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.