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8. Bily Whitehurst

If you don't know Billy Whitehurst, then you haven't come across the hardest man in the modern history of English football - at least according to both Razor Ruddock and Vinnie Jones (and they should probably know). A Yorkshire native, he apparently supplemented his earnings through bare-knuckle boxing and inevitably built a cult following on Newcastle. Joe Allon fondly likened him to the Hulk, and the broad striker protected him on the pitch, The two socialised, and on one occasion some bouncers took unkindly to Billy's presence and when they suggested he left the establishment, he flattened all four and went back to his pint. Whitehurst himself related a tale from his tale at Oxford when he'd had a fight in a pub that had left a hole in his cheek and his nose hanging off ten days before a game. Rather than cry off, he played, and took a punch to the face from the 'keeper, splitting his wound and re-opening the hole in his cheek, which the club doctor tried to staple shut. He went back on and played the whole game.