DOUGIE BRIMSON

After leaving behind an 18 year career in the Royal Air Force and stepping into a future which looked at best bleak, at worst, boring, Dougie decided to build a career on the one thing he had in his favour; a secret something only a few people had any inkling of. For aside from a life in uniform, he had also led a double-life as a football hooligan.

So why did an obviously intelligent military man willingly take part in tear ups on the terraces? And how did the life lessons learned from a punch in the face take the former Sergeant from unemployment to best-selling author and writer of one of the most successful British movies of the Noughties?

Yet this isn’t a simple story of ‘boy made good out of bad’ it’s a tale about the power of self-belief, the confidence in an idea and conclusive proof that a negative past doesn’t have to define a negative future.