John Terry says he was “in a really bad way” following his infamous penalty miss in the 2008 Champions League final.
All the Chelsea skipper had to do was beat Edwin van der Sar and the Blues would be European champions, but he slipped on the wet grass during his run up and struck his effort against the post.
Manchester United went on to win the shootout, but the image of Terry sitting on the turf in the pouring rain with his head in his lap was the defining image of the evening – and the former defender says the miss still haunts him, 15 years on.
“You get back to the hotel and you feel like you’ve let your team-mates down. The Champions League is one of those where it’s the hardest competition to win… and you’re thinking ‘I’m not sure we’ll get another chance at this’,” he said during an appearance on snooker legend Stephen Hendry’s Cue Tips podcast.
“You just carry that weight with you. All the players were in the bar after, not celebrating… I just couldn’t go down and face them. I had all my family there, I was embarrassed to go down, I didn’t want to be around the lads.”
Culled from Dailystar.co.uk
