I spotted these ridiculous shin pads during the Chelsea v Napoli game last week and after some googling and some fine copy and paste work check out what the future Chelsea Manager and Englands own three headed lion JT had to say about them himself from a few years ago...
JOHN TERRY has revealed his amazing list of superstitions behind Chelsea's success - and the night when he feared his luck had run out.
The Chelsea captain sticks to an incredible routine before every game - sitting in the same seat on the team bus, listening to the same CD and parking in the same spot in the car park.
And he has also worn the same lucky pair of shin-pads for the past ten years.
But Terry suffered a nightmare last season when he lost his shin-pads during Chelsea's Champions League first leg defeat in Barcelona.
He threw them to the side of the pitch after a bout of cramp and could not find them afterwards, despite getting everyone to scour the Nou Camp for them.
Just four days later he feared the worst when, without his lucky pads, Chelsea were 11 minutes from losing the Carling Cup final to Liverpool before they fought back to win in extra time.
Terry said: "Those shin-pads had got me to where I was in the game - and I'd lost them. I really felt terrible because they were a big part of my routine.
"Before the final I was having a go at the kitman even though it wasn't his fault. I was thinking: 'f***ing hell, I've had those shin-pads for so long and now this is it, all over.'
"Lampsy (Frank Lampard) gave me a pair of his and luckily we won, so they've stuck with me. Now they have become my lucky ones.
"But I am so superstitious. I've got to have the same seat on the bus, tie the tapes round my socks three times and cut my tubular grip for my shin-pads the same size every game.
"I drive to games listening to the same Usher CD in my car. It's good music to get me pumped up and relaxed at the same time.
Terry also insists on parking his car in the same space in Chelsea's underground car park at Stamford Bridge before every game - and had a scary experience before the second leg with Barcelona.
Terry said: "I always have to park my car in the same spot in the car park and when I drove in at lunchtime before the game, the space was taken and I was unsettled.
"Every hour I went back to the car park to see whether the space was taken and eventually I got one of the kitmen to move it. Two hours to move my car - he thought I was mad!
"I started off with a couple of superstitions and because we did so well, kept winning and winning, I ended up with about 50 of them. Then it was a case of remembering them for every game!"
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