Back in the day when the hatchet men ruled the roost in both football codes, Chris Jones ran a reign of terror in the name of a rugby club in the Rhondda.
Liverpool had Tommy Smith, a defender of such granite quality that Bill Shankly swore he had been ‘quarried’ not born. Ron ‘Chopper’ Harris of Chelsea and Norman ‘Bites Yer Legs’ Hunter at Leeds completed a trio of hard nuts at a time when the French had cornered that particular market in rugby.
Their monopoly disappeared once Jones got to work for Treorchy over 12 riotous seasons from the early E...