Irish Boxing

thanks Gasman! means alot!! fair play to Kevin, Ashley and Grant too for the help!

This weekend we will be reporting on Mike Perez from Doncaster, Jeff Thomas in Colne with a visit to Chris O'Brien on the way and then a bumper Saturday - Bricking-It Fist, Jason 'the Laois Raven' McCalmon and Patrick Liam Walsh from Huddersfield.

 

Are you going to see young Jeffro in action Slappy?

 

What shows are you attending Leonard? Carlos card is a good one, I like the main event too. And Jeffro returns in that classy Colne venue:good

 

All tickets sold out on his site by the looks of it

 

I heard you supplied the fund for Jeffros shorts BamBam! muy generoso!

Yeah myself and Kevin are going to Colne on Friday - amazing venue espeically is you are on a boxers/officials/journalists ticket.

If you sit on the front row on the stage your knee is basically touching the top rope of the ring - its a real buzz.

We will get plenty of photos and videos etc.

Ashley is going to the Donnie Dome to watch Perez.

Then Saturday, myself, Kev and Paddy C are jumping is the twatmobile and going to Huddersfield.

All good!

 

Kev sits on the edge of the stage with his feet on the apron for his shots

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Then you have an ornate balcony on three sides (and a good bar with a view of the ring if you stand at/near the door) that is so low and close that make you that makes you think you can lean into the ring

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And I sit behind Kev, belting the notes down.

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A good night out - best thing about covering Irish boxing over here is that I only usually cover wan scrap and enjoy the rest of the evening.

 

The last of the £75 tickets aren't online, but they are still available as far as I know. Dudey's brother-in-law, Marty McNicholl (dj martymac) is the man to get in contact with. Get him through twitter/facebook. Or, you can get a hold of him on here, as he has recently joined ESB. He has posted over on the build up thread, created by Laz

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Looks an interesting venue alright. You could jump WWF styles into the ring off the balcony if you disputed any points decision. The only thing I'd be worried about being that close is one of the boxers being a bleeder! You better bring an umbrella in case.

Aye I gave Jeff a few duckets for his kit. Those shorts better be as jazzy as he let on!

 

STEPHEN IRELAND is at the centre of another controversy today after allegedly declaring he would rather "shoot himself" than return and live in his native Cork.

In another no-holds-barred interview, this time for a French magazine, the Newcastle player hasalso ruled out a return to the Irish national set-up, declaring the Ireland set-up as "amateurish" and Giovanni Trapattoni as "arrogant".

The midfielder, who has just moved on loan to Newcastle, also hit out Roberto Mancini, Manchester City and Gerard Houllier in the interview, published in So Foot magazine in France today. Ireland revisited the lies he told about his grandmothers having died back in September 2007 and claimed they were "a pretext".

"International teams don’t interest me. As it is, a season lasts more than 60 matches, so to go off for three days for a game against Andorra, I’ve got better things to do," he said.

"When you’re Irish, you know very well that you’re never going to win the World Cup, and even when I was in the youth teams, it used to **** me off to have to go. Everyone came from Dublin and I was the only one from Cork. I had to take the train on my own, pay for a taxi, there was no hotel, no food, and it was run in a very amateurish way.

"Ireland just reaps what it has sown. We’ve built buildings just for the sake of it, and at the end of the day no-one lives inside them. It costs a huge amount of money and no-one can pay it back. But I don’t care about Ireland. I really don’t know whether I will ever go back there one day. I’d rather shoot myself than live in Cork:yep:yep. I prefer Los Angeles."

Ireland also laid into coach Trapattoni, saying: "I have never seen anyone so arrogant. I met him once, he was on the phone every two minutes and he left me hanging around in this office for a quarter of an hour.

"In the end, he said, ‘If you want to come and play, fine, if you don’t, no problem’. He did that in reality just so the media would leave him alone."

Ireland, who met with a journalist from So Foot magazine, then turned his anger on City and the manner in which he was pushed out of the club. "Mancini never liked me, he wanted his own players, and that’s fair enough. But he’s gone too far, he’s got rid of everyone, even the cook left. The family club I spent nine years with does not exist any more. What’s going to happen when Mancini leaves? Will he take the 50 people he brought in with him? And ever since he’s been there, City’s matches have become as boring as hell. The club has lost its soul."

Last summer, Ireland moved to Aston Villa — only because City stopped him talking to Manchester United and Liverpool, he claimed — but one day after he signed, coach Martin O’Neill resigned from his position, leaving Ireland with a coach, Houllier, who had not chosen him.

"After 15 matches on the bench, Houllier told me to stay at home," he explained. "I would train all week and on Friday he would say, ‘It’s not worth coming, you’re not in the team’. That’s even though I was best player in training, that didn’t seem to matter to him. But I have nothing against Houllier, after all, he wasn’t the one who chose me."

Ireland has moved to Newcastle for the rest of the season but his comeback from injury this weekend could be put on hold after Magpies boss Alan Pardew yesterday confirmed Ireland was suffering from a thigh strain.

"We’re a little concerned about him," Pardew said. "You get that when you come back from lay-offs, it’s something we’ll police between now and Saturday."

 

:rofl:rofl:rofl
seen that the gobby twat was from cobh anyway he can **** off

 

I'd take him not wanting to live there as a compliment. He's a ****ing space cadet. Who'd want to live within 500 miles of the **** anyway

 

Wow, he is so insightful, I can't wait for the biography.

 

trappatoni arrogant?!


hes done something to earn it!


who the **** is stephen ireland anyway - newcastle lol


United - dont make me laugh, they wouldnt let him in the same postcode as carrington

 

Little ****er would need two bullets. probably put the first one wide. I used to think he could be bi polar but hes just a ****in ***** all the time.

 

At least the lad has good taste regards were to live !!!