In Terry, soccer has its Tiger Woods

PARIS: If former captain John Terry helps England lift the soccer's World Cup in July, his alleged marital infidelities will be forgotten - even forgiven - faster than you can say "Love Rat".

No one, other than Terry's wife, perhaps, will recall model Alicia Douvall's (paid for?) newspaper claim that the Chelsea defender seduced her in a London nightclub by placing a cocktail stirrer in her surgically enhanced cleavage and supposedly making "explicit remarks about what he'd like to do to me".

The mounds of newsprint wasted on why Terry was unfit for the captaincy because of the allegations he also played away from home with the ex-girlfriend of England teammate Wayne Bridge will long since have been used to wrap fish and chips.