Andre Villas-Boas' ill-fated spell at Chelsea appeared to be doomed before it had even started.

John Terry has revealed the 46-year-old lost the dressing room during pre-season in 2011 - leading to a boycott from Blues legends.

Villas-Boas was hailed as the second coming of Jose Mourinho having led Porto to league, cup and Europa League glory in the 2010/11 season.

But he lasted less than a year at Stamford Bridge, with the west Londoners going on to win the Champions League and FA Cup in the months that followed his sacking.

Speaking to talkSPORT host Simon Jordan on the ex-Crystal Palace owner's Up Front YouTube channel, Terry recalled an incident where Villas-Boas looked to assert his authority over the club's senior players.

He said: "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.

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"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.'

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