Taking the pee: 'It's alright JT, Carlo was only
joking when he said your urinal was out of order'
John Terry may be the England captain, arguably one of
the best defenders in European football and a cult hero at
Chelsea
but that doesn't prevent him from being a little
odd.
In what has to rank among football's wackiest superstitions,
Terry revealed to Chelsea's club magazine that he has to use the
same urinal in the Stamford Bridge dressing room.
The 29-year-old defender said: 'It’s true. When the dressing
room was installed, for some reason I could only go there. And the
foreign lads don’t really get why I’m waiting behind them when
there’s plenty of spaces elsewhere!'
And Terry's number two Frank Lampard, admits he even
gets out of the way of his team-mate when he needs, well, a number
one.
'I know John likes to have a wee in the right hand side urinal!'
Lampard said. 'If I’m standing there and I’m ready to go but I see
John coming up, I’ll move…. you’ve got to have your captain right
for the game!'
Leave it out Carlo! Ancelotti can't stop
singing
Terry also revealed that new manager Carlo Ancelotti
went beyond the call of duty when called upon to sing a song as
part of the traditional initiation ceremony at the
club.
He said: 'To be fair to him he got up straight away but I can’t
remember what he sang. Even when his wife came to say hello to him
at a Champions League hotel, he got her up on a chair and singing
in front of the lads – so fair play to him!
'She sang an Italian song – and was quite good actually. I think
she was up for ten minutes!'
The two England team-mates also share an ambition to be the
Chelsea boss. Terry said: 'Would I want to come back and be Chelsea
manager? Listen, I’d love to. Me, Frank and Ashley Cole are looking
into doing our badges at the end of this season.'
Lampard added: 'We’re at least going to look into doing our
badges by the time we pack up, put it that way. Then it’ll be a
fight to see who can be Chelsea manager first!'