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7. Craig Bellamy

Not exactly on the Billy Whitehurst scale of hardness - or flat out mentalness - but the Welsh pocket-rocket was a terrier of the oldest order. He apparently loved a bit of a fight, which was handy as his big mouth often got him in some serious trouble - picking ones with Alan Shearer, John Carver and Graeme Souness at Newcastle, and hitting Jon Arne Riise with a golf club at Liverpool. To say his social skills were a little impaired would be an understatement. The biggest credential - aside from his dogged, fiery spirit that meant he'd never back down from anything (including an argument with a referee when the inevitable outcome was a yellow card) was that he didn't care the size of his opponent. Consider the three he stood off with at Newcastle alone and you've got definitive proof that it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the fight in the dog that really matters.
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