John Terry was undoubtedly a tough player, but maybe we didn’t realise how tough until he revealed how often he was injured during his Chelsea career and played anyway.

The 45-year-old had an epic career with the Blues, joining as a 14-year-old in 1995 and leaving for Aston Villa in 2017.

During that spell he made 717 appearances for the west London club and won a mammoth amount of silverware.

The former Chelsea captain won five Premier League titles, the Champions League, Europa League, five FA Cups and three League Cups with the Blues.

Terry was rarely out of the Chelsea side for around 15 years, with injury keeping him out of the team occasionally, but more often than not he says he played through fitness issues.

A lot more often than not.

Terry has made the extraordinary claim that he only felt fully fit for five of the games he played in his Chelsea career, meaning he played with some form of illness or injury in 712 matches.

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