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Postcard from London: everyone loves a love rat

13 Feb 05:55am

Filed under: English Soccer Team, John Terry, Journalism, Soccer

There’s two words the British press love above all others. Two little words. One phrase. Love Rat.

Fleet Street hacks – most of who look a bit like the latter and don’t get enough of the former – have been frothing for nearly a fortnight over the England football captain’s affair with a teammate’s partner.

There have been more than 2,000 newspaper stories about the John Terry sex scandal - 500 more than those that mentioned the Prime Minister Gordon Brown. A Google search of John Terry + love rat brings up more than 4,300 results. It would seem like overkill but to be fair to the easily-titillated British public, the story has absolutely had it all.

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Tim says:

08:23pm | 14/02/10

SL, The affair started years ago when Bridge was still going out with Perroncel so Terry was doing the dirty on a teammate, it just hadn’t come out til now. Read more »
S.L says:

05:15am | 14/02/10

Lets get something into perspective here. John Terry slept with the FORMER girlfriend of a team mate. The person I feel for in this story is his wife and by the reports coming out of the UK he’s a serial adulterer anyway! I believe Wayne Bridge has not commented on… Read more »

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