The Top G World Cup

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Here at The Post, we pride ourselves on watching things so you don’t have to: interminable council debates; city region press announcements; episodes four and five of The Cage. And we also keep an eye on all the influencer trends plaguing our fair city. 

One that’s risen to prominence recently is that of “the G.” Once standing for “gangster”, the “G” is anyone who’s adopted a vaguely Tony Montana aesthetic, affected (or earned) a “hard man” persona, and can project these traits towards social media stardom — either on their own platforms or each others’ “true crime” podcasts. 

We’ll admit, it was a discussion on Reddit that piqued our interest in this recently — though it’s something we’ve covered before. And so, with everything getting a bit serious of late, we decided we’d spend a Wednesday afternoon pitting all of the city’s social media tough guys up against each other.

Not all are actual criminals, we ought to keenly stress. But we had to find out: who is Liverpool’s top G? In honour of the actual World Cup, read on to find out our favourite tough guy personalities, the ones we have to thank for Liverpool’s undue rep as an eccentric crime-ridden dystopia. 

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Without further ado, brace for the Top G World Cup....

Quarter finals

Darren Gee vs Sam Walker 

For reputation alone, Darren Gee has to be one of the tournament favourites. Twenty years ago, he and his brother Daniel turned the Grizedale estate into something resembling the Hamsterdam open-air drug market from The Wire. Now, he’s a regular feature on YouTube, bringing clicks to channels like “Scouse SitOff” and Weston “Bad News” Hughes. 

One of his main rivals is Liverpool Echo favourite Sam Walker. Sam first hit the headlines in 2018 after fleeing to Sierra Leone to escape, and then mock, Merseyside Police. With over 130 offences, Walker certainly has the street cred, and has leveraged it into a successful TikTok operation with 140k followers.

These two were actually meant to meet up for a straightener last year, but the in-person barney never materialised. (Sam was recently detained in Vietnam for unknown reasons.) In our virtual tournament opener, Sam impresses early on with his wily use of TikTok, but he’s a little too polished for our criteria. Darren’s record — someone Merseyside Police set up an entire task force to deal with back in the day — carries him through. 

Winner: Darren Gee with a controlled substance performance.

Billy Moore vs Sicarius McGrath

Billy Moore, who Laurence profiled and upset a few months back (see Moore’s unseemly Facebook rant below), is a self-styled citizen journalist who now spends his days travelling to Dunkirk to film migrants in the channel, having originally built a successful podcast on the back of his time in a Thai jail. Sicarius McGrath, as well as having the better name, is also the harder of the two, as evidenced by an Echo headline in 2016, describing him as a violent “Silent Assassin” pimp who kept wads of dirty £20 notes with his pet snake. No, Moore can’t boast a track record that exciting (not even the time he missed his own film premiere because he was busy being locked up for burgling his neighbour) but where he really comes into his own is with his online status. Put simply, Moore has simply better leveraged his persona into appearances in Reach PLC headlines and getting other hardmen to appear on his podcast. 

It was after a spate of tragic killings a few years ago that McGrath became most prominent, bemoaning the lost “moral code” of the ganglands. But he has since faded in the background, failing to appear in an Echo headline since 2024 (‘Scouse gangster wanted to carry out deadly terror attack - but one thing stopped him’). Moore, meanwhile, goes from strength to strength, with 400k subscribers, recent Youtube hits like ‘GLASGOW: This bloodythirsty scum came at me from behind’, and the most recent Echo appearance just a few weeks back, when he was filmed scrapping with Jamie Carragher’s brother in a David Lloyd gym. He breezes into the semis.

Winner: Billy Moore at a canter

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