Allardyce ponders England recall for Terry

BURTON-ON-TRENT, United Kingdom: New England manager Sam Allardyce will consider ending former captain John Terry’s four-year international exile, he revealed on Monday.

Roy Hodgson, Allardyce’s predecessor, said in March that England had still not successfully replaced the Chelsea centre-back and Allardyce has not ruled out handing him a recall.

Asked if Terry might be in line for an England return, Allardyce said: “Maybe so. I think it depends on what John said.

“Maybe if I get the opportunity, I might have to give him a ring. But until I come to that selection or that process, we’ll wait and see.

“I don’t know what the political side of that might mean, if there is a political side. I’ll have to have that conversation if I feel that John Terry may be a possibility.”