hard man

英語ばかりですみません。時期が時期だけに、サポの間ではパーカー・フォー・イングランドなスレが回っていたりするのですが、とある方の書き込みが胸を打ったので、私のためにメモります。ちゃんと大佐のプレイぶりは、サポのハートをつかんでる。今度こそ、長くクラブにいてほしい。
なんかね、パーカーってサッカー選手としてはすごくないのかもしれないけれど、男のありようとして、すごいなあと思うんです。ほんと、いい人に惚れた。

Parker is what a true hardman of football is about. Not the Cantona bull sh1t. Cantona was a nasty fcker, but Parker is hard. He will block anything, tackle anything, throw himself on the line, take one in the face, and just dust himself down and get on with it quite unassumingly. ... that is a proper football hard man.

I for one don't want him in the England squad. ... firstly, Gareth Barry is better at that role, as he's of the same mould, but his distribution is superior, and secondly, I want Parker just to carry on carrying on for West Ham. Stay at West Ham until he retires. He is the integral piece of the jig saw that we're building at the moment, keeping the likes of Collison, Noble and Behrami together. Linking their play up, and rectifying the inevitable errors young players make as they learn their trade.