Chelsea steward: John Terry has no need to apologise for car accident

The Chelsea steward who was injured when John Terry drove his Range Rover over his leg at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday night has told the club captain that he has no need to visit him and offer a personal apology. Terry was upset to learn that he had inadvertently hurt Steve Rowley as the steward attempted to usher him through a crowd of paparazzi, after Chelsea's Champions League round of 16 second-leg defeat by Internazionale. Terry had suggested that they meet for him to express his remorse. Rowley, who saw a doctor today and has been signed off work for a week with severe bruising to his leg, though he hopes to return sooner, has said that he does not want Terry to prolong the episode by making any high-profile gesture. Terry called Rowley after the incident and did so again . Rowley said Terry could not say anything further were the pair to meet. "John rang him this morning and after training this afternoon to ask Steve how he was," said Terry's spokesman, Phil Hall. "Steve said he was fine and that he was resting up. John discussed visiting him today but he just said: 'No, don't worry about it. It's not worth the hassle, there's nothing that you can't say that you haven't already done, it'll just turn into more of a media circus if you do come."' "John and Steve have now agreed to meet up some time in the next week at work. I don't know what John has planned. I think he wants it to remain private. Steve has been told he needs to rest for a week but he thinks he could be back at work sooner." Hall said that Terry would meet Surrey Police again next week. "John will have to meet the police, as is the procedure for this kind of thing," he said. "The police officer who initiated the operation is off until next week apparently, so he will talk to him then." Terry is grateful to Rowley, at a time when he has come under an unforgiving media spotlight. He has endured an inconsistent season on the field and he has been stripped of the England captaincy ahead of this summer's World Cup finals in South Africa, after an alleged affair with the ex-girlfriend of Wayne Bridge, a former team-mate at Chelsea. Meanwhile the Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech faces a fitness test to decide if he can return to the team for Sunday's Premier League match at Blackburn Rovers. Cech injured a calf muscle in the first-leg defeat by Inter at San Siro last month. His return would be welcomed by Chelsea who – with Cech's understudy, Hilário, also injured – had to field their third-choice goalkeeper, Ross Turnbull, in Tuesday night's 1-0 home defeat by Inter.