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On the official site, worth a watch.

Seems like a good guy can't believe he's nearly 65 doesn't look it. I remember as a kid reading interviews with players magazines like match, shoot or 90 minutes and they'd always ask who the team joker was and Chappy the kitman was always the answer!

I absolutely loved that Chappy is a special guy imo and the club will be worse off when he eventually retires.

Legend!!! When he was on about the pay of a kit man and how the players kind of helped in the rise in his pay, made me wonder what kind of wage a kit man would be on? He's not just a kit man though, the club can't underestimate the value of having him in and around the club!! What a guy!!

Loved the idea of his life story but for me more Jonathan Ross interview than David Frost. Definitely Chappy is salt of the earth and City legend. I want to know why Benjani was one of his favourites, did he tell anyone that he was doing a no.1 outfield shirt for David James, who lost Joey Barton's shirt for the Middlesborough away game (Barton would have made his debut), and what was the best underneath shirt we never saw i.e. Balotelli's equivalent of Why always me? we never saw.
If he did an autiobiography I would buy it. Help supplement his salary. A chapter on my life at City with Peter Reid and a chapter on Hughes OCD in the dressing room (keeping it all tidy) would be 25% of the book filled. Gary James time for you to get your pen and paper out.

Was a really nice watch, they could do a series on his years if they wanted.

Jon London wrote:Loved the idea of his life story but for me more Jonathan Ross interview than David Frost. Definitely Chappy is salt of the earth and City legend. I want to know why Benjani was one of his favourites, did he tell anyone that he was doing a no.1 outfield shirt for David James, who lost Joey Barton's shirt for the Middlesborough away game (Barton would have made his debut), and what was the best underneath shirt we never saw i.e. Balotelli's equivalent of Why always me? we never saw.
If he did an autiobiography I would buy it.

I was reading this and agreed with everything - they're definitely the sort of questions that should be asked and I'm sure Les would answer them. There are quite a few stories about the Barton shirt (the official one was that Joey placed the shirt under his chair and when it came to put it on it had gone!), so it'd be good to hear Les's view.

Unfortunately the publishing world would probably not even look at the book idea though. There have been plenty of proposals for biographies put to publishers but they seem to want to focus on the big name, big sales. A major shame.