Speaking on Up Front With Simon Jordan, former Chelsea captain John Terry opened up on how tensions started early with Andre Villas-Boas who arrived at the Blues in the summer of 2011.
"When AVB came in, we went to Hong Kong I think when he was first manager, we got on the plane and I'm sitting on economy on a 13-hour flight.
"And we've got Josh McEachran, Nathaniel Chalobah, a couple of other young players, all in first class.
"And this was part of AVB going, 'No player is bigger than me, everyone's the same.'
"It turns out Lamps [Frank Lampard] is flying out first class and I'm flying back first class, so if you fly out at home in first, you come back in economy.
"But basically it wasn't good enough, so I'm going, 'No no, we're not going anywhere until these young players go back in economy, and the first team players that have built this club to where we are today go back in first.'
"And we're on the plane, people are up and down, AVB comes up, 'What's the problem?', I'm going, 'Well we're not going anywhere until the young players move.'
"And to be fair to the young players, they're going, 'Listen JT, this is really uncomfortable, we will go back.'
"I'm going, 'No no, it's not your decision, he [Villas-Boas] has to own it', so this is one of his first things in front of everyone.
"In the end it spins, so all first team players fly first, younger players go back in economy, that's how it should be.
"These younger players are striving to be where we've got, and he tried to make a statement on day one and he failed instantly.
"Because I promise you, the plane wasn't going, and if it was going, it would have gone without myself, Frank and Didier [Drogba]."
The struggle between Villas-Boas and the senior players at Chelsea continued right until the Portuguese head coach was dismissed in March 2012.
Roberto Di Matteo took over as a caretaker head coach, and the rest is history.
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