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The New Guv'nor
- Stormin' Norman Buckland
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
'He's the toughest street fighter alive.' (Freddie Foreman)
Picture a man, he’s tall, not excessively so, yet as wide as he is high. This man is a spitting and growling street brawler; a tank full of ready-to-blow, muscle-fuelled aggression. Imagine, if you will, the comic-book style Bulldog of Great British stamp. Well, there you have him! The prototypical face taken from the terraces of an ’80s football fan’s rolled-up newspaper cosh; a poster-boy of malevolence left over from Thatcher’s post-punk Britain.
Stormin’ Norman’s his name, and when this storm is erupting, he’s like a force-nine gale fused with a hurricane. In his heyday, Norman saw off a plethora of gangland minders and with his own style of hands-on education taught Glasgow’s prolific hit man, Billy McPhee, the laws of the Guv’nor’s land.
He’s the Godfather of Aylesbury, former British Bare-Knuckle Champion, and undefeated European Boxing Federation ‘Guv’nor’. The loveable lunatic with the heart of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Yes, this, my accidental friends, is the new Guv’nor. He is the man who rebuked many a heathen but was also everyone’s friend, and for all the right reasons. So, settle in with your favourite tipple, and let us regale you with a lifetime of fronting the doors, serving at Her Majesty's pleasure, righting wrongs and brutal bare-knuckle tear-ups.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-04-22
Fantastic
first time I see buckland was fighting on unlicensed boxing for Guv belt and just thought he was a wannabe gangster ... he speaks so well and polite you would never think he was aggressive out the ring ..so glad I got this book coz I know now buckland was not a man to get on wrong side of ..loved it 👍👍
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- Richard Woolhead
- 16-02-22
smashing and gripping from start to finish
highly recommend this book its gripping and mind blowing but yet hard as nails also soft as Teddy you learn the real side to norman the guvnor buckland
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- nigel screen
- 07-10-22
The new guvnor not as good as the old guvnor
It's ok and the guy is clearly a legit hardcase and has lived the life.
The book is ok but falls short of lenny mclean's guvnor book
There are better books out there and in fairness there are worse
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-06-23
storming!!
what a story! listened to whole thing in two sessions. would love to meet the legend that is the new guv'nor
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- Gareth B.
- 29-05-22
Awesome
Loved it, couldn't stop listening once I started! Norman tells a good story! Nice1
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- Jonathan rawlings
- 30-07-24
True and sincere
Although I’m not a big fan of the narrator the story as whole is brilliant. I’ve known Norm personally for over 25 years and I think it’s quite admirable how honest he is about his life and how he is as a person. So many hardmen exaggerate and make up stories so their lives make a better story, Norm didn’t do that and actually left out quite a few things that would make good reading but that’s not Norm. Definitely worth a listen.
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- John Oxley
- 12-06-22
Storming!
My kind of book absolutely loved it, the gentleman had a very tough trot but through it all he had a heart of gold and to boot an animal lover too.
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- tony knowles
- 08-01-24
The governor
What an amazing look in to the life of a true legend.Once I picked this book up I couldn’t stop reading it.
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- Jo ryan
- 03-06-22
Absolute drivel
By far the absolute worst I’ve listened to ever.
Chapter after chapter of the idiot bigging himself up. Couldn’t get past chapter 10.
And as for narration…think very poorly acted hardman and add the word “cunt” ever second sentence.
Complete and utter rubbish.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-09-22
What a load of tosh
Absolute waste of time. Awful book. Don't waste you time or money. I'm amazed it ever got published.
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