an issue that could just run and run and it has become the topic of conversations up and down the land even amongst those who have no interest in football, who then in my view shouldn’t really get involved. There is the one camp who states quite accurately that John Terry should be judged on his footballing ability and any extra marital affair doesn’t in any way prevent him from doing his job.
There will however be those who feel that the position of England captain carries with it certain responsibilities and that someone in such a role should be in many ways morally transparent and therefore having an affair with a teammates girlfriend can’t be so easily swept under the carpet.
Will the Chelsea man jump or will he be pushed? I have a sneaky suspicion that he will step down as skipper but then who is clean enough in the current camp to take the post?
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