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golden_labrador wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 10:15

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 09:18 It’s a sad day when these people can’t earn a living in the sport but absolute melts like Charlie Parsons can nick a living pushing Dazn 5 per cent discounts and asking prescribed questions. Scum thrive and real journalists struggle. Very sad.

yep. poorly disguised PR is gradually replacing proper journalism. maybe this and the rise of AI articles will finally make us shell out $$$ for real journalism and writers, wherever it ends up.

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 10:36

golden_labrador wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 10:15

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 09:18 It’s a sad day when these people can’t earn a living in the sport but absolute melts like Charlie Parsons can nick a living pushing Dazn 5 per cent discounts and asking prescribed questions. Scum thrive and real journalists struggle. Very sad.

yep. poorly disguised PR is gradually replacing proper journalism. maybe this and the rise of AI articles will finally make us shell out $$$ for real journalism and writers, wherever it ends up.

I hope so. I don’t care if BN costs £20 I’ll buy it. I’d rather read Oliver Fennell and co than these bunch of teenage drips running after Eddie complimenting him on his clothes and Carl Froch begging Saudi money. Absolute scumbags.

golden_labrador wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 11:39

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 10:36

golden_labrador wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 10:15

yep. poorly disguised PR is gradually replacing proper journalism. maybe this and the rise of AI articles will finally make us shell out $$$ for real journalism and writers, wherever it ends up.

I hope so. I don’t care if BN costs £20 I’ll buy it. I’d rather read Oliver Fennell and co than these bunch of teenage drips running after Eddie complimenting him on his clothes and Carl Froch begging Saudi money. Absolute scumbags.

100%

these cringey, fawning, sycophantic bantz interviews kill me

forcefraser wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 12:30 I'd be more inclined to call Parsons an arse rather than scum. He isn't scum.

Scum is the housing estate chav from three generations of dole dodgers that thinks robbing an old granny rather than working for a living is fair game.

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:00

forcefraser wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 12:30 I'd be more inclined to call Parsons an arse rather than scum. He isn't scum.

Scum is the housing estate chav from three generations of dole dodgers that thinks robbing an old granny rather than working for a living is fair game.

I’ll respectfully disagree and call them scum. They are part of the same machine that has not once asked a question about Kinahan, Saudi sportswashing, Barry and Epstein, all the PED failures, they get paid to push a pre written narrative.

I’m from the housing estate ilk you speak of and take that on the chin. I left school at 15 and have never been out of work and not taken a day sick despite having two bouts of cancer so I’m not defending anyone who is workshy. But it’s interesting that you assign a higher moral shortfall to those people than people who deliberately cheerlead narco terrorists and global corrupt elites. The word I’d use for my fellow housing estate people is bone idle and ill educated.

Your term of chav I’d be interested in to understand what you mean by it.

I’m not trying to Segway this genuinely interested.

golden_labrador wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:31

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:00

forcefraser wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 12:30 I'd be more inclined to call Parsons an arse rather than scum. He isn't scum.

Scum is the housing estate chav from three generations of dole dodgers that thinks robbing an old granny rather than working for a living is fair game.

I’ll respectfully disagree and call them scum. They are part of the same machine that has not once asked a question about Kinahan, Saudi sportswashing, Barry and Epstein, all the PED failures, they get paid to push a pre written narrative.

I’m from the housing estate ilk you speak of and take that on the chin. I left school at 15 and have never been out of work and not taken a day sick despite having two bouts of cancer so I’m not defending anyone who is workshy. But it’s interesting that you assign a higher moral shortfall to those people than people who deliberately cheerlead narco terrorists and global corrupt elites. The word I’d use for my fellow housing estate people is bone idle and ill educated.

Your term of chav I’d be interested in to understand what you mean by it.

I’m not trying to Segway this genuinely interested.

well said. I spent my first few years on a housing estate and didn't think his comment was worth responding to, but you sum it perfectly. he's probably typing that while marching in London with his mate Tommy/Stephen whatever

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:46

golden_labrador wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:31

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:00

I’ll respectfully disagree and call them scum. They are part of the same machine that has not once asked a question about Kinahan, Saudi sportswashing, Barry and Epstein, all the PED failures, they get paid to push a pre written narrative.

I’m from the housing estate ilk you speak of and take that on the chin. I left school at 15 and have never been out of work and not taken a day sick despite having two bouts of cancer so I’m not defending anyone who is workshy. But it’s interesting that you assign a higher moral shortfall to those people than people who deliberately cheerlead narco terrorists and global corrupt elites. The word I’d use for my fellow housing estate people is bone idle and ill educated.

Your term of chav I’d be interested in to understand what you mean by it.

I’m not trying to Segway this genuinely interested.

well said. I spent my first few years on a housing estate and didn't think his comment was worth responding to, but you sum it perfectly. he's probably typing that while marching in London with his mate Tommy/Stephen whatever

Thank you. I don’t know Fraser and wish him no ill will. But I’d be interested to know if he grew up on the estates he so maligns. I was raised on a council
estate and a caravan park for two halves of every year so don’t take the jibes personally. I get it. I’d be interested to know if he has lived on an estate though. I think it affords you more perspective if you did. He uses cheap barbs and I’m not sure he has lived that life. I did. I never had any desire to live it forever but don’t view those who do or did with derision. My Ma lived in a council house all her life. I think it’s a sad myth that it’s a group of workshy dodgers. More than half of people who live in social housing work. It’s a really boring but real fact. I’m happy to post the source data if he wants to come back to me on this. I just think this narrative is typical of people seeking to punch downwards.

And like I said I’m not a beggy lefty, I have given my life and health to give my family a life I never had, but I just don’t take pleasure in pissing on people with less. Living on an estate where you’ve not been raised great doesn’t make me want to condemn the people who live there.

As for the Tommy Robinson and Reform types, god help you.

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:46

golden_labrador wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:31

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:00

I’ll respectfully disagree and call them scum. They are part of the same machine that has not once asked a question about Kinahan, Saudi sportswashing, Barry and Epstein, all the PED failures, they get paid to push a pre written narrative.

I’m from the housing estate ilk you speak of and take that on the chin. I left school at 15 and have never been out of work and not taken a day sick despite having two bouts of cancer so I’m not defending anyone who is workshy. But it’s interesting that you assign a higher moral shortfall to those people than people who deliberately cheerlead narco terrorists and global corrupt elites. The word I’d use for my fellow housing estate people is bone idle and ill educated.

Your term of chav I’d be interested in to understand what you mean by it.

I’m not trying to Segway this genuinely interested.

well said. I spent my first few years on a housing estate and didn't think his comment was worth responding to, but you sum it perfectly. he's probably typing that while marching in London with his mate Tommy/Stephen whatever

Thank you. I don’t know Fraser and wish him no ill will. But I’d be interested to know if he grew up on the estates he so maligns. I was raised on a council
estate and a caravan park for two halves of every year so don’t take the jibes personally. I get it. I’d be interested to know if he has lived on an estate though. I think it affords you more perspective if you did. He uses cheap barbs and I’m not sure he has lived that life. I did. I never had any desire to live it forever but don’t view those who do or did with derision. My Ma lived in a council house all her life. I think it’s a sad myth that it’s a group of workshy dodgers. More than half of people who live in social housing work. It’s a really boring but real fact. I’m happy to post the source data if he wants to come back to me on this. I just think this narrative is typical of people seeking to punch downwards.

And like I said I’m not a beggy lefty, I have given my life and health to give my family a life I never had, but I just don’t take pleasure in pissing on people with less. Living on an estate where you’ve not been raised great doesn’t make me want to condemn the people who live there.

As for the Tommy Robinson and Reform types, god help you.

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 09:18 It’s a sad day when these people can’t earn a living in the sport but absolute melts like Charlie Parsons can nick a living pushing Dazn 5 per cent discounts and asking prescribed questions. Scum thrive and real journalists struggle. Very sad.

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:46

golden_labrador wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:31

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:00

I’ll respectfully disagree and call them scum. They are part of the same machine that has not once asked a question about Kinahan, Saudi sportswashing, Barry and Epstein, all the PED failures, they get paid to push a pre written narrative.

I’m from the housing estate ilk you speak of and take that on the chin. I left school at 15 and have never been out of work and not taken a day sick despite having two bouts of cancer so I’m not defending anyone who is workshy. But it’s interesting that you assign a higher moral shortfall to those people than people who deliberately cheerlead narco terrorists and global corrupt elites. The word I’d use for my fellow housing estate people is bone idle and ill educated.

Your term of chav I’d be interested in to understand what you mean by it.

I’m not trying to Segway this genuinely interested.

well said. I spent my first few years on a housing estate and didn't think his comment was worth responding to, but you sum it perfectly. he's probably typing that while marching in London with his mate Tommy/Stephen whatever

Thank you. I don’t know Fraser and wish him no ill will. But I’d be interested to know if he grew up on the estates he so maligns. I was raised on a council
estate and a caravan park for two halves of every year so don’t take the jibes personally. I get it. I’d be interested to know if he has lived on an estate though. I think it affords you more perspective if you did. He uses cheap barbs and I’m not sure he has lived that life. I did. I never had any desire to live it forever but don’t view those who do or did with derision. My Ma lived in a council house all her life. I think it’s a sad myth that it’s a group of workshy dodgers. More than half of people who live in social housing work. It’s a really boring but real fact. I’m happy to post the source data if he wants to come back to me on this. I just think this narrative is typical of people seeking to punch downwards.

And like I said I’m not a beggy lefty, I have given my life and health to give my family a life I never had, but I just don’t take pleasure in pissing on people with less. Living on an estate where you’ve not been raised great doesn’t make me want to condemn the people who live there.

As for the Tommy Robinson and Reform types, god help you.

steve689 wrote: ↑17 May 2026, 06:20 A disappointing development, but not entirely unexpected. I was talking to Tris ringside at the Crocker-Donovan rematch just after I'd been let go by Boxing News and he had industry-wide fears.

We can all see the direction it's travelling in. I'm happy just tinkering around on Substack again, doing a bit of podcasting. Hopefully, these guys get picked up somewhere.

forcefraser wrote: ↑17 May 2026, 03:33

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:46

golden_labrador wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:31

well said. I spent my first few years on a housing estate and didn't think his comment was worth responding to, but you sum it perfectly. he's probably typing that while marching in London with his mate Tommy/Stephen whatever

Thank you. I don’t know Fraser and wish him no ill will. But I’d be interested to know if he grew up on the estates he so maligns. I was raised on a council
estate and a caravan park for two halves of every year so don’t take the jibes personally. I get it. I’d be interested to know if he has lived on an estate though. I think it affords you more perspective if you did. He uses cheap barbs and I’m not sure he has lived that life. I did. I never had any desire to live it forever but don’t view those who do or did with derision. My Ma lived in a council house all her life. I think it’s a sad myth that it’s a group of workshy dodgers. More than half of people who live in social housing work. It’s a really boring but real fact. I’m happy to post the source data if he wants to come back to me on this. I just think this narrative is typical of people seeking to punch downwards.

And like I said I’m not a beggy lefty, I have given my life and health to give my family a life I never had, but I just don’t take pleasure in pissing on people with less. Living on an estate where you’ve not been raised great doesn’t make me want to condemn the people who live there.

As for the Tommy Robinson and Reform types, god help you.

I''m from Lupset estate, Wakefield. One of the biggest council estates in the UK.

It gave me thick enough skin to be able to take a comment like mine on the chin without immediately turning it into an "us and them debate" or a like assumption

I stand firnly behind my post. Charlie Parsons is an arse, not scum in my opinion. Others have a different opinion, fine.

Where I'm from doesn't automatically blind me to the problems there, if anything it makes me more acutely aware

Scum , again in my opinion, is the dole bludging mask over face wearing shitehouse who terrorise the areas they live (and yes, it's usually like the housing estates where I grew up) thieving off orhers.

They probably go on these Tommy Robinson marches that I apparently ha e been going on according to some on here.

I'll address the Saudi sporstwashing comment.

Parsons and his like are scum for not asking probing questions about it?

If that is the case are we all scumbags on here for watching these cards? I recall on here, quite correctly, that the early Saudi Cards were hailed as the "best we'd seen in years".

I didn't see many people on here refusing to watch out of solidarity for the victims of the Saudi Regime.

Opinions are allowed, that's the beauty of them. Conviction we see less of

forcefraser wrote: ↑17 May 2026, 03:33

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:46

golden_labrador wrote: ↑16 May 2026, 13:31

well said. I spent my first few years on a housing estate and didn't think his comment was worth responding to, but you sum it perfectly. he's probably typing that while marching in London with his mate Tommy/Stephen whatever

Thank you. I don’t know Fraser and wish him no ill will. But I’d be interested to know if he grew up on the estates he so maligns. I was raised on a council
estate and a caravan park for two halves of every year so don’t take the jibes personally. I get it. I’d be interested to know if he has lived on an estate though. I think it affords you more perspective if you did. He uses cheap barbs and I’m not sure he has lived that life. I did. I never had any desire to live it forever but don’t view those who do or did with derision. My Ma lived in a council house all her life. I think it’s a sad myth that it’s a group of workshy dodgers. More than half of people who live in social housing work. It’s a really boring but real fact. I’m happy to post the source data if he wants to come back to me on this. I just think this narrative is typical of people seeking to punch downwards.

And like I said I’m not a beggy lefty, I have given my life and health to give my family a life I never had, but I just don’t take pleasure in pissing on people with less. Living on an estate where you’ve not been raised great doesn’t make me want to condemn the people who live there.

As for the Tommy Robinson and Reform types, god help you.

They probably go on these Tommy Robinson marches that I apparently ha e been going on according to some on here.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑17 May 2026, 06:22

steve689 wrote: ↑17 May 2026, 06:20 A disappointing development, but not entirely unexpected. I was talking to Tris ringside at the Crocker-Donovan rematch just after I'd been let go by Boxing News and he had industry-wide fears.

We can all see the direction it's travelling in. I'm happy just tinkering around on Substack again, doing a bit of podcasting. Hopefully, these guys get picked up somewhere.

What’s your substack ?

Alba wrote: ↑20 May 2026, 15:56 Are the saudis not strangling a lot of traditional media with credentials?

veriton wrote: ↑22 May 2026, 03:48 Tris Dixon also now saying he's on Substack, whatever that is.

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑24 May 2026, 03:25 Why we need Boxing News more than ever