The Guv'nor: The Autobiography of Lenny McLean

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Lenny McLean died of cancer on Tuesday 28th July 1998 - one day before his book went to No 1 in the bestseller list. So packed with adventures, bouts, rucks and amazing stories was Lenny's life that it would have been impossible to fit his whole life into one book.

He’d been a wild kid imprisoned for armed robbery and once he’d got inside, his depthless rage at authority meant that he couldn’t get out.

Born in East London in 1949, Lenny McLean grew up in an area that had been ravaged by the Second World War. Excellent book couldn’t put it down ,pitty we haven’t got men around like Lenny now the streets would be so saver .

It’s clear her parents loved their children and each other, despite their various issues, and this does come across in the many anecdotes in the book. In 1992, McLean was working as the head doorman at the Hippodrome in London's Leicester Square, when he ejected a man named Gary Humphries, who suffered from serious mental health problems and was reportedly on drugs, streaking through the nightclub, urinating on the floor and harassing women. A book leaves our collection of over seven million titles and begins a new chapter every two seconds, enabling more goods to be reused. What I respect about Lenny is the fact that he’s not a bully, he won’t hurt weak people and he wouldn’t let it happen in front of him.

In October 2017, The Guv'nor Revealed – The Untold Story of Lenny McLean by Thomas and Lee Wortley was released. His stepfather was a drunk and was violent towards him, his brothers, and his mother and he claims it was the reason he could summon so much hate. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

McLean was featured prominently in a television documentary on nightclub security staff, titled Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope. Roy Shaw on the other hand did have ten fights as a pro under the name Roy West, and was by all accounts something of a prospect before his life took another turn – hence his being able to hold his own with much bigger men like Lenny.

The man who’d given me Lenny’s number also told me a very funny story about the time he met the guv’nor. When the fight began Roy was hitting Stander with everything he had, and Stander was just laughing at him. He died shortly afterwards on 28 July 1998, in Bexley, London, [16] a few weeks prior to the release of the film. The Guv’nor concludes with Lenny beating a dubious murder rap at ‘the Bailey’ and the discovery of the cancer that will kill him – poignantly, a final holiday sees him unable to lift his suitcases from the boot of a cab. According to McLean's autobiography, his name was useful for the smooth progress of various criminal dealings, and to warn off members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Mafia.