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Former Football Association chairman Lord Triesman says he cannot understand why John Terry was given a lesser ban than Liverpool's Luis Suarez for racially abusing an opponent.
The FA Commission said the Chelsea captain got a lesser ban because the "racist insult was issued only once".
But Lord Triesman told the BBC he could not understand the difference.
He said: "I couldn't understand why the sanction was different for a Liverpool player and for John Terry."
"It may be when you look at all the detail they thought there were reasons for [it]. I can't see it."
Terry was banned for four games and fined £220,000 for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand.
Suarez received an eight-match ban for the same offence against Patrice Evra last year but Suarez was found to have repeatedly used an abusive word when talking to the Manchester United defender.
Terry is due to decide whether to appeal against the guilty verdict but Lord Triesman, speaking at the Leaders in Football conference, believes the decision by an FA independent panel to find Terry guilty was the correct one and urged the defender to accept his punishment.
"He's within his rights to appeal. My own view is that it would be more sensible to apologise and accept it's not a good standard," he said.
"I just don't believe in this day and age that anybody can think that it's OK, and that you don't owe an apology, not least to the other player."
Following the controversy over Terry, and over team-mate Ashley Cole's tweet abusing the FA, Triesman said it was time for clubs to include codes of conduct in players' contracts.
"What I think is important is for clubs to tell their very highly paid employees what general standards are expected of them on the pitch or in the training ground.
"Every club should set those standards and say, 'here's a set of standards we expect you to stick to'."
The FA is set to introduce a code of conduct for the England squad, and Triesman, who was chairman of the FA from 2008 to 2010, believes clubs should do the same.
"Some clubs have done elements of it, but what hasn't happened is saying to people, 'what you've done off the field impacts on our brand', and that should have been said years ago," he said.
"Contracts have subsidiary documents of all kinds which get attached all the time, and I don't see any good reason why a general code of conduct in relation to people who are absolutely in the spotlight all the time should not be part of that." Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19898122
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Liverpool Legend
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No [oops] Sherlock! Old Teflon Terry was never going to get punished like Suarez. For one he's the England golden boy and can do no wrong and two he didn't have bacon face on the prosecution.
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What an old fool. It's in their own rules. The FA had no choice .. I am so bored by the endless 'its not fair'. He is right that terry should apologise. But hell will freeze over first I expect.
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