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| English: Anton Ferdinand signing autographs for fans, before West Ham's home game v Bolton, 5th May, 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
You will probably have seen two photos I have looked at recently and kept thinking the same thing. Firstly, there is the one with footballers
John Terry and
Anton Ferdinand squaring up to each other at
Loftus Road, in November 2011. Then, there is that of boxers
David Haye and
Dereck Chisora grappling with criminal intent, aforethought, at
Munich, in February this year. It was after Chisora had just made a good fist of his bout against
Vitali Klitschko. It may well have had something to do with the fact that Haye had been much less convincing, in his own performance, in July last year against Wladimir; the younger and less gifted Klitschko brother.
Since that cold November afternoon in Shepherd's Bush, when Terry and Ferdinand blew hot air -- and a lot more, in each others face, the Court in its infinite wisdom has made it clear what it thought they said. And, that what they did was positively wrong.
Then at the end of that very week, David Haye and Dereck Chisora, egged on by 30,000 thirsty, baying-for-blood boxing fans, tried to punch the living daylights out of one another. And David did of Dereck; at the end of round five. But, briefly. There was more excitement at
Upton Park that night, than when Terry last took Chelsea to play there. Not ever before, was there as much gaiety at that football ground, on any one occasion. Not even in the days when
Harry Houdini Redknapp fine-tuned the majestic footballing skills of
Rio Ferdinand, Anton's older brother.
And, you saw it with your own eyes: after pugilists Dereck and David were done killing one another because they had failed to do so; they embraced lovingly, as if long lost brothers. Little of course did they realise, that indeed -- that is what they are. Brothers.
As are John Terry and Anton Ferdinand. Brothers. And just as you can now see, two and two -- become 1. Well, that's what I was thinking anyway, when I saw both pair of men, in both photos.
