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Cole defends Terry in court

11 July 2012-PA Sport

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Defence ... Ashley Cole arrives in court (Getty)

England defender John Terry should not have been taken to court over racism claims, teammate Ashley Cole said today.

Chelsea's Terry, 31, is accused of calling Anton Ferdinand a "f****** black c***" during a Premier League game against Queens Park Rangers on 23 October last year.

He denies a racially aggravated public order offence, saying that he was sarcastically repeating the slur that Ferdinand mistakenly thought he had used.

Cole, also 31, told Westminster Magistrates Court: "I think we shouldn't be sitting here."

He said that while racism should never be tolerated, repeating what you thought someone said was 'completely different'.

Cole said: "If I repeated something that I thought you said, that's totally different than if someone just says something."

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