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John Sweeney....... He is a bit mad....... John Reardon one time Picture Editor of the Observer was shocked to discover I'd been working with Sweeney in Bosnia.......... 'I thought you meant the Serbs when you were talking about the enemy' he joked...... 'of course you must obviously have meant Sweeney' :)

He really is mad check this out.................... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlPu6pbv05g

I shot some heavy things with Sweeney (see image above)...... we did pull it all off fine, did great work and got on well had a laugh........ I like him a lot...... but he was capable of doing slightly crazed things........ making you think he might just cheese off some of those drunken irregular soldiers (see above) to the point where we both might die......... :)

Anyway I think he might have survived the trips to Serbian held Bosnia...... and grim war zones all over the world........ only to be killed in London or Manchester......... I hope not obviously but....... he is releasing an unofficial expose all about Wayne Rooney....... Rooney's Gold ............ Rooney is only Britain's top hope for goal scoring in the world cup....... er....... and yeah Sweeney is releasing his book...... right on top of the World Cup itself ......... can't help feeling Sweeney really is gonna cop for it......... from some crazed revenging Rooney fan............... Rooney has tried to stop this book being published...... the footballer had this book held up for 3 years by his legal team...... one publisher has washed its hands of the project already....... I talked to a fleet Street Editor who said the legal issues hanging over all that meant they would not publish any of it...........

Anyway, I hope that me ol' mate survives all this without too much trouble or legal drama...... Good luck Mr Sweeney ....... oh..... and.....er...... Hope you are not so annoyed by this book that it puts you off your game Mr Rooney....... :)

Summing up the book, the bookâ€™s publishers said, "Rough, working class, surrounded by an unlikely crew, including a dodgy agent, a crooked lawyer, tarts and gangsters, Rooneyâ€™s Gold looks at the characters who have been attracted to the fabulous money Rooney gets for kicking a pigâ€™s bladder around a field."

I remember once as we were leaving Serbian held Bosnian territory and crossing back into Croatia ............ We were leaving the Bosnian Serb lines into no mans land between the opposing militaries...... Sweeney starts yelling "F You Colonel........ F the lot of you...... blah blah....... out of the window back at the Serbs........ it was an amazing outburst (see the You tube link above)...... I felt sure they would either rake the car with automatic fire immediately .......... Or we would discover at the next checkpoint we were actually still in Bosnian Serb held territory that last checkpoint was only the last but one....... and of course the Press Colonel would have rung ahead to have them make ready for us.

Yeah that crazed yelling from the car at well armed Bosnian Serb forces renowned for their cruel ruthlessness....... with me in "What the hell are you doing!;" mode........ yeah....... its one of my abiding memories of working with Sweeney ..... I'd never seen anything quite like it :-/ :-) :-))

So now I have a vision in my head of Sweeney yelling F-You Rooney out of a car as it speeds away but this time with hundreds of thousands of England football fans in angry pursuit :-/ :-) :-))

Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

PS......... In fairness to John Sweeney....... I was checking out the vids of the Sweeney looses it incident...... this one is a lot fairer...... and reflects much more the reality of what John is really like : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwTDvfjcUJU

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