Keith Bell South Shields



I was once playing tennis with my mate in the West Park, Belly pitched up with his missus and was playing on the adjacent court
About 10 minutes later he shouted over to me to give him a game as he eloquently put it "she's f***ing shite"

He was shite anarl but I didn't think it was appropriate to beat the bloke that was at the time, the town's most notorious hard man, so I threw a game for the one and only time in my life

Self preservation has always been high on my agenda - even as a 15 year old

To be fair to Belly, he remembered that for years afterwards and always spoke to me whenever I saw him from then on
 
OLDROKERENDER said:
I heard that happened at Clegwell. He was well capable of that mind, scariest teacher I ever had :lol:
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we had a few nutter teachers at clegwell , 1 lad wanted the toilet in PE and teacher wouldn't let him, so he had to pee himself . only the lads dad was hard and came up to school and whacked teacher, next time we had PE teacher had a black eye :D some of us laughing and we got cross country run and the lads dad got done with assault.
 
sima-hebburn said:
we had a few nutter teachers at clegwell , 1 lad wanted the toilet in PE and teacher wouldn't let him, so he had to pee himself . only the lads dad was hard and came up to school and whacked teacher, next time we had PE teacher had a black eye :D some of us laughing and we got cross country run and the lads dad got done with assault.
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I went to Springa and we used to have regular scraps with Clegga.
 
Always heard mental stories about him back in the day. I used to play five a side at Bolingbroke Hall and they still talked about finding sawn off shotguns in the heavy bags. Lived a couple of doors down from Billy the lad he attacked in the barbers when I was a young un. Never really had any run ins with the BOSS lads, played cricket with Flanny late80s, early 90s at Shields. Was always a good laugh but a few of my mates got hidings off them upstairs in OZ once or twice.
 
Butcher's Coat said:
Was "Spiny Norman" with him?;)
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I remember a 'Norman Skinhead' a Mag - who always had a cigar in his mouth - in the 70's.

Was it Bell who had a Doberman Pinscher and cut it's ears to look like a Nazi camp dog?
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No, but they wrongly named in a book as having something to do with it
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I think it was in the Sunday Times(?) where they were listing the organised hooligan groups of each club - BOSS & the Washington Redskins(?) were listed for SAFC - they might have used the book as their source.
 
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Weremuthe said:
I remember a 'Norman Skinhead' a Mag - who always had a cigar in his mouth - in the 70's.

Was it Bell who had a Doberman Pinscher and cut it's ears to look like a Nazi camp dog?


I think it was in the Sunday Times(?) where they were listing the organised hooligan groups of each club - BOSS & the Washington Redskins(?) were listed for SAFC - they might have used the book as their source.
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I can’t remember Keith having a Doberman, he cut his staffie’s ears off tho. He had a crocodile at one point, and 3 goats. Used to see him walking down bamburgh ave with 3 goats in towe.

Not sure how the BOSS ever got linked to Sunderland, they had no connection with football from my memory.
 
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