Wilson Palacios may be quite diminutive, humble and unassuming, but he is absolutely hard as nails on the pitch. He has garnered this reputation due to his tenacious style. He's like a little Pit Bull Terrier snapping at people's legs and he doesn't half get stuck in. But he does it in a way that obviously isn't aggressive - he's simply tough. In his time at White Hart Lane (2009-2011), newspaper headlines such as "Wilson Palacios shines as Harry's hard man to give Tottenham an edge" were a fairly regular occurrence in relation to the Honduran international midfielder and Harry Redknapp had this to say about him:
The crowd love him because he gets after it, he loves a tackle, he wins balls. He is a powerhouse. If you were a midfield player, he would not be top of your list to play against because I don't care how good you are, he ain't gonna let you play. When he is after you, he really is after you not in a nasty way but in an aggressive way. He is a Graham Roberts type, who was the last one we had here like that.
Quite the comparison - but a fair one, given Palacios' nature.
