Chelsea skipper Terry was stripped of the England captaincy by the Football Association due to his pending trial over allegations of racist abuse, an offence the player has strongly denied. The FA felt the matter could overshadow the build-up to Euro 2012 but stressed they were not prejudging the outcome of the trial.

Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association believes the FA took the correct decision and feels comments from manager Fabio Capello, saying he disagrees, are unhelpful.

"If the captain, who has to do main press conferences, was forever going to be put under questioning as to whether he should be captain with that charge against him, that would take away the issue from football.

"This was an elephant in the room that wasn't going to go away and I felt the FA tried to negotiate through that moral maze by deciding to say he wouldn't be captain.

"In order to take the pressure off that particular issue and concentrate on football, from that point of view, we respected that decision.

"It is just unfortunate the manager doesn't seem to be on board and understand the reasons why that was done."

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