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LONDON. — When the celebrations began to subside, John Terry spotted Frank Lampard heading towards the tunnel and jumped on his back.
After a decade or more as two of the leading personalities in English football, they have hitched a lift into their seventh Champions League semi-final.
On Tuesday night, after Demba Ba’s dramatic winner against Paris Saint-Germain, they whooped and hollered as if they had reached their first. Real Madrid, Barcelona or Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich or Manchester United will be waiting for them and it feels as exciting as ever. Good on them.

“These big performances are what we live for,” admitted Terry and it was hard to disagree. They love playing at this level. Together this pair have won the lot for Chelsea: three Premier League titles, four FA Cups, two League Cups, the Champions League and Europa League, have been bagged in the Abramovich era.

Against PSG, European football’s newest superpower, the old legs showed they still have the appetite to win a bit more before they are done. It felt ceaseless at times.
“The competition means a lot to us and the experience we have keeps us fighting and believing,” added Terry, and he was right.

They are warriors, old hands at this Champions League lark after playing in some of the most dramatic nights in Chelsea’s history. — Mailonline.