John Terry – It's the players fault that AVB got the sack

The Chelsea rumour mill was saying that it was the differences between Andre Villas-Boas and the veteran players that were the cause of his problems at Stamford Bridge, but after Frank Lampard stood up in his defence John Terry has also announced that it was not the managers fault.

He thinks that if the players had carried out his instructions to the best of their ability, then they would have won more games and saved AVB’s job.

“I’m still in contact with him – like a lot of players here – and probably will remain that way,” Terry said.

“He won’t be forgotten. It’s disappointing, really, because we would have loved things to go on and he had a vision and a plan and, unfortunately, that gets cut short with disappointing performances from us.

“At the end of the day, we’re the ones out there performing and we weren’t performing as well as we could do.”

“The perception from outside is that there are problems in the football club, senior players run the club, it’s controlled by us, we make decisions,”

“It’s really not the case and hasn’t been since I’ve been at the football club.

“Initially, when Roman came in, he spoke to the players and wanted advice as he was new to football, he took that on board. Now he’s got the right people involved and people he can rely on without the players, which he does, and they make the decisions.”

Well said John, as far as I’m concerned the players should concentrate on doing their job on the pitch and following the managers instructions. You can’t have lots of chiefs but no Indians!