John Terry has responded to Wayne Rooney's comments about attempting to "hurt and injure someone" during a clash between Manchester United and Chelsea.
During the mid 2000s the Blues had established Premier League dominance over the Red Devils.
Jose Mourinho and co were aiming for a second consecutive title and needed to beat United and Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea ran out 3-0 winners in west London back in April 2006.
However, with Rooney determined to make his mark, he and Terry clashed after just seven minutes.It left the then England captain needing treatment with the stretcher bought out as a precaution.
Rooney confessed that he changed his studs in the lead up to the game, which Terry has made light of now after reading his confession.
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Terry responded on Twitter saying: "@WayneRooney is this when you left your stud in my foot?"
Rooney, who has a new documentary out on Amazon Prime, told Mirror Football: "We knew if Chelsea won then they had won the league that day," he said. "Until my last game for Derby, I always wore the old plastic studs with the metal tip.
"For that game I changed them to big, long metal ones - the maximum length you could have because I wanted to try and hurt someone, try and injure someone.
"I knew they were going to win that game. You could feel they were a better team at the time so I changed my studs.
"The studs were legal but thinking if there's a challenge there I knew I'd want to go in for it properly, basically. I did actually.
"John Terry left the stadium on crutches. I left a hole in his foot and then I signed my shirt to him after the game. A few weeks later I sent it to him and asked for my stud back.
"If you look back when they were celebrating, JT's got his crutches from that tackle."
Rooney would end up being the man to suffer that day as he was forced off with a major injury.
He clashed with Paulo Ferreira and one of his front studs were caught in the turf, meaning he broke three metatarsal bones weeks before the World Cup that summer.
Ricardo Carvalho and Joe Cole were among the scorers for the Blues.
Sir Alex Ferguson said after the game: "It was harsh and I don't think 3-0 was a fair reflection of our performance.
"If you lose goals as softly as we did today you have to take your medicine for that. We had a lot of the play and made some good chances but we didn't make it count."
