Wild Cats

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The series was broadcast on Discovery's Quest channel in the UK in April 2014 (S1) and July 2015 (S2).

The West Ham firm was co-founded by Cass Pennant in the 1970s and garnered a sinister reputation for leaving a business card on the fans they attacked that read: “Congratulations, you’ve just met the ICF. The likes of Gene Hackman, Mickey Rourke and Jaws actor Richard Kiel were all said to be in attendance. In his book Wild Cats, he claimed the hooligans rocked up at Woodford Football Club after an ICF member was supposedly battered unconscious in the audience.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Rich in colourful characters and chaotic, often violent events, the book charts robberies, dog-fights, rape, furious vendettas and the frequent brutalities of prison life.

His lavish funeral was emblematic of the Cockney culture that is being displaced by mass immigration. One of the most feared men in the country was sent running by West Ham's notorious football hooligan firm during a boxing fight, a former gangster has claimed. And the story about McLean and the famous actors apparently running for their lives was recently speculated about on Youtube channel The Enquirer 1.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. With unique access to ‘faces’ who have never spoken in front of cameras before, author and former member of the Essex Boys firm Bernard O’Mahoney takes us on a journey through crime culture that gained notoriety in the 60s and brings it right up to date with gripping and emotional tales of a modern day British gangland. Danny Wollard was born and brought up in London's East End, and is one of the most well-known and recognisable faces from the underworld. One of the East End's most notorious gangsters, Danny's life has been one filled action, danger and villainy.

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If they could have got hold of Billy Williams they would have killed him – quite deservedly, I thought, as he had taken a terrible liberty. It is told by one of those men himself, Danny Woollard, who recounts his early childhood days in Manor Park, and tells how, through a sense of youthful exuberance and adventurousness, he became embroiled in a life of 'crime and time', leading to an 11-year jail term. Published since September 1843 to take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress. Blighty | Cockney funerals Buried like kings Danny Woollard was a notorious gangster from the East End of London. According to Danny, legendary McLean, who died of lung cancer in 1998, faced more drama earlier in the night when his rival Barry Dalton supposedly pulled a gun on him.