No Love Lost for This Romeo, a Cut above Even the Truly Tough Players; NAME-CALLING: Going on Gooily the Last Thing on the Mind of AC Milan, Juventus, Roma and Italy Hard Man Benetti

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Byline: Alun Rees

IT would be nice to think that Mr and Mrs Beckham's naming of Son No 2 was an entry into the debate on hard men engendered by the recent perturbations in the life of Roy Keane.

While the names of such adepts at putting themselves about as Graeme Souness, Jimmy Case and Vinnie Jones were being bruited, Ma and Pa Beckham went for Romeo. Doesn't sound hard: usually evokes images of lovestruck youths going on gooily about girls.

But this Romeo, on his day off from going on gooily, was a tough. The greatest fencing reporter of all, William Shakespeare, immortalised the way he turned things round as a sub in the famed swordplay match between Montague United …