Paine was never properly nasty. None of the team had any truly nasty players. Many of them weren't the best upstairs [and I don't mean heading the ball] and not the fittest either. But they were generally honest and half decent, very hard professionals. If Hollywood or Gabriel lumped anyone into the stand, it wasn't because they were dirty, they just badly mistimed a tackle. Paine was different. He was quick thinking and tricky. If he left his foot in, it was rarely noticed by the ref, plus it saved the team from an awful lot worse. The funny thing about Terry is that he'd do things which bent the rules like kicking ball back to the opposition when a foul had been committed, only slightly too hard, so the opposition player would miss it and have to go and fetch it, and the ref would overlook it. This gave Saints time the regroup. He was clever. Trouble was, the Saints crowd didn't appreciate it. Today we'd laugh and shout yeah. Back then he might even have been shouted at by home fans. But his brain was always switched on, and that I appreciated.
