ChelseaFCSW6: 16 Feb 2009

Monday, 16 February 2009

JT Is Staying

John Terry says he wants to see out his career with Chelsea and has told Manchester City to forget about making a move.
The 28-year-old emerged as a January transfer target for mega-rich City but chief executive Peter Kenyon, after confirming an enquiry from Eastlands, moved to pour cold water on claims Chelsea could be tempted into doing business, and JT himself has also come out and backed his club's decision not to entertain any bids for his services.
"I was very happy with their reaction as mine would have been the same," he said in a statement.
"I have always said that I want to end my career at the club which I love and we all see no reason why that cannot happen.
"Given recent events I am more determined than ever to make Chelsea successful again."
Well done JT. Just what we wanted to hear.

Watford 1 Chelsea 3

Nicolas Anelka put Chelsea into the last eight of the FA Cup with a superb hat-trick which secured a 3-1 win after struggling Watford had given them a massive fright.
The Coca-Cola Championship side stung the Blues in the 69th minute when substitute Tamas Priskin raced clear to put them ahead, although clearly offside.
But with Chelsea's domestic season on the brink of collapse, Anelka hooked home the equaliser in the 75th minute and nodded them in front two minutes later. Petr Cech then denied Jobi McAnuff an equaliser in stoppage time and Watford's hopes were finished off seconds later when Anelka claimed his 20th of the season.
Chelsea's new interim coach Guus Hiddink takes charge on Monday and he watched from a seat in the main stand at Vicarage Road as Chelsea were made to fight all the way by the home side.
The Blues began tentatively but in the seventh minute Didier Drogba brought a fine save from Scott Loach with a 30-yard half-volley that looked destined for the top corner.
Chelsea almost broke the deadlock in the 35th minute when Drogba set up Anelka. The France striker's shot eluded the outstretched hands of Loach in the Watford goal but the ball bounced off the outside of his right-hand post.
But Watford stunned Chelsea when substitute Priskin, on for Grzegorz Rasiak in the 65th minute, put them in front four minutes later. The striker ran clear of the visitors' defence to lift the ball over the advancing Cech, yet another glaring mistake by an official punishing us unjustly.
But Anelka then sealed an amazing Chelsea comeback with a hat-trick. He levelled the scores in the 75th minute by hooking the ball home from close range.
Two minutes later the France international headed home a cross from Ashley Cole and then, after Cech had saved superbly from McAnuff in stoppage time, he drove Salomon Kalou's pass beyond Loach for his 20th of the season.