John Terry snubbed the hand of FA Chairman David Bernstein at a ceremony welcoming the Champions League trophy to London.
The Chelsea captain admitted that he had declined the handshake at the event in Whitehall.
Bernstein was the man responsible for stripping the defender of the England captaincy last year after he allegedly racially abused Anton Ferdinand.
Terry was found not guilty in a court hearing last summer, but in the FA’s subsequent review of the incident, where the burden of proof is lower, he was handed a four-match ban which the defender did not appeal.
Bernstein will step down from his role in the summer.
"It's a difficult one for me,” Terry said when asked about the handshake, “he went and spoke about me in the court case."
Asked directly wheter he shook Bernstein's hand, Terry replied: "No."
For his part Bernstein said he had not been aware of the snub.
"I didn't notice anything," said Bernstein.
"My relationships with everyone here are really fantastic. I didn't notice a thing and I think we should talk about more positive things than that sort of nonsense."
Handshakes – or the lack of them – have become part-and-parcel of stories involving Terry in recent years.
In 2010 Wayne Bridge famously refused to shake Terry’s hands in their first on-field meeting since reports that Terry had had an affair with Bridge’s then-partner Vanessa Perroncel.
Last September QPR’s Anton Ferdinand avoided shaking the Chelsea skipper’s hand at the pre-match handshake.
And the question of whether Anton’s brother Rio Ferdinand will shake with Terry has been a talking point ahead of clashes between Chelsea and Manchester United has been a regular talking point in the build-up to matches.
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