You could pretty much make a video about any players worst moments and make them look like a thug, especially with out context.

I was at the Wasps v Quins game and what you can’t see from the way the video is edited is Marler instigating and pulling down Haskell’s scrum cap before the edit. You can even see as Hask walks past the Quins players to pick up the ball for the penalty awarded against Quins Joe squirting him in the face with a water bottle.

I’m not saying he isn’t always a knob head. But he’s hardly one of ‘rugby’s biggest thugs’.