Chelsea legend John Terry has opened up on how he considered committing suicide after his 2008 Champions League final penalty miss against Manchester United in Moscow.
Recall that Terry slipped and hit the post with what could have been the decisive spot-kick against Manchester United before the Red Devils eventually won the shoot-out at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium.
The former England international was inconsolable after spurning the chance to win what would have been the club’s first Champions League title.
Speaking with the Mennie Talks podcast, Terry stated that he considered suicide after his penalty miss in the 2008 Champions League final.
“After the game, we all went back to the hotel and I was on the 25th floor.
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“I was looking out the window going, ‘Why? Just why?’. I’m not saying that if you had that opportunity you’d jump, but things go through your head at that particular time.
“Then the boys came up and took me downstairs. It’s those ‘What if?’ moments where you just don’t know.
“Still today it goes over in my head. It’s softened over the years, for sure, but when you’re playing, you kind of compartmentalise it a little bit and put it to the back of your head.
“Now I’m retired I’ve not got that focus of playing every week and having that buzz, it still really gets me.
“I still wake up in the middle of the night and go, ‘Oh, that did happen, yeah’. I don’t think that’ll ever go.
“When I missed the penalty in Moscow, you find out very quickly who your friends are and who the people who really care and look out for you are.
“Ray [Wilkins] was the first one on the phone after that game making sure I was OK, and a few other people.”
