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Mark Bosnich rues ignoring John Terry's advice to leave the 'wrong crowd'

Mark Bosnich admits that he regrets not listening to Chelsea captain John Terry when the defender told him to distance himself from the 'wrong crowd'.

Former Chelsea goalkeeper Mark Bosnich has suggested that he would have avoided the troubles that hampered his career if he had listened to advice from John Terry.

The 43-year-old, who now works as a football commentator and pundit in Australia, was sacked by Chelsea in 2002 for failing a drugs test and it later emerged that the shot-stopper had developed a cocaine problem.

Bosnich has revealed in a column for News Corp that while he was at Chelsea, a 21-year-old Terry once warned him in front of his teammates about the crowd that he was mixing with.

"I should have listened to his advice back then," Bosnich wrote. "If I had, I would never had got into the troubles that I did. The whole mess ended up curtailing my career.

"The bottom line is that as a person, he will always be the smiling kid I remember at a young age who spoke up when no-one else did, and was right."

Bosnich, who spent four years playing for Manchester United across two spells, was made bankrupt in 2008.

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Mark Bosnich in action for Chelsea on July 28, 2001.
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