FORMER Chelsea star Jon Obi Mikel has lifted the lid on some of his team-mates’ antics during his stint in a legendary Chelsea team.
Mikel spent 11 years at Chelsea and played under the likes of Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti – winning a clean sweep of club trophies available to him including the Champions League and Premier League.
He played 372 times for the club before going on to play in China, Turkey and Kuwait and calling time on his career last year.
The former Nigeria international is now running his own podcast, named The Obi One Podcast where he regales tales from his time in the game.
In his most recent episode, he had fellow Chelsea legend John Terry on as guest as the two reminisced about that trophy-laden Chelsea team.
But top of the pile was a story of how Michael Ballack would leave his pants strewn around the dressing room.
Ballack made 166 appearances for the Blues between 2006 and 2010 after impressive stints at Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich.
The pair reminisced, however, about how the former midfielder would always leave his underwear lying around after getting changed.
Mikel told the Obi One Podcast: “I just remember a funny story about him when he used to come in the dressing room and get changed.
“Bally was a special character but when he walked in, he is a tall, huge guy, and he’s got a presence about him.
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“Like JT, Frank (Lampard), Didier (Drogba) – all of those guys are imposing and Ballack used to walk in jamming and sometimes he would say a lot and sometimes he wouldn’t and just f*** off straight to his locker and get changed. But every time, he would forget his underwear. His underwear was always on the floor, just by his locker.”
Mikel insisted that Ballack would do this “all the time” and continued: “He would take off his clothes, his trousers and close his locker but his pants were on the floor. He would just leave it there and walk off so every time we came in Michael Ballack’s underwear would be on the floor.”
John Terry replied amid fits of laughter that they should have binned the underwear in order to keep up the “good standards” the club had at the time.
