Terry crocked again in training and sits out Moscow crunch tie

The controversial surface claimed its first victim just hours after the England captain declared himself fully fit for duty.

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Rough and tumble: Steve McClaren floors John Terry during the training session which later led to an injury for the England captain

Terry had said he no longer needed the pain-killing injections on his troublesome toe or the protective face mask for his recently fractured cheekbone.

But the England skipper was struck down by a third injury and Sol Campbell will now deputise alongside Rio Ferdinand, with Steven Gerrard taking the captain's armband.

Terry missed Saturday's 3-0 win against Estonia because of a knee problem. He believed it had recovered but it locked up after a block tackle in the last minute of England's official training session at the Luzhniki Stadium.

A hugely disappointed Steve McClaren, who shared a laugh with Terry after he clattered into the Chelsea man during the warm-up, said: 'John is almost certainly ruled out of the match.

His knee locked towards the end of training and he couldn't complete the session.'

It is another defensive blow for McClaren, who lost Ashley Cole to injury on Saturday. Terry will be very upset even if he did fear something like this might happen.

'A bit of cartilage has come away from my knee,' he said. 'It flared up but the massage and treatment I have had over the last couple of days has helped it.

'I will have to have an operation but a date has to be decided. It is just a case of going into hospital, having that piece of floating cartilage removed and, hopefully, I will be back in two or three days.

'It could flare up again in training or in a game. But I can't think of the negatives that surround that. I am thinking positively after the week I've had. I want to be playing, not sitting on the sidelines. Watching was hard on Saturday.'

Terry urged his team-mates to kick off what could be 'a great week for English sport'.

'We can do the right thing and get the right result and then it is down to the rugby boys and Lewis Hamilton,' he said.

'The rugby boys have been doing fantastically well at the World Cup. We have been watching the games and we wish them and Lewis all the best this weekend.'