Terry: I used to warm up toilet seats for Chelsea's senior players


Terry: I used to warm up toilet
seats for Chelsea's senior players
The 34-year-old admits he was
keen to help out the established
players in any way he could
whilst breaking through to the
first team at Stamford Bridge

John Terry admits
he used to warm
up toilet seats for
Chelsea's senior
players during
the early years of his career at
Stamford Bridge.
The 34-year-old, who signed a
new one-year contract extension
on Thursday, has been with
Chelsea since the age of 14 and
made his first-team debut in
October 1998.
But while he was establishing
himself as a regular in the
Chelsea squad, Terry would look
to help the senior players in any
way he could.
"I'd do anything for them. I'd
make their teas and coffees, even
silly things like sit on the toilet to
make the seat warm for them in
the cold winter days at the
training ground," Terry told
Chelsea Pitch Owners.
"It's bizarre when you think
about it but that was part of
growing up."
Terry formed a strong bond with
the then Chelsea captain Dennis
Wise and has revealed the former
midfielder would back him in any
arguments during training.
"I used to clean his boots and he
wanted them perfect so I took
really good care of them," said
Terry.
"Every now and then he gave me
a little bonus. Every time he
scored I was on £25, which was
half my wages at the time. I used
to be praying we'd get a penalty
or he'd score.
"[During training] I would go in
and win tackles against first-
team players, and I remember at
the time people were going:
'Ooh, you can't do that'.
"Sometimes, the foreign guys,
especially, didn't like it. Dan
Petrescu, once, he got me round
the throat, and said: 'What do
you think you're doing?!'
"The first one over, to back me
up, was Wisey: 'If you've got
something to say, you say it to
me, not the younger players'. Me
and Dan laugh about it now."

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