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HE WAS just 10 and he stopped me at the door. “My name is Francis Foster and I will be a world champion,” he announced. “I will give you the chance to interview me if you like?” Honest, I had not even been at the Haringey Box Cup two minutes!

Little Francis then told me to watch out for Sudbury’s Scott Stannard. It was a good tip, the first of about 50. Stannard lost a tight one to Donagh Keary, smooth boxer from the Rathfriland CC ABC in County Down. Such little gems; typical of

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