What praise he gets is for his commitment and leadership, while his footballing qualities are absurdly overlooked. He's typecast as the archetypal English centre half in the Terry Butcher mould, which has some truth in it given his on-field bravery, but his distribution skills are second-to-none.

Take a look at his passing stats in the last three games:

v Burnley 45 passes 0 inaccurate, 1 goal

v Birmingham 57 passes, 0 inaccurate

v Sunderland 27 passes, 0 inaccurate, 1 assist (phenomenal chipped pass to A Cole)

That's three entire Prem matches in which his passing has been 100% perfect.

129 passes without misplacing a single one.

That is just astonishing.

Compare Carragher in one match v Wolves last week:

45 Passes, 16 unsuccessful.

Clearly his form is not affected by all this business

What praise he gets is for his commitment and leadership, while his footballing qualities are absurdly overlooked. He's typecast as the archetypal English centre half in the Terry Butcher mould, which has some truth in it given his on-field bravery, but his distribution skills are second-to-none.

Take a look at his passing stats in the last three games:

v Burnley 45 passes 0 inaccurate, 1 goal

v Birmingham 57 passes, 0 inaccurate

v Sunderland 27 passes, 0 inaccurate, 1 assist (phenomenal chipped pass to A Cole)

That's three entire Prem matches in which his passing has been 100% perfect.

129 passes without misplacing a single one.

That is just astonishing.

Compare Carragher in one match v Wolves last week:

45 Passes, 16 unsuccessful.

Clearly his form is not affected by all this business

Bridge's bird also reckons he's good a dribbling out the box :D

We can do without any player or manager of the month awards to derail us.....wait till May, player and manager of the season will do just fine

That is actually astonishing. How a person over three games can not put a single pass wrong.

where do you find stats like that?!

:D

Here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/chalkboards

You can search any Prem game, any player for all sorts of stats.

Bridge's bird also reckons he's good a dribbling out the box :D

:D

That is actually astonishing. How a person over three games can not put a single pass wrong.

Perhaps Terry should take Deco for a little extra training.