John Terry and Rio Ferdinand open old wounds in Twitter feud as United legend claims ex-Chelsea captain has a 'fragile ego' after he took offence at not being named higher in all-time defenders' list

Rio Ferdinand and John Terry have been involved in a war of words on social media over the former's list of the five best centre-backs in Premier League history.

The BT Sport pundit, discussing the topic with Liverpool star Virgil van Dijk, placed the pair, along with Nemanja Matic and Jaap Stam ahead of Terry.

Chelsea legend, Terry, fired back with a post on his Instagram story showing his impressive statistics during his career stating that 'stats don't lie'.

Rio Ferdinand placed John Terry as the fifth best centre-back of the Premier League era

Terry was not impressed with his placing in Ferdinand's Premier League defender rankings

Terry fired back with a graphic collating a number of statistics and saying 'stats don't lie'

This led to the war of words on Twitter, with Ferdinand stating that Terry was 'lucky' to make the list following the racism case involving his brother Anton.