John Terry's press conference ahead of England v Sweden: live

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12.00 Hello and welcome to our live blog of the England press conference from the team’s Hertfordshire hotel, where John Terry will speak in public for the first time since the Anton Ferdinand row. Should be a lot to talk about, right? Well, yes and no. Displaying the sort of tight control that is often beyond our on-field heroes, the FA brass have mandated that England’s Lionheart John Terry will NOT answer questions on the alleged racial incident itself.

Assuming that the gentlemen of Her Majesty’s football press are worth their salt, they must be licking their lips at the prospect of nagging and probing and picking away at the Terry defences like Xavi and Iniesta against a massed back four. Or a massed back nine, if Fabio has anything to do with it. Or perhaps they will just give him an easy ride on the basis that the Met police have told the FA not to discuss the incident or allow it to be discussed.

Either way, we will be bringing you the press conference as it happens, where the man who will captain England against Sweden on Tuesday will appear alongside manager Fabio Capello. We should be off and running at 1pm.

Hopefully, we should see some good ‘Yes Minister’ style convoluted probing from the journalists.

“If you hypothetically had been involved in the incident which did not happen, what would you hypothetically say to somebody who might be related to the individual whom you definitely did not abuse if you were playing alongside this person in central defence?”