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Now Porto President, where did it all go wrong as a coach, he had so much potential?
It’s hard to think of a club more entwined in the murky world of global capitalism than Chelsea. They’re owned by an American hedge fund, bossed by a clueless billionaire, and weasel out of financial pickles by selling hotels to themselves. | |
But it could have been so different if freewheeling revolutionary Andre Villas Boas had his way. | |
Back in 2011, the new Chelsea boss chose a pre-season flight to Hong Kong to kick off his Marxist revolution, telling his squad “everyone's the same” and that youth and first team players would share the first class seats, with some of the club’s biggest stars sitting in cattle class. | |
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But as John Terry squeezed into his economy seat between a wailing toddler and an obese bloke with a bag of Doritos, Andre’s utopia began to crumble. | |
Terry recalled this week: “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’”. | |
After an ideological showdown in the aisle, Villas Boas bowed to the old elite and shunted Terry back to first class. | |
"Because I promise you” JT explained, “the plane would have gone without myself, Frank and Didier." | |
Villas Boas was sacked within a year… |