By DAN KING
That was the message from FA chairman David Bernstein after Terry made it known he might go back on his decision to quit the Three Lions.
Terry quit after being stripped of the captaincy and given a four-game ban for racially abusing QPR’s Anton Ferdinand.
But outgoing FA chairman Bernstein said: “He’s in retirement.
“He has not announced he’s coming out of retirement — and if he did the initial decision would be By DAN KING down to the manager. John Terry has always taken his football very seriously.
“Therefore, I take his retirement seriously. Until I hear to the contrary, he stays retired.”
Bernstein led the hardline stance on Terry,who lost the Three Lions armband before the 2010 World Cup.
The FA then went ahead with a disciplinary case after the Ferdinand race row — even though Terry was found not guilty in court.
But he was banned and fined in September when an independent panel found him guilty of abusing Ferdinand in October 2011.
