Terry has played with some of Chelsea's all-time greats, but who does he think make up the best XI that the club have ever fielded?
John Terry has named himself in his all-time Chelsea XI.
And the Blues captain has only named four of the Champions League-winning squad of 2011 is part of his line-up.
Terry missed the elusive day, in which Chelsea defeated Bayern Munich on penalties, after he picked up a suspension for being sent off in the semi-final at Barcelona.
Only Petr Cech, Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba made the Terry's all-time XI, with the likes of David Luiz, Juan Mata and Michael Essien missing out.
Terry even revealed that Damien Duff was close to getting into the midfield of his XI - and probably would have got in if the formation allowed him a four-man midfield.
High acclaim: Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard were named in Terry's XI
Speaking to Jamie Carragher for the Daily Mail, he said: "I’ve never done this before! I’m going to play 4-3-3.
"Now this is where it gets hard… Lamps… Didier (Drogba)… Robben, (Damien) Duffer was good, wasn’t he? But it’s got to be Hazard in that position. Then Makelele, plus Zola.
"It’s got to be him, hasn’t it? We’d be s*** at corners but we’d be all right otherwise!"
The England international won three league titles, four FA Cups and the European Cup and also left for MLS as the Blues' all-time leading scorer.
Chelsea are badly missing Frank Lampard at the moment – according to his dad.
The Blues have suffered a poor start to the Premier League campaign amid rumours of player unrest – and Frank senior thinks that’s partly because they haven’t found a replacement for his son.
Frank junior left Chelsea last year, having made 429 appearances, to join Major League Soccer franchise New York City, though he briefly returning to England on loan to play for Manchester City.
During a trophy-laden and record-breaking spell at Stamford Bridge, the midfielder won three league titles, four FA Cups and a Champions League and ended up as the club's all-time leading scorer.
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“If you score that many goals you’re going to get missed at whatever club you’re at,” his dad said. “He got 211 goals for them. Any club would miss the amount of goals he scored – and of course the kind of player he is.”
Jose Mourinho’s defending champions have made their worst start to a top-flight season for more than 35 years, lost as Capital One Cup holders to Stoke and need a draw in their final group game – at home to Porto on Wednesday – to get through to the knockout phase of the Champions League.
Lampard senior played more than 700 times for West Ham before becoming assistant boss to Harry Redknapp – and brought his son into the Upton Park team.
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He said: “Frank’s move to Chelsea wasn’t easy at first but he worked hard and learned from players like Gianfranco Zola and Marcel Desailly. But he’s always had that ability to come late into the box when everybody thought nothing was going to happen.
“I used to talk to some of the players who used to play against Frank and they said that when the ball was miles away he was doing one of his runs. They used to think, 'What’s he running there for?' Then all of a sudden something’s happened. He was a bit like Martin Peters, who used to ghost in back in my day.”
“Frank stepped up and did the business at Chelsea. And that’s what Chelsea players must do now.
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“I think Jose will get it right in the end. He’s a top manager.
"They’re just going through a bad patch at the moment. But it’s the players who’ve got to start pulling their weight a bit more. It’s a mixture of things, but Jose will get there in the end.”
* Frank Lampard senior was supporting the Bobby Moore Fund's Celebrity Sports Quiz for Cancer Research UK.
