Football: ‘Players share blame for Villas-Boas exit’

LONDON: Chelsea captain John Terry admitted that his teammates must accept a share of the blame for the departure of manager Andre Villas-Boas after less than a year in charge. The Portuguese coach became the latest Chelsea manager to be shown the door by owner Roman Abramovich after a sequence of poor results left the club outside the top-four and struggling to stay in the Champions League. Terry admitted that the poor performances of Chelsea’s players were as much to blame as anything else. “Sad for Andre, because unfortunately it falls on his head when I think the players would hold their hands up and say, ‘Clearly, we’ve not been good enough and we all made mistakes together’,” Terry told Chelsea TV.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 9^th, 2012.