England boss Sam Allardyce could offer John Terry shock call-up: I might give him a ring

JOHN TERRY could be offered a dramatic England return by new boss Sam Allardyce.

By Dave Armitage / Published 23rd August 2016

Allardyce has left the door open for the former England skipper, 35, to make an international return - FOUR years after retiring.
Terry’s 78th and final cap was back in September 2012 but Allardyce revealed he could give the veteran defender a call.
The Chelsea captain quit after the Football Association continued to investigate a charge of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand despite being cleared in court.
Terry - twice stripped of the England captaincy for off-field reasons - hung his boots with a stinging attack on the FA chiefs.
But Allardyce, preparing to name his first squad for the World Cup qualifier against Slovenia, refused to slam the door on Terry performing a shock-U-turn.
Allardyce said: “I don’t know what the political side of that might mean - if there is a political side. I’ll have to have that conversation if I feel that he may be a possibility.”

Pressed on whether a Three Lions comeback for Terry was a genuine possibility, Allardyce said: “Maybe so. I think it depends on what John says.
“Maybe if I get the opportunity, I might have to give him a ring. But until I come to that selection or that process, we’ll wait and see.”
England have struggled to establish a regular central defensive partnership since Terry’s self-imposed exile.
And Allardyce is clearly in no mood to bin some of England’s ‘old guard’ by revealing that Jermain Defoe could also come into the reckoning.
The 33-year-old striker played under Big Sam at Sunderland and has already given his old boss a ‘count me in’ message.
Allardyce said: “He is someone I could look at but that depends on the form of all the other lads who are up there. There’s Daniel Sturridge, Jamie Vardy, Harry Kane. Wayne Rooney can still play up front if you wanted him to.

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“Jermain is not out of the question. But whether I do that or not will depend on which other players are available.
“It might be Jermain is included on Sunday night because others have got injured. Who knows? He would love to come - because he’s already told me!”
One definite inclusion will be established No.1 keeper Joe Hart, despite the fact that he finds himself out in the cold at Manchester City.
Allardyce said the keeper situation concerning Hart and crocked Stoke back-up Jack Butland was a dilemma he could do without.
He said: “In the end it is critical. If it’s a short period of time then maybe not. Then they come back in the team and everything goes fine.
“If it goes on for a longer period then I think it’s difficult then to select them, based on how they feel, never mind from a training point of view.
“Can they go and play at that level having not played for their own team for a considerable amount of time? It is a concern. It’s one I could do without.”

Hart has been axed by new City boss Pep Guardiola who doesn’t feel his distribution is up to scratch and has been told he can quit if a right offer comes in.
Allardyce added: “Well I’ll go and speak to them about that – Pep and Joe. Sooner or later. If I can get the chance to go and see Pep I’d like to listen to him anyway.”
Allardyce, who inherits a team dumped out of the Euros at the last-16 stage in humiliating fashion by Iceland, names his first England squad on Sunday.
He added: “I don’t want to hear that players have got injured when they have been selected before the weekend.
“I don’t want to have to phone a player to say ‘by the way can you come into the England squad’. I just don’t think personally it is right because then they will come with a negative attitude and think ‘Well he didn’t want me here in the first place.’”