The Noonans

I used to see Dessie knocking about the pubs of Chorlton a lot in the 80s but don’t think I ever spoke to him. It used to irritate me slightly the way people would act around him, like he was some kind of celebrity. Any slight respect I might have had for him was lost after he stamped all over the head of a straight goer outside the Willowbank that time. No idea what he ran but to give him a bit of credit he didn’t seem to particularly act like a big time Charlie like a lot of these people with a name do.
 
If you want real criminals, i nominate the Mullens. Salford lads, piss all over dom, dez, dame and Delores.
 
Id say that the vast majority of 'gangsters' that are well known are failures. Hence being well known. Noonans...2 are dead and the other unlikely to outside of a jail cell. Not exactly a roaring success at their trade of choice. Coghlan of Stockport has made a good few quid i suppose but still at huge cost in other areas of his life. Its not a v glamourous lifestyle.
 
Blue Mist said:
They didn't run Manchester. What a load of shit.

They were thick fucks. When the nonce Noonan was killed Des Noonan walked into First Bus depot in Cheetham Hill and demanded a double decker bus was put on, free, for the funeral. The Operations Manager, not knowing who Dessy was told him to fuck off. He did.
The real hard men of Manchester were the lads from Salford and I don't mean that fuck Massey.
Keep your head down and graft. If you shoot someone you attract der dibble.
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I was going to make a joke about Andy Burnham running Manchester, but to be fair, he could probably sort out a bus if needed.
 
Blue Mist said:
If you want real criminals, i nominate the Mullens. Salford lads, piss all over dom, dez, dame and Delores.
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The family from Hr Broughton dont go for publicity and dont like their name mentioned. I told one member that his photo was in a book by Paul Ferris. (Glaswegen Gangster).
He was straight on the phone to get it removed from any further copies.
 
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When you know their names and faces, they don’t run shit.

Like the Krays; 50odd years on, they’re still famous for being London’s biggest ever gangsters when in reality they were small-time and playing at it for fame, wanted their names in the press, having that film made of them is the legacy they would have wanted. Gang Stars, not gangsters.

The people who run Manchester (anywhere for that matter) you’ve never heard of them, you’ve likely never seen them. They don’t run around playing cowboys and Indians shooting and stabbing each other like a lot of the inner-city gangs do, and they don’t consent to or get involved in documentaries about themselves… they’re more than likely to be Albanian these days to be honest.
 
Blue Mist said:
Yes the nonce noonan was latfly flauteroy or some other stupid name he invented aka Dominic. He is actually banged up according to Wiki.
It was Damien Noonans funeral that Desi wanted the bus. He died a year before Dessie.
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Just read what Lattlay-Fottfoy stands for, quite clever if true.
 
Ran an Intimidation racked and clubs and pubs had to pay up and have their doormen on the doors, so the Mr big in the drug world could sell their stuff without any trouble, it was easy pickings back then and Manchester was rocking and the birth of the E's. Ecstasy

worked in Sankey soap in the mid 90s, and they had control of places with the salford lads
 
mtinadids said:
Id say that the vast majority of 'gangsters' that are well known are failures. Hence being well known. Noonans...2 are dead and the other unlikely to outside of a jail cell. Not exactly a roaring success at their trade of choice. Coghlan of Stockport has made a good few quid i suppose but still at huge cost in other areas of his life. Its not a v glamourous lifestyle.
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Coghlan was the one I was thinking of but couldn't remember his name. By all accounts pure evil, got off at least 2 murders.
 
m7mcfc said:
The family from Hr Broughton dont go for publicity and dont like their name mentioned. I told one member that his photo was in a book by Paul Ferris. (Glaswegen Gangster).
He was straight on the phone to get it removed from any further copies.
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Fuck ergh I never said anything, (rushes to obliterate my post) carry on nothing to see here.
Blue who ? Never heard of him.
 
Friend of mine had a sister that married into what was a member of the QSG. I went to the wedding in about 1988 and this bunch of apes were sat at a table it was all tats and cauliflower ears with the father of the bride in the middle. There was an aura of menace about them but they were perfectly cordial but they looked like they would not have tolerated any drunken guest approaching (I got warned not to get pissed up and try to get them singing, just stay a fucking way)

The groom ran a few tyre places in Hulme or somewhere and never acted the big time Charlie.
 
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