Quote: vastman "Paul Sykes was not a great character, anyone who thinks he was needs help.
Just because he had occasional glimpses of intelligence and thus could write the odd paragraph does nothing to rehabilitate this horrible individual. He was also only an OK boxer, nothing more, a pastime that allowed him to express his bullying nature with little risk to himself.
His only legacy in my mind were the victims he left in his wake, many of whom were far weaker than him. He has no nobility whatsoever in my book.
Why we celebrate the worst in society and not the best baffles me. So some fool wants to make a film about this bullying thug is a disgrace and exploration in the extreme.
Make a film about Neil Fox? Well of course not, decency and real toughness doesn’t sell.'"
Get your point vasty. There was a spate a few years ago where it appeared that every underworld thug during the last sixty years put their memoirs to print making lots of money in the process. I would rank Sykesy in that category. I have s copy of his autobiography, "Sweet Agony", which makes interesting reading to ldentify with the Wakefield locations mentioned, and the names of people who were familiar to me, but the fact that he was deeply involved with under aged schoolgirls put me off any other interests in his life that I may have had.
