Jimmy the Weed: Inside the Quality Street Gang by Jimmy Donnelly

Jimmy the Weed: Inside the Quality Street Gang by Jimmy Donnelly

Author:Jimmy Donnelly [Donnelly, Jimmy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Autobiography, Biography, Criminals & Outlaws, Criminology, Organized Crime, Social Science, True Crime
ISBN: 9781908479013
Google: 13E8DgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B006DIBEGM
Publisher: Milo Books Ltd
Published: 2017-03-01T00:00:00+00:00


THE SUMMER OF 1982 saw us back in Spain. The World Cup was being played there, and the Scotland team lodged in a hotel about a mile from Puerto Banus. Despite having a strong squad, they were knocked out in the early stages. Some of the players stayed on for a few days to soak up the sun and drown their sorrows and I met up with two of my pals from Manchester United, Joe Jordan and Gordon McQueen. They came in Patrick’s Bar in the port, along with Frank Gray, Kenny Dalglish and a couple of others. We had a good day watching games on the TV and later moved onto the patio. The players were still sick about getting knocked out and everyone was getting pissed.

At about six o’clock in the evening, Kenny Dalglish’s wife arrived. She was in a shocking mood and screamed at Kenny about drinking. He told her he would be home later. With that she picked up a drink and threw it over him. They had a stand-up row and in the end Kenny walked off, with his wife following, still giving him verbal. Later Gordon McQueen told me that Kenny was a non-drinker but had broken out and started drinking a few months earlier. The rest of us carried on and I ended up having a good few days with my Man United pals in the port and on the Sherama, a yacht bought by Jack Trickett.

Living in the port on the boat was great, we could have a night out and then invite people back for a few drinks. We met the film actor Ronald Fraser and he spent a bit of time with us on board in Puerto Banus. He was a wise man, and told nonstop jokes. He had stopped drinking on doctor’s orders and liked to smoke a spliff instead. ‘I am going into the galley, Jimmy, for a herbal Woodbine,’ he would say. He would not smoke in front of others but told me that it helped him after years of being alcoholic. The entertainer Des O’Connor was another regular in the port bars. When he got up to sing in Duke’s Bar, everybody would pile in to hear him. It was electric at times.

But you know what they say about all good things.



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