ARSENAL LEGEND TONY Adams was a better defender than the outgoing Chelsea captain John Terry, according to former Gunner Martin Keown.
Terry announced on Sunday he would be leaving the defending Premier League champions when his one-year contract extension expires this summer after 21 years at the club.
Former professionals-turned-pundits Jamie Redknapp and Jamie Carragher, both of whom faced former England captain Terry during their playing days, rushed to pay homage to ‘JT’, saying the 35-year-old will leave behind a legacy as the best central defencer to ever grace the Premier League.
However, Keown has a different point of view. When asked to describe the Blues skipper in three words, the former Arsenal defender replied: “Adams was better.”
Keown won two of his three Premier League titles playing alongside Gunners icon Adams, who made over 500 league appearances for the north London side and captained England on 66 occasions.
Terry has achieved relatively more during his time with Chelsea, including four league titles, two FA Cups and the 2011-12 Champions League, but Keown claims it is time he departed Stamford Bridge.
“I’ve never been his biggest fan,” Keown told the Daily Mail. ”Chelsea need to change and bring in fresh blood. Maybe they need to remove any obstacles.
I’ve not worked with him, but I wouldn’t have been wholly comfortable with him as a team mate.
“I don’t know how much I would have enjoyed working with him. I respect that people who played with him admired him. He was powerful in the dressing room, but was he too powerful?
“Nobody can question what he has achieved on the pitch — he is a Chelsea legend — but maybe he could have gone about some of it differently.”
Should be a great match to get the league up and running. Two quality sides with a hint of experimentation for both it seems.
@Robb Stark: easy win for limerick dey have the first team out no experimention at all.
@Jim: Barry Hennessy, Tom Condon, Robbie Hanly, Barry Nash, David Reidy and David Dempsey are not regular starters if Limerick have their best team out. So that is not Limerick first team
@Decko49: thats the startin bunch for this year. U might not like it.
@Jim: big knowledge of Limerick hurling there Jim??
@Jim: Where will Sean Finn, Declan Hannon, Gearoid Hegarty Will O Donoghue? Peter Casey all be?
@A Cos: Yeah he knows a lot alright.
@Decko49: on the bench
@Jim: You’d want to stay off the drugs and or drink at this time of the day kid.
@Decko49: sorry i forgot your the expert on here now. Joined a few months ago was it??
@Jim: No you’re the expert on Limerick and you haven’t a clue. So don’t try be smart. Come back the first day of the championship and of I’m wrong I will apologise. If you’re wrong Will you?
@Jim: go way and have a lie down…ur makin an ape outta urself
@john williams: Shur he has the limerick team named for the championship already. Kiely will be livid that Jim has leaked this to the media
@Decko49: we saw the limerick team last night. They only hav the bare 15 and all the talk.
@Jim: Haha. Jesus you’re a gas man. Wait til May for the championship team to be named and will show what you know about hurling. I bet you won’t be in here to say you were wrong.
No bubbles
@Tony Mcgrath: they might be a bit flat with no bubbles.
@Tony Mcgrath: busy with auld wans
@john williams: Yeah I hear he likes the mother’s alright. Great for team building
Will Gerry Kelly of BorrisIleigh get the call up this year?
@Tom Turnip: Interesting comment I figure he would cause quite a few problems for any backline.