Lampard backs passionate Terry

Midfielder Frank Lampard insists England and Chelsea team-mate John Terry spoke out because he wants to “hit things head-on”.

Yesterday, former captain John Terry laid bare a series of grievances and personnel issues which he vowed to raise at a pre-planned team meeting with manager Fabio Capello last night.

Opinion has been mixed about Terry’s motives for speaking out, but Lampard said today: “I don’t think anyone wants to give too much away about what was said.

“I think it’s been particularly overdone in terms of a ’crisis meeting’...but I understand what John Terry was saying because he’s passionate like that, as a player as a person.

“Every person deals with things differently. Some won’t say much and others want to hit things head-on.

“But people want to see a reaction and people have said he (Terry) has said some positive things.

“We’ll try to hit things head-on on the training ground.”

Lampard added at the press conference at England’s World Cup training camp in Rustenburg: “It seems to me the manager and (number two) Franco Baldini have always been very approachable.”