YOU CAN CALL HIM AL
Nov 19, 2020
4 minutes
Steve Bunce
@BigDaddyBunce
Voice of boxing
THIS is a story of a forgotten man in British boxing, a journalist, a fixer, a mixer and ducker and diver during a time of great change, conflict and hate in British rings.
Al Hamilton has a bit of the Forrest Gump about him. He was there, you missed him, he made it happen, you never knew it. Hamilton has an e-book out now called Frostbites on Fingertips. It covers his life in Britain after leaving Jamaica for London in 1962 and it can be brutal in parts.
Hamilton writes about the New Cross fire, Desmond Douglas, the Brixton
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