MerseyFighters4

Latest instalment of the pretty outstanding Mersey Fighters series of boxing books. Even more lives & times of Liverpool’s boxing heroes. Nov 2022 🥊 🥊

[Brian Phillips @brianphillips_7]

I asked for sponsors to help out , I advertise the business, tax reducible and all that. No one wanted it, got a message of a boxing man.Sent me something towards medicals and licence doesn’t want nothing back or nothing for it just helping to help. Wow!Thank you for these people

[MerseyFighters4 @MerseyFighters4]

@chiamakaafc Ian callaghan. World cup 66. Fa cup 74. League title 76. European cup 77. Pipe down.

[MerseyFighters4 @MerseyFighters4]

@JamesSurowiecki Hahahahahahahaaaaaaa

[Kevin Van Valkenburg @KVanValkenburg]

Soccer twitter is great, I am sad I wasn't plugged into it previously. Fav a few tweets, share a few dumb opinions, and now my timeline is like:

Russell Westbrook and DK Metcalf could defeat Brazil's current squad with 6 months of training, particularly since Brazil is no longer a team of creative Catholic heathens; also the Americans have 11 Erling Haalands in every mid-size Ohio town but many of them will never make it because they have to pay club fees so they're instead forced to play power forward in the MAC, and America's loudest soccer voice is like "Shareholders see this as a good return on an investment, if you disagree you are woke."

[MerseyFighters4 @MerseyFighters4]

@AlexiLalas Wow.

[MerseyFighters4 @MerseyFighters4]

@AlexiLalas It is free. Bar subs. Pretty much everywhere. Except the usa it seems. Stop showing such outright exceptionalism and open your mind. Difficult for an american i know - but you are the exception not the norm. For once acknowledge that ffs.

[Kevin Van Valkenburg @KVanValkenburg]

This comes up every four years and I have some actual insight to this very phenomenon. In 2016, I profiled Josh Norman for ESPN the Mag. He was — at the time — inarguably one of the best corners in the NFL. He got invited by Zlatan to come watch a PSG game, so I tagged along as he went to Paris. We got to watch training a few days before the game, and at the end of training (practice for you Americans) the PSG guys invited Josh to jump in and play a bit.

Josh was an elite NFL corner and a huge soccer fan. He’d played some soccer as a kid too so he wasn’t just a novice.

It was comical how much the PSG guys had to slow things down to make it fun for him. It was like the scene in Friday Night Lights (the TV show) where the Panthers goof around and pretend to tackle little kids. That’s how elementary they had to make it. The tried to feed Josh to “score” a goal and it was almost condescending how much they had to pretend it was real soccer.

Afterwards, someone handed us an American football. In one of the most surreal experiences of my life, I spent 15 mins throwing passes to PSG players. It was equally comical. Honestly I’ve seen something as ridiculous as David Luiz trying to catch an American Football. It didn’t just bounce off his hands, it *exploded* off his hands.

At some point, the skills do not translate. You would need to live it from a young age. Americans love to tell themselves they could be good at soccer if they only cared.

Maybe they’d be better if they started young enough, but I’m not convinced it would be 6-3 WRs and there is no chance it would be LeBron or Kobe or anyone 6-8; there is a reason the best soccer players world wide are mostly under 6 feet.

Either way, plugging “athletes” in and arrogantly assuming they’d thrive at soccer would never ever work.

[MerseyFighters4 @MerseyFighters4]

@StanCollymore Run to the ground from the airport. Its not close. At all.

[Roberto Parrottino @rparrottino]

Marcelo Bielsa: “Jugar cuatro tiempos en lugar de dos altera la concepción que culturalmente se había construido para interpretar el fútbol. No le agrega nada y le quita mucho. Cuando se dividió en cuatro no se pensó en el efecto que puede tener sobre lo que hizo que el fútbol sea un deporte que enamora, sino que se pensó en otro tipo de repercusiones que no las discuto ni las analizo. Antes de esta decisión el fútbol tenía una característica; ahora tiene otra. La gente se enamora del juego por sus características”.

[kirkdale abc @Kirkdaleboxing1]

Oct 9th Smith v Fowler undercard….Willis v Charlton #PintSizeSlayer #KRS

[Rick Reeno @VersaceBoxing]

👀Watch before the Olympics ends: Kabir Chibber's feature documentary about making the cut, only on https://t.co/JBtPqIeIs5 #Boxing

[MerseyFighters4 @MerseyFighters4]

Good luck @jazzadickens10 #GTWSS

[Ron Lewis @RonLewis_]

This Olympic Boxing tournament has been brilliant. Incredible turnaround since Rio and all the problems there. Got to give credit to Morinari Watanabe and the Boxing Task Force for getting it done in almost the difficult circumstances. And, of course, the boxers #boxing

[Kal Yafai @iam_yafai]

This is why you can achieve anything! Just over 5yrs ago @galal_yafai was working @ Land Rover. Within 6 mths of joining @gbboxing he qualified for Rio 2016. Euro silver,Euro games bronze,Commonwealth games gold & now in the Olympic final! Super proud!
Let’s go dream chasers!!🥊

[Paul Barrow @paulbarrow1]

@RonLewis_ Quality right the way through the whole tournament, largely decent refereeing and the scoring has been so refreshing after the absolute nonsense in Rio. Considering boxing was so close to not having an Olympic spot it has been incredible.

[longlaneABC @AbcLonglane]

Great to see the gym so busy again tonight the work these young boxers put in their commitment is their every session we will be ready for the season to start well done all keep up the good work 👏👏🥊🥊

[Rick Reeno @VersaceBoxing]

Jazza Dickens inspired to fulfill world title dream at the expense of Kid Galahad: https://t.co/26JoglVnOM @JazzaDickens10 @KidGalahad90 @MatchroomBoxing @EddieHearn @DAZNBoxing @TrisDixon #boxing #GalahadDickens2 🇬🇧🥊🇬🇧

[Kal Yafai @iam_yafai]

Yeessssass!!!!! @galal_yafai in the Olympic final!!!!! My bro!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[MerseyFighters4 @MerseyFighters4]

Got to keep going - even when you’re enroute to Manchester for work. Kenny’s story not gonna write itself is it?! Good one too. Sparring with @Glenn_McCrory as a young man. Turned pro in USA. Featured in one of most viewed fights on @YouTube Now a regular sight at most NW shows.

[MerseyFighters4 @MerseyFighters4]

@Warriordodson Hey. I’m only 51.