John Terry is one of the most divisive footballers to ever play the game.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that even in retirement, Terry still isn’t safe from controversy.

Speaking in Amazon Prime’s Back of the Net show, Peter Crouch claims the ex-England international used to manipulate officials to avoid bookings and red cards.

I remember Darren Fletcher was good at it. But John Terry was amazing at it. Just getting around the ref. ‘Ah, Mike, you alright? How is the family?’ All this.

“Unreal. I thought: ‘This is disgusting.’ He was crawling around the ref.

“And it meant [the ref] would think twice. If he clattered someone in the first minute, he’d get up and say: ‘Sorry Mike.’ He would then think twice about booking him. It’s little things like that.”