Am finding some great articles in my quest to uncover the truth!
This is a great one:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/mike-walters-meets-roy-mcdonough-1267370
Mike Walters meets Britain's dirtiest footballer, Roy McDonough, who was once sent off for planting a kung-fu kick into Tony Pulis's ribs
Now 53 and dabbling in property in Spain, McDonough can offer a generation of football's hard men his heartfelt advice from the splendid isolation of his natural habitat - the early bath.
In his caveman's rampage through seven clubs, he saw them all. And he wasn't impressed with the competition.
"Vinnie Jones? He was a bully. I wish I could have played against him every week," scoffed McDonough. "Roy Keane was the last of the real hard men, ully. I inst ed as n, the last of his breed. I look around the Premier League now and there are no warriors.
"Where are the big, brave sods who will put their head in where it hurts? I wouldn't follow most of them into the chip shop, never mind the trenches.
"Look at Joey Barton - he got a 12-match ban for losing his rag, but he isn't notorious because he's hard. He has become notorious for being a p****.
"Hard men don't go spouting off on Twitter or quoting Greek philosophers to make themselves look intellectual, they get stuck in.
"If Barton was as good as he thinks he is, he would score more goals, win more tackles and he would put a few more opponents through the advertising boards.
"But his idea of a fight is scrapping outside a takeaway, isn't it?
And I would love five minutes on the pitch with John Terry. Anyone who walks on the pitch with his socks pulled up above his knees is asking for it.
"I was glad they took the England captaincy off him. In a flat back four sitting deep across their own 18-yard line, his mates will always make him look good, but if you isolate him - like the Germans did at the World Cup - he is like a fish up a tree.
"Terry is just another bully. He would have disappeared down the nearest hole if he had played against Billy Bremner, Dave Mackay, Norman Hunter, Tommy Smith or Stuart Pearce at his peak... they were real hard men.
