John Terry reveals a sneaky timewasting trick that Jose Mourinho used in the Premier League | OneFootball

John Terry is always great value when he’s a pundit on BeinSport, and as per usual they got him to dig out some old stories from his time when Jose Mourinho was his coach.

This time legendary centre back revealed some of the dastardly time wasting tactics that the Portuguese coach got him to use in his second spell at the club.

In an effort to waste time, Mourinho would tell Terry to go down hurt if he clashed with his teammate Gary Cahill. One player going down hurt has to leave the field – but two teammates who collide can stay on.

Sadly, it didn’t always work out as expected, as Terry explained:

“I remember, the rule was, if we were 1-0 up and the ball got delivered into the box…if two defenders went up together and both went down on the floor after, you didn’t have to go off the field of play.

“So last 10 or 15 minutes, he would sit me and Gary Cahill down and go: ‘when the ball comes in the box, make sure you both go down – bump into each other and both go down because you can’t both go off.

“We’d never heard of that rule ever. So ball comes over in the last 10 minutes, head it away, Gaz goes down and I think ‘I better go down’. So I dropped to the floor and the ref said ‘you two off the pitch’. I said ‘no that’s not the rule, ask the linesman’.”

It feels like the stories from those glory years will never end. For as long as JT is on punditry duties somewhere, there will be more secrets to come.