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The John Terry Appreciation Thread

Letting Terry go at the end of this season would probably be the worst decision the club has ever made. Beyond that nobody knows what the future holds, however for someone who has never relied on pace, I think he's got years left providing injuries don't take their toll. Comfortably been head and shoulders over any other CB in the league and still one of the best in Europe.

Quite warming to hear him say he wouldn't play for another club even if he was let go at the end of this season. Must be very proud to be a one club man.

 
JT is like a good pint of Guinness - made of more. He has two full seasons in him yet, maybe more.

 
JT is Chelsea would be unthinkable without our Captain Leader Legend, someone else who agrees.

And while we're at it

In football terms, ‘world-class’ is an imprecise definition. Technically, it could refer to any player worthy of involvement in international football, yet representing the national team does not in itself make a player world class. It is more rarefied than that.

World-class has lately come to mean any player of exceptional ability, so that Raheem Sterling or Wayne Rooney would qualify, by comparison to their contemporaries. Yet that is unsatisfactory, too. Would either player be included in the strongest national teams in the world: Germany, Argentina, Spain?

So how is this? To be world-class, a player must be at such a level that he would get into any team, anywhere. Germany or Barcelona; Real Madrid or Argentina; Bayern Munich or Italy. Using that criteria, one would argue England has just one genuinely world-class footballer, and he no longer plays for his country. John Terry is world-class

He would make Germany’s team, he would make Real Madrid’s team. Even at 34 he is among the select few who would walk into any starting XI on the planet. Jose Mourinho told Kurt Zouma he would be starting in central midfield against Tottenham Hotspur just two days before the Capital One Cup final. It was exceptionally brave management, but Mourinho also knew he had back-up. Zouma would be playing in front of Terry, the master stopper and outstanding captain of his generation. It was a nuanced risk.

Zouma deserves enormous credit for the way he filled Nemanja Matic’s shoes but Terry’s influence would have been vital. Just as England missed him hugely in Brazil — Luis Suarez has never scored a goal with Terry on the field — Chelsea have a mammoth job when it is finally his year to retire. Zouma is 20 and has time to become a major influence at Stamford Bridge. Becoming the next Terry is another matter entirely.

Taken from. Martin Samuel
www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football

 
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Rooney years ago would have gotten into any team but not now. There was a time when he was world class.

 
Great article. Although the point about suarez never scoring while Terry is on the pitch, us a bit misleading. Suarez gave Terry one of the worst times I've seen him have, when we lost 4 1 at Anfield in 2011. I think he megged him about 3 times.

I guess even the very best have off days!

Terry is the best centre half I've seen in my 25 years of watching football. It will be a very sad day when he finally retires. I hope he retires here so we can give his career an epic send off. Captain. Leader. Legend.

 
Suarez also "fell' onto terry's knee putting him out for a good while.

 
Davey Baby said:
I love Martin Samuel almost as much as I love John Terry.
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Is Martin Samuel a Chelsea fan? The bloke defends us so much he must be! Pretty much the only one out there in the written media who will stand up for us.

 
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Celery1989 said:
Is Martin Samuel a Chelsea fan? The bloke defends us so much he must be! Pretty much the only one out there in the written media who will stand up for us.
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Not in the slightest as far as I know. He's just a good writer, but he's not alone in writing favourable articles about us. In fact he's very vocal in his opposition to FFP which is the complete opposite of the view our club takes. 

 
Celery1989 said:
Is Martin Samuel a Chelsea fan? The bloke defends us so much he must be! Pretty much the only one out there in the written media who will stand up for us.
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I believe you'll find that Mr Samuel is a fan of a certain East End club who we'll be playing later on today.More credit to him then, as JT has never been all that popular with their fans (he left their youth set-up for ours, and it's got progressively worse since).

 
badenblue said:
JT is Chelsea would be unthinkable without our Captain Leader Legend, someone else who agrees.

And while we're at it

In football terms, ‘world-class’ is an imprecise definition. Technically, it could refer to any player worthy of involvement in international football, yet representing the national team does not in itself make a player world class. It is more rarefied than that.

World-class has lately come to mean any player of exceptional ability, so that Raheem Sterling or Wayne Rooney would qualify, by comparison to their contemporaries. Yet that is unsatisfactory, too. Would either player be included in the strongest national teams in the world: Germany, Argentina, Spain?

So how is this? To be world-class, a player must be at such a level that he would get into any team, anywhere. Germany or Barcelona; Real Madrid or Argentina; Bayern Munich or Italy. Using that criteria, one would argue England has just one genuinely world-class footballer, and he no longer plays for his country. John Terry is world-class

He would make Germany’s team, he would make Real Madrid’s team. Even at 34 he is among the select few who would walk into any starting XI on the planet. Jose Mourinho told Kurt Zouma he would be starting in central midfield against Tottenham Hotspur just two days before the Capital One Cup final. It was exceptionally brave management, but Mourinho also knew he had back-up. Zouma would be playing in front of Terry, the master stopper and outstanding captain of his generation. It was a nuanced risk.

Zouma deserves enormous credit for the way he filled Nemanja Matic’s shoes but Terry’s influence would have been vital. Just as England missed him hugely in Brazil — Luis Suarez has never scored a goal with Terry on the field — Chelsea have a mammoth job when it is finally his year to retire. Zouma is 20 and has time to become a major influence at Stamford Bridge. Becoming the next Terry is another matter entirely.

Taken from. Martin Samuel

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football
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That brought a lump to my throat !

 
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