Aussie striker Corey Gameiro LIED about claims Chelsea’s JT threatened to break his legs in a reserve game

Corey Gameiro, a 20-year-old striker at Sydney FC, has given a juicy interview in the Australian press recalling the time Chelsea captain John Terry threatened to break his legs on the pitch. But there seems to be just one, fat big problem with the story. It’s lies!

Gameiro was picked up by Fulham in 2011, but the forward never managed to break into the Cottagers first team in his three seasons at the club.

Instead Gameiro’s time in west London was split between loan moves or games in the Fulham reserves, but the striker claims one reserve game against Chelsea gave the attacker the following story.

Trouble reportedly started when Gameiro nutmegged Terry as the defender regained his match fitness after injury. After sticking the ball between JT’s leg, Gameiro said Mr Chelsea hauled him down with a fierce ”scissor tackle” from behind.

When he helped me up he said ‘do that again you little shit and I’ll break your legs’. So I sort of sat there on the floor thinking I needed to get off the field.

It was his first game back from his injury, we were playing at Chelsea’s training facility. He started, he came off at halftime.

The ball came into my feet and I looked over my shoulder and I saw him coming tight up behind me so I let the ball run through my legs to turn and beat him at a foot race and it just so happened that it went through his legs as well with a bit of luck. So it was a bit of a foot race between me and him and I was going to beat him so he took me down.

After the game I got a photo with him and he was laughing about it. [I wasn’t laughing about it] at the time, he was a nice guy off the pitch, but he didn’t like that for his first game back. I just looked to the bench and thought, ‘You’ve got to take me off before Terry will do me in.’

There is one problem with this tale though. It never happened.

Having looked through the archives at all matches between Chelsea and Fulham over the past few years, only last January’s match between Chelsea’s U21s and Fulham stacks up as the game in which the incident is said to have happened. Crucially it’s the only reserve game in which John Terry and Gameiro were both present.

John Terry did indeed play 45 minutes for Chelsea in that game having just returned from injuring his knee in a collision’s with Luis Suarez in the 1-1 draw with Liverpool on November 11. But Corey Gameiro started that game on the bench, and he didn’t come on until the 71st minute!

Looks like someone is telling fibs.

Below is a stats graphic from the match in question showing JT and Corey Gameiro never played in a game at the same time, together with a match highlights video from the game in question.