He's certainly no wild animal or hard man, like some of those weapons over the park claim. I suspect he wouldn't have last 5 minutes in yesteryear, with truly hard men doing hatchet jobs and snarling all over the pitch and meting out revenge in the best way possible. Imagine him up against Vinny Jones, or Roy Keane. Or being up against Pshycho Pat.
He's just a snide, and not a hard man. He never fronts it, and he'd get slapped down in no time if he did - hence he does the coward's tricks of sly bites, pinches, stamps, rakes etc. He then shows himself up to be the ultimate puff by feigning injury. Seriously, can you imagine this fella in the 70s or 80s here?
I can only liken him in-part to someone like a David Speedie, who was a snarling, dirty-trick playing little mingebag. BUT - even Speedie had a genuine hardness about him, and he'd give as good as he got if it came to fronting it up.