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Livingston manager David Martindale claims watching gangster flicks lured him into life of crime

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Livingston manager David Martindale claims watching The Sopranos helped send him off the rails. The football boss grew up in gangs and was jailed for supplying drugs – but turned his life around behind bars.

Martindale has insisted TV shows that glamorise mobsters are partly to blame for enticing young men into crime.Speaking to BBC One Show reporter Raphael Rowe on the Second Chance podcast, he said: “Sitting as a youngster watching television: The Godfather, The Sopranos, Blow.

These are all films we watched growing up on the telly that, to us, were the be-all and end-all.“These were successful people and this is how you became successful.

You go back to football casuals, gang fighting. [In the] late 80s, early 90s, these were the hype and these were the films we watched.“So, indirectly, by watching these films, it probably fuelled your fire to be successful in the same manner.

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