Euro 2012: FA can take back my England caps if proven true that Terry chosen over Ferdinand because of race And Campbell, who played alongside Ferdinand on several occasions for the national team, believes, like many others, that the 33 year-old's omission had nothing to do with "football reasons" as Hodgson previously stated, and everything to do with worries about how the defender would interact with John Terry. Terry has a court case pending over alleged racist remarks to Ferdinand's brother Anton at Loftus Road in October, with the Chelsea defender denying the charge against him. And Campbell continued: "What we can say for sure is that this entire situation goes back to what did or did not happen between John Terry and Anton Ferdinand last season. That is the only logical conclusion that can be drawn and I for one never bought the argument that Rio had been left out of the original squad for 'footballing reasons'. The FA now find themselves between a rock and a hard place and the only way they can truly resolve the situation is to come out and admit they've made a mistake. At the very least Rio should have been given the opportunity to say 'no, I don't want to be in the same squad as John Terry'. Hodgson should have spoken to him man-to-man, face-to-face, eyeball-to-eyeball and seen where he was at, seen if he felt capable of contributing to the team and being around Terry for the next three weeks. Campbell fears the issue could harm players' trust in the FA and also that it could deter players from reporting cases of racist abuse. "A wider issue is if this episode leads to players in the future feeling reluctant to speak out against racism in case it harms their chances of being picked by England," he said. That would be extremely serious and would have to lead to the government getting involved in some way. And if it was ever proven true that John Terry was chosen over Rio because of race then I would tell the FA that they can take back my 73 caps and scrub my name out of the record books. I would no longer want to be known as someone who played for England - that would be the end for me.