Petrescu recalls painful fall-out with Vialli

FORMER Chelsea midfielder Dan Petrescu has lifted the lid on his painful fall-out with Gianluca Vialli that led to him being forced to leave the Blues.

Petrescu revealed how his friendship with Vialli broke down after the Italian forward became manager in 1998, just as his relations with other former team-mates seemed to sour.

The turning-point for Petrescu came when he and Gustavo Poyet were left on the bench for the club's Champions League quarter-final second leg away to Barcelona in April 2000.