A sportsman of the like we don’t see today
JOHN Terry insists he remains several years away from becoming a manager in his own right.
The 37-year-old has recently taken his first coaching role at former club Aston Villa, where he is assistant manager to Dean Smith.
Former team-mates Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard have both taken their first steps into management this season, at Derby and Rangers respectively, but Terry is happy taking his time to learn exactly what the job entails while he develops his own ideas about how he would want his teams to play.
“I have aspirations to be a manager one day but that is in four or five years – I’m nowhere near the finished article,” Terry said.
“Even my first day was a real eye-opener for me – as a player you don’t realise the depth and the amount of work that goes on.
“You turn up as a player and get on with the session. Yesterday we were going through it for an hour beforehand, and then another hour-and-a-half afterwards.”
Terry, who spent the final season of his illustrious playing career at Villa, worked under the likes of Jose Mourinho, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Guus Hiddink, Carlo Ancelotti and Fabio Capello for club and country.
Each manager had their own way of doing things and own style of play and Terry will have learned things from each of them.
Terry said: “Firstly, I love to watch teams that win.
“I am still building my ideas and my philosophy. I have learned over the years from many great managers.” BILL Shankly knew all about him as a young player coming through at Leeds Road.
But the legendary Liverpool boss couldn’t prevent Chris Balderstone scoring for Town at Anfield and holding Liverpool to a 1-1 draw in April 1962.
Remarkably, that was the last time a Town player scored against Liverpool, although there have been only seven meetings in the 56 years in between. AUSTRALIA’S anti-doping authority has defended its decision to test Usain Bolt after the former Olympic sprint champion questioned why he had been selected while he is on trial with A-League club Central Coast Mariners.
The eight-time gold medallist
Liverpool went on to win the Division Two title that season, setting the platform for all the years of success which have followed, while Town also enjoyed a resurgence after early relegation fears to finish seventh.
Balderstone was a highly-talented sportsman, playing both professional football and county cricket at the highest level, in the days when it was still possible to have a successful career in both.
He not only played in the top flight, after joining Carlisle United, but he also won a County Championship reacted with surprise after receiving a notice for a drugs test on Monday, just days after scoring his first goals in a friendly for the club.
In a video posted on Instagram, Bolt said: “I asked the lady, ‘Why am I getting drug tested when I haven’t signed for a club yet?’ and she said they told her I’m an elite athlete so I have to get tested.”
While Australian Sports AntiDoping title with Leicestershire and played two Test matches for England against the fearsome West Indies side of the mid 1970s, plus two one-day internationals.
Some argued he was just too talented at both sports, and his prowess in each hampered his absolute progression in the other. What is indisputable, however, is that Paddock-born Balderstone, who passed away in March 2000 at the age of just 59, is one of Huddersfield’s finest sporting sons.
He joined Town from junior football and signed professional for the club at the age of 17 in May 1958.
Balderstone scored on his debut against Cardiff City in March 1960, by which time Shankly had left to take charge of Liverpool, and he went on to make 131 league and cup appearances at Leeds Road, scoring 25 times as an inside forward (midfielder).
In June 1965 he moved for £7,000 to Carlisle and became a firm favourite over the next decade, making 428 league and cup appearances and scoring 75 goals.
He was an influential figure in the club’s only season in the English First Division, 1974-75 (when Town were relegated to the bottom division for the first time in their history), and he helped them to top the Authority (ASADA) refused to discuss Bolt’s case specifically it pointed out the Jamaican fell within their remit.
“ASADA cannot discuss specific testing missions,” said a statement. Effective testing programs are critical to protect the integrity of sport and the right of athletes to compete on a level playing field.” Australia’s national table after three matches, before their eventual slide – and all this football success at the time when he was at the top of his cricket career!
In 1972, he was man-of-thematch as Leicestershire lifted the inaugural Benson and Hedges Cup at Lord’s, scoring 41 not out to steer them to the trophy – the first of five trophies in five seasons.
Balderstone helped Leicestershire win the County Championship in 1975 and, on September 15 that year, he made history by taking part in a County Championship match and a Football League game on the same day.
Balderstone was 51 not out against Derbyshire at the end of day two of Leicestershire’s match at Chesterfield. After close of play he changed into his football kit to play for Doncaster Rovers in an evening match 30 miles away (a 1-1 draw with Brentford).
He then returned to Chesterfield the following morning to complete a century and take three wickets to help wrap up Leicestershire’s first ever Championship title. The following season he captured a hattrick against Sussex and received his call-up to the England Test team at the age of 35, to face a West Indies attack featuring the likes of Michael Holding and Andy Roberts in their anti-doping scheme applies to any athlete who is competing in a sport which has an anti-doping policy, as Football Federation Australia (FFA) does.
Rule 25 of FFA’s national antidoping policy says the policy applies to all participants, including athletes ‘registered with, compete, train or trial with any club, team, association or league involved in our sport’.