Terry had not yet grown into himself. He was short. He was pudgy. He played midfield.
The coaches knew he had something. “In football, you have leaders and followers, and he was always a leader on the pitch and off the pitch,” said Tony Carroll, Senrab’s secretary. “He was always combative and competitive, and he inspired people by his performance.”
Terry spent four years at Senrab before Premier League clubs began wooing him for their junior programs. He picked Chelsea, and at 16 left school for good and enrolled in Chelsea’s Youth Training Scheme, a kind of soccer farm team; he was paid £46 a week (about $75).
Apologies for this sequence.....it was Graham Rix who spotted him when he went to watch another Senrab player!! He took him into Chelsea's Youth and converted him into a defender. As much as Rix helped to develop the player, I guess he didn't perfect the man!
