Don't know what's happened to Hamilton over the years. 'Laughing stock' just about covers it. He's not greatly loved in his home town of Stevenage either, after he slagged it off and called it a slum town. Considering it was created in the mid 50's (I was an estate agent there back in the 70's and 80's so know it very well), there are no areas that could be considered 'slum' even today. With all the success he has had, he has never bothered to return or give talks to kids in schools etc, and he would possibly have had a statue erected in his honour at some point, but now he's just a nasty smell in the town.