Premiership: Chelsea urge FA to avoid Terry ‘kneejerk reaction’

Chelsea have urged the Football Association not to take a ‘‘knee-jerk reaction’’ to the charges facing John Terry following a nightclub incident by immediately banning him from playing for England.

In the wake of Terry being charged with assault and affray, Chelsea are adopting the same attitude as Leeds with Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate in stressing that he is ‘innocent until proven guilty’.