John Terry has apparently cleared any controversy with England's Football Association over striking a deal with Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper to write an occasional first-person column about Chelsea, the soccer team he captains, Mail Online reported yesterday. The Sun is a popular sport news destination in the United Kingdom.

Precise details about the frequency of the column and the compensation to be paid were not immediately available, though the contract purportedly entails a six-figure sum.

The columnist deal comes only five months after the Press Complaint Commission rejected Terry's privacy complaint against the Sun, which the Guardian wrote about in May.

The PCC held that reference to Terry was "reasonable" in a story about suspected shoplifting by his mother and mother-in-law in a Tesco store, a corporate sponsor of England's team, and Marks & Spencer, which supplied the team uniforms.