The Wee man

Funny enough was wondering about Glasgow,after Pud's wonderful Olympic thread then saw a show from Kevin Bridges(very funny) and watched 'The Wee Man' last night was gonna bring it up but ye did it for me.I never heard of him so googled him after film and seemed like a nice guy but I liked the Rangers angle and if anyone asking 'ay wid' Clare Grogan,just saying.
 
Mick O'Toon said:
Funny enough was wondering about Glasgow,after Pud's wonderful Olympic thread then saw a show from Kevin Bridges(very funny) and watched 'The Wee Man' last night was gonna bring it up but ye did it for me.I never heard of him so googled him after film and seemed like a nice guy but I liked the Rangers angle and if anyone asking 'ay wid' Clare Grogan,just saying.
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So should it be


rangers daft paul ferris ?
 
Straight to DVD. Usual Glasgow pish.

Look instead for Peter McDougall's Just a boys game. It's from the late 70's early 80's and stars Frankie Miller. One of the best takes I have seen on West of Scotland violence and the futility of it.
 
Ferris is a taig from Blackhill...so I'm told, so, as Tina hasn't posted yet:

Up the ra
 
DevAdvocate said:
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.
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Jimmy Boyle's book was pretty good, I thought. Main point being, he changed his ways, stopped being at war with the world, got himself an education, and found another way to live. Bit like John McVicar. Whether being law abiding made either of them any less of a bastard deep down is open to debate.
 
Moses McNeil said:
Straight to DVD. Usual Glasgow pish.

Look instead for Peter McDougall's Just a boys game. It's from the late 70's early 80's and stars Frankie Miller. One of the best takes I have seen on West of Scotland violence and the futility of it.
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Aye I remember it well, that and The Bevellers <ok>
 
Archers Road said:
Jimmy Boyle's book was pretty good, I thought. Main point being, he changed his ways, stopped being at war with the world, got himself an education, and found another way to live. Bit like John McVicar. Whether being law abiding made either of them any less of a bastard deep down is open to debate.
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Boyle claimed to have been innocent of the murder he was convicted for. He still does.

He's a liar.
 
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