John Terry rules out appeal against four-match ban for racist abuse | Football | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/football/2012/oct/18/john-terry-appeal-ban-racist-abuse John Terry has chosen not to challenge the four-match ban and £220,000 fine imposed on him for racially abusing QPR's Anton Ferdinand and has apologised for the comments he made. The Chelsea captain and his advisers had two weeks to study the full written reasons of the decision by an FA independent regulatory commission, which dismissed his defence as "improbable, implausible and contrived".