I didnt stay awake for the boxing last night, i just couldn’t. I had swine flu and it was horrible, but waking up this morning it seems to have gone, so that’s good! Either that or i was just too tired to keep my eyes open. Its one or the other…… You tube showed me the fight this morning and i have to say it makes tragic, disturbing viewing. It must have seemed like a sparring match to Paquaio. Our boy Ricky walking relentlessly forward, no head movement, no guard of any notable resemblance. Happy days for Manny, he didn’t have to do much, he landed with over 60% of the punches he threw. A super fight over in less that 6 brutal minutes. Where too now for Hatton? Surely a domestic fight with Junior Witter in front of a packed out Manchester Evening Arena would be the ideal send off. I think his days topping Las Vegas fight nights have passed.
Today could quite easily be the worse day of my year. The other dirty, filthy, red half of Sheffield could be promoted to the Premier League. Its a truly horrible, sickening th0ught for me. Most of the people i know support them and if they do it my phone wont stop all night. I’m praying they don’t do it. Sadly i think they will……….
Feeling quite under the whether today, the other half has had a stomach virus that i now think I’m the disappointed owner of. Chest tight, feel sick. It’s rubbish.
Toodlepip….
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Kick it up the arse…
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I don’t gamble anymore, but i still love to watch the big horse races, and today was the first classic of the season, the 2000 Guineas. Anyone who watches will know that John Francome is a great commentator and very funny. In one of the build up races they where loading them up when Purple Moon decided he wasn’t going into the stalls, Francome came out with “It only needs a kick up the arse and in it will go, its just being stubborn” to which he was quickly told “you cant do that anymore” Quick as a flash Francome comes back with “Yeah that’s the reason the country is in the state its in” Never a truer word spoken. When someone else said he was a grumpy old sod, his reply was “i wonder who your kids are out mugging” Brilliant !! If you are not familiar with John Francome look him up, he is an ex top class jockey, but is now a commentator, columnist and author. Very funny man!
I now find myself in the month of reckoning, 11 days and i am fully committed to never smoking again and commencing a year long training plan to run the London Marathon in 2010. I am getting more excited by the day, i have had my fill of my rotting away lifestyle. Ill be 30 next year and i don’t intend to be dead or close to dying at 50. 5 years ago i was the fittest i have ever been, around 16 stone, biking 8 miles round trip to work every day and having an active job. I want to feel fitter, to feel more alive to not feel held back by the constraints of being so unfit that when i walk to the shop I’m ready for a sit down. Its pathetic!!
Tonight sees the biggest fight of Ricky Hattons life, his fight with pound for pound the best boxer in the world Manny Pacquaio is a super fight. Pacquaio is a super star, his is currently being hyped up to one day be the future leader of his country Vietnam and who would doubt it. Hatton will have his work cut out but if he can stay in the fight i think his size will show through and he could force a knock -out in the later rounds. Good luck Ricky!!
Toodlepip…
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