London UDA commander Frank Portinari tells his story
Anything Goes with James English
Anything Goes with James English
4.5 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Anything goes with James English Ep/101
A Londoner enters a world of guns, bombs and assassinations until the Special Branch of the police and military intelligence step in. Frank's years as a peaceful football fan and Socialist end abruptly when he turns to hooliganism and British Nationalism. In the menacing drinking clubs of Belfast, he takes orders from prominent Loyalist paramilitaries. His crimes escalate until the media and authorities uncover his secretive and dangerous existence. You can contact James English on his social media platforms http://instagram.com/jamesenglish2 http://twitter.com/jamesenglish0 http://Facebook.com/Jamesenglish11
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the OB1 podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | Join me John Obey Michael, the former Chelsea and Nigerian midfielder, |
| 0:10.1 | as I try to the game's biggest names, from X-team-mays to my greatest rivals to some of today's current heroes. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm joined by Chris McCarthy, renowned Sport Brocaster, as we bring you the untold stories |
| 0:21.7 | but on and off the pitch. The in jokes and the |
| 0:24.5 | disagreements will answer the questions you the fans have always wanted to ask |
| 0:29.1 | launched as part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. you can subscribe to the ob-be-one |
| 0:34.1 | podcast now on all your usual platforms. You can also watch every episode in |
| 0:38.9 | full on our YouTube channel at Bobby 1 Podcast. Bover on! Oh girls! |
| 1:03.0 | Today's guess we've got, |
| 1:04.0 | thank you boy poor Tenari. |
| 1:06.0 | How are you? |
| 1:07.0 | A place to mate. |
| 1:08.0 | Good to see you. |
| 1:09.0 | First of all, thanks for coming on the show. |
| 1:11.0 | You sent me your book a while ago last year. Fascinating read. A man who |
| 1:16.0 | grew up in London, a football fan, became football casual, to then running the |
| 1:21.1 | London UDA. A very powerful man who ran organizations, you've been |
| 1:26.4 | charged with guns, explosives, a lot of serious stuff. You know a lot of people who I know, people who's been on the show. |
| 1:34.0 | You've also been on the brother Sean Atwood's podcast as well. |
| 1:37.0 | Yeah, good old show. |
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