10 Hardest Men Who Ever Played For Chelsea

Ron Harris was sort of like the John Terry of his day (minus, we assume, some of the more unsavoury stuff).

A no-nonsense centre-back by trade, Harris spent nearly the entirety of his career at Stamford Bridge, making just shy of 800 appearances (a club record, to this day) for the team he captained to European Cup Winners' Cup glory in 1991.

By the time he hung up his boots, the Chelsea legend had acquired the nickname "Chopper", such was his aptitude for a bone-crunching, crowd-rousing tackle.

Truly, English football in the 1970s was a very different place - with referees by and large giving the benefit of the doubt to brutish defenders over their victims - but whichever way you spin it, Harris was a proper hard-man.