Sunderland boss Steve Bruce has revealed how he almost signed Chelsea captain John Terry.

He could really do with Terry's leadership skills - and, when he was boss at Huddersfield, he very nearly got them.

JT was on loan at Nottingham Forest in 2000 and Bruce explained: "I went to do my coaching badges at Nottingham Forest.

"David Platt invited me and Gianluca Vialli there.

"It was a cold miserable afternoon and I saw John Terry in his short sleeves rolling his shirt up, he was on loan there.

"I thought, 'Christ, he'll do me. I like him'.

"I was Huddersfield manager at the time. I bid £750,000 for him and Chelsea accepted it.

"But the boy didn't want to leave Chelsea at the time.

"I was close. At the death he didn't want to go.

"He's everything you'd want in a central defender, he's a born leader.

"On a day like today, a cold day in January, he was just like, 'Bring it on!'"