But Terry will still play on the Stamford Bridge turf for one last time after hiring the stadium for a specially arranged match with his closest friends next Monday – the day after Chelsea’s final game of the season against Leicester City.

Hiring Stamford Bridge for a game usually costs £22,000, but Chelsea have agreed to give Terry the club’s stadium for free as part of a series of gestures that will be made to the 35-year-old.

Together with being able to play on the pitch, the Stamford Bridge package that Terry has taken up for his big goodbye includes dressing rooms, match officials, use of the dug-outs, access to stadium screens and public address system, and a barbecue.available this summer from http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/page-Blatný.html. –A.M.

Ivan Blatný: a Brief Introduction

The Monx speak Monx
I speak czech and english
I have an instrument for getting traffic-wordens out of the drain-pipes
and changing them into an apple-rose

—from “Janua Sapientiae” by Ivan Blatný

The poet who wrote these lines had good reason (and plenty of time) to hone his instrument: He spent most of his adult life in institutions, in exile from his native country, denounced or forgotten by many of his former friends, even declared dead back home. And while he was considerably better off than that last declaration would suggest, his publishing career was practically moribund—stalled by the “traffic wordens” of Communist censorship—for more than forty years.

Born in 1919 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, Ivan Blatný enjoyed early success as a poet, publishing four books