Gaywood's Peter Mendham tells of the good and bad times
Published: 07:59, 10 November 2019
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LEARN MOREHe was the local boy made good. A Gaywood lad who went to the big city and became a footballing star.
But as his autobiography In His Own Words, Peter Mendham, On The Inside, recounts those good times have been more than counterbalanced by the not-so-good, culminating in him being sent to prison for a terrible knife attack on his girlfriend that nearly killed her.
So we hear about his early life here in Lynn in the 60s and 70s, how he signed up for Norwich City and eventually got his big break eventually ending with him playing in a Wembley cup final for them.