Chelsea captain John Terry insists he will not require protective strapping on his elbow during next week's Champions League final.
Terry trained yesterday for the first time since being stretchered off with a dislocated elbow against Bolton last Sunday's final match of the Premier League season.
But the England defender maintains the strapping will not be necessary when he leads Chelsea out for their Moscow showdown with Manchester United.
"My elbow is all right," said Terry. "There is just a bit of strapping in case I fall and jar it.
"The last couple of days it has been getting better and hopefully I am going to train without the strapping.
"I have full range of movement. It is a little stiff when I wake up in the mornings but when the physios do a bit of work on it and I do some swimming, it frees right up."
Terry is already looking ahead to facing United in the first all-English European Cup final and says Chelsea will go into the match in great form - despite their 1-1 draw with Bolton at Stamford Bridge.
"We have lost out (in this competition) in the past against Liverpool and Monaco and I really don't want to sit back and say we have thrown it away again," Terry added.
"We have the chance of a lifetime - a great squad of players and in great form at the moment.
"Manchester United have been in good form themselves but we are at the top of our game, we have everyone fit, and we need to take the game to them."
Meanwhile, the Football Association are likely to seek out footage of yesterday's Champions League press conference at the club's Cobham training headquarters after coach Avram Grant called into question the integrity of referee Steve Bennett.
Bennett was in charge of United's final game of the league
season at Wigan and came under fire for not awarding the home side
a penalty for handball and then opting not to red card Paul Scholes
for a second bookable offence when he fouled Wilson Palacios.
Grant said: "In England there are very good referees, but
there are some - a few that you can influence, like you saw."
The FA's normal procedure - where remarks about a referee's integrity are made public - is to initially seek out any video recording of the interview.
If they feel he has overstepped the mark, then the FA will, almost certainly, write and ask Grant for an explanation of his comments.
Meanwhile, the build-up to next Wednesday's showdown continues to gather pace, with Chelsea's £15million striker Nicolas Anelka the latest player to pledge his support to Grant.
The Israeli's future continues to remain in the spotlight despite the Chelsea boss insisting he has a four-year contract as coach.
The club feel they do not have to pander to the whims of the media and provide any further comment on his situation, even though both chief executive Peter Kenyon and chairman Bruce Buck both recently declined to confirm Grant would be in charge next season.
But Anelka, signed by Grant in the January transfer window, clearly has much respect for his manager and claims he is similar in style to Vicente del Bosque, who led Real Madrid to two Champions League titles.
Anelka was part of Del Bosque's team which won the trophy eight years ago and he said: "Grant is good for the players because we don't feel the pressure. He is very calm and very shy. When he speaks to the players, you feel confident.
"Of course I hope he stays. Everybody does. He knows what he is doing and that is why he doesn't speak a lot.
"When you see him from inside, you feel very confident. You know what you are doing. Of course it would be good for him to win but also for the players.
"Del Bosque was shy as well and didn't speak a lot. He wanted to play football, he knew what he was doing and we won with him. They had the same style. They know football, they know what they want."
