FOOTBALL fans have been left in stitches after spotting what was in the backdrop for John Terry’s TV interview this morning.
Chelsea legend Terry, 43, was a special guest alongside Sam Allardyce on ITV programme Good Morning Britain (GMB).
The pair were on tele to discuss England’s 2-1 defeat to Spain in last night’s Euro 2024 final.
However, the former Three Lions captain gave fans a chuckle as he humbly displayed many of his trophies behind him while conducting the interview.
Reacting to his appearance, one fan said: “John Terry was on one of the breakfast shows this morning and I swear he’s got under 18’s medals in his background (along with everything he ever won).
“Dude is a meme.”
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A second said: “John Terry sitting in front of all his trophies,” adding a laughing emoji afterwards.
Another said: “John Terry and his trophies,” again adding a laughing emoji.
A fourth added: “John Terry loves to be seen with trophies.”
Terry, who made 78 caps for the Three Lions, won a ton of club trophies while at Stamford Bridge.
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ALL THE FALLOUT
ENGLAND fell at the final hurdle at Euro 2024, losing to a dramatic late Mikel Oryazabal winner as Spain won the tournament.
His numerous accolades include the Champions League, five Premier League titles, five FA Cups, three League Cups and the Europa League.
Terry, who also starred at Aston Villa for one season before retiring in 2018, also won a number of personal accolades, including Chelsea’s Player of the Year twice and PFA Players’ Player of the Year.
He was also in the Premier League Team of the Year and FIFA FIFPro World XI five times each.
However, despite being a part of England’s so-called “golden generation” Terry and co were never able to make it past the quarter-final stage of a major international tournament.
Meanwhile, under Gareth Southgate – who is expected to call time on his time at the helm despite reports suggesting the FA want to keep him on for the World Cup – England have made the semi-finals of international tournaments three times, including back-to-back Euros finals.
Terry’s old team-mate Frank Lampard is one name tipped to replace Southgate if he leaves.
This felt like our time… but keep Gareth’s culture and we can win it in 2026 instead, writes Jack Wilshere
IT will take a while for me and every England fan to get over this, writes Jack Wilshere.
To come so close to winning that trophy, only to be beaten in a second Euros final in a row, is a huge disappointment.
Especially when it really felt like this was our time.
It seemed that everything was coming together for us to end the long wait for a major title.
But Spain deserved it. They were the better team in the final and the best team of the tournament.
We will all — supporters, players, coaches, the FA — have to move on and go again.
Because English football is still in a good position.
Gareth Southgate has taken us to two finals, a semi-final and a quarter-final in four tournaments. We have never produced a run like that before.
The challenge now is to maintain this level of competitiveness and make England even better.
Southgate and his staff have done a fantastic job in changing the whole environment and narrative around the national team.
Whether Gareth carries on or not, the wider culture he has put in place must be preserved.
This tournament was the biggest test of that culture the team had to go through.
They overcame the problems and went all the way, only to fall at the final hurdle.
But there is every reason to believe we can challenge at the World Cup in 2026 and beyond.
We’ve got a really good group of players, many of them young, who can go on playing and performing for England for years.
Jude Bellingham, Kobbie Mainoo, Bukayo Saka, Phil Foden and Cole Palmer — to name just five — have plenty more tournaments in them.
This tournament will also be an inspiration for the next generations of players. Unfortunately there isn’t the trophy lift to take that to a completely different level.
But England have delivered moments in Germany that will be replayed forever.
The Bellingham overhead kick and Ollie Watkins’ semi-final winner will be recreated in playgrounds and cages up and down the country.
What I would like to see now is England continuing to develop, to become a team that can consistently dominate opponents and can give a real identity to English football.
We now have players who are comfortable on the ball and technically very good.
The biggest disappointment of the tournament was that we didn’t see that as often as we would have liked. That leaves us with a ‘what if?’ feeling.
England must not lose that old-school mentality of finding a way to win even when you’re not playing well — that never-say-die spirit which got us through this Euros more than once.
But the next step is to allow other qualities to shine through, to give the players that our system is creating the platform to show everything they can do.
The job for me and for other coaches is to keep producing players that are comfortable on the ball and understand how to perform under pressure at a high level.
English football is in a good place but we need to keep going. Then we will finally get over the line.
Real all of SunSport columnist Jack Wilshere’s Euro 2024 columns…
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
