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Terry picks his all-time non-Chelsea PL XI: Ronaldo & Henry lead the squad

  /  autty

Chelsea icon John Terry chose his all-time non-Chelsea Premier League XI.

Terry, who had 19 seasons worth of Premier League opponents to choose from, opted for Carragher and Gary Neville on the right-hand side of a back four.

'Gaz Nev has to be in, best right back,' he said on MNF. 'Listen, we (Terry and Carragher) didn't play enough at England, I don't think.

'We played a couple of games, didn't we? But I think, genuinely, we would have had a great partnership.'

'It didn't go too well in Croatia, did it?', Carragher replied in reference to England's 2-0 defeat in 2006 in Zagreb in which the duo started together.

Manchester United legends Rio Ferdinand, who Terry said was included for his pace, and Patrice Evra completed the back four.

In midfield, he opted for a United trio of Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Cristiano Ronaldo, with Liverpool's Steven Gerrard also slotting in centrally.

When asked to choose who was the best out of Gerrard, Frank Lampard or Paul Scholes, Terry said: 'I'm going to say Lamps, aren't I? But I do think naturally Scholes was unbelievable. He did things I've not seen many players do. He was incredible.

'But having seen Lamps training, and seeing what he could do, he was unbelievable.'

The formidable front line of Wayne Rooney and Thierry Henry have yielded 383 goals in England's top flight to date, with the former still going strong at Everton.

But, in Terry's view, the scintillating Frenchman stood head and shoulders above the rest of the strikers he went toe to toe against.

'Coming up against Arsenal, he was so quick. He was the best by far. He had everything, like the silent assassin, could score with his head, go short, go in behind.

'Literally the night before games, he is the one player in my career where I'd be thinking: "It's going to be a tough day tomorrow." Nobody but him had that effect on me in my career.'