John Terry sees funny side after Wayne Rooney admits he wanted to injure someone in Man Utd clash against Chelsea
JOHN TERRY has hilariously responded to Wayne Rooney after the Manchester United legend revealed he tried to injure the ex-Chelsea star in a game 16 years ago.
England’s record striker, who has since admitted he wore longer studs for the April 2006 clash, launched into a fiery challenge in the seventh minute of the Premier League encounter at Stamford Bridge.
He left Terry writhing around in pain and the stretcher was called for the Chelsea captain.
Eventually, the centre-back was able to continue and the Blues went on to wrap up the Prem title with a 3-0 victory over Sir Alex Ferguson’s men.
Speaking to PA, Rooney recently said: “We knew if Chelsea won then they had won the league that day.
“Until my last game for Derby, I always wore the old plastic studs with the metal tip.
“For that game I changed them to big, long metal ones – the maximum length you could have because I wanted to try and hurt someone, try and injure someone.
“I knew they were going to win that game. You could feel they were a better team at the time so I changed my studs.
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“The studs were legal but thinking if there’s a challenge there I knew I’d want to go in for it properly, basically. I did actually.
“John Terry left the stadium on crutches. I left a hole in his foot and then I signed my shirt to him after the game.
“A few weeks later I sent it to him and asked for my stud back.
“If you look back when they were celebrating, JT’s got his crutches from that tackle.”
Terry responded to the quotes in good faith with a post on social media.
He tweeted: “Is this when you left your stud in my foot?”
Despite being intent on injuring someone, it was Rooney who ended up coming off with three broken metatarsals.
He got his extra long studs caught in the turf during a challenge with Paulo Ferreira and was stretchered off.
This led to Rooney facing a race to be fit for the 2006 World Cup.
He made it to the tournament but was not himself and failed to score in any of the four games he played in.
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