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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Jacob Steinberg

Premier League and Uefa taking legal advice over John Terry’s NFT ape tweets

John Terry of Chelsea watches on during the U23 match between Crystal Palace and Chelsea
John Terry has been promoting ‘Ape Kids Club’ non-fungible tokens on social media and has been supported by former teammates and rivals. Photograph: Dan Weir/PPAUK/Shutterstock

The Premier League and Uefa are taking legal advice over the use of images of their trophies in non-fungible token (NFT) digital assets being promoted by John Terry and other big names in English football. Chelsea are looking into Terry’s posts because some have included images of the club’s badge.

Terry has used his Twitter account to promote the NFTs in question, which are cartoons of baby apes. Some of the images feature the Premier League, Europa League and Champions League trophies and have been tweeted by Terry and in one case retweeted by his former Chelsea teammate Ashley Cole.

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