It is time for Chelsea to recall John Terry. If you look at Tuesday night, Branislav Ivanovic is a bigger problem than the centre-back positions. I thought he was the strongest right-back in the country a year ago but he had yet another horrendous night in Porto.
If you ask me to put my life on a game and I had to pick a team for England or Chelsea in a one-off match, John would captain it. There is no better English centre-half than John, even now. He has proven himself to be a winner and when things aren’t going well, you need characters to turn it around.
You know what you are going to get from people like him. They give you a consistency that teams need when performances are up and down — that’s how you improve things.
I am a big Jose Mourinho fan but he needs to get John back into his side. Leaving Terry out continues to be a strange decision.
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