This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. And the And today's guest we've got Johnny Steele.

Thanks for coming on the day, John. I'm just going to tell people a bit about your story.

You've spent over 20 years in prison, made successful prison

escapes, and you've obviously had a bit of a mad life up and down through, put on the

streets at Glasgow. So people are interesting to hear your story in what you've been through because I know you've got a book out called

The Bird that Never Flew. Yeah, that's connected. So we're just going to write back to the start where you were born and

where all the madness kind I started with.

Yeah. Well I was born in a place called Canton, East End of Glasgow, which was as far as I was concerned with one of the greatest places on Earth.

I didn't really know nothing about poverty back in the day.

Even although we were of poor stock, but yeah, as a kid, life was never poor.

There was always plenty of things to do.

And I was up to mischief.

A good place you shouldn't you go over the railway track, into the dog track or into the coal mines and you know coming back pot black and

mott gone mad. It's steady you I need. Scrubbed up for still tomorrow. But all in all life was good back in

day and can't time. My dad was a safe blower and I never seen much

you have back in the early days because he was always out in prison.

And when he did come home, live in the house

can I took on a different rapport, because, you know,

the set times that you'd be back in here for 7 o'clock and don't be doing this and don't let me

catch you climbing dikes, you know, the high jumps in the old dites back in the day.

Don't let me catch you climbing train pike and don't dare this and don't dare that and you're

no man life is no worth living when this guy's saying the don't but that's when we

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