Terry ready to give injury the elbow

CAPTAIN John Terry, left, insists he will not require protective strapping on his elbow during Wednesday’s Champions League final.

Terry trained on Wednesday for the first time since being stretchered off with a dislocated elbow against Bolton in Sunday’s final match of the Barclays Premier League season.

But the defender maintains the strapping will not be necessary when he leads Chelsea out for their Moscow showdown with Manchester United.

“My elbow is all right,” said Terry. “There is just a bit of strapping in case I fall and jar it. The last couple of days it has been getting better and hopefully I am going to train without the strapping.

“I have full range of movement. It is a little stiff when I wake up in the mornings but when the physios do a bit of work on it and I do some swimming, it frees right up.”