Boxer turned bouncer Viv Graham was one of the northeast most notorious hard men.

It was huge, you were strong, we could take anybody out.

Not many men on earth could match Viv Graham.

But his life of violence led to his downfall.

Why did it happen?

Why did they do that?

How did Viv Graham build an empire?

It was the power, the presence, the aura. And who was he, really?

Gangster, the story of Viv Graham.

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Hello again, getting you through the Christmas period,

which is not, Martin's laughing because we've just stopped doing the previous...

I wasn't expecting you to do that again now it was good

I love the pretense of it morning so second rows is on the agenda for today. So 1970 to 1995 to remind you of the rules and

then 95 to the modern day. I'm just trying to look through I think David Lloyd's combined the two.

Oh let's blow my mind down I'm gonna have to go through that in a minute.

Oh no hang on right right so David Lloyd's second rows from the old era will be Alan Martin and I put Derek

Quinnell in the second row which I quite like is an option because he played there

a little bit okay it's not necessarily the way, but we can move players.

Oh yeah, yeah, no.

Carl officers have done the same.

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