There seems to be no end to the John Terry-Anton Ferdinand racism saga, which is starting to to take on the appearance of an television mini-series.Two players who were not directly involved in the situation — Anton's brother Rio and John's teammate Ashley Cole — have brought themselves into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, after their tweets on the social website Twitter landed them in trouble with the FA. Rio was fine £45,000 for improper conduct for remarks he made in relation to the John Terry criminal trial for which he was found not guilty.Now Cole is going to be charged for comments he tweeted about the FA. An apology was quickly made but may be too late to save him from a heavy fine. He was left out of the England game for yesterday's World Cup qualifier against San Marino so we probably haven't heard the end of it.And what started out as a racist comment for which the FA found Terry guilty and recently fined him £220,000 and banned him for four games, has spread to players' international careers. First, Rio Ferdinand was left out of England's squad for 2012 European Championships by new manager Roy Hodgson, probably to keep the situation between Rio and John from escalating and affecting team morale. Then Terry announced his retirement as an international player and now Rio's career also looks to be over after Hodgson left him out of upcoming World Cup qualifiers.I thought this whole racism thing in football was in the past. I've always played to try to eliminate racism and for us to be still going over racism in 2012, to me it is ridiculous. I think it's time we all stand up and grow up as human beings and individuals and leave all that stuff on the side. I've been saying it in the 60s, the ball doesn't care what colour you are. I've always said if you take two babies of different colours and put them in a crib together they will hug and play with one another, so racism is a taught behaviour. I'm praying for the day that I can go to a football game and hear the fans being respectful towards each other and the players.It is high time players leave Twitter and all that nonsense alone. If you aren't big enough to say it to the person's face then don't say it at all. In my day you had one or two players call you names but most times you tried to handle it yourself by sticking the ball in the net. I have no tolerance for that stuff, especially in this day and age. It is a big embarrassment to football that they don't take a tough stance to this sort of stuff.The first of the two racism incidents involved Liverpool's Luis Suarez and comments he made to Manchester United Patrice Evra which landed him with a ban. The two have since shaken hands and seemingly put it behind them, but Anton Ferdinand still refuses to shake John Terry's hand.The type of money players are making these days is also part of the problem. When you have players making more than the managers you get that sort of behaviour. Some of the players think they are invincible and 'you can't touch me because I'm making all this money', but money doesn't make the man. I played with a lot of players who got less than a quarter of the money that some of these guys are getting and they are ten times the man that these guys are.The fact that Ashley Cole was left out by England last night is good, it lets him think about the things he has said. He shouldn't have put his nose in it in the first place. And John Terry and Rio Ferdinand stepping down and being dropped is probably the best thing that can happen for themselves and for England. Both had fantastic careers.The World Cup is in another two years and John will be 33 and Rio 35 years old. Are we going to take two defenders who are not the quickest in the world anyway and take them to Brazil? I don't think so.