To be fair THPP, he was a really nice geezer with a very good sense of humour, cool in old money.
I was in a bit of a strange place at the time and when he came into the Green Room and we were introduced I said to him “I’d like to meet your agent Rylan, hardest working bloke in showbiz, you’re...
It was 6 years last Friday since I stood on the edge of the main road in Worthing working out which car to throw myself in front of.
As low as things get, as bad as they seem, there is help and you can get through it.
Anyone on NSC struggling please contact me, we can talk, and it’s a huge...
Older NSCers might recall former England skipper Bryan Robson at Manchester United was the original exponent of this, although with a slightly different MO.
He’d spend much of the warm up ‘bantering’ with the ref, even sometimes putting his arm round him at the toss us. The first half would...
On top of this there is now a very strong rumour that Eubank Senior has been sectioned under the mental health act, in light of Senior’s perceived ‘demons’ over Michael Watson, the death of his second son Sebastian last year and the fact that the Eubank camp knew about the drug test failure last...
That was before Kinahan ended up on the FBI’s most wanted list, I think the whole landscape has changed.
My gut feeling, might be wrong, is that Benn will end up the Lance Armstrong of British boxing, so far out in the cold they will have to thaw him out just to interview him.
I take your point, but I just feel this may be the straw that breaks the camels back, the sport has literally been dragged through the mud by Hearn and Benn, rather than accepting the BBB of C’s ruling yesterday they effectively stuck two figures up at the governing body trying to make out they...
That was almost 7 years ago, this week’s shit storm, even though they apparently knew about it in August, will have far reaching ramifications for the sport.
They will want and need a scapegoat, Benn ticks all the boxes.
By how long for if Benn gets banned?
And when he does come back will he have the same career trajectory as Michael Barrymore?
In the brave new world of 21st century sport will the major broadcasters even entertain him with this stain on his character?
UFC beckons?
Liz Costa told me on air at Saltergate (long time ago) that if he ever cashed out to foreign owners she would immediately stop supporting the club.
Back then this would have been on a par of George Best giving up women.
Personally I’d wait and see.