Pietersen was lobbying the ECB to remove Moores as the relationship between captain and coach deteriorated - but in the end both men lost their jobs.
In the most turbulent spell in English cricket for some time, Andrew Strauss has now been installed as captain and the ECB are desperate for the players to come together and put all the disagreements behind them.
Talk is still rife of a dressing room split amongst the England team, and Flintoff did admit that he was against Pietersen’s desire to get rid of Moores.
“We had a sense of what was happening out in India and the one thing with Kevin, which I’ve said to him, was: ‘As a captain, as a player, I’ll support you.’ The way I played proves that,” Flintoff told media.
“I didn’t want him to finish. I thought he could have given himself time to grow into the role.
“But I couldn’t support him in not having the coach there, because I had a good relationship with Peter Moores, and I was open about that with Kevin, with Mooresy and Hugh (Morris, England cricket’s managing director).
“We don’t want to get into the football scenario where the team gets beat and the manager gets sacked.
“As players we’ve got everything at our disposal, we’ve got the coaches and we’ve got everything we need to perform. We’ve got to take some responsibility.
“To be fair to Mooresy the one thing he’s kept is his dignity. Because he’s a good man. He is a good man.”
Flintoff insists there are no cliques within the England camp, and says he and the rest of the players will be fully behind Strauss as he takes the helm for the tour of the West Indies.
“Straussy wanted everyone to get together so if there were any problems it could be done and dusted before we meet up. There weren’t. It lasted about 45 minutes, then we had lunch and went home,” said Flintoff.
“I’m not sure there was much of a problem to begin with. There obviously was between the coach and the captain but everyone else was fine. I don’t think something like that should ever happen, but it’s done, isn’t it, and you need to move on pretty quickly.
“I get on well with Strauss. He’s actually a good man. He’s his own man. We’re very much chalk and cheese, but we get on fine. He’s the brunt of the jokes sometimes, so we’re going to have to tone that down.”
The Lancashire all-rounder was, of course, captain himself for the disastrous Ashes tour of Australia, and Flintoff is adamant he never wants to lead England again.
“When Vaughany [Michael Vaughan] came back in I was glad to go back to the ranks,” he said.
In the front of 50, overs champions Australia, India batting collapsed at Guwahati,
