Chelsea's John Terry: "A Walking Disaster?"

Today's New York Times has a lengthy piece about John Terry of Chelsea, whom it says is perhaps  England's "most reviled player."  A research fellow in sport and leisure culture at the University of Brighton called Terry "a walking disaster."

In September Terry was fined £220,000 (about $354,000) and suspended for a racial slur the previous October against Queens Park Rangers player Anton Ferdinand.

But that was just the latest in a long string of bad behavior.  As reported by The Times: 

"There was the time Terry and some teammates went on a drunken binge in an airport hotel bar while passengers stranded by the 9/11 attacks watched the Twin Towers burn on television. There was the time he was charged with assault after a melee in a nightclub in which a bouncer was slashed with a broken bottle. (He was acquitted.)

There was the time he was fined £60 (about $97) after leaving his Bentley in a parking spot for the disabled while he went to a pizza restaurant; the time he was thrown out of a bar in Essex after urinating in a beer glass and dropping it on the floor; the time he was investigated, and cleared, by Chelsea after he was accused of charging an undercover reporter money to show him around Stamford Bridge, Chelsea’s stadium; the time he brutally kneed a Barcelona player in the back in the Champions League semifinal last April and denied it until confronted with a videotape that proved he was lying; and the time when he violated the players’ unwritten code of loyalty by, it seemed, cheating on his wife not with a groupie in a bar, but with the estranged girlfriend of one of his teammates."

What a guy.  And Chelsea would not make him available to Times reporter, Sarah Lyall for this article.  I wonder why.