19 Jun 2026 12:15:52.
Was chatting to the boys last night about who our greatest ever player is.
A few names in the hat included our much loved captain, leader, legend John Terry, Super Frankie Lampard, The King of Stamford Bridge, Peter Osgood, and the legendary Gianfranco Zola.
JT took our vote by a whisker.
19 Jun 2026 13:25:10
Not even close. Jimmy Greaves.
19 Jun 2026 15:26:51
Jimmy Greaves got a mention, Tom, but was ruled out as most of us felt he was more Spurs than Chelsea during his career.
19 Jun 2026 16:02:51
I think Peter Bonetti is up there.
19 Jun 2026 16:13:31
What a keeper The Cat was, Bill, but does he get above Big Pete as the all-time greatest ever player?
19 Jun 2026 16:14:34
Captains don't come much greater than John Terry. He was Mr. Chelsea for 19 years, and led the club to greatness throughout his time at Stamford Bridge, winning a ridiculous amount of silverware in West London.
The Cobham graduate donned Chelsea blue on 717 occasions and is among the Premier League greats.
The centre-back won five Premier League titles, four FA Cups, three League Cups, the Champions League and the Europa League with the Blues.
Simply astonishing.
19 Jun 2026 18:11:04
It's hard to nail down the greatest Chelsea player: it's about era and context, not just trophies, because other players contributed. If it's about talent and getting you off your seat, Eden's up there. As for Terry, great CB, but I still don't like him.
19 Jun 2026 20:25:40
The comments and opinions we have about players, I always find intriguing. We make comments as if we know them.
I have had the good fortune of spending time with JT, and he always came across as a really nice bloke. Strangely, I was never a fan of Lamps, who again I met a couple of times.
I had family reasons to be involved with Wise and Zola.
Obviously, Zola was just class, but again this might surprise a few people, and Wise was absolutely top drawer.
Can I just add, none of the players' personalities had anything to do with me loving or disliking a player. Greaves was just class, and I have never been so gutted as I was when we sold him for financial reasons.
19 Jun 2026 20:45:13
Tom, I don't know Terry, but plenty of things about him have been published. He's certainly not a devout Christian.
19 Jun 2026 20:59:02
As I've said before, I also had dealings with Mr Terry Snr.
Can I also say one of the most horrible people I have ever met in football was Mathew Harding. Not a nice man in my opinion.
19 Jun 2026 20:46:54
JT was a great player and ud say arguably our best althought i always preferred frank.shame JT is a scumbag of a bloke makes it harder to appreciate how good he was on field
19 Jun 2026 21:28:44
Tom, apart from your family and long standing friends: you don't really know people. We all have our faults but some people are scumbags. Generally people who become rich have trodden over many people to get to the top.
19 Jun 2026 21:45:14
Jimbo, it's true we really only know the people we are close to!!
I try and judge people after more than one meeting, and I really don't care if they are rich or poor.
I try not to make negative comments about people I have had no personal dealings with, and I certainly don't judge people from media s***.
Over the years I have been involved in various charities, and it's via those charities that I have met lots of well known personalities. I guess most people look good at these events.
19 Jun 2026 22:01:21
JT is a typical east end English lad, make of that what you will. For me, a total scumbag of a bloke is that fraud Hakim Ziyech who just turned up every day, took the pay and pissed off. We see things different.
19 Jun 2026 22:57:22
Typical east end lad that slept with his mates wife . Said things to anton ferdinand and has since done similar and supported similar after retiring although hardly surprising you're a big fan greenway youve made it clear what sorta person you are
19 Jun 2026 23:29:33
Don't know whether someone being nice or nasty should count when calculating how good or great someone is purely as a player.
It is a bit different to saying who your favourite player is, though the two can be connected.
Terry must be in the conversation for CFC's greatest player for defensive record, leadership, longevity of playing for the club, trophies won, plus being the CB who has scored the most goals ever in the EPL.
Even if he is not a nice person. Lampard is also in that conversation, as are Bobby Tambling and Peter Osgood. Didier Drogba too, cos of the big match, trophy-winning goals he scored.
Favourite player surely can be a combination of liking the player as a person plus enjoying watching him on the pitch. For me, Zola, Kante, Hazard score exceptionally highly.
20 Jun 2026 06:49:41
Great post, J, well balanced and reflective.
20 Jun 2026 12:43:48
"A typical East End lad," what on earth has the area he was born in or grew up in got to do with anything?
I take people as I find them.
20 Jun 2026 13:19:08
Tom, when I was a teenager growing up in North West London, we considered ourselves cooler and more fashionable than kids from East or South London - nothing has changed. Lol.
20 Jun 2026 15:45:07
I have favourite players from different eras. Charlie Cooke was an early favourite, followed by Clive Walker and Pat Nevin, then Zola and Arjen Robben, before my all-time favourite, Eden Hazard.