The Guv'nor: The Autobiography of Lenny McLean

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Many more followed, and they adopted Blake’s visual language for their covers: black background, glowering headshot, menacing quote ( The Guv’nor’s was ‘I look what I am – a hard bastard’).

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He was offered a fight with professional boxer David "Bomber" Pearce, the hard-hitting British heavyweight champion from Newport. To be honest this was another book I picked up on a whim at a book sale, without reading too much about it. looks like a nice well written, well told story, but now question is where is the monster which we encountered in the movie "My Name Is Lenny"? He expressed the rage resulting from his abusive childhood with such abandon that it often took several men to separate him from his defeated opponent, gaining him the nickname "Ten Men Len" because of how many men were needed to restrain him.

In his extraordinary autobiography, he tells of how the Mafia flew him to New York to take on their greatest bareknuckle boxer in a multimillion pound illicit bout.When she recovered, she gave Lenny an ultimatum to stop drinking or lose his family, which seemed to have worked. The fight films, like out-takes from the Sweeney yet grimily, viscerally authentic, are up there on You Tube. But Lenny was also a warm, big-hearted grizzly bear of a man, whose main weakness was an overwhelming desire to put the welfare of his mates ahead of his own well-being. The man who took no s**t from anybody but was the 1st to look out for you if you deserved it, a smack on the chin if you deserved that too!