THESE ARE EXTRACTS FROM AN ARTICLE IN THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH SPORT TODAY BY MICHAEL HENDERSON
"Now boxing is a working man's sport. Some of its chroniclers, the AJ Lieblings and George Plimptons may have been summa cum laude types, but the chaps who do the fighting, come from different stock. Yet here were thousands of working men, most from the Manchester area, capable of spending, in one frantic week, a significant slice of their income"
"And how did these representatives of the island race behave? Pretty much as usual. They got pissed, and then even more pissed, and booed the American national anthem, which is never the wisest thing to do. But then the getting of wisdom is beyond these people. They learnt their manners inside our football grounds, where vile behaviour is held to be the highest social honour "
" Extraordinary, isn't it? Only England- sluttish urban England- can produce "working" people able to spend thousands of pounds on a transatlantic jaunt that advertises vulgarity the rest of the world finds disgusting. And we want to host the Olympics"
" A pal of mine visited Hyde before the fight, to interview Hatton, and came across a local shop called , simply, " Food and Booze" Does one laugh or cry? This is part of Manchester where a letter writer to this paper revealed five years ago, reading a book in public could be interpreted as a provocative gesture, and repaid in violence. Cry, I think is the answer"
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