Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
John Wark, another properly hard bástard.

Noddy would get fired in, as well, and he appeared to be made out of rocks. He was never damaged.

Were there any hard men after that? Steve Williams, I suppose. Ince didn't fúck about. It was the next generation, Vieira and Keane, that lot, who were emasculated by referees.
Perhaps it's also the decline of Scotch football that's had an effect? There's no longer a conveyor belt sending an endless supply of Pictish psychopaths south of Hadrian's Wall to wreak havoc among sassenach midfields.