Terry’s red another black mark on referee’s record

AFTER the first 60 minutes at Middle Eastlands I had mentally crafted this column as a thesis on which set of supporters this weekend looked the biggest set of plums — the Manchester City fans swathed in tea-towels and Brazil shirts or those braying Geordies with their paranoid banners about “the Cockney Mafia.”

But following a hasty rewrite along the length of the M6, it’s now about Mark Halsey.

Yes, Halsey, the referee who is a serial offender against Chelsea and has done so much single-handed damage to the “respec’, innit” campaign that he can’t even gather support from the likes of Graham Poll and Dermot Gallagher. The same Halsey who had his decision over-turned by the FA