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Feeling around the Chelsea camp is apparently that John Terry was not to blame for Saturday's training ground bust-up at Cobham.

Fans have certainly jumped to the defence of the England centre-half, attacking Dutch coach Henk ten Cate.

And reports suggest that Terry isn't the only Blues star to have had a run in with the fiery Ten Cate since he arrived in West London from Ajax in October.

According to Ludovic Giuly, the now Roma winger who worked under Ten Cate at Barcelona, the Dutchman was involved in several training ground spats with the likes of Ronaldinho and Henrik Larsson, where his arrogant and intimidating manner didn't go down well with many.

Nevertheless, Giuly also said his approach could serve its purpose. "The problem at Barca when he left was that we missed the good old rollickings which Ten Cate used to give us when we knew they were needed," said the Frenchman. "He was ferocious but there was method in his mad rages.”

Jeffrey Van As, a former NAC Breda star who played under Ten Cate several years ago, was similarly critical of his methods. "He told me that he didn’t like me as a player and that he was going to replace me," he told The Sun of the Dutch coach's ruthless approach. "When I got injured he brought someone else in and I never played again for Breda.

"But I have to say that every club he has coached have performed worse after he left," he added. “It is a very all-or-nothing way of operating and it only works for a couple of years. There’s no doubt he’s a great coach but he’s also a strange guy.”

source:goal.com