Who is this Lenny Mclean guy? Is this the UK's way to try and compete with real gangsters, such as Al Capone, John Dillinger, and John Gotti?
From what I know Lenny hated bullies, his stepdad was a bully, he just became very intolerant of any kind of disrespect. For anyone interested, the book written by his Mrs is a great read, gives some real insight on him from a different angle
why did you leave the force darren?
respect is earned.
Clips from a documentary. Facilitating insights from Lenny- Detests violence. Rolls his eyes at steroid using bouncers of today. Calls them posers not tough guys. Stresses the importance of losing weight to build speed. Laughs at bulked up bouncers that "would take three weeks to get their hands up".Would've loved to have bought him some lemonade and listened to his stories.
If this is Darren , he sure wasnt in the forceWhy did you delete this photo of 'Johnny' Darren?
thats not darren
of course it it isnt, its Johnny.
I don't mean to him directly, if he saw someone getting picked on or bullied he would step in.
Detests violence but ridicules people he doesnt think are tough guys??
I bet he couldnt wait to step in.His whole life and persona was based on hitting people, without that he had nothing else.
That's not really a bad thing, bullies deserve to be battered regardless of how much the bloke doing it enjoyed it and couldn't wait to belt him, the guy being bullied is someone's son/family member and they'd sure appreciate them stopping any harm coming to him.
I think he means the kind of violence where people look for fights when their drugged up or pissed. Bare knuckle fighting put food on the table as he said. It's a bit like batman punishing criminals while himself being a criminal in doing so.Lenny was born into violence and became accustomed to it, doesn't mean he liked it.
Intervening and stopping a bully doesnt require that they beat them to a pulp, Im pretty sure Lennie was more inlined to do that.Born into violence?What on earth does that mean?He chose violence, he could have walked away at any time.Doesnt mean he didnt like it?Go and watch some of his fights and tell me he wasnt enjoying himself.
Maybe not born into it but as a young kid his stepfather battered him multiple times. He was a bully, Lenny toughened up and fought back, others would have gone the other way.Anyway I don't think Lenny was a bad guy and not a bully like some seem to think. I think he might have enjoyed his boxing but not the violence that comes from drunken, drugged up twat's.
correct, they would have gotten over it and applied themselves into becoming well rounded successful and pleasant individuals.A night out with people like Lennie in the group would be a constant knife edge of if he was going to hit someone outside the group or take a dislike to someone in it.I bet he never went home without a story of how he hit someone or threatened someone
Obviously can't speak for Lenny but a good family friend that was top dog in our area for about a decade you couldn't meet a better bloke to drink with, you could pull the piss out of him summat rotten and he took it as a joke and laughed it off, even to the point when someone set his hair on fire and it was so thin there was nowt left, it's generally the wankers desperate to prove themselves something there not who behave in the manner you mentioned, honest mate seen it a million times over.I seriously doubt Lenny felt he had owt to prove
"Top dog" and how does one acquire that status if not by rolling around in the street every weekend instead of enjoying a nice life.Fuck the brawlers and the lowlifes that worship them.