Planet Football has been thrown into a new orbit by the Terry-Bridge affair

Men of Great Britain, have you changed? Something fascinating seems to have happened to this country in the past couple of months. It’s probably been a work in progress, but JT’s libido has focused the issue and led me to the conclusion that a profound change has taken place.
And can you believe it’s football that has highlighted more clearly and profoundly than any social experiment ever could the changing face of men in our society? I know this sounds like the opening paragraph of a very low-grade thesis, but please bear with me.
We’ve all read some or all the acres of opinion expressed from the most surprising corners of the journalistic community on the myriad of subjects that have emanated from John Terry’s extramarital affair: whether or not JT should be stripped of the captaincy; whether Toni should stay with him; whether Wayne should play for England; whether JT should be booed; whether Ashley Cole should be subjected to some kind of public torture for his carnal sins against St Cheryl of Tyneside ... the list of moral dilemmas goes on.
It has occurred to me, more than once, that male sports writers have written in a way that 20 years ago would have been unthinkable to the genre. Hard-nosed football journalists have talked about feelings, betrayal, emotion, and all in the context of a personal matter that has ended up as a football dilemma.

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