21 hours Ago By Poppy Treadaway
Chelsea legend John Terry bit back in spectacular fashion when Jamie O’Hara reminded him of the 2008 League Cup final. The Blues host Tottenham in a London derby at 8pm on Thursday evening – live and exclusively on talkSPORT.Chelsea’s captain, leader and legend is public enemy no.
1 in TottenhamChelsea had most of the bragging rights throughout Terry’s reign as captain, particularly when it came to silverware. However, there was one exception – the 2008 League Cup final – which saw Tottenham claim their only trophy of the modern era with victory over Chelsea in the final. Terry, who won 17 trophies with the Blues, joined talkSPORT’s Breakfast Show in March, where he was reminded about that fateful day by ex-Spurs midfielder O’Hara.
O’Hara asked: “Spurs last won a trophy in 2008, beating your mob. You played..
. Ange has promised to win a trophy in his second season. Will they win the Europa League? And if they don’t, do you get rid of him?”But Terry, who has been known to take shots at Tottenham long into his retirement from the game, had the perfect response.
He said: “That’s the only trophy they’ve won in about 100 years and probably will be in the next 100 as well.”After fits of laughter in the talkSPORT studio, Terry added: “Will they win it? I’m not sure. They look different.
They look a different side to me this year.“They don’t look the exciting threat pace they had up front before. I think it’s a thing with modern day football as well.
“I’m not sure teams are running behind anymore.”Both clubs have European quarter-finals in the coming weeks, with Chelsea facing Legia Warszawa in the Europa Conference League and Tottenham hosting Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League.GettyTerry won 17 trophies with Chelsea in a 19-year period[/caption]Chelsea can go fourth with a victory over Spurs on Thursday, while Postecoglou’s side are languishing in 14th, knowing only Europa League glory can salvage their miserable campaign.
Maresca‘s side sit sixth in the Premier League, although just five points separate the Blues from 10th-placed Bournemouth.Terry spoke on a whole range of topics, including Enzo Maresca‘s current Chelsea squad.A large part of Chelsea’s success this season is down to superstar midfielder Cole Palmer, who has 14 goals and six assists in the league this season, despite his current goal drought extending back to January.
Terry admitted that Palmer wins the bleep test on the training ground at Cobham ‘by a mile’. The iconic defender said: “He’s quite quick, I was at Chelsea the other day, and they were doing a bleep test. He won it by a mile.
He was cruising, like people were dropping out. He was there right to the end. “In terms of fitness levels and the power, he looks quite skinny, but very strong.
[He] takes the ball on the half-turn really quick as well. Like, impossible to play against.”Terry added the game ‘seems to be too easy’ for Palmer at times and hailed his partnership with Blues striker Nicolas Jackson.
“He strolls through games a little bit, but he’s so far ahead of everyone else in terms of the way he sees the game,” Terry said..
