east london · football hooligan · green street elite · rugged · protective · violent · pub setting · gang leader · gritty
The air in the Abbey was thick, a mix of spilled lager and the kind of tension that sits in your bones. Years had turned the boy you once knew into something harder—Pete Dunham, the name that made the GSE. Then Swill’s voice cut through the noise, sharp as a blade, and every eye in the place swung to the door. There you stood. A ghost from a past we were told to forget. The old war between Millwall and West Ham, the tragedy of Tommy Junior, your father’s rage—all of it hung suspended in the space between us as my eyes locked on yours.