http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,277-1440546_1,00.html
January 15, 2005
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Our correspondent talks to the defender who wants to be loathed for helping
to turn Chelsea into serial winners
That thunderous tackle, and another impeccable performance from Terry,
confirmed that the centre half must rank among the favourites for this
season's individual awards. It is rare to honour an Englishman, rarer
still to fete a centre half. Gary Pallister was the last to fill both
those criteria when he was voted PFA Player of the Year in 1992.
Thierry Henry, for the third year running, Frank Lampard and Arjen Robben
are other strong contenders, but if he misses out, the chances are that
Terry will have more than adequate consolation. He will surely be lifting
an even more cherished trophy between now and the European Cup final on
May 25.
As captain of Chelsea, it seems unthinkable that Terry should finish the
campaign empty-handed, although he denies that he is already contemplating
his technique on the rostrum. Does he kiss the trophy or show it straight
to the fans? Does he affect nonchalance? "Family and friends do it," he said.
"They drum it into me: ‘You’ll be the one picking up the trophies.’But
the manager is drumming the opposite into us about keeping our concentration.
Maybe in a few months I can start to daydream if we are still top of the
league.That is the main one for us.”
Any trophy, even the Carling Cup, would be a start. When Jose Mourinho
first met Terry, Lampard and the rest of England’s Chelsea contingent
at the European Championship finals in Portugal last summer, he did not
tread lightly.“You're all great players, but you've won nothing,”the
new manager said. Terry recalled: “When he left, we were sitting around
saying,‘F****** hell, he's right. We have won nothing.’
It is the fuel that is driving the Chelsea captain, even though he does
possess a winner’s medal from the 2000 FA Cup Final, the club’s most
recent trophy. "Yeah, but I was a substitute and I didn't get on,” he said.
"I scored on the way to the final, but I never look back and say,‘I’ve won
the FA Cup.’ ” He came on in the 2002 final but could do nothing to prevent
a 2-0 defeat to Arsenal.
The most notable of the near misses was, of course, the European Cup semi-final
defeat by AS Monaco last season. He winces at the memory. “No disrespect to
the teams that were there, but over the next ten years I can’t believe there
will be four easier teams in the semi-finals,” Terry said. “It was a great
chance, a great opportunity, which is why I really don’t like to think or
speak about it. I watch Chelsea TV at home and it has got to the stage where
I can’t even bear to see it.
"After I finish playing, maybe I will sit down and watch it properly, but I
don’t think I will be able to until I retire or until I win it. That last
20 minutes in Monaco [when Chelsea conceded two goals against ten men
in the first leg]— don’t remind me of it. It’s that bad.”
As a teenager, Terry had the choice between Manchester United and Chelsea.
Despite being a southern Red, he preferred to stay in London. His time as a
trainee has shaped his captaincy, proving the value of promoting talent from
within.
Particularly at a club with so many foreign imports, Terry regards such
bonding as essential. Partly it is done by maintaining old traditions, such
as forcing new signings to serenade their team-mates. “Mine was terrifying,”
he said. “It was in Martinique on a pre-season tour and Jon Harley and I
did My Old Man’s A Dustman. We had some good ones this summer, although
Didier [Drogba] took the easy option and did a French number. None of us
could recognise it.”
"I always knew what I wanted to do with my life and career, but I was helped
along the way by a few people,” Terry said. “I didn’t need telling, but
when people like Franco [Zola], Wisey [Dennis Wise] and Marcel [Desailly]
take the time out to say, ‘You’ve got the world at your feet if you do
things right’, then you think there must be something to it.”
“His knowledge is unbelievable,” Terry said of Mourinho. “You can tell
that from team meetings. You look forward to them because you know you are
going to learn something. You see the players hanging off every word. When
other managers come down the coach, you think, ‘Oh s***, the boss is
coming back.’ With Jose,you want to talk.”
"We’ve got the Portuguese boys who have won a few things and the rest of
us who are hungry for a taste of it. It’s the right combination to win
things. I think we are quite popular at the moment because people like to
see a new team coming through, but maybe our aim is to be hated because we
keep on winning.”
He has won nothing yet, but there is every chance that he could be loathed
after another couple of seasons.
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