It is fair to say those are three words that many Manchester United fans would use to describe the character of our iconic club captain Roy Keane.
But is that now an outdated assessment?
The Irishman shocked football supporters earlier this year when he surprisingly entered the world of social media, with an official Instagram account that has now racked up 1.4million followers.
While his early work hinted at the hard-man character that is often defined by the public – his second post showed him fighting off two opponents who were strangling him by the throat!