GUESTBOOK REPLIES POST-WORLD CUP
Afternoon gentlemen and Sicily it is for first leg of a European tour and what a fair start to the new season. Thought we took it to the 'Pool well in second-half and proved we are not a team that can play a sit on a lead game, no West ham team has ever been. 3 games 1 defeat and 4th place close of day does me fine. Hammers playing like a established quality premiership side these days hence the absence of the club any longer being Ladbrookes pre-season relegation candadites. Under Pards we have a new West Ham and I keep saying it because you can see and feel it that we have a squad that really wants to play in the shirt. Look at Bobby Zamora, theres more than enough strikers at the club but if he was ever the pre-season off load consideration then you are going to have to prize his fingers away from the managers desk, hes claret and blue through and through.
Matthew Brown says he meet big West ham fan Barry on hols in Italy and he cant recall his sirname. No need it was my pal Barry who still lives the 70's and the same Barry who gets through on TalkSport Radio every week and I dont think he has clocked Brazil is on a wind-up talking remember the 70's with him.Same Barry old skool West Ham say is that Barry that run with the Wembley lot, only he lives in Hampshire today and still goes all the games talking 70's funk music and Sundown days, Tottenham Court Rd. Theres a pic of him in the Want Some Aggro? book and he still looks same today. West Ham 4 Life.
Whats and who is the song on opening page pops up from time to time. It is Acarine, the one time hoolie-rap band. song was a proper record once called Cass's Theme. This is a band I help introduce to the scene through several book launches where they got noticed by a few including the makers of Green Street who featured the track 'Stand your Ground' in the movie. To know more go to links and check official site.
Is it possible to get a ICF calling card? A question that regulary pops up on here but I'm sure you will be hard pushed to find a original anywhere as back in the day we had plenty of takers for them. Seriously they were originally thought up as a moniker for the firm that would prove a little earner and set the ICF aside from other football casuals. As time went on the ICF upped the anti a bit and natuarally became serious targets for the police. The media picked up on it and put their slant on it so having a calling card got a bit sinister and the last thing any lad would want to be found in prosession ofwas the calling card.There one on the cover of bestselling book 'Congratulations You Have Just Met The ICF was taken from the only original I could uncover during 18 months research for a book everyone knew about. The one you see me use during a bit of banter with Danny Dyer on Bravo tv's The Real Football factories is a copy from the returned original I use for my media work. I am not surprised there is a interest today as the legend that was the ICF kick started the whole business card mob style for many other famous football casual firms. If you look upon that era as I do that the football casual was probably the last of the working class generations and there is a social culture importance attached. Those calling cards would be sought after museum pieces and much like the rave scene event flyers hold collectable value.
Dan Slider claims he spotted me in audience of the 80's UK wrestling classic's shown recently.Not sure if what he saw was me but give it a maybe as late 80's the Peacock Gym E16 put together the UK's answer to WWF using some right characters from when we all worked the doors together. Be being the writer got the post of program editor and the moniker 'Storyman Pennant'. There were bits of tv but it was never sponsered by tv so ended after a fews years entertainment and a good few laughs on the road. Will confirm it was me in the audience to a scene towards the end of tv firm 'A Head of Class starring Julie Walters shown on ITV early this month for the second time this year.
Where can I get the West Ham Boys Club/Cockney Rejects t-shirts that were sold at the boys live gigs Stratford and Circus Tavern this year is still being asked here. They were a quality design so I understand people wanting one. I can only suggest you guys redirect you emails to The Rejects official site on my links page or enquire at West Ham Boys Boxing Club 0871 984 3896 as best suggestion cos I dunno pal.
New books in pipeline folk are asking but lets deal with the currant from the 2006 list and Tommy Robinson's Mig Down about the Luton Mig Crew is still getting rave reviews from some major major lads around the country as is mine and Andy Nicholls, 30 Years of Hurt. If you havn't read them then its worth ordering them asap as the Mig book will be a collectable in hardback form come winter. It dont matter where you obtain them from your local library would order them for you but the work gone into them is rewarded by the read. Have a butchers on the books customer reviews on Amazon or our own reviews posted here to see why the recco again.
to be continued.......
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