John Terry admits to being at the centre of a bust-up with Andre Villas-Boas (Up Front With Simon Jordan)

John Terry has revealed that a standoff with Andre Villas-Boas resulted in several young Chelsea players being demoted to economy class during a pre-season trip.

Villas-Boas joined Chelsea in 2011 but lasted just under nine months as manager before he was sacked following a run of just three wins in 12 Premier League games.

Terry, who remains Chelsea’s most-successful captain during his 19-year stint at Stamford Bridge, admits he was unhappy with Villas-Boas’ leadership and has revealed an incident in which the Portuguese, who went on to manage Tottenham, lost out in a confrontation with the senior members of the squad.

‘There’s all these kind of rumours that player power was too big – it wasn’t, it genuinely wasn’t,’ Terry said on Up Front with Simon Jordan podcast.
‘When I was there there were managers in charge, so Mourinho was in charge, anything higher than that Abramovich was in charge, it was very clear for us group of players.

‘Anything in the dressing room was my, Lamps, Didier [Drogba], the senior players’ responsibility to control that, it was very clear.

‘So when AVB came in, I’ll give you a little story, we went to Hong Kong when he was first manager, we get on the plane and I’m sitting in economy on a 13-hour flight.

‘And we’ve got Josh McEachran, Nathan...