Former youth team player offers refreshing take on Terry

You may or may not have seen this earlier today. I retweeted it via @JoeTweeds a few hours ago.

Either way, it’s a very good read and a refreshingly different take on John Terry than the ones we’ve been force-fed over the past few months. No, he’s not a monster. Sorry, media.

Below is an excerpt. Click here to read the entire piece.

The year 2002 I was 17 and had been injured for eight monts. I usually had to train twice as much to be in form. I trained with several players during rehabilation and since John Terry was facing injury as well I trained a lot with him. We trained together for 3 or 4 weeks before he began to play again and prove himself as the number one center back in the first team. After this John always observed how I was doing with my injury and he wished me good luck for my first game after 11 months of rehabilation. Unfortunately in that first game I got heavily injured again and had to go to surgery 3 days later. When the physio came to visit me he said that “JT” had asked if I could get vacation and he even asked Graeme (Le Saux) if they could use the “discipline fund” (money if a player comes late to a training and such) from the first team to pay for my vacation. I couldn’t believe it.

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