John Terry has just paid tribute to fellow Chelsea legend Petr Cech on social media.
There’s no doubt that John Terry and Petr Cech rank right at the very top when it comes to Chelsea’s greatest ever players. You can add alongside them Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba to complete the famous spine, too.
The achievements of that golden era at Stamford Bridge speaks for itself!
Aside from the Champions League success in 2012, the back-to-back Premier League titles between 2004-06 always stands out to us as the club’s prime years.
It’s difficult for the modern Chelsea fan to watch this very young squad struggle this season, but it’s a completely different era to the one they enjoyed in the early 2000s.
Goalkeeping icon Cech helped set a record for Chelsea in the 2004/05 season that is still standing to this present day.
The Blues somehow only conceded 15 goals in a 38-game season during Jose Mourinho’s first year at the club. Of course, that fired them to the Premier League crow and 95 points.
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Terry, who was integral himself as captain and centre-back, thinks Chelsea set a record that will remain unbroken forever.
Terry wrote on X: “Big Pete. What a LEGEND. 15 Goals conceded in one season. Nobody will EVER get anywhere near this record!”
Petr Cech a Chelsea legend
We don’t think there’s been a better goalkeeper in the division than the prime version of Cech.
He was a colossus during that 2004/05 season, playing 35 league matches before teammate Carlo Cudicini played the final few games when the title was in the bag.
It’s true that we can’t see anyone breaking the record anytime soon. For instance, the fewest goals any team has conceded in this season is 22 and we’re only in February.
