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The John Terry Appreciation Thread

Here's the clue ..

He played one match, in Hapoel Tel Aviv aged 17, when half the team refused to travel because of a security threat. Sentenced to 20 months imprisonment in 2008 for supplying and possessing Class A drugs. 

 
He needs a name folks ..

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He's the only player (as far as I am aware) from Uganda to have ever played for Chelsea, or for that matter for a Premier League club (albeit never in the league).

 
PloKoon13 said:
He's the only player (as far as I am aware) from Uganda to have ever played for Chelsea, or for that matter for a Premier League club (albeit never in the league).
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Yep that's the one I struggled with too. Don't even remember him at the club apart from being on Champ Manager (might've been FM by then). 

 
Blue Daze said:
Yep that's the one I struggled with too. Don't even remember him at the club apart from being on Champ Manager (might've been FM by then). 
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I don't even remember him from manager games to be honest, the name vaguely rings a bell, but not even in a Michael Woods/Jimmy Smith/Rob Wolleaston way where I think "Oh he used to be a Chelsea youngster but I don't remember anything about him beyond his name".

From this day forward I will forever get 1 more point on Sporcle quizzes about Chelsea players!

 
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Turns out I was wrong about Ugandan footballers in the Premier League by the way.

Apparently Savio Nsereko (born in Kampala but played for Germany's under-20s), made 10 league appearances for West Ham and also wore the #10 shirt. Interestingly it was Zola who signed him, paying out £9m to buy him from Brescia.

Nsereko was arrested in Thailand in 2012 for faking a kidnapping in order to extort his family out of €3000. He is now playing in the Bulgarian top flight. Pretty good article about him here.

 
Bobbywoodhogan said:
Didn't know that so was JT a West Ham fan as a kid? I always just assumed he was a Chelsea fan born into a family of them lol

JT really should do an auto biography when he retires.
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JT was a Manchester United fan as a kid. 

 
PloKoon13 said:
Yeah, he confirms it in this interview from 2006: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2006/may/07/newsstory.sport6

Another enjoyable read I thought, interesting on how much the public perspective on JT has changed since then.
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Crazy to think this is the same JT

And he possesses another asset, the hardest to obtain: he is liked and respected by other players and non-Chelsea supporters.
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I think the best thing JT's done for his career in recent years was to retire from playing for England. 

It's taken a lot of limelight away from him as a player and whether it's directly linked or something he's actually doing different is that he doesn't appear in newspapers beyond the back pages much anymore. 

 
Joel Kitemarike. Forget completely about this one until I saw the article and my mind was unpleasantly jogged back to the days of listening to footie on Capital Gold 1548.

Half of any match was spent with Johnathan Pearce and Tony Gayle oohing and aahing over everything Arsenal.

The Tinker Man driving everyone insane as well.

 
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