John Terry reveals Rio Ferdinand has blanked him on the beach in Dubai in a bitter 14-year-long spat over claims the ex-Chelsea captain racially abused his old team-mate’s brother Anton

John Terry has revealed that Rio Ferdinand once gave him a blank face on a Dubai beach after the ex-Chelsea captain was accused of being racist towards his brother Anton.

The accusation was made by Anton after a match between Chelsea and QPR at Loftus Road in 2011. The ex-England captain, 43, was charged over the incident but was acquitted by the court.

Terry has always denied abusing the former QPR centre-back but was handed a four-match ban and £220,000 fine by the Football Association following the incident.

The former Chelsea defender, who was also inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame this week, told how he subsequently tried to clear the air with Anton’s brother Rio while speaking on William Hill is at the forefront with Simon Jordan Podcast.

“Since then I’ve been trying to talk to Rio, who won’t talk to me at all,” Terry said, when Jordan asked him how he feels about the incident.

‘I saw him on the beach in Dubai and he refused to talk to me. If I’m honest, I think it could have been handled and handled much better.

‘But he [Anton] I went through a very difficult time, as did I, and the outcome was the outcome in court. And the other one, the one from the FA, I don’t pay much attention to that either.’

Terry is said to have called Anton a ‘f*****g black c***’ as video footage circulated online.

The ex-Chelsea defender had claimed he told Ferdinand: ‘Oi, Anton, do you think I called you a black bastard?’

The match took place in October and Terry was charged by the CPS in December with using racist language.

His trial began in July 2012 and he pleaded not guilty before being acquitted. The FA subsequently accused him of using ‘offensive and/or insulting words or behaviour’, which ‘included a reference to Ferdinand’s ethnicity and/or race’.

The five-time Premier League winner chose not to appeal the decision and subsequently apologized for the ‘language used’.

In a statement, Terry said: ‘After careful consideration I have decided not to appeal the FA verdict.

He added: ‘While I am disappointed with the FA ruling, I accept that the language I used, regardless of context, is not acceptable on the football field or indeed in any area.’

Terry had previously spoken publicly about the incident during a BBC documentary, ‘Football, Racism and Me’, which was released in 2021.

Here Terry claimed to have spoken to Rio in Dubai and said: ‘Do you have five minutes? I’d like to talk to you,’ with the ex-Man United defender replying: ‘I don’t want to talk to you, JT.’

Rio, meanwhile, has previously criticized Terry for the way he handled the racism case, calling him “the biggest idiot” in his autobiography released in 2014.

Terry added during his interview with Jordan that he had also tried to talk to Anton about the incident in 2011.

‘I tried to contact Anton that evening after the match. I tried to contact Rio and their agent after the match. And I was basically immediately closed off to all of them.

‘I knew Anton, we were friends, we knew each other and always got along well. Obviously I got along well with Rio. We could have done something more powerful than what ended up happening. And that’s probably my disappointment, because it is [racism] is in the game.

“It’s obvious in the stadiums and everything now that we definitely have to get out. We could have done something really powerful as a group of players, not just us, but everyone else, I think at the time.”

Ferdinand, meanwhile, has previously responded to Terry’s previous comments that he had contacted him, denying that the ex-Chelsea defender had been in contact.

He wrote in a tweet in 2021: “I never personally received a call from JT prior to the documentary or during the trial.

As I indicated in the document, if he takes racism in football seriously and wants to create positive change, the door is still open for a conversation.

“Then call me JT?”