John Terry racism trial: Chelsea player refuses to apologise to Anton Ferdinand But Penny drove to the nub of the case, asking: "It's really offensive, isn't it, racism?" To which Terry agreed. "What if he had called you the "n" word," Penny added. I'm not going to say it even in court it's so offensive. "I'd probably have repeated it back," replied Terry. I couldn't control my emotions. "You couldn't control your emotions," said Penny. The truth is you snapped. "I didn't snap," said Terry. I was repeating back what he said to me. As indicated by the tenor of that exchange, Terry remained calm and collected throughout, despite what was an occasionally hectoring interrogation from Penny. At one point the prosecutor focused on how, while involved in a close confrontation with Ferdinand, Terry had cupped his own hand to his face to signal that the QPR player had bad breath. "You were trying to humiliate him," suggested Penny. "I wasn't trying to humiliate him," said Terry. "It just happened," Terry responded. In another dialogue through which Terry maintained an even temper, Penny asked: "Your mum's a slag. You've heard that on the football pitch? Penny was trying to test what are the acceptable boundaries of the abuse that is frequently heard between opposing football teams, which Terry described as "part and parcel" of the game. Terry said that although he was familiar with it, he had not heard that particular term of abuse directed at any other footballer than him. "No, only to myself," he said. Then footage was broadcast of the penalty-area incidents involving Terry that led to him receiving his yellow card. Penny commented: "He is abusing you, Paddy Kenny. You gesture that he is fat. That's a characteristic of his physical features and it marks himself out as different to you. Terry conceded that he had made the gesture and said: "I've been called it before." "You're not fat Mr Terry, you're a supreme athlete," said Penny. I used to be. Penny followed up: "You chose to abuse him about one of his physical characteristics. Have you thought about apologising to Mr Ferdinand? To which Terry maintained his constant line: "Why would I apologise to Anton when all I said was what he said to me?" There is no question that Ferdinand and Terry were exchanging insults in the moments that led to the alleged racially aggravated abuse. One in particular came from Ferdinand, when he touched on a subject that had at one time provoked great sensitivity from Terry. Newspaper revelations that Terry had allegedly conducted an extramarital affair with the then partner of his former team-mate Wayne Bridge had at one stage been the subject of a superinjunction. The injunction was lifted in 2010 and Terry insisted that he had become so inured to it that he could not have been moved by Ferdinand's barb about him having "s------ your mate's missus." Terry's own counsel, George Carter-Stephenson QC, said: "This court has heard some evidence about how common it is to hear abuse between players. Is that commonplace? Terry explained that he suffered it "very frequently" on both the training field and the football pitch but that it was "part and parcel of the game; you get on with the game basically." Carter-Stephenson mentioned the allegation about Bridge's partner, Vanessa Perroncel, and asked how often he had heard it. "Numerous times in the press and by fans and players on both sides," said Terry. It was coming close to two years. More or less every game. Penny probed whether reference to Terry's affair was a no-go area, suggesting that it should be to his friends. "I'm not friends with Anton," he said. We'd say hello to each other if I saw him out or whatever but we're not friends. Penny's cross-examination of the Chelsea captain has not concluded yet.