Bill Gardner sets record straight in new book | East London Advertiser
Bill Gardner, now 67, in the seventies. - Credit: Bill Gardner "Mr West Ham", one of the UK's most notorious football fans of the seventies and eighties, sets the record straight in a new autobiography. "If I was as bad a hooligan as they make out I’m one of two things: either I’m smarter than every police force in this country or I’m the luckiest person on the planet. And I’m certainly not lucky." At a game in Tiblisi in 1981. - Credit: Bill Gardner Bill Gardner, from Hornchurch, says football saved him from a life of abuse and crime and gave him a family he never had.
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