The Devil - Liverpool Gangster Stephen French tells his story

Anything Goes with James English

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Stephen French, a former gangster nicknamed `The Devil', who grew up in a Liverpool blighted by the Toxteth riots of 1981, and became one of the country's leading underworld operators who earned his fearsome reputation by Taxing and beating up drug dealers.

Stephen who stands at 6.4 ft was a British,European and world champion kick boxer who would stand up to anyone. Stephen has had multiple attempts put out on his life and was shot, stabbed and set on fire. Stephen appeared on Danny dyers deadliest men after releasing his book the devil and that enhanced Stephens reputation even further. Stephen now at 60 years old gives his first interview in 15 years and his most explosive as he wants to clear the air on a few topics.

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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.
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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. Boom we're on and today's guests we've got Liverpool Stephen French.
1:05.6	First of all Stephen I just want to say thanks for coming on the show.
1:08.0	Thanks for having me.
1:09.0	How are you brother?
1:10.0	I'm pretty good you know pretty good.
1:12.0	I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity.
1:16.3	It's the power of social media, yeah right? One of my followers was one of your
1:21.3	followers got in touch with me and he's hooked us up and I've seen some of
1:26.0	your stuff yeah right and they're calling you yeah the English Joe wrong
1:30.6	fantastic yeah I've did that any day. Let's see if we can get it up to 10 million,
1:36.1	yeah definitely and you've got a very fascinating story. You own the streets of Liverpool in the
1:42.1	80s 90s to earn the reputation where people call you the devil, the tax man, you've been in prison, people have tried to shoot you, setting fire, you've been a world champion kickboxer, you've got a lot of stuff going on just now with
1:56.5	personal issues which will all touch on. You're very well known. I've had countless thousands of
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