please log in to view this image Well Scotchies ... who the **** is Paul Ferris and is his life story worth watching ?
Paul Ferris is a well known Glasgow gangster. The film is no bad, they've changed quite a few things in it though to make it appeal more as a film. Give it a try would be my advice.
Pal says its alright, but I don't trust his judgement. Enjoyed his first book, although as with most criminals you need to remember a lot of its either fabricated or had arms and legs added on.
Some of the stories in the papers have been funny though, trying to portray him as some sort of working class hero
He was a hitman in the documentary I saw. Maybe I underestimated you in your use of the word 'legend'. You generally come across as the type to use it as a compliment. But I suppose you do have your more eloquent moments. However, a person cannot be a legend, as a legend is a story. He could be 'legendary' though.
You come from a country that glorifies the great train robbers and the krays. Not to mention that you yourself come from gunchester.
I'm not proud of Manchester's crime. Nor do I revere the likes of the Krays. They are interesting though. I'm not even from Manchester anyway, I'm from Salford, which is much 'arder.
Ferris was Hit Man (or knife man) for Arthur Thomson, the so called Godfather of Scottish crime. I've neither seen the movie nor read the book because I fear it will be similar in tone and content to Jimmy Boyle's book A sense of Freedom which had more fairy stories than Hans Christian Andersen. Jimmy Boyle was not as bad as they made out, he was a misunderstood and wronged man, like Ferris. I've no doubt Boyle and Ferris are "Decent" blokes who never harmed an innocent, just like they make out. Then again maybe they were not very nice people who would knife you for a fiver.
