'O Animale'.
That was Pasquale Bruno's fearsome on-park moniker, borne out of a penchant for crunching tackles and the dark arts that were fully apparent in his two years at Heart of Midlothian between 1995 and 1997.
Surely this can't be the laid-back gentleman on the other end of the line, taking in some early evening sunshine in his southern hometown of Lecce, as he picks the bones out of Italian football following their World Cup calamity?
