Only a Game? - John Terry should get the Chelsea job
Autor: Pedro | Publicado: 2012-03-19T10:44:00-07:00

Even if John Terry was dipped in chocolate, you couldn’t like him. The sight of the 31 year-old so called professional footballer shouting instructions on the sideline during the week was enough to make a pacifist want to rage.
After Andreas Villas-Boas was sacked as manager of Chelsea a few weeks ago he hinted that it was the senior players at the club who brought about his downfall. Predictably, everyone at Stamford Bridge has denied this.
Former Chelsea player Roberto Di Matteo, who was also Villas-Boas’ assistant, was installed as manager and will remain at the helm until the end of the season.
Di Matteo said as recent as yesterday that he has no problem with Terry having an input into team affairs.
But to allow Terry to have a say regarding team selection and tactics is a bit like letting a a seven year-old loose with a credit card in the week before Christmas.
Before I start ranting and raving about why I think John Terry should not have input into team affairs, I want to say that a) he’s an average defender at best and b) he has no right to try and tell his team mates where to play and what to do.
I know that some might say that that’s the job of any club captain but when what you are doing comes at the expense of the manager’s authority, then there’s something seriously wrong.
Had Roman Abramovich not bought Chelsea, John Terry would have been just another nearly has been with a handful of medals. But because of the Russian billionaire’s artificial development of the London club, Terry is made to look like a better player than he actually is.
It’s no coincidence that Terry has been at the centre of an incident that saw former England manager Fabio Capello lose his job and then only two weeks ago Villas-Boas was sacked.
It’s easy to say that the reason why Villas-Boas got the sack was because he wasn’t getting the results on the pitch but if you had people like Terry undermining your every move you’d find it hard to get things done too.
Villas-Boas was a young manager with a lot of promise but it would appear that because certain players didn’t like what he was trying to do they decided to throw their dummies out of the pram.
Villas-Boas could see that Chelsea is a team that are in serious need of a facelift. There are too many older players who are no longer producing the kind of displays that made them a team to revere several years ago.
Villas-Boas had the courage to drop players like Lampard and Drogba from the team and it was probably because of this that he lost his job.
Part of me would like to see Robert Di Matteo hand over the reigns to John Terry at the end of the season.
Nothing would give me more satisfaction than to look on as Terry make a complete mess of football management and then leave Abramovich with no choice but to sack him.
Terry embodies a deep rooted arrogance in English football. He thinks that just because he’s an English stereotype that that makes him better equipped to play or even manage football.
If truth be told he’s divisive and provocative and my pet dog would be better at creating harmony.
Terry’s seems to be loved by Chelsea fans and I suppose that that is to be expected but he doesn’t seem to be respected.
Like all bully boys and bluffers, Terry is going to go one step too far and then he won’t know what hit him.
It’s not often that I actually wilfully wish for something bad to happen to another human being but maybe if John Terry started tasting some of what he has been dishing out for all these years then both Chelsea and England might not be in the turmoil they are currently in.